Musket Hammers (click to enlarge)
Here is the last detail image of the Musket Organ at Springfield Armory National Historic Site. I have dozens more of these detail images, but this will be the last I post here.
Click on the image and see blemishes and different grain patterns on the stocks and metal parts (and dust accumulation on the sights). Notice the 1862 engraved to the left of the each hammer. I did not notice those when I was taking the images. I wonder if they indicate the year the musket was made?
It is amazing how many neat images one can get from the Musket Organ by zooming in more and more and changing angles. I think zooming in on the musket stocks themselves would yield some nice textures for use in photoshop. Closeups of the hammer and trigger would make a neat “industrial” type image.
Soooo many possibilities; one could spend most of a day here.
Springfield Armory National Historic Site: N42 06 27.73 W72 34 52.95
Repeating Muskets II (click to enlarge)
Here is another of the many detail images available when photographing the Musket Organ at Springfield Armory National Historic Site. Another classic repeating pattern composition taken by looking along the length of one side of the display.
Besides the larger pattern of the muskets, there are many detailed repeating patterns: barrels, stocks, hammers, sites, and clamps. Much like photographing railroad tracks, you see these repeating details converge upon each other as they fade into the distance along the left edge of the image.
Springfield Armory National Historic Site: N42 06 27.73 W72 34 52.95
Repeating Muskets (click to enlarge)
Here is one of the many detail images available when photographing the Musket Organ at Springfield Armory National Historic Site. There are so many repeating, yet subtley different patterns here, plus a random detail here and there, that I can look at this image for a long time and still notice something new.
Note the differences between the wooden stocks along the bottom edge of the image. The shape of the stocks are all the same, yet the color and wood grain differs. I also like the random zig-zag pattern behind the stock in the center of the image.
Springfield Armory National Historic Site: N42 06 27.73 W72 34 52.95
