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6 seconds handheld is never going to give sharp pictures, but hey, who wants sharp pictures all the time?
The elevator to our apartment in Rome. Very old fashioned where you had to open/close the doors yourself. Reminded me of the one in the film Charade.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 24mm F2.8D lens. Fomapan Action 400 35mm B&W film.
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This picture was shot on a tripod with three exposures (-2..0..+2 EV). I used Photomatix to create the HDR with tone mapping and detail enhanced. I increased the overall saturation with Hue/Saturation in Photoshop. Curve adjustment to increase the overall contrast. 1 layer mask in soft light mode at 50% gray, using brush tool to lighten and darken some areas of the image, to bring out details. Topaz Clarity for additional boost in color and contrast.
Oregon City Municipal Elevator Along McLoughlin Promenade. Have a Great week everyone!
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The grain elevator and the Co-op, two mainstays of small town prairie life.
Davidson, Saskatchewan
July 2019
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Inside the elevator at the Puente de Setas in Sevilla, Spain.
Yet another one. I remember making the exposure but not where I was. I swear, I'll get these things located and descrived.
The Rookery
209 South La Salle Street
Chicago, Illinois
"1931 - William Drummond incorporated an Art Deco aesthetic and divided the two-story entrance lobby into separate floors. He replaced Wright’s open-geometric elevator cages with solid bronze doors etched with birds."
oh oh photoshopic ugly mess.
thanks to a lack of volunteers willing to be in my photos, i asked photoshop for help.
anyway, part of the song series. I like the title of the song.
Elevator Love Letter - Stars
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ugh. i'm really starting to hate this. but thank you jeesy.
Cadillac village grain elevator storage building and railway cars of the Great Western Railway.
Seen from Rural Municipality of Wise Creek.
Province of Saskatchewan in May 2022.
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Captured with my Nikon Df and a manual Nikkor Ai 50mm ƒ1:1.2, post processed with the new VSCO Film Pack 06.
I had never seen a grain elevator in my life, until I took my first train trip to Western Canada many years ago. As we crossed Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the visions of grain elevators approaching against the backdrop of canola fields and those fabulous prairie skies were very powerful.
Then I learned that there were thousands of them in Saskatchewan only, in the 1930s, but today only a few hundred remain, very few still being used, most of them abandoned, weather beaten, on the verge of demolition.
To me, grain elevators are the architectural equivalents of European medieval castles, or Dutch wind mills (a little exaggeration here, maybe?). They've captured my imagination like no other buildings in North America have (lighthouses and barns come to my mind too, I love them as well). These are the photographs I took in August 2013.
Out for a drive coming back from somewhere and grabbed this image of a grain elevator aka "Prairie Giants". They were designed to receive, store and ship grain in bulk. They are a disappearing symbol of the Canadian Prairie skyline.
Some have even called the grain elevators “Prairie cathedrals.”
Passed this through a few Apps to get this Painterly effect.
More of the Palouse. I just took so many photos while there! I'm almost finished posting the images from there.
Lisbon, Portugal.
The Santa Justa Lift, also called Carmo Lift, is an elevator, or lift, in the civil parish of Santa Justa, in the historic center of Lisbon, Portugal. Situated at the end of Rua de Santa Justa, it connects the lower streets of the Baixa with the higher Largo do Carmo (Carmo Square).
Since its construction the lift has become a tourist attraction for Lisbon as. Others, including Elevador da Glória and Elevador da Bica, are actually funicular railways, and the other lift constructed around the same time, the Elevator of São Julião, has since been demolished.
The structure is constructed of stylized steel similar to that of the Eiffel Tower and was the project of an apprentice of Eiffel.
From a Facebook posting by John Barry Graham on 8 August 2023:
"A tornado in 2015 took the roof off. The community that saved and restored the two old churches has $16,000 saved up thus far to put a new roof on and save the elevator. It is the most photographed elevator in Western Canada."
Drone footage of Dorothy elevator and old bridge East Coulee, by DanOCan
I had put these five photos aside when I last deleted a few more photos from my computer. Gradually, I will add the description that I had written under a different posted photo taken on the same day.
Just playing with the settings of my camera, Panasonic FZ200, back in 2014. Taken on 29 September 2014, before the roof was blown off in a wind storm in 2015. Unfortunately, it has never been repaired.
"On 29 September 2014, I finally drove out to an area that lies NE of Calgary, that I had longed to go to for so many years. It must have been 30+ years ago that I first saw one particular area of the Badlands of Alberta. A few times since then, I had been fairly close when I went on several botany trips out that way, but when you are carpooling, you can't just go wherever you want. So, my youngest daughter and I decided that we both wanted to make this trip. All summer, we had been waiting for a day on which she didn't have to work and where the weather forecast was for no rain on the day or there had been no rain the previous day. The Bentonite Clay in the area becomes treacherously slippery when wet. The forecast for this day was for a mainly sunny day - at last, we were going!
I think this was the longest day of driving I had ever done, especially to, and in, an area that I'd never driven to before. For anyone who doesn't know me, I have battled a driving phobia for decades, plus I have no sense of direction, lol! Thankfully, my daughter has an amazing sense of direction, so I knew we wouldn't be stuck out on the prairies in the middle of nowhere. A typical question at too many intersections went as follows: me - "Do we go left?"; my daughter - "No, we go right", lol!
I met my daughter at 8:00 am. and I got home shortly before 9:00 pm. Much of that time was spent driving; the rest was spent wandering round three main areas - The Hoodoo Trail, Dorothy and Rowley, in different directions from Drumheller (known for its remarkable dinosaur findings). The forecast was far from accurate on our drive out to the Badlands and I began to wonder if we'd made a mistake going on this trip on that particular day. However, knowing that snow would be returning very soon ("returning" because we had two snowstorms on 9 and 10 September), I was beginning to feel rather desperate and really didn't want to risk not getting out there this year. The afternoon was less cloudy and we did have some sun.
So, the first of our destinations was The Hoodoo Trail, a small area of protected, spectacular hoodoos (rock formations), and then we went further, to the almost-ghost-town of Dorothy. I had longed, for such a long time, to see the two small, old churches that are to be found in Dorothy, as well as the old grain elevator seen in this photo. This photo was obviously taken before the sun eventually came out. This abandoned icon of the prairies stands at the edge of the main road and will probably end up crumbling or being destroyed before too long, like so many other grain elevators in Alberta. Such a waste, that they are not protected.
After that, we drove over 11 bridges and called in at the tiny hamlet of Wayne, passing the old Atlas Coal Mine. Much as we would have liked to visit the mine, we knew that we just didn't have time. Then we went to Rowley to see the old grain elevators and to wander round this very small, historical place. There are actually three elevators, with two being right next to each other and the other one a little further from them. Dorothy felt and looked almost deserted, whereas Rowley was beautifully kept.
From Rowley, we made our way back across the prairies to Calgary. I had planned on getting back before it got dark as I no longer like night driving and very rarely do it, but we didn't quite make it. On the return drive, the last sighting was a Great Horned Owl that was perched part way up a power pole. Well done, Rachel, spotting this welcome bird! Not easy to see in the dark. By the time I got home, I was so tired and my arms were so painful from driving, but, what a great day we had!!
"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)."
www.grainelevatorsalberta.ca/articles/HRM-history.pdf
www.bigdoer.com/8049/exploring-history/prairie-sentinels-...
An interesting film about how the old grain elevators work (or worked). Grain Elevator by Charles Konowal, National Film Board of Canada, 15:57 minutes in length.
Mirrors and angles and such.
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