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Shiloh National Cemetery, on the bluff above Pittsburg Landing, holds 3,584 Civil War dead, 2,359 of them unknown.
Very early in the year 1974, Saint John suffered a tragic-----and extremely unusual-----accident. I'm writing from memory, and it was a long time ago, but I'll try to be as accurate as that imperfect memory allows.
Late in the evening of January 4, 1974, a transport truck driver inadvertently backed his rig into a gas pump,
spilling gasoline on the ground. There was also fuel stored underground at this Irving service station, which was located at the eastern end of the Reversing Falls bridge. Not long after the accident, the gasoline was somehow ignited . . .
At least four men died in the subsequent explosion. There's very little info about this on the Internet (understandably, I suppose), so one would have to visit the local library and consult the microfilmed newspaper archives for more detail. When the station blew up, I was at home, drying my hair in the family living room. At the time, I was just one month short of my 21st birthday. We lived on Mecklenburg St. in the South End, probably a good mile from the blast in a straight line. And yet, the force of the explosion shook the house sufficiently to knock an ashtray off a coffee table onto the floor. Remarkably, my parents slept through it!
I went and woke dad up, not knowing what had happened or where. I thought it was something close by and that we might be in danger.
The next morning, my younger brother and I walked all the way from the South End to the far end of Douglas Avenue, which had been closed to vehicular traffic. It was sunny but very cold that morning. What we saw upon reaching our destination was a smoldering pile of rubble. I had never seen anything like it before, nor have I seen the like of it since. I took a few photos with my Kodak Instamatic, and we walked back home.
There were a number of dramatic events that affected my hometown in the 1970s, including the great Saint John River flood of 1973 and the Groundhog Gale of 1976. The Internet is supposed to have 'everything', but just try finding information on these events, let alone pictures! There's very little. Today, everybody and his dog has a cellphone camera, and such disasters would be much better documented, at least photographically. Still-----and I want to emphasize this-----there MUST have been people with SLRs who photographed the flooding and the aftermaths of the service station explosion and the Groundhog Gale. Where are all those pictures now? Sitting as prints in old photo albums, perhaps, or as slides in display reels, or as negatives in envelopes? They deserve to be published, I would think. Personally, I'd be willing to pay for copies of these old images.
Our Daily Challenge 23rd -29th May : Film Noir
Time has ravaged her.
See her in happier times here www.flickr.com/photos/16054928@N07/5579360020/in/set-7215...
Still sorting the archives, the shot is a composite of the flooded creekbed after the water dropped and the scoured tree roots with a texture overlay and a shot of my main model, Teegan placed into the image.
The flooding of 2011 gave a lot of anxt and did a couple of dark digital composites at the time.
Have not done any of the dreaming work in some time inspiration eludes me
James Cauty's 1:87 scale distopian vision housed in a 40' shipping container, currently on tour across the UK. Seen in Exeter as part of Art Week.
The night before there was a big storm with winds at gale force 8-9 20-30 m/s, the winds have died down but were still around 15 m/s when I took this with huge waves still coming in. This is taken from the end of the Island of Vigra, looking out into the Norwegian sea.
This pic is taken at the end of a long gulley with a sudden rise in the rock, the result is that the waves were channelled up the gulley, hit the rock and were forced upwards creating the 'explosion' of water in the picture.
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We had a bout of freezing rain followed by unforgivingly frigid temperatures this past weekend. One of my favorite sights and also one that I find the hardest to photograph, is when the sun finally does come out and the ice on the trees and leaves sparkles like diamonds. I never seem to get the full magnitude of the overall glittering display. But I persist in photographing it and I do get some otherwise pretty shots of a smaller scale, like these leaves with glistening icicles.
Done my holiday abroad . I went to place where before it was a wonderful place but know just ashes and wasteland . Everything apart and perish . Felt sad for it .
... of a forest fire in the Careml forests South of Haifa.
I shoot this two days after the fire was extinguished, there was a lot of ash floating in the air and it gave the scene this blueish glow.
I'm a bit fed up with New York, so I go on with a (very) small serie called Aftermath. They have been shot around Champs Elysées on an August sunday morning at 8 am. Most of the following pictures are manipulated.
Hope you'll like it :)
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In December 2015 Storm Desmond, forced the closure of the WCML here at Caldew Junction where the line was submerged under more than 2 metres of water. 66201 heads 4M00, the 0702 Mossend - Clitheroe cement tanks past a car park being cleared of the muddy silt left behind by the flood waters. On the left of the picture (behind the NR white vans) the river Caldew can be seen, dropping to more normal levels. The Caldew passes under the line just beyond the rear of the train prior to its confluence with the River Eden, which then passes once again below the railway at Etterby.
The aftermath of a large condo building fire. It was started because of improper disposal of a cigarette on a balcony. The result was devastating. All 106 homes destroyed and $16.3 million in damages. Thankfully, no humans were killed or seriously injured. I'm not sure about non-humans however (since media tends to not care about that)
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/clareview-condo-fire-star...
Dedicated to Aika :)
for all the times we used to do this everytime it rained. :)
love you.
and raf, for doing it with me today
love you too
this seems to be curtains
for the past life of a mayfly
but an amazing exit thru the
window to future dimensions ?
have a wonderful (PsychedelicSunday)
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I like this shot... except for those damn shoes going through the floor.