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Oh how photography has changed over the years from big bulky complicated cameras to the small digital ones of today.
Photos from a Sunday outing to battle boredom.
New and old. This barn has weathered a lot of wind, and the turbine is now turning it into electricity.
The Selfie Tour. On Belgium derps with Dursty, Pezar and Martin. Many selfies, lots of cool locations. Good times.
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This was a difficult one! I wanted to find something really interesting but a busy week didn’t really have time to hunt for something. This is Richmond lock and weir and the technology is the machinery to make this work. Mostly hidden in this photo but I particularly liked the shadow on the footpath and the striking clouds.
I really like my backlit keyboard shot I did for the '5' theme an would ideally have used that shot but I challenged myself to find something different. I think this shot is ok, I still prefer the backlit keyboard but this a good as well. I do like the reflections of the green and orange lights and the overall blue hue.
Alejandro, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2016
I saw Alejandro waiting on the Nieuwe Emmasingel at Eindhoven. He was waiting for some friends that evening. I approached Alejandro with the question if he wants to pose for me. He agreed so I made some photos of him.
Alejandro is original from Spain. He is a 3rd years PhD student at the University of Technology in Eindhoven. We had a little chat about the University of Eindhoven, where I became Master of Science.
Alejandro told also that he likes to do photography, but doesn’t approach strangers to ask if they want to pose.
Alejandro, thanks for posing
100 Strangers Group
This picture is #37 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
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The windows of the ATAC (Advanced Technology and Academic Centre) building at Lakehead University catch the rising sun on an early Autumn morning.
An old building technology book I found on my bookshelves at work. Very old... The glasses? Not mine... :-)
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Technology demonstration experiment CIMON tests human-machine interaction in space.
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Acrylic marker and ink on paper 21" x 18" January 16, 2023. www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-Captured-Technology-Arroma...
A pretty bit of tech. designed to replace human interaction and speed up efficiency - No people required! Until there is a malfunction.
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things will never be the same again since technology took over our lives. it has practically entered almost every aspect of everything we do. imagine a friend of mine recently bought a tennis racquet that can sense and feed information about a player's style of hitting the ball and playing the game. individually and subjectively, depending on our attitude towards technology, only time will tell whether we are happier with it. obviously one thing is certain, these kids are!
The Dongdaemun Design Plaza (동대문 디자인플라자&파크) is a new landmark of Dongdaemun designed by the world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid. Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DPP) features an unbelievable exterior decorated with over 40,000 aluminium sheets none of which are the same. The Plaza is hone to a design museum, fashion design information centre, sky lounge and many more spaces for exhibitions and rest.
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Attempt at making infrastructure "pretty." One time active tower for AT&T long lines microwave system. The triangular shapes at the top of the tower are the microwave feed horns.
Downtown Grand Junction atop the Bell Telephone central office, Mesa County, Colorado.
Happy Telegraph Tuesday!
Finally, a completely empty tunnel. Now I can create the photo I wanted to take the whole time.
This is the view of the uncompleted tunnel, before outfitting of the tracks and electrical systems, as viewed from Rosebank towards Sandton which is now part of the Gautrain train system in Johannesburg.
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The trunks of ancient trees in the virgin forests of the Pacific Northwest have a considerably larger diameter at ground level than they do even five or six feet above the forest floor.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, loggers had the Herculean task of sawing through these giant trunks by hand. It was a two-man job.
It's an odious task for me just to saw through a 2-by-4 by hand, so I can't comprehend how the men had the strength and endurance to pull and push those widely spaced and wickedly long saw teeth back and forth across the living wood. Perhaps the loggers worked in shifts to fell a tree, but I can't imagine that the team who had been spelled would have been allowed to sit around and play Wordle until it was their turn again.
To make the job just a little bit less overwhelming, loggers sawed the trunk above ground level where it was not as thick.
In order to apply the greatest thrust to their huge, double-ended saws, loggers needed to hold the saw at waist level or higher. The only way they could do that was to carve sockets into the trunk far above ground level and insert long planks for to stand on while they wielded their saw.
In solving one problem the springboards created another, namely that of losing one's balance and falling to the ground. Loggers worked without a safety net literally and figuratively then. That was of little or no concern to the timber barons and their wives who lived and entertained in great style in their mansions in Portland and Seattle.
Cedar is renowned for its resistance to rot. Hence the springboard notches remain plainly visible in the stumps of the felled old-growth cedars for generations after the loggers have joined their victims in the compost of history.
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Close to Home ‘The great cedars call our names’ Willapa Bay’s Long Island is a Northwest treasure
Story by David Campiche
Sep 18, 2014
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The birds are quiet, hardly a peep. The large Harvest Moon that was forecast is buried in gray slurry, in subtle shades of silver and pewter. A fine mist wraps its cloak over the soft green landscape. Long Island rests in the middle of Willapa Bay. Here awaits a late summer dreamscape.
Like the September full moon, leaves are turning yellow and umber. Among the 16 people gathered at the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge, the mood is speculative but optimistic. I came from Naselle, crossed the Naselle Bridge in a flurry, and headed south.
West of the bridge I could just make out the Herrolds’ oyster plant, their weather-worn dock and graceful wooden vessel. Gargantuan piles of oyster shells lay mounded on the shoreline. The two brothers are descendants of the Chinook culture and proud of it. They have worked this bay for oysters since childhood. The two families have protected both these pristine waters and a lifestyle that predates these oystermen.
Glenn Lamb is the executive director of the Columbia Land Trust. He and his staff have performed diligently in the Pacific Northwest. They have, in particular, a deep affection for Pacific County and the Long Beach Peninsula.
“It is all about wildlife, about restoring habitat,” he says. Lamb picks his words carefully. He is a careful and amicable man.
The organization outlines its parameters as, “Two states. One iconic river (the Columbia). 13,000 square miles of wonder.” Set in our backyard, the Columbia Land Trust projects hope with this succinct statement: “We conserve the Northwest you love.”
We are heading to the Don Bonker Cedar Grove, a 5,000-year-old copse of mostly ancient cedar trees on the west side of the island. U.S. Rep. Bonker saved that grove and then cemented public ownership of the entire island in the 1980s. In the grove are 274 acres of old-growth. The island is seven miles long and half as thick. In all of Pacific County, only 1 percent of the tall trees remain. Someday, as second-growth matures, the entire island will again rebound with a cornucopia of old-growth. This is Bonker’s gift to our grandchildren, to future generations.
Two capable assistants anchor our large barge-like craft at Smoky Hollow, and we make our way on an easy trail a half-mile to a trailhead that reads, “Cedar Grove.” Traveling the trail from the old logging road into the center of the grove is a quick route. One ponders the third-growth woods along the way, small timber the loggers call “pecker poles.” Don’t give up hope: Yards ahead is one of the treasures of the Pacific Northwest. In his long, fruitful tenor in Congress, Bonker left a legacy for you and me to enjoy. Today, the great cedars call our names.
Western cedars are referred to as cathedral trees. Lightning often strikes the tree tops. The resulting twisted limbs often bear shapes like giant candelabras. In this ancient copse, we are surrounded by massive and tall cedars. These trees preserve a quiet dignity. Perhaps, they project an elder’s wisdom, for they are old, very old, some 1,100 years. The landscape is like a natural church, but festooned with lichen, fern and a variety of mosses.
We stroll up the forested apse, a trail carved out by awestruck pilgrims who have ventured into this magical place since the advent of the Chinook civilization.
“Inspire love of place” — it doesn’t take much effort here. To see is to believe. The grove is much older than the trees in it. Like pilgrims coming to Mecca, we, the happy 16, have the rare privilege of standing amid this living and breathing antiquity.
The trip is short and fruitful. We traipse back to the scow and soon travel back to the refuge. By boat or kayak, Long Island is accessible to bow hunters, biologists and campers. Over a dozen campsites punctuate the island. The island provides infinite opportunities for photographers, or for those just seeking solace. Willapa Bay rolls through four tides a day. The Willapa was called Shoalwater Bay at the turn of the century. The shallow bay sustains that reputation. It also produces about 20 percent of the nation’s oysters. Those piles of bivalves are razor sharp. All that is to say: Beware of low tide, your unprotected hands, and the boat’s bottom.
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"Long Island cedars are living fossils"
By Rob Schubert
Longview Daily News
Apr 2, 2019
WILLAPA BAY — The term “living fossil” is one that mixes a sense of being out of place with one of awe and mystery. The coelacanth, a fish that lived alongside dinosaurs, was believed extinct until a living one was found in 1938. Another such living fossil is right around the corner, on Long Island.
That six-mile long island nestled in Willapa Bay is like stepping into the past. The 5,500-acre island includes 274 acres covered in cedar trees that were around when Constantinople became Istanbul in 1453. And unlike other forests, which are constantly in a state of flux due to development, fire or storms, this primeval grove has been untouched for thousands of years.
According to a 1985 article written in Washington Magazine by current Daily News editor Andre Stepankowsky, the first trees of the Long Island grove began sprouting about 4,000 years ago. While those first trees have not survived to this day, the average tree is still between 150 and 160 feet in height, with the oldest individual trees being roughly 1,000 years old. Old rotting cedars on the ground may have been sprouting when Julius Caesar was a child.
When studying forests, most of the discussion is about old-growth forests. The definition of this term varies depending on region, but in the Pacific Northwest, a forest reaches old-growth status when the majority of trees are more than 250 years old.
Old-growth forests already constitute a small fraction of all woodland in the area, but the Long Island grove is old enough to earn itself an entirely different distinction. These trees make up a “climax forest,” a steady-state system of self-reproducing trees so rare that before this grove was found, some researchers believed there were none still in existence. Usually, fire or windstorms interrupt the evolution of a forest to its final “climax” condition. But not at Long Island.
An aid in research
This well-preserved forest has allowed scientists to step into a snapshot of the ecosystem that once dominated coastal regions. Researchers from groups like the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington have used their rings to gain insight to the history of the area. A 1997 project, headed by David Yamaguchi and Brian Atwater, dated cedar stumps along the coast to 1699, which led them to believe a massive disaster occurred before spring of 1700, the same year that a massive tsunami hit Japan. In their report, researchers concluded, largely through comparative tree dating, that 1700 was the year of the last major earthquake in the region.
But the grove’s survival even through disaster is no mere stroke of luck; the trees were perfectly placed to avoid what felled similar groves around the region.
Long Island is tucked into Willapa Bay, with the Long Beach Peninsula shielding it from the worst winds off the Pacific, while the frequent fog and rain keep fire risk to a minimum. Additionally, its position on an island makes it very unlikely that wildfires started elsewhere will spread to the grove.
The location also spared the grove from heavy logging. While Weyerhaeuser Co. acquired the lands for logging from Northern Pacific Railroad in 1900, the cedar grove survived because its location inland on the south portion of Long Island was far more distant to the places where logs were rafted into Willapa Bay and, from there, to shore.
Weyco-federal pact
Weyerhaeuser began to log the grove in the early 1970s, but its moves were met with protests. The company ultimately agreed to a deal with the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the ancient cedars.
The pact originally required the government to pay Weyerhaeuser each year, and the cost was being met with growing resistance by the mid-1980s. Southwest Washington Congressman Don Bonker stepped in to broker a lasting deal in which the federal government purchased Weyerhaeuser’s timber rights and preserved the grove in 1986.
Today, the Long Island cedar grove is open to the public, but getting there is a challenge. There are no bridges or ferries to Long Island. Anyone who wants to visit needs to find their own transportation. Visitors to Long Island who arrive from the southeast are met with signs for the Don Bonker Cedar Grove Trail.
Bonker was also instrumental in the creation of the Mount St. Helens Volcanic National Volcanic Monument, the Columbia River National Scenic Area and Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge, as well as many state parks and refuges he expanded.
In a 2005 interview with The Daily Astorian, he called the purchase of the cedar grove “special... a rare moment” among the many accomplishments in his legacy. It was preserving these special places, he said, that always meant the most to him.