Dozer photos on Flickr

1 A year ago my profile pic was born on New Year's day on Gran Canaria... as the locals celebrated New Year with fireworks I took a picture which is now my profile picture!

2 When taking a photograph of some iconic object I like to take a photograph which tells the story without having to show of all the image but yet it is still instantly recognisable: for example this www.flickr.com/photos/aidanmcmichael/3945604670/in/set-72...

3 In 1997 I took a year long photography course - every Tuesday evening at Belfast Met College ...it had some theory thrown in but this was just about of a book ...I was really interested in the practical side so I borrowed my brother's manual SLR - we had to cover topics such as 'atmosphere'... my portfolio for that topic included: pictures of sky, balloons and wind turbines! For the topic 'colour' I took pics of my nephews for their red hair! I'd do it all differently if I was doing it now - of course ..but I got my 'City and Guilds' qualification anyway!!

4 My cat Tori - a chocolate Burmese wakes me every morning at 7.30 sharp. I'm sure my neighbours hear her squawking..and yes I do let her in and she tries to get in under the duvet - often with much success! She produced these wonderful paw prints for me to discover a couple of years ago in the snow www.flickr.com/photos/aidanmcmichael/2235860447/in/set-72...

5 My interests in my early working career were scientific in nature - I used several techniques for taking photographs including taking photographs of a cross section of a grass blade mounted on glass slides using a microscope and high resolution details inside plant cells using a camera mounted on a scanning electron microscope. Both of these helped me understand the print media and B&W photography....in those days we all had to develop our own prints. I loved the dark room...in the 1980s and '90s I had to use 'Kodak Blue' for making slides for presentations - this involved printing the text for the presentation on white paper then photographing them one by one with Kodak Blue and then developing the film myself using a sealed black drum with a twisting mechanism to remove the film from its casing....then mounting the processed film into plastic slide frames and then on into the carousel for projecting! Can you image what it was like to make a spelling mistake ...if anyone complains about Microsoft Powerpoint again - hit them!!!

6 I'm facinated by Robert Welch the 19th Century Belfast Photographer. As an antiquarian and naturalist he has taught me a lot about my own local history - through his images we can see what remains of a time gone by - much to my surprise I find I have delivered lectures on Welch to various clubs and societies, including the Belfast Naturalist Field Club of which Welch was president, and I have the Belfast Titanic Society in my diary for September 2010 (Welch was the official photographer for Titanic's Ship Builder, Harland and Wolfe, and recorded all of the world famous pictures of Titanic being built and being fitted out!).

7 One of my earliest memories is the advent of the Polaroid Instant print camera - this used "pack film," which required the photographer to pull the film out of the camera for development, then peel apart the positive from the negative at the end of the developing process! I can remember as a 5 or 6 year old being in my grandmother's back yard where my father used a Polaroid pre SX 70 (cant remember the exact model). There was disbelief as my father www.flickr.com/photos/aidanmcmichael/1268352559/in/set-72... tore back the paper cover after the requisite seconds had elapsed, to see the developed image before our very eyes. Colours didnt seem to be true and it was very flat but it was nevertheless amazing to see. Later, I remember my father taking photographs in the form of slides, ektachrome 35mm - as a child I was always facinated with the intense colour and clarity of the slides which he kept in a bit of a jumble in an old box. I dont remember that we had a light box - a 'to do' for 2010 is to get these digitised!

8 I remember how I heard about Flickr - I was receiving physiotheraphy... so was flat on my back in traction - the physio used to turn on the radio and just as I was falling asleep my session would be over and I would be rudely awakened. Anyway I was lying back one day listening to the radio - must have been BBC Radio 4, I always asked for 'talk' radio as her choice of music stations was awful! As I lay dozing and having my spine pulled apart I heard the word flickr...flickr...flickr...and that was that!

9 I remember my first digital camera which led to my first digital pics going on flickr. I was in New York, Manhattan in December 2004. I had a little camera from a few years earlier, a mini camera, I think it was described as - the first phase of camera size reduction at the turn of the century! Anyhow...it broke while I was in NY! So I browsed all the electronic shops from Times Square to Mid Town and found a good enough deal..a Konica Minolta Dimage Z10. I just loved the shape of it as I knew little about the technical spec...that very evening I disposed of my camera box and strung it round my neck and later as I ascended the lift to the top of the Empire State Building! I was just as awe struck as I was my first time there in '96. This time I was there to digitise! My memory is that I was knocked about all over the place as everyone jostled for relatively limited viewing space - but in the end I got my pics then and I get them now! www.flickr.com/photos/aidanmcmichael/115979526/in/set-721...

10 People rarely comment as I take pictures - last year as I took a picture of a shop front the owner came out and asked if he could have a copy (later I emailed it too him), But it was the first time I had thought about how easy it was to take a digital image but yet there are people out there who either dont know how to do it, or dont have a camera or a camera phone. I found the shop owner amazed by how I wanted to take a picture - maybe he was flattered in some way - anyway I was glad to be of help www.flickr.com/photos/aidanmcmichael/4072861772/in/set-72... I didnt buy any of the Titanic Town Sweets on sale!

Doze WRH by Alex Ellison

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North London.

dozer_Elko_081721 by National Interagency Fire Center

Dozer, 08/17/2021, Elko, Nevada, Marc Sanchez

Grandview Fire by National Interagency Fire Center

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Dozers help with fire suppression operations on the night shift on the Grandview Fire in Oregon. Photo by Central Oregon District - Oregon Department of Forestry

doze off by Kanonyobo Cotton

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dozing by Ron Donoghue

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they like to shelter under the hedge

doze (33) by Agência Doze

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Euclid/Terex Dozer by Dave

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Euclid C6 or Terex 82-30?

Euclid/Terex dozer being demonstrated at SED (Site Equipment Demonstration) at Milton Keynes about nine years ago as part of the Lighthouse Club vintage machinery display.

The two-stroke Detroit sounded lovely.

Komatsu D61PX - Gayer by SchwobaBagger

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View On Black

doze (6) by Agência Doze

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Vickers dozer by 777ken

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Seen at Abbey Farm open day

Acco Dozer by Acco Dozer

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The biggest dozer in the world built by Mr. Acco Umberto in 1980.