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Watkins Woolen Mill in Missouri.
This was my second time inside this mill. The first time, I was really a novice at photography and didn’t come away with much in terms of clarity and a good viable image. If you dig deep into my archives you will see some HDR work I did back then. I don’t encourage you to go looking, lol. This time around the guide was more than gracious enough to allow me to explore just about any part of the mill that I wanted while he gave the tour to an older couple. I was inspired by a fellow photographer I met at the ART WESTPORT fair last weekend. His work was incredible and my favorite piece was a b/w masterpiece of this machine. I will have to find his name and pass it along as I captured his business card before I left. To say I had a heyday would be spot on. This was the first image I worked on when I got home. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Just a straight on capture but the intricate details and the massive piece are just jaw dropping to see in person. If you’ve never been I would encourage you to take the tour.
Here is a little info about the mill taken from their website.
In 1958, The Watkins Mill Association (WMA) was founded to preserve and support the living history of the Watkins Woolen Mill State Historic Site, the last textile mill with its original machinery still intact in the United States. Watkins Woolen Mill, located northeast of Kearney, flourished from 1860 until 1886 when the cloth shear broke; they continued portions of their manufacturing until 1898. WMA has cultivated an 1870’s venue that highlights quality cultural, artistic and historic education and healthy outdoor activities for all ages.
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An abstract view of the elevator mechanisms on the exterior of Dallas' Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre, designed by Joshua Prince-Ramus and Rem Koolhaas.
Another from the archives, but I turned it to sepia, as I think it suited it better.
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A remaster of an older one. Those MD-11 freighters were about the only things that came into Cologne/Bonn that really made noise. Having lived right under the glidescope into runway 14L, I know that first hand. Anything else you sometimes didn't even notice, at least as long as you had the windows closed. These things here however sometimes legitimately shook the whole house, and sometimes they came a dozen in a row, like every 3 minutes. Especially late in the evening when people just were about to go sleeping. Even the 747s didn't cause so much vibration.
The MD-11 has now been grounded since that crash in Kentucky, and frankly, if it was up to me, I won't mind if it stays this way. Something else that is no more is runway 14L, that has been renumbered to 13L, to account for the moving magnetic poles of the Earth - which is complete humbug of course. I still remember being taught that by "authoritative sources" - e.g. people who are right by virtue of sharing an opinion with the government.
The Processing Plant, Warlock Mine, Banner Canyon, Julian California, Though The Mine was opened in 1870 this seems to be of a later Vintage closer to The 1957 closure. Still makes it over 70 years
This machine made quick work chopping up the tree-stumps from my Christmas trees. All I have to do is clear up the mess and pick pine cones off the ground. I have already filled four sacks full. Then comes the interesting bit of deciding what to plant there.
2020 one photo each day
I hope you are able to read the history here of this huge machine. It basically was a huge winch, used to plow fields and saving people for starvation following the potato famine in Ireland.
Abandoned farm machinery near Cedar City, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF15-35mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/8.0 with a 1/400-second exposure at ISO 50, processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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