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Thought it's appropriate to process this image with a vintage look though it's so not my style...
It's a portrait studio in Silverton, from their website:
"Make your visit to historical Silverton, Colorado a memorable one with an original Professor Shutterbugs Olde Tyme Portrait. Our outdoor backdrops include historical old buildings and boardwalks for that special touch of realism. Experience the fun and excitement of choosing your Old West and Victorian Style costumes and stepping back into the era of the 1800's.
We offer a wide selection of Western and Victorian frames that you can view in the above slideshow. You also have different print options to choose from to compliment your Olde Tyme Portrait including sepia, aged color (looks as if it were hand tinted the "old fashioned way")."
Silverton was once an active mining town back in the 1990s; as the demand for gold and silver decreased, the last operating mine closed in 1992. The community now depends primarily on tourism and government remediation and preservation projects.
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The central district of Taichung represents rivers, Lui-Chuan River spent 28.3 million US dollars, Remediation of water quality and the surrounding length of about 600 meters environment, February 10 completed and opened.《 Beautify the space under the bridge〉
台中市中區代表河流，綠川斥資八點五億元，整治水質與周邊長約六百公尺環境，2月10日完工啟用。《橋樑下的空間美化〉
The central district of Taichung represents rivers, Lui-Chuan River spent 28.3 million US dollars, Remediation of water quality and the surrounding length of about 600 meters environment, February 10 completed and opened. This is the regeneration plan of the Old Quarter.
台中市中區代表河流，綠川斥資八點五億元，整治水質與周邊長約六百公尺環境，2月10日完工啟用。這是老街區的再生計畫。
A tight squeeze as the museum laker William A. Irvin is winched through the narrow confines of the Minnesota slip pedestrian bridge in Duluth. The Irvin had been taken out for pollution remediation work in the slip and was moved to Fraser Shipyards for some hull work and underside painting.
This guy danced around us under the grass and brush for about 20 minutes before he finally came up for a portrait. The light was way too bright, but at least I got some clean images. Weldon Spring Remediation Site, Missouri
I went out with my photo group on Saturday looking for LeConte's sparrows. This location-- a storage site for nuclear waste converted to prairie, of all places-- has been a reliable habitat in the past. However, it has been a sparse year for them, and we didn't find any, but we did find dozens of Savannah sparrows, including this cooperative individual. Weldon Spring Remediation Site, Missouri
A look at a pair of wings that are obviously not made for soaring. Weldon Spring Remediation Site, Missouri
I found this ant on the floor in my house – a problem that required immediate remediation as it wasn’t the only one. Before taking the necessary pest control measures, I figured I could utilize one of these ants for a photograph, and set it aside for a class I was teaching that evening. This image was shot live during a virtual workshop in the summer of 2020!
I had a multi-camera setup including my Lumix S1H illustrating the scene and in real-time showcasing how small changes to lighting, subject alignment, focus etc. all could have dramatic impacts on the image. I’d normally shoot an image like this with the S1R, but the video-centric S1H is no slouch for taking stills either. The lens was the Canon MP-E 65mm F/2.8 1x-5x macro lens, a workhorse I have been using for over a decade.
The flower petals were held in place just out of frame by a “third hand tool”, and the droplets were placed with a hypodermic needle. The lighting was simple: a single LED flashlight off on the right side. Once the shot as you see it was established, the ant entered the frame. By moving a small stick near the ant, it would climb the stick and I was able to place it on the water droplets. Plenty of trial and error here, as ants are rarely cooperative actors.
The image of the ant is a single frame, but the entire scene is a focus stack of a few images to increase the depth of field across the flower petals. It could be an advantage to shoot a focus stack series before adding the element of chaos, and sorting it out later.
Is the image perfect? No. I don’t like the middle lower droplet not having a perfect reflection. If the camera was slightly lower, you’d see this improved. The camera was in the perfect position, but alas the petals droop over time, even a short few seconds can make a big difference. Once the ant is in play, you no longer have time for such adjustments.
I like how the droplet connecting the two petals has a slightly warped refraction due to its shape not being spherical, even though I wish the ant was in a slightly more presentable or also interacting with the droplet. I didn’t share this image last year as all available time was being spent on my book – which is now shipping! If you haven’t taken a look at it yet, it’ll show you exactly how to set up images just like this: skycrystals.ca/product/pre-order-macro-photography-the-un...
A brownfield remediation in the netherlands. This site was a dump during the war(s) with all kinds of toxics and gases and all of those nasty wartime chemicals. It's on its way back through several remediation technologies to becoming a large park and wetland for habitat.
While on vacation in Primiero last summer I could see the effects of 2 phenomena which hit the forests of the Central-Eastern Italy. Apparently independent, in fact they’re sadly connected by the changing climatic conditions.
One is the devastation brought by an unprecedented storm, later named Vaia, in 2018 - on a very wide region, several thousands of trees have been eradicated and whole forests destroyed.
The other is the incisive action of the spruce bark beetle – a bug that, favored by the last couple of hot and dry years, is attacking many of the weakened trees that survived the Vaia storm, drying them up and thus worsening the already critical status of our forests.
This latter hit hard on the local communities, who were starting remediation programs after Vaia. It’ll take further efforts to find sustainable solutions, since many aspects in their daily life are influenced by the state of health of their forests.
After remediation of the former ASARCO yard from all those nasty lead contaminants, new switches have been dumped to maybe serve a local business some day.
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(For historical details about this building see "The Powerhouse" set)
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Ghost down low. Very appropriate graffiti, there must be many ghosts here..
Rock Bay remediation site. More:
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taken from near Bay Street, Victoria BC
This was part of Jean Mirò exhibition at the Villa Manin in 2015.
I took this shot because I liked the way the composition with the paint, the table and the two big screens, where the works were being projected, were together giving the idea of the remediation between the different types of media.
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I shot this on my TLR in 2007 or 2008 when every demolition seemed to happen in Toronto in a 5-6 span. It smelled so bad here, for months on end. They were cleaning up the old Glidden Paints factory which had closed in 2001. I missed this factory, and I think almost everyone else did in the community as well since I've never seen interior shots of it,
Some history....
Three culprits
A controversial story in the Junction Triangle’s history involves the Glidden Company factory that opened on Wallace Avenue in 1911. The plant produced paint and varnishes for several decades, as well as a huge amount of pollution. Residents grew increasingly concerned about the pollution and complained to the city about the smells and the possible health effects of the pollution caused by the Glidden factory.
Finally, in 1981, Toronto mayor, Art Eggleton (in office 1980—1991), introduced a bylaw to give the city more oversight of the area’s industries. The bylaw required manufacturers to obtain approval before making any major production changes or expanding operations in the Junction Triangle. This news was not well received by the neighbourhood’s corporations. Glidden Paints, Viceroy Rubber and Plastics, and Nacan Products Limited (formerly National Adhesives Co.) filed official objections. After review, a land use committee recommended that both Glidden and Nacan be exempt from the new bylaw restrictions.
Toxic incidents
The recommendation was delivered on April 5, 1982. Less than 24 hours later, the Nacan Products Ltd. plant had one of the worst chemical spills in the neighbourhood’s history. A night shift operator noticed he had miscalculated when mixing raw chemicals. In an attempt to cover up his mistake, he illegally dumped nearly 4,000 litres of toxic chemicals into the city’s sewers. By the following morning, April 6th, the city began receiving panicked calls from residents about an awful stench coming from their sewers and basements. Three neighbourhood schools were shut down temporarily, and seven residents were hospitalized from the effects of the chemical fumes. In addition to the catastrophe at Nacan, two valves were left open on a tank at the Glidden plant in 1983, allowing 2,000 litres of flammable liquid vinyl to spill out into the sewers. Several households were forced to evacuate.
Call for action
Residents were angry and allied for the City to finally start taking the Junction Triangle’s pollution problem seriously. A study was conducted exploring the health effects of these industries on residents. According to a Toronto Star article from May 11, 1984, it found that that children living in the area were six times more prone to health issues such as runny noses, itchy skin, and throat irritation. As a result, in 1983 the Ontario Municipal Board denied Glidden Paints and Nacan Products’ objection to the bylaw that had passed in 1981. Glidden continued to operate for two more decades in the area before finally ceasing operations in 2001.
Aftermath
Glidden left behind the need for a massive clean-up job. A 2008 Now Magazine article called the site “some of the most contaminated former industrial land” in all of Canada. When soil remediation began the year of the plant’s closure, residents were once again bombarded with unusual smells, headaches, and nosebleeds. These were likely caused by Volatile Organic Compounds, also known as VOCs, which were uncovered during remediation. The process was completed in late 2009, at which point the land was deemed safe for residential use once again. Homes now occupy the former site of the Glidden factory, closing this chapter of the Junction Triangle’s history once and for all.
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McDermitt Mine. This open-pit mine, now abandoned, ceased production in 1990. It was the last commercial mercury mine in the U.S. The pit is an EPA Superfund site and has undergone remediation. The mine lies just within the southwestern rim of a much larger collapsed caldera. Opalite District. McDermitt, Humboldt Co., Nevada.
Leigh Creek.
Leigh Creek was named after a stockman on the pastoral run there – Harry Leigh. Officially it was Copley but that name was not used by locals. The government surveyed a new site for Leigh Creek in 1944 when the brown coal mine began. Adelaide was racked with power failures in 1946 because of coal shortages from Newcastle. Playford pushed on, against scientific advice, that Leigh Creek brown coal could never be used for power generation. Trials were done by BHP at Whyalla and they were successful. Playford, after several attempts, got his legislation to establish the Electricity Trust of South Australia through parliament and the Trust took over control of the town in 1948. Contracts were made with South Australian Railways for them to use brown coal and in 1949 when the worst coal shortages occurred (because of labor strikes) SA managed to keep a power supply because of partial use of brown coal. The town prospered as work on the mine progressed and the Port Augusta power station opened (1954). The barren streets were planted with thousands of trees and by the mid-1960s it had around 2,000 residents. But the town was too close to the mine and in the path of future open cut pits needed to produce over 2 million tons of coal a year. So in 1980 the government built a new landscaped designed town 22 kms south of the Leigh Creek mines and 13 kms from Copley locally known as Leigh Creek South. Residents moved into the town in 1982. It had a hospital, community centre, shopping centre, swimming pool, school, community church etc. In the 1990s mining systems changed and the workforce dropped from 750 people to around 250 workers with the town population dropping from around 3,000 to below 1,000 people. The mine closed in 2015 as the Port Augusta power stations prepared for shutdown in 2016. In recent years the mine and town was run by Flinders Power but they handed the town and the Port Augusta to Leigh Creek Railway back to the SA government in 2017. The town struggles on as a tourist centre with less than 150 people. Remediation of the open cut coal mine is now in progress. What can be done to utilise the great facilities of Leigh Creek – tourism can only be a small part of the answer? Could it have a government call centre, low cost housing for independent pensioners, or for single parents- the school could do with more enrolments?
Nighthawk is an unincorporated community on the Similkameen River in Okanogan County, Washington state, USA. It was named for a nearby (and now-closed) mine. Nighthawk is a (mostly former) logging area along Loomis-Oroville Highway west-northwest of Oroville, Washington. Nighthawk also features a 9am-5pm Canada–US border crossing and is located along the Burlington Northern Railroad. The town of Nighthawk used to be a booming mine town at the turn of the century with hotels and had a burlesque house but the population now is about 5 people. The border crossing is usually known as "the Nighthawk crossing" on the Canadian side, though the official name of the Canadian-side locality is Chopaka.
Located in Okanogan County, WA, Nightawk is one of the the oldest mining districts when Washington was still a territory with claims dating to 1860's. By 1903 Nighthawk was a well established boom town with hotel, railroad depot, and saloon. The town was officially platted in 1903 by the Nighthawk Reality Co. and named for the Nighthawk Mine. By 1865 it was said 3,000 miners were living in a tent boom town. The big producing mines in the Nighthawk District were the Nighthawk, Kaaba, Ruby Silver, Chopaka, Four Metals to name a few. The most famous of these was the Ruby Silver Mine. At one time there were six concentration mills operating in the Nighthawk area. As with other boom towns in Washington over time the mines began to shutdown due to operating costs and drops in metal values. The last mine to close in Nighthawk was the Kaaba Texas mine which operated from 1915 to 1951. The Kaaba Texas remained one of Nighthawks best preserved mines until its remediation removal in 1999. Many of the original structures that still stand in Nighthawk today date to 1903.
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www.ghosttownsofwashington.com/nighthawk.html
Photo captured via Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor-X 24-50mm F/4 lens and the bracketing method of photography. In the unincorporated community of Nighthawk. Okanogan Highlands Region. Inland Northwest. Okanogan County, Washington. Early February 2018.
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-160 * Aperture: F/11 * Bracketing: +1 / -1 * Color Temperature: 6500 K * Film Plug-In: Kodak Portra 160 NC
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The IAEA serves as the global platform for nuclear security, helping to minimize the risk of nuclear and other radioactive material falling into the hands of terrorists, or of nuclear facilities being subjected to malicious acts.
The IAEA further assists Member States to build capacities and works to strengthen the nuclear safety and security framework globally, through peer review services and other dedicated international and national programmes and projects.
Before and after: environmental remediation of a former uranium mine in France’s Limousin region. The IAEA promotes and facilitates collaboration between countries to share knowledge and implementation of environmental remediation projects.
Photo: AREVA/France
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Front page of a presentation still under construction - hopefully for a research proposal
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Potential remediation... Abandoned uranium mine where, at some sites, oxygenated water is pumped down wells to dissolve uranium, which is then pumped out through wells surrounding the injection site. The solute was then processed for transport to an enrichment location. Hopefully, all the unfixed uranium was pumped out before it could migrate to a drinking water aquifer.
— www.wise-uranium.org/uisl.html — for some other info.
Recovery Act funds were used to accelerate demolition and remediation to shrink the cleanup area around two former plutonium production reactors.
NASA Kennedy Space Center's Associate Director Kelvin Manning, center, signs a license agreement with the President and CEO of ecoSPEARS, which allows the company to commercially sell a soil remediation technology developed by a research team at Kennedy. The technology, known as Sorbent Polymer Extraction And Remediation System, is designed to capture and remove polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from contaminated sediments in waterways and wetlands. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Breaking Banality: The Dysfunction of Remediation
Photographs by Evan La Londe
PNCA’s Feldman Gallery Presents Eva and Franco Mattes
Portland, OR, October 23, 2014 — The Philip Feldman Gallery + Project Space at Pacific Northwest
College of Art (PNCA) presents Breaking Banality: The Dysfunction of Remediation, an exhibition by Eva and Franco Mattes, opening with a reception on First Thursday, November 6, 2014 and running through
January 10, 2015. For the exhibition, whose title was created by an online random exhibition title generator, the Brooklyn-based Italian duo will present ten reiterations of one performance from their series
“BEFNOED – By Everyone, For No One, Every Day,” for which they commission anonymous workers to realize webcam performances. The Mattes’ hire performers through online crowdsourcing services and post the resulting videos to many of the more obscure social networks around the world. The artists regularly post links to new videos at befnoed.tumblr.com. These works are in the lineage of Fluxus event scores and more recently Hans Ulrich Obrist’s instruction-based project, “Do It.” For this exhibition, to view the videos, visitors will be forced in awkward positions, becoming themselves, if just for a few seconds, performers, and underlying how the act of viewing is in itself performative.
For another work in the show, an image, resulting from an internet search for the words “worn out,” was printed by online services on various objects. The objects were then delivered by mail directly to the venue, so neither the artists nor the curator have seen the final works.
The duo’s provocative digital works have previously included a staged suicide filmed by webcam, a slideshow of 10,000 photos stolen from personal computers, and reenactments of well-known performance art works in online videogames.
“Eva and Franco Mattes’ subversive conceptual works delve into the obscure corners and more grim aspects of the internet and the ways it both connects and distances users,” says Mack McFarland, Director of Exhibitions at PNCA. “We are thrilled to be working with two of the cardinal Net Art practitioners and expect the exhibition to ignite valuable conversations around our digitally fabricated and recorded selves and the ways we interact at a distance now.”
Exhibition trailer - Eva and Franco Mattes, Breaking Banality, PNCA’s Feldman Gallery from Eva and
Franco Mattes on Vimeo.
Eva and Franco Mattes (1976) (a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG) are an artist duo originally from Italy, working in New York. Their medium is a combination of performance, video and the Internet, for which they are perhaps best known. Their work explores ethical and moral issues when people interact at distance, especially through social media, creating situations where it is difficult to distinguish reality from a simulation.
Melissa Gronlund, editor of Afterall Magazine, described Mattes’ work as follows: “Whether by obscuring the name of the author, hiding information from the public or presenting false information to (often unwitting) participants in the works they create, the Mattes set up situations in which the viewer’s mistaken assumptions and actions create the form of the work itself”.
Mattes’ work has been exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (2013); Site Santa Fe (2012);
Sundance Film Festival (2012); PS1, New York (2009); Performa, New York (2007, 2009); ARoS Aarhus
Kunstmuseum (2009); National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2008); The New Museum, New York
(2005) and Manifesta 4, Frankfurt (2002). In 2001 they were among the youngest artists ever included in the Venice Bienniale.
They have also held conferences at universities, festivals and museums, including Columbia University,
New York; RISD, Providence; New York University; Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh; College Art Association, New York; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; MAXXI, Rome and Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris.
They are founders and co-directors of the international festival The Influencers, held annually at the CCCB,
Barcelona, Spain (2004-ongoing).
The Mattes have received grants from the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Roskilde; ICC, Tokyo, and were awarded the New York Prize 2006 from the Italian Academy at
Columbia University.
One of the most often used rooms in the house is the bathroom. It’s prone to water-related issues like mold and mildew since moisture collects here. Since there are so many areas where water can accumulate and hide, black mold is often seen in showers.
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Here's a photo of a TUFF SHED building that houses electrical pumps and monitoring equipment for a gas station air remediation operation. Besides the customer-supplied high tech equipment, this building included custom vents and a security package.
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The French Bar Creek Fish Holding Facility became fully operational on June 3, 2020, as part of the Big Bar landslide remediation effort. These eight tanks will hold fish until they’re transported to one of several hatcheries, following genetic testing.
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Respirator found improperly stored inside a worker's boot within an active asbestos abatement work area.
Issues were promptly communicated to responsible parties and corrective measures were quiclky implemented.
After camera was noticed at observation window to the asbestos abatement work area, a wetting-agent (in this case, water) was hastily sprayed at the sealed window and on apparently dry debris materials and enclosure surfaces. Shortly after the photo was taken, the sealed observation window was found covered over with spray-adhesive and duct tape from the inside.
Also of note, based upon elevated airborne fiber levels exhibited during worker exposure monitoring from removal of friable ceiling materials, the contractor personnel should have been wearing respiratory protection with a much higher protection factor (such as full-face powered air-purifying respirators or P.A.P.R.s) than the simple half-face respirators.
Additionally, the workers should not be wearing their common street footwear (leather boots with shoe-laces) inside the regulated asbestos abatement work area nor should they have modified their protective coveralls by tearing off the formerly attached footings.