Notes
We continue our central Oregon road trip with this ranch west of Bend. Is that Mt. Bachelor in the distance?
I suspect at least one of our travelers was a professional photographer, as the compositions are so consistently well-chosen. This was no amateur with a Brownie camera. I wish we had a name to put to this work.
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How do you know it is WEST of Bend?
Could it be the headwaters of the Deschutes?
I suppose it is the same sheep ranch from a previous photo. The ranch could be anywhere from central Oregon, up though central Washington and central British Columbia. But that mountain is a give away.
And yes, it has been obvious that the photographer knows how to to take pictures.
l.e. on 10th August 2011 @ 7:26am
The tree line in the middle ground and the fence in the fore ground match with the earlier 'sheep' photo.
Ranger on 10th August 2011 @ 1:20pm
This certainly could be the same location as the sheep photo, but I couldn't find anything definitive even with the high res scans. The absence of a creek in the sheep image makes me a little less sure, as does the fact that the 'ranch' image has a fence near the tree line which is missing in the 'sheep' image. Unfortunately glass negatives don't have any of the marking of roll film, so there is no way to tell which order the images were captured.
Arthur on 10th August 2011 @ 4:01pm
Looks like the horse stables on the Deschutes at Sunriver Resort.
Allen on 18th August 2011 @ 6:34am
That is Mt Bachelor in the background and that is the Deschutes River. I think this was taken south of present day SunRiver in what was known as the Vandervoort Ranch.
Jill Stanford on 30th April 2012 @ 6:38pm