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A flock of non-breeding American White Pelicans patrols Marina Spit; Pelecanus erythrorhynchos; no crop done
Walking along W. Diversey Avenue to photograph the former Hammond Organ Company headquarters, I spotted open windows (with accompanying noise) on the south side of the street. The building houses Larson Forgings, a subsidiary of Charles E. Larson & Sons, Inc., a manufacturing and warehousing complex that serves businesses including aircraft engine manufacturers, oil patch suppliers, petrochemical corporations and power-generation companies. The company, founded in 1895, has two buildings consisting of 180,000 square-feet along N. Keeler and W. Diversey avenues.
Early one morning I managed to catch this photo of the Viking Blacksmith at work.
I feel like I should be taking Christmas photos and yet I keep taking Viking photos :-) I haven't gotten into the holidays yet this year.....
Forging ahead of my hubby in a forest heavily populated with grizzly bear, I casually asked if he had brought the bear spray along. When he said "No" - I became a little more aware of my surroundings. If a bear came from my right - I could not jump the fence and get away, as the terrain plunged straight down into Million Dollar Falls. Happily we did not see a bear on our trek to and from the brink of the falls. But this spring, I think I'll carry the bear spray. ;)
"(...) On the third night Ilmarinen,
Bending low to view his metals,
On the bottom of the furnace,
Sees the magic Sampo rising,
Sees the lid in many colors.
Quick the artist of Wainola
Forges with the tongs and anvil,
Knocking with a heavy hammer,
Forges skilfully the Sampo (...)"
Kalevala, runo 10
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Perched atop a classic Land Rover, in the heart of an abandoned rural setting, light takes on a life of its own. Sparks erupt in a radiant explosion, fanning out like incandescent wings, illuminating the scene with an almost mystical aura. The old stone structure and the deep night sky serve as the perfect backdrop for this mesmerizing dance of fire and steel.
A coalition of 2 brothers strolled with purpose through their territory. While antilopes and little bucks fled for their lives, these two had very little interest in the hunt, and were keener on returning to their pride, which was just waiting up ahead under the High Bridge, crossing the Sabi Sand River.
Still, there were many scents halting them in their tracks, and they both raised their muzzles a few times to smell the air on their journey.
Carl Zeiss Ikon ZM 35mm rangefinder camera
Carl Zeiss C Sonnar T* 1,5/50 ZM lens
Fuji Provia 400x film
Scan from slide @3600dpi
Forging facility - Berkeley California
I think I have passed by this building over a 1000 times over the years. For the past 2 I have been wanting to spend a little time photographing it under different conditions. Finally a few weeks ago I took the time to walk around a little and figure out the best angles for the confusing lines, and light.
When passing by on the slightly elevated section of freeway (just behind the camera) the perspective is perfect. Nice lines, shadows, and light, but there is no place to legally set up. I am no stranger to finding my way into places that are not necessarily "legal" but standing on one of the Bay Area's most busy freeways in the middle of a weekday is not going to happen. I am sure officers Baker and Poncherello would have put the kibosh on that one in a heartbeat. Anyway... After I walked around and made a few test images, I went on my way.
Now, a few weeks later, I returned with a little more time and knowledge of the area. I found a small section of sidewalk (more like weeds and dirt) setup and made a few long and short exposures. There are a few issues with this subject that were difficult to overcome. The 12,000lb steam hammer inside the building cycles about every 30-45 seconds. Not really a big deal, but it does exert enough pressure to shake the ground, and camera a couple of hundred yards away. After watching the timing of the shake, I finally found a rhythm to the hammer, and made the exposures that I came for. After a making a few long exposures, I switched over to capture some fast shutter exposures. All was great until I was done with the quick exposures and wanted to finish off my roll of film with a couple more longer times. Just as I was switching over I was confronted, yes "confronted" by a nice gentleman that said that I was causing some concern inside the facility. Long story short.... I was being photographed ( as I sarcastically waved at the cellphone camera) and a few words of "national security" were tossed around. Now I understand that industry is a key part of our nation ( at least at one time it was before it was sold off and sent overseas), but tool making and national security? Hmmmm. Because of the "discussion" between the nice gentleman and myself, I forgot to move the lens back to the proper B setting that was needed to properly expose. Basically I ended up with 8 usable frames out of a 12 frame roll.
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Camera -Hasselblad 500 C/M
Lens - 80mm f/2.8 @ f/16
Exposure - 25 seconds
Film - Kodak TMAX 100
ISO - 100 (exposed at ISO 50)
Developed with Kodak HC- 110 (H) - 11 minutes using a 15 second every 2 minute agitation cycle.
Waste disposal is a worldwide problem that plagues both industrialized and developing countries. Mali's capitol, Bamako, recycles much of its waste by breaking it down completely and reusing the metal to build new items such as garden tools, cooking utensils and other household items. Bamako is extremely effective at this process, with an 85% reuse rate, exceeding many cities of the industrialized world (e.g. San Francisco at 68%).
Garbage is collected, usually by individuals with donkey drawn carts, in only half of the city. The refuse is sorted and organic matter is sold to farmers and metal scrap is taken to the Recycling Market, a sprawling area of small stalls, each a private enterprise that reworks metal into new, usable objects. You can recognize the Recycling market from a distance by the sounds of pounding hammers – a music all of its own.
Bamako, Mali
Sadly, the Finkl metal forging company will not be at this location much longer--they are moving to the South Side. I'll miss coming here on Sundays, when they are closed, and taking photos of their acres of strange machines, metal scraps, and cool buildings.
Forging it's way through the inclement weather is preserved Alexander-bodied Atlantean LA907 (JGA 189N), partaking in the 2018 GVVT Open Weekend Shuttle services.
Caught on Cowcaddens Rd, partway through a loop 'round B.B.S via Cowcaddens Rd, Port Dundas Rd/West Nile St, Killermont St & then back onto North Hanover St southbound.
Photo Date: 13th October 2018
In 1884, while forging Arizona Canal across uncharted territory, railroad entrepreneur William J. Murphy first engineered Arizona Falls by dropping the canal over a 20-foot shelf of rock he encountered in the outskirts of town. From the onset, the site was taken for a prime rendezvous by water parched pioneers.
In 2003 after being under wraps for over a century, a joint venture between SRP (Salt River Project) and the Phoenix Arts Commission reinvented the public space for a new millennium. A new hydroelectric power plant was strategically designed to unmask the falls, which had been hidden by its defunct predecessors.
Many times removed form its raw state, today the main juncture at the falls is known as the water room, a cool sandstone enclosure planted with a uniform garden of stone seats. A waterfall roars to the back of the room, while the sidewalls sweat with moisture in diminutive rivulets. Farther forward, two more sheets of water race off the tracks to curtain away corners, completing the historic falls 21st century renovation. ( AAA Highroads magazine).
Located at 56st Street and Indian School Road.
More photos to follow. Very interesting place. I was standing in the water room. Behind the water you can see the old gears for the gate.
More info: www.srpnet.com/water/canals/azfalls.aspx
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I started forging my first weapons after years of praticing under my father's watch.
And I failed a lot of times.
When I showed him my latest creation, he always mumbled something.
"You have to think of it as something your life depends on.
You are selling these, the client's life may depend on it.
Remember: every tool and weapon have a purpose."
Even if I didn't understand what he meant, I continued my work at the forge and my father enjoyed his old age by going to drink at the tavern, or going out for a walk outside the city.
"Son I'll go take a walk, take care of the forge for me".
And he went, leaving me doing all the job.
However my clients were satisfied with the stuff I made, no one ever complained.
And yet for some reasons my father still watched over me.
"It began with the forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the Elves; immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven, to the Dwarf Lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of Men, who above all else desire power. For within these rings was bound the strength and the will to govern over each race.
But they were all of them deceived, for a new ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret, a master ring, to control all others. And into this ring he poured all his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One ring to rule them all. One by one, the free peoples of Middle Earth fell to the power of the Ring.
But there were some who resisted. A last alliance of Men and Elves marched against the armies of Mordor, and on the very slopes of Mount Doom, they fought for the freedom of Middle-Earth. Victory was near, but the power of the ring could not be undone. It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Isildur, son of the king, took up his father's sword. And Sauron, enemy of the free peoples of Middle-Earth, was defeated. The Ring passed to Isildur, who had this one chance to destroy evil forever... but the hearts of Men are easily corrupted.
And the ring of power has a will of its own. It betrayed Isildur, to his death. And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge. Until, when chance came, the ring ensnared another bearer. The ring came to the creature Gollum, who took it deep into the tunnels under the Misty Mountains, and there it consumed him. The ring gave to Gollum an unnatural long life.
For five hundred years it poisoned his mind; and in the gloom of Gollum's cave, it waited. Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the East, whispers of a nameless fear, and the Ring of Power perceived. Its time had now come. It abandoned Gollum.
But then something happened that the Ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable. A hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, of the Shire. For the time will soon come when hobbits will shape the fortunes of all..."
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Coming off the recent success of my Hobbit Poster, I decided for my next project to change TLG's animated poster: shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-The-Lord-of-the-Rings-Frodo-Post... , into a real Lego one. So, after several minutes of building the backdrop, and positioning Frodo's arm, a couple of hours of phototaking to get the perfect one, and then another five hours of graphic design work, I present the One Ring To Rule Them All Poster in Lego.
Enjoy and God Bless!
As promised, here is the Forging of Anduril, my next LEGO LOTR MOC! I hope you enjoy it! I watched the actual scene and built it off of that moment in the movie.
"From the ashes a fire shall waken,
a light from the shadows shall spring,
renewed shall be the sword that was broken,
the crownless again shall be king."
"All that is gold does not glitter,
not all those who wonder are lost,
the old that is strong does not wither,
deep roots are not touched by the frost."
A remarkable document this - a spirally bound 140 pages of nuts, bolts, fixings, fasteners and special forgings that were in production at the Atlas Works of Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds (Midlands) Ltd. at Darlaston in Staffordshire. The well produced catalogue has been thoughtfully published using index tabs and colours to cover the seven sections, covering black bolts and screws, high tensile, 'Bright" bolts and screws, brass as well as Specilaities and appendices.
GKN was a sprawling conglomerate based on the 1902 merger of Nettlefolds of Birmingham with Guest, Keen & Co who were themselves the product of Guest's (associated with the Welsh Dowlais Iron Co) and Keen's Patent Nut & Bolt Co. again of Birmingham. Over the decades they acquired many other similar concerns becoming a 'verically integrated' concern in that they produced iron and steel as well as formed metal into a wide variety of products. They had a loose 'structure' at the time of this catalogue although there was to be a brief interlude when the 'producing companies' were nationalised in 1951 before being reacquired between 1954 and 1955. The concern later morphed into GKN.
Opposite a selection of machined bolts and nuts are examples of the box end labels used for the various products. These colour coded and grouped labels used to fascinate me in ironmongers shops as a child!
There's a temperature of -33C with drifts along the line, and still the coal keeps moving on the 762mm gauge railway at Huanan, but this was to be the last working of our visit in winter 2009/2010, on New Year's Eve 2009, as overnight the drifting snow blocked the tracks completely preventing further movements for several days. Two locos were used for additional power through the drifts, hence the unusual spectacle of two 'C2' Class 0-8-0s on a short coal train across the flat and featureless plain between Tuoyaozi and Huanan.
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'5700' class 0-6-0 pannier tank 9681 heading a short engineer's train through the rain at Upper Forge, near Norchard, on 28th December 2012.
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I've been Forging ahead in the contest and have just finished Hammering out a new build. I hope this entry doesn't raise the Roof, but I'm working hard to Steel the show. Still I don't want to leave my competitors in a cloud of Smoke.
My entry to the Brickscalibur Far East Elegance category as well as my second entry to round two of Iron Forge (the seed parts were used a total of 37 times, 26 times in the roof [1 goblet and 25 mugs] and 11 times [I think] in the smoke). Is it really a seed part if it isn't used in a roof.
Highschooler makes an attempt through flooded Forest Ave in Cranford NJ. The waters rose overnight during Hurricane Irene. Cranford has never seen this much water in the center of town before.
Thanks all for the explore comments. We may be a small town with a big flood that is insignificant to so many bigger disasters around the world, yet this will be a day not forgotten.
66 200 heads a rake of big red boxes on 6M82 13.38 Walsall to Dowlow with some Crepuscular Rays streaming through the clouds.
On an unusually dull day in a period of otherwise warm and sunny weather, Class 43 locomotive No. 43303 heads away from Yatton with 1E63, the 15:27 Plymouth to Leeds service.
Wednesday 29th April 2020.
Shot during my government-permitted exercise activity, which at that time was limited to one per day.
I think I'll try this viewpoint again, or at least one very similar to it, in different weather conditions.
Forging its way Eastbound, 70805 was passing over the old A6 trunk road whilst passing Bamber Bridge with the 10.05 Preston Docks to Lindsey bitumen empties on February 25th 2021.
The path is clear as I forge onward up the difficult trail, burdened by a backpack loaded with cameras and lenses. The thin air and my lack of high-altitude conditioning gives me a reason to pause frequently for photo opportunities.
This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and KOWA LENS-S 1:3.5/150mm lens with a Zenza Bronica 67mm SY48•2C(Y2) filter using Ilford Delta 100 Pro film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized using Photoshop.
My time at the current workplace is almost over. Today ends my last full week here. I have a few days next week to finish up some items.
What will the future bring? I don't know about all of it, but I'm ready for the change.
My daughter Rosy, forging the blade of a letter-opener. This shot was taken in very low light conditions in the forge, so it's not very sharp.
A remarkable document this - a spirally bound 140 pages of nuts, bolts, fixings, fasteners and special forgings that were in production at the Atlas Works of Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds (Midlands) Ltd. at Darlaston in Staffordshire. The well produced catalogue has been thoughtfully published using index tabs and colours to cover the seven sections, covering black bolts and screws, high tensile, 'Bright" bolts and screws, brass as well as Specilaities and appendices.
GKN was a sprawling conglomerate based on the 1902 merger of Nettlefolds of Birmingham with Guest, Keen & Co who were themselves the product of Guest's (associated with the Welsh Dowlais Iron Co) and Keen's Patent Nut & Bolt Co. again of Birmingham. Over the decades they acquired many other similar concerns becoming a 'verically integrated' concern in that they produced iron and steel as well as formed metal into a wide variety of products. They had a loose 'structure' at the time of this catalogue although there was to be a brief interlude when the 'producing companies' were nationalised in 1951 before being reacquired between 1954 and 1955. The concern later morphed into GKN.
This doubel page shows the extent of the Atlas Works in Darlaston, south Staffordshire.