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I didn't venture out yesterday during the storm, but this morning I had a toddle along the seafront. I was amazed to see this window cleaner at work, at 8.40am.
Then about 20/30 minutes later I walked by 2 other seafront resturants and their windows were clean and sparkling.
This Pederson cleaner shrimp was difficult to get in focus because it felt compelled to climb onto the camera lens. A small group of them were scattered atop some brain coral and every time I came in for a shot, they'd creep closer to the lens.
Grote Knip, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
This is the unlit daytime sign.
The lit sign at night was posted earlier:
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"I hate my job"
Janitor the floor cleaner was cleaning the floor when... he spotted a pile of junk full of paper after shredder.
He is here for cleaning floor's, but not for cleaning pile of paper junk. And after all, he hate's that kind of cleaning job.
Know wonder why he hate's that kind of cleaning job... in his opinion way's.
Garbage cleaner or a waste collector is a person employed by a public or private enterprise to collect and remove refuse.
But this person does the work for free. He or she may contact disease or enen die due to that.
Class 25/3 25300 passes Whitacre Junction with a ballast cleaner and brake van in tow, I assumed heading for Bescot.
D7650 was delivered from Beyer Peacock Ltd in May 1966 and withdrawn in December 1985, being scrapped at Doncaster Works in July 1986.
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At Long & Montrose in Portage Park. Looks like it's been there quite a while. It's a challenge to get the building and sign in one shot, so the blue-with-stars building is a separate photo.
It was a bloody long drive to this former school. Have seen a loooooot of pictures of the chapel, and decided to pay it a visit.
Entry was easy and started photographing the hallway and stairs. But the main thing I was coming for was that chapel, so I started searching for that first. At one time I heard people talking and making noise. I thought: Fellow explorers! This place was flooded with explorers the last few weeks, so I did not make any efforts to not make myself heard and continued my search. The noise came closer as I continued my way to the chapel. At one point I walked down the stairs and to my right I see the back of a lady with what I thought was a tripod. She was about 2 meters away from me. To my left I saw some guys doing something, but could not tell what. I looked again to the lady and she turned on a vacuum cleaner! That was clearly the ‘tripod’ I thought I’d seen! I turned around and walked back up the stairs, waiting for somebody to call for me. But nothing happened and I went back where I came in.
Once outside I saw a man and woman waving to me from the inside. At first I thought it was the guys I just ran into, but it were explorers from France who also heard noises but were more careful than me.
We tried to ge to the chapel through other buildings, but without success. I made some shots of some classrooms and decided to leave and head to the next location….
Two months later I was back and with success! We managed to get into the chapel and could finally do where I was coming from. After the rush, as all so called explorers already visited this place during rush hour. We had the place for ourselves this time…
This monastery was built in the mid of the 19th century. First the classrooms were built where girls were taught crafts like knitting, sewing and drawing, and got lessons in French. It got heavily damaged during WW I and II but rebuilt after the wars and the school was expanded with cooking classes. The last renovations were in the 1970′s but bearly 40 years later it closed down and all Sisters had to leave. Their new destination: Nursing homes. Sad but true…
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If it involved looking at this beauty, I wouldn't mind getting taken to the cleaners.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Corner of East Magnolia Avenue and Jessamine Street
Self portrait with my Plymouth at the awesome De Luxe Cleaners in Modesto, CA
Print made my me in the color darkroom.
The main body of fire was knocked down quite a while ago but the mop up continues with water still flowing out of the structure. This was a vacuum cleaner company building in Suffern N.Y. which also housed some sort of fancy garment business. Pictured is Nyack NY's ALF 10-99 from Chelsea H&L Co.No.2. 1955 700 Series ALF 100FT Tiller 7-75-TEO. She was originally built as a 75 footer and had a fourth ladder section added in 1967. Howard Kent Jr. 07-14-1974
Modern dry cleaning's use of non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes was reported as early as 1855. The potential for petroleum-based solvents was recognized by French dye-works operator Jean Baptiste Jolly, who offered a new service that became known as nettoyage à sec—i.e., dry cleaning. Flammability concerns led William Joseph Stoddard, a dry cleaner from Atlanta, to develop Stoddard solvent (white spirit) as a slightly less flammable alternative to gasoline-based solvents. The use of highly flammable petroleum solvents caused many fires and explosions, resulting in government regulation of dry cleaners. After World War I, dry cleaners began using chlorinated solvents. These solvents were much less flammable than petroleum solvents and had improved cleaning power.
On March 3, 1821, Thomas L. Jennings became the first African-American to be granted a United States patent. The patent was for his invention of a cleaning process called "dry scouring," which was the precursor to dry cleaning.
By the mid-1930s, the dry cleaning industry had adopted tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene), or PCE for short, as the solvent. It has excellent cleaning power and is nonflammable and compatible with most garments. Because it is stable, tetrachloroethylene is readily recycled.
Through the window candid shot.
Moody and magnificent.