'Oddball'
'Oddball', an impressive and imposing relic of an opencast coalmining site south of Leeds, UK. 'Oddball' is a BE1150 Dragline; a 1240 tonne machine designed to grab 20 tonne chunks from the ground in huge scoop-like buckets to excavate coal. Too heavy for caterpillar tracks, Oddball is equipped with two huge feet at the bottom of legs that allowed the dragline to move slowly backwards across the landscape. The sights and sounds must have been pretty jaw-dropping. The site is now St Aiden's nature reserve, run by the RSPB and Oddball is now home to nesting kestrels (nesting in another much smaller scoop-like structure near the top of the pulley system) and is used as habitat by many other birds, including several little owls. Taken using a mobile phonecam and processed in Capture One Pro 23 and converted to mono and toned using Nik Silver Effex Pro II.
'Oddball'
'Oddball', an impressive and imposing relic of an opencast coalmining site south of Leeds, UK. 'Oddball' is a BE1150 Dragline; a 1240 tonne machine designed to grab 20 tonne chunks from the ground in huge scoop-like buckets to excavate coal. Too heavy for caterpillar tracks, Oddball is equipped with two huge feet at the bottom of legs that allowed the dragline to move slowly backwards across the landscape. The sights and sounds must have been pretty jaw-dropping. The site is now St Aiden's nature reserve, run by the RSPB and Oddball is now home to nesting kestrels (nesting in another much smaller scoop-like structure near the top of the pulley system) and is used as habitat by many other birds, including several little owls. Taken using a mobile phonecam and processed in Capture One Pro 23 and converted to mono and toned using Nik Silver Effex Pro II.