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Captured with a Nikkor 50 mm ƒ1:1.8 on my Nikon Df, post processed in Lightroom using VSCO Film Pack.
Better viewed large. Returning to Odessa Texas from Dallas Texas high above the clouds. Note the table formation at back.
Hospital 126 (MSCh 126) is a large hospital based at the North end of Priypat.
The basement contains liquidators uniforms which are highly radioactive. On this note, it is not recommended to go into the basement for this reason alone.
The hospital is a vast complex occupying the largest part of the first micro-district of Pripyat. The building is adorned with huge letters on its roof that read: "??????'? ?????? - ????????? ??????" or “health of a people - riches of the country”.
It was at this hospital on the 26th April 1986 that the first victims of the disaster were delivered by ambulance: firemen and personnel of the Chernobyl Powerplant. The majority of those had already received deadly doses of external and internal radiation also having severe skin burning from beta radiation. After such doses, most did not survive; they still stood up, tried to joke about it but the days or even hours of their lives were already numbered.
Hospitals are not a cheery place to be but this one was full of dereliction, dark corridors, doors slamming with the wind. Ghosts of the past still haunting this building.
The victims stayed here less than a day; were then transported to Kiev, and then by plane to Moscow. Everybody, except engineer Shashenok, died in hospital, he was the first one to die in the night of April, 26th. There were 6 firemen, 22 powerplant workers who died of sharp radiation sickness in the 6th radiological clinic of Moscow in the course of several months after the initial disaster.
Named for the nearby Pripyat River, Pripyat was founded on 4 February 1970, the ninth nuclear city in the Soviet Union, for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979, and had grown to a population of 49,360 before being evacuated a few days after the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Though Pripyat is located within the administrative district of Ivankiv Raion, the abandoned city now has a special status within the larger Kiev Oblast (province), being administered directly from Kiev. Pripyat is also supervised by Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies, which manages activities for the entire Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Access to Pripyat, unlike cities of military importance, was not restricted before the disaster as nuclear power stations were seen by the Soviet Union as safer than other types of power plants. Nuclear power stations were presented as being an achievement of Soviet engineering, where nuclear power was harnessed for peaceful projects. The slogan "peaceful atom" (Russian: ?????? ????, mirnyj atom) was popular during those times. The original plan had been to build the plant only 25 km (16 mi) from Kiev, but the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, among other bodies, expressed concern about it being too close to the city. As a result, the power station and Pripyat were built at their current locations, about 100 km (62 mi) from Kiev. After the disaster the city of Pripyat was evacuated in two days.
A 35 man (plus guides) trip to the Ukraine exploring Chernobyl, the village, Duga 3, Pripyat and Kiev including Maidan (Independence Square) and observing the peaceful protests underway.
Some new faces, some old, made new friends and generally we were in our elements.
Rhetorical question but did we have a blast? You bet!
Amazing group, top guys. Till the next time!
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Custom built white oak, Mission Style end tables. I built a set of 3 of them to match the coffee table I also built.
It's been WAY to long since I posted. Happened to check in on FlickrFriday theme in the morning. I SWEAR I didn't ask to be sat at this table for breakfast...
2 blended RAW exposures (ISO 100, 25mm, f/16.0, .4s, 1/20s), RAW conversion with Lightroom CC, Photoshop CC for blending and post-processing with Lightroom CC.
Zak is 16 weeks old and weighs in at 16.3kg, today so it's time for another pic! This is a slightly opportunistic snap with my phone cam, as he decides to boldly go where no dog has gone before! Thirty seconds later, he was actually up on the table, from where he promptly jumped back down onto the deck. "No Fear"!
GONE--This lovely coffee table from France is a pre-owned piece, not brand new but not old. It is solid wood--either maple or ash we think, except for the loom-like weave of threads at the lower level, which is meant to hold magazines and books. The details of the legs are really fun and very much mid-century in style--the table top appears to float atop the arched legs, which do not touch it.
Width 121cm, depth 51cm, height 45cm