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Meteor Crater Observatory and Crater Canvas Print
by Rick Pisio
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Meteor Crater Observatory and Crater canvas print by Rick Pisio. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed onto one of our premium canvases and then stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5" x 1.5" stretcher bars (gallery wrap) or 5/8" x 5/8" stretcher bars (museum wrap). Your canvas print will be delivered to you "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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Harry and Hope Locke had a dream of building a musuem dedicated to the study of meteorites. In the mid 1930's they built the Meteor Crater... more
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Artist's Description
Harry and Hope Locke had a dream of building a musuem dedicated to the study of meteorites. In the mid 1930's they built the Meteor Crater Observatory west of Winslow, Arizona, where Route 66 met the road leading to the Barringer Crater. At that time the crater was still privately owned by Barringer's Standard Mine Company and tourists weren't welcome on the active mining site. The Lockes hoped that the close proximity to Route 66 would attract travelers and help fund their museum. The Lockes' observatory closed down shortly after opening due to a huge construction debt and lack of visitors. Sometime in the mid-40's Harry Locke was killed while trying to earn a living with the Winslow Police Department. In 1946 Harvey Nininger re-opened the observatory as the American Meteorite Museum where he also worked and lived. For 25 cents visitors could climb the tower and look through a telescope at Meteor Crater six miles to the south. Nininger managed to attract over 30,000 visitors to the mu...
About Rick Pisio
It all started when I was about 5 or 6 years old and I got my hands on a well used Kodak Brownie Target Six-20. I would wander the neighborhood, carefully selecting the 12 exposures, and then run the roll of black and white 620 film to the Fotomat in the parking lot of the nearby grocery store to get it processed. I eventually progressed to a Kodak 110 Instamatic, that I earned by selling newspaper subscriptions, and then in 1977 my parents gave me an Olympus OM-1 SLR for Christmas. The OM-1 opened up a whole new world for me. It was a real camera and felt solid in my hands, but it was also a completely manual camera. No autofocus. No autoexposure. It forced me to learn the relationship between shutter speeds and f-stops, how to control...
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Diana L Elliott
Awesome Capture and Presentation!
Bonnie Follett
Congrats - you have been featured in the Wonders of Route 66 USA group - Wonderful mysterious capture - kind of reminds me of a desert Stonehenge kind of relic!
Thomas Todd
Awesome catch Rick and great discription. Well done !!!!!!!!!!! Tom