A tower crane in the sky over Downtown Dallas

The cargo ship Azure Bay, enveloped in a light fog along the Houston Ship Channel, Texas.

A backhoe performs Infrastructure repair on the streets of Downtown Dallas.

A massive scaffold surrounds a construction site in Downtown Houston, Texas.

Sometimes I think photography is what strikes you at the time. You just drive around until you see something interesting.

This was one of those moments. Usually these are yellow to orange in colour.

Happy Saturday

Some days it feels like you are in your own sand box. On other days the kids won't let you play with them at all.

Happy Truck tHuRsDay

Detail of a crane spotted at a construction site in McKinney, Texas.

A backhoe sits among volcanic basalt flows near Inkom, Idaho.

A muddied front-end loader at a construction site on the outskirts of McKinney, Texas.

The Holland America cruise ship Oosterdam, docked in Victoria, British Columbia.

The last light of day silhouettes the dreadnought battleship USS Texas and a laid-up oil platform at Pelican Island in the Port of Galveston, Texas.

A tower under construction near Downtown Dallas.

A backhoe sits among volcanic basalt flows near Inkom, Idaho.

A tower crane at a Downtown Dallas construction site.

I have never seen this before, but did think it was pretty cool.That must be one strict site foreman.

Happy Truck Thursday

and Happy HDR tHuRsDay.... W

Woohoo!!

A backhoe sits idle in a vacant lot near Downtown Dallas.

Floating cranes and disused oil platforms in storage at Pelican Island, Galveston, Texas.

Amidships detail of Stolt Tankers’ Stolt Megami, docked in the Houston Ship Channel.

Tower cranes in the evening sun at a McKinney, Texas, construction site.

taken through a fence, for the time being these monsters were dormant

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The first arch of Dallas’ Margaret McDermott Bridge rises over the structure’s construction site on the banks of the Trinity River.

St. Maarten, Dutch and French

A temporary staircase climbs up one of the supporting structures of Corpus Christi, Texas' New Harbor Bridge during its construction.

A floating crane docked in the morning light at Pier 35, San Francisco.

A tower crane stretches across the evening sky at a McKinney, Texas, construction site.

A bulldozer at a construction site as the sun rises on McKinney, Texas.

Anything you can do,

I can do better

I can do anything

Better than you.

Made using a 590nm filter and a small converted camera, using Photoshop for most post-processing. The original photo was mostly a sandy brown monotone, so this image aimed at enhancing color and sharpness. Hand-held with a multi-burst combination of images.

A front-end loader sits in the Nevada sun at Red Rock Canyon.

CAT - Mt Airy, Philadelphia, PA - USA (Voigtlander 110mm F2.5 APO Macro + Atomos Shinobi External Monitor)

Panoramic view

A workman scales a scaffold in downtown Dallas, Texas.

The Mighty CAT D8T At Rest After A Long Day Of Work.

Roadwork on a busy street

Three crane booms in a storage yard reach into the sky over Gainesville, Texas.

A backhoe and precast concrete culvert sections at a construction site in McKinney, Texas.

A Komatsu D65PX-18 large crawler dozer, spotted at a construction site in McKinney, Texas.

"Why drive when you can walk?" was the slogan that went with Llwyngwril Systems' sales campaign for it's high-mobility construction machines. Strangely, it wasn't very successful. Later enquiries established that the Marketing Department of Sirius Cybernetics had created the slogan and we all know what happened to them!

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This was built after I came home from riding my bike in Coed y Brenin. My regular loop includes a section called "Big Dug", that was named after the machine used to create it.

There are more photo over on Instagram.

Dear John. I am leaving you and I am taking the John Deere.

tHuRsDay is such a great day.

An infrared image captured with a converted IR camera and a 665 IR filter, processed in Photoshop.

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Infrared image of details of an excavator arm, using faded colors.

The setting sun cast glorious light on the tower crane high above Sarasota, Florida's rising skyline.

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Whether intentional or not, this burnt orange scaffolding—matching the University of Texas’ signature color—climbs the exterior of the under-construction Engineering Discovery Building.