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Bonneville Lock and Dam is located 145 river miles from the mouth of the Columbia River and about 40 miles east of Portland, Oregon. The project’s first powerhouse, spillway and original navigation lock were completed in 1938 to improve navigation on Columbia River and provide hydropower to the Pacific Northwest. A second powerhouse was completed in 1981, and a larger navigation lock in 1993.
A Public Works Administration project of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, portions of Bonneville Lock and Dam Project were declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.
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After seeing a shot on Facebook of diggers munching there way through this glorious place I just had to pay a visit before its consigned to history :/ After arrangements were made i met up with Mike Ridley , Marko and Simon Lowe and we set about getting some shots. Couldnt think of a better 3 people to spend the afternoon/evening with photographising :) Please check out their streams for a few different views on a wonderful place and please get down there before its too late! This tank is the best to photograph i think and the most complete as it still has the bridge albeit collapsed! The water in it gives some amazing reflections.
Heres some archive shots courtesy of Marko, Mike and Beamish :D
Moved Forward
Shot taken in Feb 2008
Abandoned UP bridge across the North Branch of the Chicago River. Formerly used for rail traffic that went under the Merchandise Mart, Marina Towers etc, eventually to Navy Pier
A new place that I found and decided to explore, the Mill Bay dock which was a very nice find. Looks like a good spot for astrophotography when we get some clear skys.
A TransPerth B series EMU exiting the tunnel that takes the line under Perth before continuing above ground towards Clarkeson.
Canon 5Dmk2
02-10-2013
Macquarie University Railway Station
Sydney, NSW, Australia.
In recent years there’s been an explosion of new construction work in Sydney outside of the city CBD.
Some interesting new railway stations have been built around Sydney - mainly underground.
Previously, most of the old suburban rail stations were quite bland, so this development has provided for some interesting photo opportunities
Also, there’s been a massive explosion in building construction work in the suburbs with Parramatta being one of the hotspots.
Included in these new developments are new infrastructure for universities such as UTS Sydney.
Another welcome development has been the construction of new libraries by some of the councils.
So I thought it would make a good project to try and document this new urban architecture.
Thank you peartree_72 for some good advice about tonemapping. I tend to process with a sledgehammer and I like grunge a lot, but this more subtle processing is nice too.
"At least in the cubes you maintain your catwalks, because you have to walk on them. Highrise owners don't always live nearby, so what do they care if the sidewalk is unsafe?"
- Highrise Resident
Each building owner was responsible for building and maintaining upper level sidewalks. Often, two or more owners would pool money and have one walk built, as can be seen here extending from the stairs on the upper right, to the street corner on the left. The problem is, nobody is too anxious to foot the bill for repairs. Railings are rare, and falls are common enough.
A few slices of life from the Cyber City display from Brickworld 2013. Look for it again at BrickFair Virginia in August.
Photos courtesy of encartaphile.
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Here a tree has grown THROUGH the wall at the side of the road. Did you spot it straight away? I didn't.
"We hoped the canals would simply make it easier to move around the city, for civilians and police but the reality is Water Level is one giant port of entry for whoever has the cash."
- Yoko Aramaki, City Planner
The police had few regular patrols at Water Level, leaving the local criminal organizations to run most of it. Everything imaginable was smuggled in though the warren of piers and dry docks scattered throughout the city.
A few slices of life from the Cyber City display from Brickworld 2013. Look for it again at BrickFair Virginia in August.
Photos courtesy of encartaphile.
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Description: Britain's R 101 airship under construction at the Royal Airship Works, Cardington.
Date: c.1928
Our Catalogue Reference: AIR 11/233
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Photography from a flight over the North American prairies: the journey was from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan into the province of Alberta. A snow-covered landscape shows an interplay of light and shadows.
The bridge, which crosses the Eglinton Canal [Gaol River], is a suspension bridge of about 50 metres and is designed to be used by both pedestrians and cyclists as part of a wider scheme, the Smarter Travel initiative, which aims to promote sustainable travel.
The project involved the design and construction of two bridges - the main one spanning the Eglinton Canal and a smaller one spanning a nearby mill race - and since July 2012 has provided a vital link between Fisheries Field and the NUI Galway campus.
Michael O'Shaughnessy (1864-1934), whom the bridge is named after, graduated in Civil Engineering from NUI Galway (then Queen's College Galway) in 1884. In 1912 he was appointed Chief Engineer of the City of San Francisco. He undertook the building of new infrastructure for the city after the disastrous earthquake and fires of 1906, including the construction of the Twin Peaks tunnel, the famous Seashore Wall, the streetcar (tramway) system and the San Francisco Water-Supply and Electric-Power project, involving dams, powerhouses and 160 miles of transmission towers, pipelines and tunnels the whole way to the City.
He emigrated to the U.S. in 1885, sailing from London then traveling to San Francisco overland by train, arriving on March 30, 1885. He first worked as an assistant engineer for the Sierra Valley and Mohawk Railroad. In 1886 he found employment with the Southern Pacific Railroad as a surveyor and worked on layout for the towns of Mill Valley and Sausalito, California. In 1889 he opened an engineering office in the city of San Francisco. He was appointed chief engineer for the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 in Golden Gate Park in 1890. Later, in 1895, he was awarded a commission by the Mountain Copper Company to design a narrow-gauge railroad, and he began working for the Spring Valley Water Company, a private concern that controlled streams and springs on the San Francisco peninsula, later purchased by the city to become the San Francisco Water Department.
O'Shaughnessy oversaw construction of several major water supply projects in the Hawaiian Islands beginning in 1889. These included aqueducts at Olokele, Koʻolau, Keanaiemaui, and Kohala for sugar plantations. Upon return to California in 1906 he worked on the Morena Dam project outside San Diego and the Merced River Dam for the Crocker Land and Development Company. He also designed and supervised the construction of a water supply system for the city of Port Costa.
San Francisco Mayor James Rolph chose him as chief engineer for the city in September, 1912, convincing him to accept a salary less than half that of his private practice. O'Shaughnessy was uncertain that he wanted the job because in the past, the city had not always paid him for work done. His wife, a native of San Francisco, convinced him to accept. O'Shaughnessy issued dozens of reports during his years in office, nearly all descriptions of engineering projects intended to educate city officials and the general populace. He once complained that he had to run "an engineering school, where, as fast as he could teach the Supervisors what it was all about, the public turned them out and sent him new pupils." In this position O'Shaughnessy supervised the construction of the Twin Peaks Reservoir, the Stockton Street Tunnel, the Twin Peaks Tunnel, the Municipal Railway System and service to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) along with streets, a high-pressure fire system and new sewers. San Francisco's streetcar system, of which the J, K, L, M, and N lines survive today, was pushed to completion by O'Shaughnessy between 1915 and 1927, but city voters defeated the bond issue he backed in 1927.
O'Shaughnessy's largest and most controversial project was the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and power project (Lake Eleanor Dam and O'Shaughnessy Dam). While San Francisco rebuilt after the Earthquake and Fire of 1906 its current water supply was inadequate to meet future growth. Hetch Hetchy began with a dam in the Yosemite and was linked to more than 150 miles (240 km) of tunnels, pumping stations and pipelines to San Francisco. The project involved building not just a dam, but also a 68-mile (109 km)-long railroad, several smaller dams, an aqueduct 156 miles (251 km) long that included 85 miles (137 km) of tunnels, some through solid granite, hydroelectric generating plants and transmission lines.
That the dam was planned for a valley in Yosemite National Park caused significant opposition. One of the most potent opponents was the Sierra Club and its founding President, John Muir. After two vetoes by Teddy Roosevelt, on December 19, 1913, Woodrow Wilson signed the Raker Act. Construction began in 1914. Water from by the dam, named for O'Shaughnessy, crosses the foothills, the San Joaquin Valley, the coast ranges and San Francisco Bay through the Pulgas Water Temple and is stored in the Crystal Springs Reservoir.
O'Shaughnessy lost control of the project in 1932 when the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission was formed. Edward Cahill was appointed to head the new commission and O'Shaughnessy's deputy, Lloyd McAfee, was appointed manager and Chief Engineer for the Hetch Hetchy project. O'Shaughnessy died of a heart attack on October 12, 1934, sixteen days before Yosemite's water was delivered to San Francisco's reservoirs. O'Shaughnessy Boulevard in San Francisco is named for him.