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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.
Defaced sign at the side sidewalk entrance to the Mount Pleasant cemetery. Thought it was a grave digger warning sign. crazy shit. strange sign, Toronto Canada. Monday
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!
Once the suet feeder was refilled, the Downy Woodpeckers made their presence known.
This male made frequent visits but usually showed up after the female.
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).
First bit was to dig the truck out, unfortunately the spade handle broke and still no hope when a second spade was used.
Only the Irish.....
The title won't make any sense what so ever unless you know what a widget is, but it made me smile.
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Attempt at a high key shot while watching a herd of elephants dig out a water hole on the dry Ruaha riverbed.
Ruaha, Tanzania, October 2018
Nikon D500, 300mm F4 PF + 1.4iii TC @ F8, 1/640, ISO 500
Planting my peach orchard. I planted six peach trees in my back yard this afternoon. Here you can see me digging a hole. (That gray thing on the right that looks like a cactus is the sole of my left shoe. I've always wanted to put the camera in the bottom of the hole to see what I look like looking in.)
The work has finally begun on a new development in my area. We fought the good fight to preserve the land, but after 20 years it looks like we lost.
White-breasted Nuthatch, male
Sitta carolinensis
Okay, maybe just a seed, not gold. Regardless, sometimes it seems as though these fellows are happier upside-down than right side up!
Kensington Metropark
Oakland County, MI
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The wind blew peacefully through the trees. Birds chirped, squirrels chattered, and the sound of leaves falling could be heard in the thick, beautiful forest of southern Lenfald. Bits of red and orange were beginning to appear in the treetops. The forest was changing, green was giving way to red.
Sir Glennian reflected on this as he and his companions treaded, almost silently, on the old forest road. So many things had happened recently, the once peaceful land of Roawia was now aching with the pains of conflict and turmoil, and the only plausible outcome seemed to be war. Loreos, only few miles walk southward, was now threatening invasion. Green did indeed seem to be giving way to red.
Sounds of people now reached Sir Glennian’s ears, and he saw they had almost reached their destination. As he came around a bend in the path, he saw it, not a hundred yards ahead of him. A deep hole had been dug in the center of the path, nearly fifteen feet deep, and men could be seen swarming around it.
“Foreman!” Sir Glennian shouted.
All the workers turned and noticed their visitors, and a stout man in a green cloak turned to greet them. He had a thick, curly, brown beard covering his smiling face, which was topped with thick, curly, brown hair.
“Ah, you are here at last!” He greeted them. “We have made much progress on the work. As you can see, the hole is over a dozen feet deep. Just an hour ago the blacksmith arrived with the spikes that will be stuck in the bottom. Then we will cover it with branches spread over with dirt, and the next Loreesi scum who comes through here-”
He broke off with a large wave of his hand, indicating the destruction the Loreesi would face.
Glennian nodded. “Well, let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.”
He looked forlornly down the path. Somewhere in that direction was a great desert…one in which war was brewing, a war that, he feared, Lenfald could never be completely ready for.
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Well, I was going to enter this into the last Lenfald LC, but I obviously didn’t finish it in time. Congrats to Gary and Paul on the wins! ;)
Soli Deo Gloria! :)
A crew of miners working a larger pit in Tonga, Sierra Leone
More of the story at www.adamcohn.com/thoughts/2008/04/searching-for-diamonds-...