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Built in the 1950's, this is the control room of the Bascule bridge near St Mary Redcliffe church in Bristol.
I loved the textures and grime in this scene, made all the more interesting by the evening sun lighting it at a low angle through the dusty windows.
Early Images of the Control Burn which got a little out of control. Now new growth will begin because of seeds that needed heat to germinate. This was taken from North Point when the fire was pretty intense. You can barely see the flames in the lower center of the smoke. Quite impressive. Best seen with a black border.
Georgia National Guard, 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team Maj. Matt Howard places controlled, paired shots to paper targets building on advanced marksmanship skills during mobilization training at the Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center. “This is the nuts and bolts of that worst case scenario you might see outside the wire where guys are practicing going into a hostile environment that is inside an urban setting,” said Howard, security force officer in charge for the 48th IBCT who serves with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as a bomb technician. “So getting those fundamentals so where we can do that safely, learning what to shoot, and simultaneously, and sometimes more importantly, what not to shoot.”
Georgia Army National Guard photo by Capt. Michael Thompson / Released
I bought this Acctim Radio-controlled clock from Robert Dyas. I could not get it to show anywhere near the correct time after several attempts - resetting it, leaving it to pick up a signal overnight, changing the battery, and switching it to a manual quartz clock and then back again. It was obviously picking up a radio signal but on each occasion that the hands stopped moving the time was several hours out.
I was about to return it to Robert Dyas when I decided to phone the manufacturers. The switchboard immediately told me that what you have to do is take out the battery, put it back the WRONG way round, leave it a few seconds, and then replace it the correct way round.
I tried this somewhat bizarre solution and the clock immediately worked perfectly. If this solution is so well known to the manufacturers that even the switchboard know of it, why can it not be included in the instructions?
had a few kitten collars and a bandanna to make for a friend this week, and use the opportunity to show my daughter Millie how to use the sewing machine. "try as she might Kiba couldn't work out what was so amusing and the noisy white box"
had other plans for this weeks photo, but Millie put glasses on Kiba and I couldn't help taking a photo :)
The control tower at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, shot during a cloudy, wet and windy day.
The photo was shot from Schiphol's "Panorama Terrace". I used an M.Zuiko 40-150mm lens @132mm and E-PL1 camera.
Malbon opened with the Selwyn line in 1910 as a wayside station to Friezland/Kuridala, having a loop siding and shelter, but from August 1911 it became the junction for a trunk line extension south to Duchess and ultimately to Mount Isa. Facilities from 1912 comprised a goods loop and shed on the left and beyond this was a low-level passenger platform and station office with signal levers nearby. The No. 2 and No. 3 roads for crosses and shunting purposes were sited on the right. The lines to Friezland/Kuridala and Duchess cursed away from each other at the south end and the two were joined by a third to form and angle. Signals protected the station at each end. A watering facility and ashpit was built at the other end of the yard.
Malbon pre-dated the railway as a gold mining settlement from the 1870s and remained intact with its hotels, stores, school, and post office by the time the railway arrived. The railway gave the town a fillip as a supplier of firewood and copper ore. Malbon was a busy station from 1912 to 1921 when it handled all the trains to and from Cloncurry, Duchess, Ballara, and Trekelano. Several of these services required remarshalling or running around the angle to get to Kuridala or Selwyn. The Selwyn branch services used Malbon either as a through stop to Cloncurry to Duchess or as a turn around point. An average weekday at the copper boom peak from 1916 to 1918 saw around a dozen trains arrive at and depart from the station between 04:20am to 11:45pm.
The station was staffed by a Station Master and this position remained until 1935 when the place was downgraded to a Gate. A Station Mistress worked day shift and a Night Office at night for crosses. The place was home station to fettling gangs and around eight departmental residences were provided here for these workers and the station staff.
The Station Master position was reinstated in late 1943 due to increases in wartime traffic and this office lasted until 1972, after which a Station Mistress was appointed. The station was de-staffed shortly before Train Order Working was introduced in July 1988.
Facilities mirrored the traffic levels. A station office and shelter was provided from the beginning. The station office burnt down in 1947 but was replaced and this building continued in use until 1989 when it was sold for removal. A goods shed was provided and saw sufficient use to the war years. It was removed in 1947 but the closure of the Selwyn line in 1961 made Malbon a railhead so another shed was provided in 1962. It remained in service until 1989 when it was sold for removal. A refreshment room opened in 1917 and it traded until 1954.
Passenger traffic was vigorous from 1912 to 1919 and then fell from nearly 6000 annual journey to a few hundreds. Traffic improved during the Second World War and increased in the early 1960s on account of the workers on the Mount Isa Line rehabilitation project but again fell away and dipped to virtually nothing after 1973.
There was traffic in firewood and mining timbers in the period of 1912 to 1919 and small amounts of firewood to the late 1940s. Cattle loadings were at around 5000 head per year until declining from the mid 1960s to a handful by the 1980s. The closure of the Selwyn line in 1961 generated no additional on-forwarding cattle traffic to Malbon although wool loadings made and appearance for the first time. The wool traffic was at reasonable levels until 1967 and then dipped to insignificance.
Mineral ores were loaded in major quantities from 1911 to 1914 and lesser amounts to 1921 when they dwindled to negligible amounts for decades. A mining revival from the 1960s at sites along the then closed Selwyn railway saw Malbon used as the rail loading point for these ores. A dead end ore siding and loading ramp was built at the time. The ore traffic predominated from 1962 to 1968, 1974 to 1975 and 1988 to 1989. Peak loadings were in 1967 and 1968 when a total of 183 000 tons were despatched from the Young Australia mine at Kuridala. Five trains a week were required to move this ore to Mount Isa. New generation mines and processors in the 1980s resulted in a traffic of copper concentrate from Selwyn mine to Townsville that was loaded in tens of thousands of tons annually from 1988 to 1991. A second ore spur road with a large loading ramp was installed for this mineral traffic.
Independent of local traffic, Malbon was a prime load shedding station for the Mount Isa to Cloncurry trains in the steam days, particularly from the late 1940s. Down trains from Mount Isa could drop excess tonnage (555 down to 450 tons) for the heavier grades towards Cloncurry and this was later picked up by an engine and van sent from Cloncurry. This arrangement ensured trains to the maximum loads were run out of Mount Isa. There was ample capacity at Malbon to store wagons and cross trains simultaneously using the existing sidings and the Selwyn line lead in.
The Malbon station yard was rationalised in the 1990s when Direct Traffic Control was introduced and all buildings and roads removed except for the passing loop and on dead end siding (along the route of the former Selwyn line). The last of the departmental residences were removed, although a little while later one was returned for operational reasons and remains at the time of writing (2008).
In a photograph captured in 1920, the main street of Malbon consisted of three hotels; these being the Malbon Hotel, the Railway Hotel, and Doherty’s Bar. The last of these licensed establishments, the Malbon Hotel, burnt down in the 1970s. The old Malbon railway station was relocated to a house block after 1989.
The Malbon township survived in part until the 1970s when the last remaining hotel burnt down and the railway houses were vacated and removed. At the time of writing (2008) the place has shrunk to one street with three or four houses (including the former station building) plus a public telephone to contact the Selwyn mine.
Source: Copper at the Curry by Norman Houghton.
Paris, France. 2010
Gare du Nord is one of Paris's major train stations. Low sun through the building's arched windows.
More Paris pictures
A real big boys toy - and I got a go.
Normally the crane is controlled by an operator in the cabin above - eventually this crane will be remotely controlled by an operator in a building about 1/2 kilometer away.
In an unfortunate accident caused by fatigue and youthful stupidity, I rolled this vehicle, a Bedford Beagle, at Prestwick Airport on 15 September 1975. The photographs were taken a little later.
Your back's against the wall,
there's no one home to call,
you're forgetting who you are...
You can't stop crying!
It's part not giving in,
part trusting your friends,
you do it all again and I'm not lying
Oh oh oh
Standing in the way of control...
Yeah, live your lives
by the only way that you know, know
(Gossip, Standing in the way of control)
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind” - Jim Morrison
I am dipping my toes into the world of the surreal. This is my first attempt.
There's something about the sight of a camera that brings out the 'control freak' in some people. I have no idea why. Perhaps an aspiring psychologist could make their thesis topic. Anyway ...
I stopped to photograph a minor accident in which this blue car smashed into a parked truck. I took a few photos of the blue car. Almost right away this passenger demanded to know who I was (I didn't tell her), what I was doing (taking photos), and why (it's a hobby), and what I was going to do with it (keep it on my computer). She then went on to say I had better delete the photo (nope), that I was "interfering with someone's crisis" (wrong), that I had to move along (no, you can't tell me what to do), & that I wasn't allowed to take photos of other people's things (wrong again).
I'd planned on leaving because the accident was unremarkable, but because of this woman's obnoxious challenge I stuck around & again pointed my camera at the car. She decided to try blocking my shot by standing between me and the car. How odd that she didn't want me to photograph the car but didn't mind my snapping a photo of her backside.
This incident pales in comparison to others in the Harassed Photographer group. Nevertheless, it made me decide that this image, which normally would have languished unseen on my hard drive forever, should instead be made available to the entire world.