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Studio Tram Tour: Behind the Magic is an attraction at Walt Disney Studios Park, Disneyland Paris in Marne-la-Vallée. A look into the set of London in ruins from the film Reign of Fire.
OK I REALISE THAT THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE HDR DISASTER. BUT I AM GOING TO LEAVE IT UP SO I CAN MEASURE MY NEXT ATTEMPT AGAINST IT.
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster. ~Dalai Lama
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My entry into the Down Under Challenge #122. Original photo by me! at www.flickr.com/photos/andy_bernay-roman/234934636/
Los Angeles County, Los Angeles City, Glendale, Burbank, Compton, Oxnard, Rialto, Bakersfield and Fresno Fire Departments participate in live fire drills for their explorers as part of the 2014 Disaster Drills at Del Valle.
with a 70' Chevy SS. My first shoot without assistance for pinup, we worked hard to get a variety of looks. Was a great learning experience!
USAID’s Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction project provides training in first aid and first response for communities vulnerable to natural disasters. Here, women community emergency response team members practice first aid techniques during a disaster response drill.
Photo Credit: Luke Bostian, Aga Khan Foundation
Geo-disasters include events induced by natural phenomena, such as landslides, debris flows, strong earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions, which can kill, cause injury and property damage. Rainfall- and earthquake-induced landslides, debris flow disasters, disaster awareness, seismic ground shaking, climate change, floods, dams and levees were among geo-disasters discussed at the international symposium. Photo by Matt Gush
At 9.30 am, on 26 March 1896, an explosion rang out from the Brunner mine in Westland's Grey Valley. In that moment 65 men would lose their lives.
Explorer Thomas Brunner discovered a seam of quality coal on the banks of the Grey River in July 1847, but it was not until the railway to Greymouth had been built in 1876 that the
Brunner coal field really took off.
On the morning of the Brunner mining disaster, it was reported that a sound like artillery fire was heard, and smoke was seen billowing out of the pithead. The area of the Brunner mine in 1896 was over 230 acres. Due to the depth of the mine, there was no damage to the buildings around the opening of the mine shaft.
Two men were initially sent in to investigate the blast. When they didn't return, miners from other shifts followed them. They were found unconscious from black damp, a suffocating mixture of nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
The rescue party moved further into the diggings. By 11 am, the first bodies were recovered. Those involved almost succumbed to the noxious gases and themselves had to be carried out. This misled the onlookers in to thinking that some of the original miners were being brought out alive.
As the rescue efforts moved deeper into the mine, signs of an enormous explosion could be seen. Railway lines and trucks were twisted and smashed. Some bodies were so badly mutilated that they had to be identified by their clothing.
By 2:00pm the next day, 64 bodies had been brought out of the mine. It could be seen that those away from the point of explosion had been trying to escape and had been suffocated by the black damp. It took a further three days to locate the last body. A total of 65 miners died in the disaster, almost half of the Brunner underground work force.
53 of the dead miners were buried at the nearby Stillwater Cemetery on 29 March. It was estimated that the funeral procession was made of 6000 people, and stretched for half a mile.
A disaster relief fund for the miners’ families was launched the day after the explosion, and money was given from all parts of New Zealand. Altogether more than £32,000 was raised for the fund.
A commission of inquiry found that the explosion had been the result of human error. A charge had been placed the wrong way around, in a part of the mine where there should have been no one working. Experienced miners believed that fire damp had accumulated and not been cleared properly by the ventilation system, and a series of explosions had been the result. As a result of the explosion, the ventilation system in the deeper parts of the mine was destroyed. More exit shafts would not necessarily have saved more lives.
An obelisk was erected to the miners at Stillwater Cemetery and dedicated in 1900. In 1996 a statue of a late nineteenth century miner was placed at the entrance to the Brunner Mine.
The Brunner Mine disaster was the worst mining disaster in New Zealand’s history.
The image above is from an 1896 report detailing the economic conditions of the dead miner’s families following the disaster. It lists the names of women widowed, and the number of their children under the age of 16. The report gives some insight to hardships faced by the families, and the living conditions of West Coast mining communities at the time.
Title: From: Mrs Grace Neill, Brunner Date: 8 June 1896 Subject: Report upon the circumstances and conditions of those who lost their breadwinners in recent explosion at the Brunner Coal Mine.
Transferred to Archives New Zealand from the Department of Internal Affairs.
Archives reference: ACGO 8333 IA1 Box 700/[38] 1896/179
collections.archives.govt.nz/en/web/arena/search#/?q=R248...
Further information about Brunner mine disaster can be found here:
christchurchcitylibraries.com/Kids/NZDisasters/Brunner.asp
www.nzhistory.net.nz/sixty-seven-men-die-in-the-brunner-c...
www.teara.govt.nz/en/coal-and-coal-mining/page-7
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Elinchrom BRX500, Rotalux 135 Octa Cross Light
Candid portraits of some of the volunteers from Rab's Country Lanes during the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy.
March 13, 2015 - Tokyo, Japan. World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim speaking at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan about Japan’s strong expertise in Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Photo: Antony Tran / World Bank Group
I was on the verge of tears on Saturday night after having spent 4 hours peeling these off with a pair of tweezers (the grid is one inch square...), then having the laser cut fabric letters that they were backing just disintegrate in my hands ...
What a disaster ...
So today, before I cleared my desk out now that that particular project is over, I thought I'd take some macro shots of the letters... if you notice, I was trying to write 'love' ... but I couldn't find a 'v' ... so you get 'disaster' instead, which is actually more apt I think ....
I baked four pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving 2009 dinner - they were a big failure. Because I didn't bother to put my reading glasses on while I was reading the recipe, I ended up putting twice as much sugar in them as needed.
They took forever to bake and a lot of sticky syrup bubbled out of them all over my oven and the pans. The syrup was at the hard crack stage by the time I took them out of the oven.
They ended up in the garbage - really a waste. From now on, I'll put on a pair of reading glasses when I bake.
Read about it here:
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