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A few years ago I visited the Woudagemaal, the largest still operating steam pumping station in the world. And the pumping station was working on that day. This is a picture of some of the oil lubrication points of one of the steam engines. Lemmer, 2012.
See website: www.woudagemaal.nl/
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I chose Savory for this week's challenge. I put flax crackers, green & black olives, old cheddar cheese, and a few carrot curls dribbled with olive oil.
BNSF 6390 North slowly diverges from the Bellingham Subdivision 'main line' at Custer, WA and leads it's loaded oil train down the short Cherry Point subdivision branch line.
The two long established refineries on this branch line invested in significant upgrades to their railcar unloading and storage infrastructure during the shale gas oil boom in 2013. The larger BP facility upgraded their small stub end facility to a three track unit train unloading loop, while the smaller Phillips 66 facility added two 25 car unloading tracks and facilities, and three 30 car storage tracks. These two refineries provide much of Washington State's gasoline, plus some of the fuel for nearby Vancouver, BC.
Traffic on this branch can be fairly frequent, with two locals servicing the refineries and other industries, plus one or two unit oil trains a day.
Tobacco colored oil lamp with flame. Taken in a little italian restaurant on the island of Koh Tao, Thailand.
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Oil storage tanks in south eastern Illinois.
Photographed using a Nikkor 75-300mm lens on a Sony A7R.
Sinclair Oil Beetle old VW a bit shabby with a Sinclair Oil sign on the door, a bit worn but pretty neat, shot in North Carolina.
My first test shoot of a Macro shot with Oil and Water.
Not perfect yet, but acceptable for a first attempt.
i know, i know. it is oil on water. but if you pretend it is outer space, and you look under the two big oil slicks, you can travel along the stars to infinity.
This is one of my takes on the theme Oil and Water for the Macro Mondays theme Oil on Water. Some engine, chilli and olive oil in a small glass bowl sat on a colourful shirt creating an abstract piece of art...HMM
It was another day of thunderstorms in eastern Wyoming as I headed out from the Grass Creek area after chasing some awesome supercells the day prior. I ended up hanging out in Gillette, Wyoming for a while until storms began to fire up south of me. I headed straight down highway 59 as storms struggled to stay organized, losing hope as the cell I was aiming for ended up splitting. Luckily enough for me, the southern storm still had a bit of strength, and went supercellular for a good forty-five minutes to an hour, twisting and churning over the beautiful grasslands of eastern Wyoming. This is the death of that supercell, the skies turning a dark black with hints of blue due to the large hail this storm was producing. I ended up getting stuck in the hail storm about five minutes after this shot, half dollar sized hail and bigger pounding my car as I sat hoping none of my windows would crack. Thankfully none did and all my windows stayed intact. I labeled this one "Darker than Oil" due to how dark this storm was looking, and got a really interesting subject with these oil wells in the foreground. Definitely a great day of storms, and even ran into a few other chasers along the way, like Daniel Shaw for a brief moment and awkwardly said hello! Anyways, hope you enjoy!
Located a few meters from the first oil well discovered in 1932 near Jebel Dukhan, or "Mountain of Smoke", at Sakhir, the Oil Museum was officially inaugurated in 1992.
It houses old drilling equipment, samples of rocks found underground, topographical maps and some information about the companies that had participated in the exploration for oil. Bahrain was the first country to discover oil in the Arabian Gulf region.
You really must make the effort to visit this interesting little museum. It’s a long way out of town, in the midst of the Bahrain oil fields at the foot of Jebel Dukhan (also known as the Mountain of Smoke, because of the mist in which it is sometimes shrouded). If you’ve never seen an oil field, with rust-coloured pipelines of every diameter zigzagging across the desert, the trip is interesting. The whole area smells of crude oil, or as one writer put it, the smell of money. The turn-off for the museum is signposted from Zallaq Highway. If you don’t have your own car, the easiest way to visit this area is by hire car. It is definitely not a good idea to go by taxi; you will find that many local taxis have meters that are not working or hidden behind tissue boxes, and quite often drivers who are unable or unwilling to travel outside the city. Perhaps the best way to visit this museum, however, is to take one of the commercial tours. Theoretically the museum is open from 10:00 to 17:00 on Thursdays and Fridays, but it is advisable to phone before you set out, just to make sure. Inside there is a fascinating collection of objects related to oil exploration and a wonderful photographic history of the early development of the oil industry in Bahrain. There is a working model of an oil rig and several display cabinets of geological samples. One of the most interesting exhibits is a home-made, gas-powered fan, with beaten copper blades. It must have been awfully hot living in a tent in the middle of the desert back in the early 30s! All the exhibits are well documented and there is a small covered carpark outside the museum beside which you can see Oil Well Number One, the first well which started pumping out oil in 1932
Macro study of drops of oil floating in water. Taken with macro extensions tubes on a 24-105mm lens.
Ex MOD Army penknife manufactured in 1954. This has been my only penknife, which I received at the age of 12. Never being a boy scout it's not been kept in my pocket, it's always resided in a draw ready and waiting to remove a bottle top or cut a piece of string. "Knife"... "Looking close on Friday"...
Truth will rise above falsehood
as oil above water.
(Miguel de Cervantes)
Looking close... on Friday! - Oil on Water
(photo by Freya, edit by me)
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BNSF 559 (B40-8W) is seen leading a train through Commerce City, passing the Suncor refinery with a long cut of tankers.
This Monday's Macro theme of oil on water didn't inspire. I imagined too many coloured blobs next to each other. So it was rather late on Monday night I thought I would give it a last minute try.
And raiding the kitchen cupboards I found: Primadonna Olive Oil, some Honey mustard dressing with blossom honey and Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil, lightly sprayed with Fry Light 1 cal Sunflower Oil (which for some reason came out bright green)…....and a little stir. Oh, and some coloured LED lights around the base of the glass bowl. It got messy and the damned things didn't stay still, but I got this. Unfortunately I think there may be some ground black pepper in there too. Tasty picture?