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We're here visiting The Innocence and Savagery of Elevators
We stepped in the elevator to go up one floor ... and there they were! Too good to be true. My heart leaped, my mind jumped ahead: how long would we be together in this confined space? One minute? No, thirty seconds?
"You look remarkable," I said, "can I take your picture?"
"Sure," she said. He hesitated. "I don't have to be included?"
"Oh yes! You look marvelous together!
Their pose was rather stiff but sympathetic. He withstood the attention of a camera. She enjoyed the unexpected elevator moment. I marveled at her T-shirt, just long enough to serve as a dress. Had she just bought it the museum shop? And immediately changed clothes? I was going to ask, but the lift stopped, the door opened. We had to get out. "Thank you, guys!" was all I could say, still not completely landed in my own head.
Sometimes a meeting with a stranger is just like that. Short as lightning.
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Leica m9
september 22
Gabo and Whit finding good angles.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - September 13, 2019 : The grain elevator on Halifax's waterfront.
Camera: Nikon D5200 & Nikkor 18-140mm lens
ISO 200, 60mm, f/8, 1/400
A Fleet Week Saturday aboard the USS Nimitz.
The day began at San Francisco Airport, where I boarded a US Navy C-2 transport plane at sunrise for a flight out to the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, which was cruising 50 miles off the California Coast. After landing on the flight deck, we disembarked for a tour while the ship sailed toward San Francisco to participate in the Fleet Week "Parade of Ships." Upon clearing the Golden Gate Bridge, the Nimitz launched three F-18s from the flight deck as we cruised past Fisherman's Wharf. From there we continued onward, under the Bay Bridge to an anchorage in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, just off South Beach. And then I had to go home.
It was a very remarkable day. Many thanks to the US Navy for extending the invitation, and the kind sailors who showed us around their ship!
With a shuttle loading facility in town now, the old elevator is being knocked down as a RCPE train rolls into the sunset.
I made a run up to the SW Michigan area and found this vintage grain elevator alongside the NS mainline in Milan.
These old, wooden grrain elevators are two out of the three that still stand at Mossleigh, SE of Calgary. The third is just off to the left of my photo. They were seen on 14 April 2014, when my youngest daughter and I spent the day driving some of the backroads SE of Calgary.
From Alberta Prime Time - Talk of the Town: Mossleigh Grain Elevator Trio. Original Air Date: Thursday, April 05, 2012:
"A farm family in the Mossleigh area of Southern Alberta is doing all it can to keep their local grain elevators towering over the prairies.
Eric Donovan and his cousin purchased two of the three aging structures when the original owner had no more use for them. Now they're being restored to working condition."
Link to an interesting article from Vulcanadvocate.com, from March 2012:
www.vulcanadvocate.com/2012/03/26/mossleigh-area-resident...
"There were 1,651 elevators in Alberta in 1951, but by 1982 a total of 979 elevators remained. The 1990s spelled the death of the wooden “country” or “primary” elevator. At the end of the 1990s, as the full impact of both of the ending of the Crow Rate in 1995 and further impending rail abandonment was felt, the pace of demolition accelerated at an unprecedented rate. At the end of the 1996-1997 crop year, there were only 327 elevators left. Alberta’s largest cooperative grain companies, the Alberta Wheat Pool (which amalgamated with Manitoba Pool Elevators in 1998 as Agricore) and United Grain Growers, ultimately formed a new corporate entity known as Agricore United in 2001, issuing issued public shares. Demolition of country elevators has continued, and in 2005 there were only 156 wooden elevators of any kind still standing, only a handful of which are used by the grain trade.
The Government of Alberta has recognised the significance of the traditional wood grain elevators, and has designated 12 as Provincial Historic Resources. They are located in the following communities: Andrew, Castor, Leduc, Meeting Creek, Paradise Valley, Radway, Rowley (3 elevators), Scandia and St. Albert (2 elevators)."
Pincher Station just North of Pincher Creek, Alberta. A long history in this Southern area, along with a lone elevator. Pincher creek, and area were founded, from what I can find, in the late 1800's which makes sense as that's when the main East/West CP Rail lines were being built. Pincher Station was built on that reason.
Buenos Aires has a beautiful, stately 8-story building downtown - dedicated to art and culture. There are many changing exhibits, and performances at the Kirchner Center.....even dance and yoga classes and I'm sure that's just the tip of the iceberg. They have modern elevators and old ones too so in the spirit of art, I played with 2 looks of the classic elevator.
what she had told me too, before we headed for an instant - still warm - meal, was: "you're right and got no reason to worry, baby. life is great. when you're dead by thirty" - she smiled and it was an extremely old smile.
Goldfish Memory, directed by: Elizabeth Gill, 2003.
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↬ Hair: Ayashi Misato
↬ Head: Lelutka Camilla
↬ Body: Ebody Reborn
↬ Pose: Amitie Elevator 5
↬ Backdrop: Amitie Elevevator
Taken at Sunny's Photo Studio
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