Past and present collide in this image of Bodie’s east end. 19th century utility poles point skyward at contrails left by 21st century jet aircraft. It is incongruous enough to see contrails this large in the sky, but to be able to juxtapose them with that receding series of old pole certainly strengthens the incongruity in both scale and function. I abstracted the old houses by underexposing them to stress the contrast between the contrails and poles.