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A candid image taken along Kiyamachi-dori in Kyoto, Japan.
Sony A6300 / ILCE-6300
Sony E 16-70mm F4 ZA OSS
70mm; 1/60 sec; f/4; ISO 5000
A filipino boy assists ini his families restaurant solicitng potential customers and busing tables. Laoag, Ilocos, Philippines.
Two plastic stacking chairs. one of the most successful chair designs in the world
North arm of the Fraser River
River District, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
With the disappointing news recently that Rousselot will be closing their Peabody plant by the end of 2023 I decided I better make the effort to photograph CSXT's ex Pan Am local BO-1 (technically I guess L055 now) making the trip up the Eastern Route to Salem and the freight only Danvers and South Reading Industrial Tracks to access the plant.
The closure of this plant will bring to the end all freight operations north of Everett Junction on the Eastern Route unless any new customers materialize along the commuter zone. With rail operations to end around June, well before the plant finally shuts down, now is the time to get out.
Having made the 17 mile run up from BET in Somerville via the Eastern Route mainline they then gingerly picked their way west (timetable east) at 5 MPH out the nearly 2.5 mile long branch to the plant. Here they are working in tandem with plant personnel using their car mover to pull seven empties and spot seven loads in this view seen from the Allens Lane crossing.
Holding down the job is CSXT's ex Pan Am GMDD GP40-2W MEC 507 (blt. Jul 1974 as CN 9472) which was given this mysterious retro fresh Guilford gray paint job at Waterville in August 2020 and has been frequently assigned to BO-1 since then.
Rousselot is the worldwide leader in gelatin production and has a dozen other plants around the world. This particular facility was owned by Eastman Kodak until 2012, although manufacturing has taken place on this site since 1812 when a glue factory opened here.
Kodak used the plant primarily for making a very pure gelatin used in photographic film, but the market for that has dwindled with the emergence of digital cameras. As recently as 2007, 95 percent of the gelatin it produced went toward film, but by 2011 that had been reduced to a 50-50 split between gelatin for film and for other products. During the last 10 years, the facility's production has also decreased dramatically, going from about 19 million pounds of gel in 1999 to 2.75 million pounds at the time the plant was sold.
However the shift from film pharmaceutical products had led to increased production in recent years and more inbound raw materials (bone chips and acid) arriving by rail so the recent news really came as a shock to many.
If you've not seen it, here is one of several news articles on the closing of the plant which has been in operation in some form for over 200 years! <www.salemnews.com/news/peabody-rousselot-plant-to-close-a...
Peabody, Massachusetts
Thursday March 9, 2023
Customers walk by towards the station at Oxford Road as the protestor sits reading the newspaper amongst the banners.
Customer's photo from 💕Tiffa
Tiffa hand make the very delicate shoes like jewelry.
(The dress and blouse from jiajiadoll)
#jiajiadoll #dollclothes #handmade
Customer's photo from 豆豆
I have knit a custom color for her kukuclara😉
Peach pink background + white Vw orb. Sweater and white mesh laced skirt
#jiajiadoll #blythe #kukuclara #momoko #viviennewestwood #handknit #dollclothes #sweater
A customer makes an inquiry at a roadside store during the hours of the night in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Taken from a moving rickshaw.
Will enough Customers come to pay my Bills?
O Caracol
R. da Barroca 14, 1400-086
Bairro Alto-
Lisboa PORTUGAL
PS-It's exciting to note that this image had the "honor" of being chosen by flickr as an "EXPLORED" image- what is EXPLORE ??
Explore is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.
Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute --
That's about 8.6 million photos a day!
From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm selects only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period.
That's only one image in every 17,000!
Pretty Cool - huh?
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This kid walked right up to my coffee counter and picked a bag of whole beans coffee. I was so curious to see what that was all about.
CN L568 heads west light power to lift their train in Stratford, after lifting the CN/CP interchange and setting off the CN 4125 + the interchange traffic for 533 to return to Toronto with. 568s train would consist of cars for Roslin LTD in St. Marys, a transload facility that has picked up quite a bit since the CN takeover, getting quite a few carloads a week and even hosting their own 2 switchers to spot cars. Seemingly every Sunday over the past few months, moves like this to switch Roslin have been very frequent.
Went to the Liquor store. Brought an E-M1 MkII along for the adventure with an adapted Jupiter-8M (Contax-RF mount).
The lens is from the mid 1950s and has seen better days. The lens coatings are mostly scratched off and when the lens is wide open, It gives very pleasant glow around highlights.
When taking photos of flowers, I really like this lens for the soft but chaotic bokeh.
Direct from the camera, contrast is not very good, but very easy to recover some contrast from RAW.