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View of Green Mountain Creek along the southern reaches of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Globe, North Carolina. Considered America's longest linear park, the scenic roadway runs for 469 miles through 29 Virginia and North Carolina counties, linking Shenandoah National Park in the former state to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in far-western North Carolina. It runs mostly along the spine of the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains
Remnants of an abandoned cabin on the vast Big Creek cattle ranch property near the Colorado border in Carbon County, Wyoming
Branding-day scene at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's cattle operation, just below the Wyoming border in Moffat County, Colorado. The Ladder Ranch's activities, including extensive sheep grazing in Wyoming, spill across the border between the two states. The ranch headquarters is barely into Wyoming, down the road from the little town of Savery, and it overlooks pastures full of its cattle . . . in Colorado, near Squaw Mountain
Branding-day scene at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's cattle operation, just below the Wyoming border in Moffat County, Colorado. The Ladder Ranch's activities, including extensive sheep grazing in Wyoming, spill across the border between the two states. The ranch headquarters is barely into Wyoming, down the road from the little town of Savery, and it overlooks pastures full of its cattle . . . in Colorado, near Squaw Mountain
Young Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep rams calmly share the Waterton Canyon trail with human outdoor enthusiasts. The wide, scenic trail in Jefferson County, Colorado, is one of metropolitan Denver's favorite workout venues, where bicylists, hikers, walkers, and horseback riders exercise in a beautiful, invigorating, patrolled environment managed by Denver Water, the city's public water utility, and the U.S. Forest Service
Cabin in South Pass City, a mining boomtown of 2,000 people in the 1860s in what is now Fremont County, Wyoming, that by 1949 was a ghost town. Over time miners, speculators, and businessmen, finding little gold and suffering in the region's winter blizzards and unrelenting summer heat, abandoned the town, which is named for the surrounding valley that proved the most reliable route through the Rocky Mountains for emigrants on the Oregon, Mormon, and California trails. Now a historic site, South Pass City once again has (in 2016) a few hardy residents
Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calves for branding, just below the Wyoming border in Moffat County, Colorado. The Ladder Ranch operation, including extensive sheep grazing in Wyoming, spills across the border between the two states. The ranch headquarters is barely into Wyoming, down the road from the little town of Savery, and it overlooks pastures full of its cattle, in Colorado, near Squaw Mountain
Now-abandoned ranch cabins in North Park, Colorado. (Coloradans in this remote part of the state, near the Wyoming line, call their valleys "parks.") The surrounding Park Range is a spectacular portion of the Rocky Mountains. This vast area, up dirt roads out of Walden, Colorado, in Jackson County, one of the the least-populated counties in America, is somewhat like a beautiful national park but minus tourists and their inconsiderate behavior
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Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)