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Starting to look through the large family collection of pictures and slides. I need to be ruthless on the selection of photographs that I scan. I am hoping to do a family journal but a lot of work to be done. These slides are dusty and need cleaning before scanning. It is a laborious job and one is easily distracted by the memories of the images.
The sliding bridge at Keadby was constructed in 1925 by Sir William Arrol of Dalmarnock (Glasgow) and rebuilt in 2004. The original rail crossing here was a swing bridge with its pivot located at the other side of the canal to the drawbridge. Its replacement with a sliding bridge was to minimising disruption to rail services during construction. It is battery operated using a set of 64 submarine type batteries which are trickle charged when not in use. The railway passes over the Stainforth & Keadby Canal on a skew. In the railway opened position it is supported on the nose abutment, the front wedges and the rear wedges. Control of the bridge is by the signalman from the adjacent signal cabin. An interlock with the railway signalling system ensures that the bridge cannot be opened unless rail traffic is prevented from crossing the bridge. The main actuators of the bridge are a set of hydraulically driven lifting jacks, two sets of electrically driven wedges and an electrically driven winch haulage drive which operates through an open gearbox with a six foot diameter differential gear.
1999. 1 mois en Australie. 12000 km de Perth à Alice Springs en passant par Broome, Darwin, Bungle Bungles, Kakadu, Ayers Rock...
The set up could hardly be simpler........and have around 3000 I want to do. I'm not troubling much over quality (or cleaning dust, hairs,mould); am hoping later to select some for better treatment.
All it is is a base board that I tacked an upright backing for the light source onto. The light source is just a foldable, rechargeable bedside (led?) lamp with three brightness settings. (I glued a couple of large matchsticks on it as slide holders.) I've been using the medium brightness. I'm using my little old Panasonic point-and-shoot travel camera. Focus is a little tricky but cropping is quick and easy on the PC if a bit of the slide mount happens to show.
The set up took no time to make (1/2 hr?) and each slide maybe 10-15 seconds when working 'smoothly'.
It's pretty tough really and you could find better setups online. For example I'm taking all the shots on automatic, so not considering optimum ISO etc.
Here's last evening's view of the Slide Fire from Sedona's Airport Mesa. Firefighters are doing a great job getting this bugger under control but the thick, choking smoke we have to wake up to every morning is really getting old. Couple that with the arrival of summer heat and vicious no-see-ums (my legs are littered with itching bug bites) and I can't wait to get out of town and embark on my early June trip to Minnesota to visit family and friends!
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First day of Lewisham local service L1
Brockley - Lewisham - Grove Park
Saturday 25 October 1986
Copyright Steve Guess MMXVIII
As I'm sure you'll know if you or any of your Flickr friends live in London, these are the slides that have been put into the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern Gallery.
Sadly I haven't had a chance to go down them yet (I was on my own with a big rucksack when taking these photos) but it looks great fun. Some of them look really fast!
Stay tuned for more photos (probably in weird colour treatments - a recent fad of mine).
You can find details on the exhibition here.