Friday Night Photos Travelogue Pt4 Edition

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 5:00pm

Welcome to Friday Night Photos everyone. Your once a week break from the daily madness of the crazy world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music, or whatever else you find of interest that helps you escape the madness.

Last week we went to Egypt. This week we will be staying closer to home. In fact we will be going to a home. The uniquely strange and mysterious home of Sarah Winchester known as the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, Ca. There are a lot of strange tales about Sarah Winchester and the house. I don't know how many are true and how many are made up. Here's a link to its wiki page where you can read all about Sarah and her mysterious house.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House

A few statistics about the house. It's 24,000 sq ft in size and has 10,000 windows, 2,000 doors, 160 rooms, 52 skylights, 47 stairways and fireplaces, 17 chimneys, 13 bathrooms, 6 kitchens and cost $5 million ($71m in today's dollars) to build.

Along with the shot of the outside of the house I've included images of six of the rooms as shot and a version of each of those after editing with tone mapping software.

Sarah Winchesters bedroom

Conservatory

Twin Dining rooms

Grand Ballroom

Walk-in refrigerator

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 7:54pm

Thanks for this

I never got around to seeing the house. I wanted to, but I was just too busy elsewhere.

Love homes that have lots of wood in them. I stripped my floor and window and door frames back down to the wood. Swiss chalet.

You tweaking the photos brought out lots of detail. Marvelous!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 9:04pm

Hi, snoopy

@snoopydawg
To bad you didn't get a chance to make it to the Mystery House. It was a fun an interesting tour. I think they must have cut down half a forest to get all the wood used to build the house. The woodwork in the grand ballroom is a work of art.

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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 9:49pm

Hi pixelators

Hi all, Hey SP,

Great pics SP. Looks like the tone mapping brought a lot of color out. It amazing now how the image you start with is just and only that, so much now. Nothing looks 'right' to me raw unprocessed.

Beautiful house. Looks a bit on the high-maintenance side? Sure would hate to have to dust or vacuum that! Forget washing the windows.

I just have to drop a quick one... Have a couple majorissues going presently...

This is a Mantispid, which are small mantis, there are many types. The shadow shows front legs in the praying position best. They come to lights to sample the bug smorgasbord.

Thanks for the Ot and look at the Winchester House. Great photos!

happy trails all!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 11/15/2024 - 10:40pm

Hi, dystopian

@dystopian
Thanks for bringing us the Mantispid. I've never seen one before. I did see a mantis on my patio last week. Fall is the only time of year I ever see them in my yard.