What a stark landscape! With enough blurring of the metal pieces it could easily pass for another planet. And speaking of metal pieces, get a load of that rust! What a beautiful bunch of steel/iron/metallic bits, set so nicely in the yellow/gold grasslands. Fantastic photo!

that is cold. lovely photo

It's been many years since I visited Bodie. This is a wonderful composition. I love that wheel on a slant in the foreground and that machine laying there in the dirt is fascinating. I have no idea what it is (a piece of mining equipment perhaps?), but it has very elegant lines & looks like it could have come straight out of a steampunk story. The grasses, the town, the hills & the moon complete the picture beautifully. You picked the perfect spot to shoot from & then whatever you did in postwork nailed it...

Excellent Capture!!! Looks like a steampunk graveyard!!! Happy New Year!!

Neat neat neat! Gosh, this brings back good memories from childhood. smiles

Claude describes the composition so well. I used to play an adventure computer game called Myst which was full of scenes like this, especially in the sequel Riven, which I never completed. The sense of foreboding here is palpable.

This is from a superb POV and I love the landscape.

Great capture! that item in the center of the shot made me think of some type of lizard

This is really cool, I like the old forgotten rusty things; a reminder of things that once were. Happy New Year, and may the year bring many great things.

I really need to do something with my eyes. I misunderstood the title as MAN OVER BOARD. I am so glad to see that wasnt what you wrote, when I looked closer, Tara :-))) What a stunning shot this is and the machines look pretty interesting too :-) And Andrea is right. I have played that game myself. LOL !!!

Nicely done Tara. I like the foreground interest on the wheel.

Very very beautiful capture and pov !!

So much interest in this shot. Nicely done!

Superb composition and choice of subject. Most people would concentrate on the buildings. This puts me in mind of "Moonrise Over Hernandez New Mexico" by Ansel Adams.

Amazing capture Tara. God bless.

Wow - I would absolutely LOVE to visit this place! But I'll wait 'till it warms up a bit...... 16 degrees is a tad too cold for me.... :-P A beautiful photo, Tara! HAPPY 2015 to you and Bill!

Aha, Bodie is a ghost town, but what I see here looks a bit like very dangerous ghostly; I have to say it's intriguing mystery, by your focus, and by that splendid colours variations on the objects. There is a lot to see, f,e, that old wheel, wooden ghost-houses, and white buildings, and let not forget the moon, what can a good photographer wish more then to have a bodie-ghost-meeting, by full moon, huh? Toppie, Tara! I wish Bill and you a TOP-year ahead, this just had to be said.

Perfect POV. Once again, we couldn't go to Bodie, my wife had her feet twisted just before Sacramento in september. So we had a little rest for a week in Palm Desert (not so bad to be there).

Not sure about this one, the photo is great as it looks (if you can understand my point of view), but, as an example of man's destruction of earth's habitats, here is a great example.. At point has he attempted to clean up, clear away, or tidy up a bit! Its a dump, turning to rust and polluting the land.. Good job on the Photo Tara, but man? Nil out of ten and stand in the corner.. By the way, Happy New Year Rob

This could easily be something left over and/or used as background for the 'Mad Max' movies (with Mel Gibson), even so typical for the Steam-punk era, which comes also to mind, and I like so much ... ;P fine POV -Tara, BB A prosperous, a healthy and a safe 'New Year for 2015' to you and Bill...

I'm only doing a few shots tonight, so I'll be back for the rest soon after...but this is a mysterious, eerie, beautiful, textured, bleak and yet very filled shot, with a moon in the background to complete the sense of being in another world. (Because it's a ghost moon during bleached daylight.) When this went up, I saw it before any comments went up; but now I see you got lots of very engaged comments, with Steampunk coming up several times, and thoughts about the machinery, the other worldly feel, etc. I too love that tilted wheel in front, and that weird piece of machinery (upfront) which looks like a big elaborate gun. And the line of buildings in the midground, and all that blank bleached land behind it, leading to a ridge that stops the universe---we don't know what's beyond it. A really fine evocation of mystery. And the sudden "break into the shot" of your composition---you jutted right into the scene---is perfect for the strange nature of the place. The overall jaundiced yellow/brown tone is fine foil to the spotless blue sky and the deep reddish rusts of the foreground (and tufts of grasses on the right). You even included some vertical post on the far right, which is pure abstract composition. I know you're busy watching tons of games these days, but uploads like this bring us back into your visual world beautifully. And the wheel jutting into the sky frames the whole piece. As for Mark's Ansel Adams reference, it makes me want to postwork this so it'll look like that. (He put that shot through all kinds of darkroom torture to get his famous undulating black sky.) Beautiful piece, Tara.