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This was captured at "Foggintor Quarry" on Dartmoor. It was mined & quarried here for over two hundred years before closure. The stone was used to build "PRINCETOWN" nearby as well as "DARTMOOR PRISON". It went afar afield as "PLYMOUTH". The light is tricky here, but I was lucky enough to get a good morning with these wonderful cotton wool clouds, as the reflection speaks for itself! A BIG thanks for looking!
a re-processed version of a photo from 2009... only about 5000 more to do!
Queenston, Ontario, CANADA
Sunset Lake, the largest lake in Champaign County, is a former sand and gravel quarry. Across the lake, the work of the quarry continues.
Framed by the lineside vegetation at Tytherington Quarry 60028 moves forward two wagons at a time with 6Z72 from Willesden. As soon as the trains twenty two wagons have been loaded with the sandstone that is mined here, it will return.
Hidden from view by a screen of trees, and under a cloud of midges and invading mist we found a beautiful corner of Rhiwbach quarry. It was dark and deep but had so many pretty aspects to it. It was a bit out of the way but well worth finding.
More icicles than last month on the rock wall at Flat Ledge Quarry, below the bridge. More photos will be forthcoming.
A working face in the Silsila sandstone quarries shows the horizontal borders between different layers of extracted blocks, as well the widths of some individual blocks – which were small units for ashlar masonry. The diagonal channels are from the trenches cut behind each line of blocks in order to separate them from the bedrock. With soft stones like the sandstone here, this is usually done with a pointed chisel and mallet. The rough channels on the stones could be reduced afterward with a drove (a large flat chisel for coarse finishing).
Gebel el-Silsila quarries: 18th Dynasty, 14th century BC
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Skylar and I had a great day Saturday hiking through Mitchell Canyon in the Mt. Diablo State Park (Northern California). We took a trail full of switchbacks up as high as we could until exhaustion and impending sunset forced us to turn around. I think we were probably very close to the summit but we didn't start out early enough in the day to make it.
Even though we didn't make it to the top, our timing was great because on the way down there was an increasingly glorious formation of clouds, and we were still high up enough to capture them. We stopped for a while to wait for more color to come into the sky and it was so peaceful and beautiful - we felt like we were the only people in the world!
This is a view of the nearby quarry. I used my new Canon 10-22mm lens with my Manfrotto monopod (love it!). I was also using a 25% neutral graduated filter.
This photo is comprised of six shots - three exposures for sky and three exposures for land. The sky and land shots were blended separately in Photomatrix then hand-stitched in Photoshop.
Workers cut the distinctively lavender flecked stone away from the quarry face in the Corlander settlement of Wullham. A passing sheep has wandered into the pit.
This overgrown cutting was originally an ironstone quarry, then planted with trees to create the woodland, and then a railway to further quarries out toward Geddington. I have a book showing steam engines pulling loaded wagons through this rural wooded landscape, all a far cry from express trains pounding along the nearby main lines. The brickwork originally carried something over the line, probably some form of pipework or other.
The misty conditions on this Winter's afternoon added some dark, mysterious atmosphere to the scene, enhanced by the predominantly blue and green colour scheme.
Marble Quarry, Iona, Scotland... not easy getting pics with the sunshine lighting up blocks of white marble.
A spray of light behind a granite wall.
An abstract interpretation of a sliced granite facade... the circular lines caused by a saw cutting through the granite.
01-09-1992
Cantera El Hoyón, Arganda, Madrid
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Archive shots from autumn 2017. Atmospheric conditions at this old quarry in the mountains of North Wales.
The Braille Trail goes by an old quarry pond and a quarry overlook. The state’s oldest recorded commercial granite quarry, which opened in 1869, is just outside the park and integral to its history. An overlook along the Braille Trail at Elephant Rocks State Park provides a view to an old quarry pond.
Dinorwic quarry reunion with "Velinheli" & "Sybil" at Beamish Museum's Festival of Transport on the 31/05/25
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I tend to avoid visiting Dinorwic quarry in summer. I feel that under blue skies it just doesn't have the same atmosphere. A light dusting of snow illuminates traces of earth works, the different levels, ruins, inclines and tracks. It's always a different experience every time I come here, but my favourite is in misty conditions.
I'm very lucky to see stuff like this on my cycle ride to work. I missed the best part of the dawn but managed to get to the office, grab the camera and pop out again to snap this one.
We are resurfacing our driveway (162' x20'} with new gravel.
Here, where we live, we hop in the van and drive to the nearest quarry and meet with the owner. After a lengthy discussion on types of rock, a visit to two other of his operations and a verbal quote with more discussion on methods of deployment and a visit to
our home from one of his crew, we will be getting it started in a couple of weeks. Hopefully, more photos to follow at that time. (We had the same company do our drive some years back and also this same man, fortuitously. pulled our van out of a snow covered ditch, one winter, in the middle of nowhere... but that is another story! : )
Cwmorphin Quarry, across the lake towards the area where all the waste is, but nature is slowly taking over.
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This quarry was abandoned years ago as it turned out there was a natural spring under it - they pumped out and it would fill right back up with water.
Another view of Flat Ledge Quarry, which serves as a backuup town water supply, in mid summer, when drought has reduced the water level