All Along the Watchtower

[AlanLichty]

All due apologies to Mr. Zimmerman for the title. This is the watchtower on the replica of the Hudson Bay Company fort near the Vancouver waterfront of the Columbia River. The fort was mostly a trading company post and not a military garrison so the watchtower wasn't fortified.

590nm with channel swap.

C&C always welcome.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Great colors Alan, love the sky and clouds

 

[JimFox]

Very cool Alan! I have never gone there when I have been through Vancouver, it looks like an interesting area.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Interesting place. Everything except the trees can pass off for a regular camera image rather than IR.

 

[Amy Nelson]

Very interesting, doesn't look like one of those fences that you want to climb over.

 

[AlanLichty]

Great colors Alan, love the sky and clouds

Thanks!

Very cool Alan! I have never gone there when I have been through Vancouver, it looks like an interesting area.

Thanks Jim - the fort replica is just one part of the Historic Reserve. There is also a historic U. S. Army base dating back to just after the 1846 treaty that transferred Vancouver from British rule to the US just north of the Hudson's Bay fort replica.

Interesting place. Everything except the trees can pass off for a regular camera image rather than IR.

Aged lumber appears to reflect next to nothing as far as an IR converted sensor is concerned. Everything that was green is a gold hue and sky contrasts are more distinct. There are tons of bare branches as I took this shot in late March so less of a ground level display for IR.

Very interesting, doesn't look like one of those fences that you want to climb over.

Thanks Amy - the only real reason for the fence was to protect the trading post store. While the Hudson Bay Company was running the place they set up a business model that used the local tribal trade networks to supply them with furs while trading for European goods at the post and there was no animosity involved in the relationship. Most of the people that worked directly with supporting the Hudson Bay Company lived in a small village that was outside of the palisade perimeter with no defensive structures at all.