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Calico Ghost Town Mining Shack by Floyd Snyder (bio below)

20 x 30 Inch Open Edition Fine Art Original Photography Printed on High-Quality Art Canvas & Hand Signed by the Artist.

This item will arrive fully stretched, museum wrapped, ready to hang with or without additional framing. 

  

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Calico Ghost Town Mining Shack by Snyder

Calico is a ghost town and former mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region of Southern California, it was founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, and today has been converted into a county park named Calico Ghost Town.

Located off Interstate 15, it lies 3 miles (4.8 km) from Barstow and 3 miles from Yermo. Giant letters spelling CALICO can be seen on the Calico Peaks behind the ghost town from the freeway.

Walter Knott purchased Calico in the 1950s, architecturally restoring all but the five remaining original buildings to look as they did in the 1880s. Calico received California Historical Landmark #782, and in 2005 was proclaimed by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be California's Silver Rush Ghost Town.

Floyd Snyder

Floyd was born and raised in the north woods of Wisconsin where he learned a great appreciation for the great outdoors and all things in nature. He is Vietnam era veteran serving the United States Air Force. He was also proud to have served on the USNS Mercury, a tracking ship that worked on the Apollo moon landing as a communications specialist. The highlight of that experience was actually getting to hear the live discussion of the astronauts and mission control. 

For over 25 years Floyd operated three picture frame studios and art galleries on the Central Coast of Santa Maria where he started taking photography seriously. He originally started framing his work only to serve as samples of what sort of framing can be done.

In his own words, “I was pleasantly surprised when those samples started selling. That encouraged both my wife and I enrolled in photography classes and we started framing and selling more of our own work”.  

“I try not to take things too seriously and especially taking photographs. I shoot things that I think are interesting to me at the time but may not make much sense to anyone else. That's okay with me. If you see something you like and want to buy one of my images, I sure appreciate it and that part I do take seriously. But mostly I am just sharing images, things I see and hope that others too will see the natural beauty in them.”

Gallery Affiliations include:

Gala de Arte Nipomo, California

The Art Center Morro Bay, California

Cypress Gallery Lompoc, California

Community Art Center Cayucos, California

Fine Art America

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