Tag Archives: Hopewell-Furnace Leather horse bridles in the foreground and seasonal storage for horse drawn sleighs in the background inside the main barn at HopeWell Furnace National Historic Site near Elverson, PA. This was an experiment to see how much detail I could pull out of something that was completely in the shadows using HDR. I shot this...  32 foot diameter water wheel on grounds of the Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site located in Elverson, PA. Iron production at Hopewell Furnace required a blast of air to bring the heat of the furnace above 2800 degrees (Fahrenheit). The water wheel supplied the power for this air blast by pumping a pair of pistons...  From my Monday, 9-7-2009 trip to Hopewell National Historic Site. For more information on visiting Hopewell Furnace, please visit their web site This was shot as five bracketed RAW frames then combined into an HDR and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro.  When the furnaces at Hopewell Furnace were in operation, hundreds of charcoal hearths would turn 5,000 to 6,000 cords of wood per year into charcoal for use in the furnace. The charcoal was dumped into an area just above this charcoal house and left to cool. Once the charcoal had cooled, it was shoveled down...  Hay stack at Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site. During the time that the land was an operating furnace operation, the barn could hold up to thirty six draft horses and up to a year’s worth of feed. Draft horses were used to pull the many wagons the operation used to haul charcoal, limestone and other...  I made my second trip to Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site today (Monday 9-7-2009). This trip, I tried to do some different compositions that would reflect life as a worker at the furnace back when they were in operation. Hopewell Furnace tells a fascinating story. Built by patriot Mark Bird, the furnace operated from 1771...  A beautiful white horse grazes in the meadow alongside the road leading up through the farm at Hopewell Furnace. They two horses at the farm on the furnace grounds. Every other time I’ve tried to photograph this one, he was too far away but on this day he was highly cooperative. From my Monday, 9-7-2009... |
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