Many people wanted to know more about us and the equipment we use. So here are some facts:Who we are:
Daniel Ter-Nedden and Carola Schibli. We both are 29 years old and we live in Switzerland.
Why and when we started ghosttowning:
It was in 1996 we got caught by the Ghost Town-"Virus", during a "normal" vacation in the USA. We were driving back to L.A. from Las Vegas, when decided to have a quick look at theTourist Ghost Town of Calico. Inside a shop there was a picture on the wall showing the city as it was around 1890. We found it interesting what had become of the city that once had over 3500 inhabitants. Back in L.A. we changed our vacation plans, bought many books over Ghost Towns and visited many of them, one of them was the famous Bodie Ghost Town. The buildings there were so picturesque that we couldn't stop taking pictures. Since then we have visited and banned on film approx. 170 Ghost Towns in eight states and our fascination for them is still strong.
Our equipment:
All our pictures were taken on Canon reflex cameras on Fuji color print film. We use Kodak Photo CD to have this large amount of pictures digitized. Daniel works as a web designer and therefore he knows how to compress pictures for publishing on the web. He uses a lot of his sparetime for working on the pictures while Carola writes captions that tell these old town's stories.
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