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I have wanted to shoot this for a long time. Its so unique. I tried to capture it with a dark feel, to help tell the story of the architecture, its medieval style and its past.
The Oswego Iron Furnace, built in 1866 at the confluence of Oswego Creek and the Willamette River, was the first iron furnace on the Pacific Coast. Between 1867 and 1885, it produced 42,000 tons of pig iron, sold as "Oregon Iron" to foundries in Portland and San Francisco. Before 1867, all iron on the Pacific Coast was brought by ship around Cape Horn.
The founders of the Oregon Iron Company—led by William S. Ladd, John Green, and Henry Green—sought to capitalize on iron deposits in the hills around Sucker Lake (now Oswego Lake). Controlling the means of iron production was part of their vision for a commercial empire in the Pacific Northwest. Most of Portland's cast-iron architecture and the pipe for its water system were made of Oswego iron.
The Oswego Furnace was Oregon's largest manufacturing enterprise in the nineteenth century. It consumed ore from two mines and charcoal from 22,000 acres of timber. Over the course of its operation, three companies owned the works: Oregon Iron Company, Oswego Iron Company, and Oregon Iron & Steel Company.
The furnace, which resembles a medieval tower, was modeled on the furnaces of the Barnum and Richardson Company in Lime Rock, Connecticut. The thirty-two-foot-high stack, as stone furnaces are called, stands on a twelve-foot underground foundation with massive walls built to withstand temperatures of 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit. Charcoal, ore, and limestone were fed into the top of the shaft, and air was injected into the bottom through three Gothic arches that gave access to ports in the smelting chamber. Molten iron was tapped through a fourth arch and channeled to molds in the sand floor of the casting house. In 1878, the second owners increased the height of the stack to forty-four feet.
The furnace closed in 1885 when the company built a larger furnace half a mile north. The firebrick lining of the shaft was removed and probably reused in the new furnace. An attempt to dynamite the stack in the early twentieth century failed but left gaping holes in the interior.
In 1974, the furnace, an example of the craftsmanship of nineteenth-century furnace builders, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The City of Lake Oswego completed a major preservation and stabilization effort in 2010, and the furnace is now an imposing presence in George Rogers Park. It is the only remaining iron furnace west of the Rocky Mountains.
If you control aqua in Texas, you’re a municipality. However, if you find yourself in control of aqua, you’re just thirsty. (Sea Life Aquarium, Grapevine Tx.)
For some reason I'm kind of obsessed with this yellow machine.
Control - Downsampled from ~15, hotsampling! using SRWE; using this guide and CT by Frans Bouma; Lightroom
A flowering head of blackgrass (Alopecurus myosuroides), very difficult to control in farmers fields and if left unchecked can cause large reductions in yield
1930s George's Dock Ventilation and Control Station for Queensway Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool Pier Head
The George's Dock Building was designed by Herbert Rowse, chief architect of the Queensway tunnel, and is the most ambitious of the six buildings built to provide ventilation for the 2.1 mile long road tunnel under the River Mersey.
The building takes the form of a square engine house, with extensions north and south rising five double-height storeys containing offices. Above the engine house is the air shaft, a square column rising to the height of the neighbouring Port of Liverpool building. The building is finished in a spare Art Deco style and faced with Portland stone. The exterior has a number of sculptures and a decorative frieze, executed by Edmund Thompson and George Capstick
Un helicóptero de la policía vigilando el desarrollo de una multitudinaria manifestación en Madrid - A police helicopter monitoring the development of a massive demonstration in Madrid
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Here are Kellie and Joshua on the Control Freek Ride at Belmont Park in San Diego. This one flips upside down and goes around in circles. Not for the weak in stomach.
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Control - Taken at 4K, still having an issue with hotsampling; using this guide and hotsampling CT by GhostintheCamera, mods on Nexus from reg2K, and WIP mods from ilikedetectives and amisthiosintraining, ReShade (pd80 curved levels, sharpening, and bloom)
when i first was making this, it was supposed to show a plan crashing into the ground (broken in half, lost style).. but the editing on that wasnt going so well and i decided to switch it up. i still need to fix the strings because they look super fakey, haha.
i also wish the focus was better in this, but it was damn cold and windy out. you know that feeling you get in your head when youve been running around in the cold? the one where you feel like your head is about to explode at any given second? yea, thats the feeling i had.
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