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Women laying drainage pipe during airfield construction in Esat Anglia. This photo appeared in the 13 September 1941 issue of The Sphere.
Sometimes you can get so deeply into something you love, that it almost consumes you.
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I have already removed all the cactus from my yard as when you hit it with the lawn mower, it goes KAPOW!!
Today, I realized that I didn't get a picture, so I staged this one on the trail.
The heavy snow that has come lately has covered the bales with quite a heavy blanket. It makes reaching them and loosen them rather trublesome. It often requires all the power that are in the tractor and its hydraulic systems.
On the other side it covers them from the cold and keeps them from freezing.
Placing a new culvert for Secret Creek under SR 532 near Stanwood requires a very deep trench.
Contractor crews working for WSDOT excavated a trench 40 feet deep for the new culvert.
Replacing the existing culvert is necessary because it's only 4-feet in diameter and poses a barrier to fish. The narrow size means that water speeds though it far too fast.
The new culvert will be 18 feet wide by 10 feet tall and 195 feet long.
If you carefully add food coloring to the roots of your plants over time you can tint them almost any color. Or you can just slide the hue scale to the left in Photoshop.
It was pretty in red, but I'm bored.
When pocket gophers dig they push piles of loose dirt to the surface, a characteristic that has earned them the name "sandy mounders" or "salamanders." Shallow tunnels generally run parallel to the surface and provide access to their diet of roots and tubers, while nest and food storage tunnels are deeper.
Photo by Aubrey Pawlikowski/FWC
A few architectual images on a mostly overcast day at the local library. Everything inspired by René Burri.
Everyone is so excited about the construction projects at the zoo. Even this coati, named Blondie, helped to dig a ditch!
I'm not sure if this fox squirrel is looking for some goodies—or maybe planting something for the future! Last summer when I went to replant annual flowers in my deck pots, I found a little cache of peanuts down in the soil!
People, second prize singles
November 20, 2015
Arzuma Tinado (28) leads an eight-member crew of miners at Djuga, an artisanal gold mine in north-eastern Burkina Faso. Around 15,000 people work in the area, in pits hacked into the ground, some barely wider than a manhole.
As the price of gold fell, people began to dig ever deeper to find enough to make a daily wage. Arzuma works some 20 meters underground. Mining under these conditions is backbreaking labor during which miners are constantly breathing in dust. The subsequent process of extracting the gold exposes them to mercury and cyanide.
My initial response to this photograph is that I really like it because of how the photographer took it and what I mean by that is that I like the fact that the light on his head creates a light that is on his face which illuminates him and makes it clear to see he is the point of view in this photo. I also really like that the photographer decided do a shallow depth of field to blur out the background. This is another aspect of the photo that makes it clear to see the man is the point of view. I like how sharp this photo is because you can see all the detailing on his face and hands which makes the photograph more interesting and successful. I think the photographer captures a sense of relief through this photograph. I think this because the man works as a miner and works in some very stressful and tiring conditions. This photo captures the stress relief from his work by him smoking (because people who smoke often feel relieved and less stressed after having a smoke).