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A local power utility station in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I like the way a long lens can flatten a scene and create a sense of chaos in an image. Here, the out of focus posts are fairly close to the camera, whereas the utility station is quite far away.
One day in June, I decided to load up a couple of old cameras with some 135 format, black and white, film. One was a Nikon FTn with a 35 mm lens that I gave to me daughters. They are seven and nine years old, and were interested in learning some photography. I loaded a Spotmatic 1 for myself. I planned to shoot the whole roll with a 300 mm lens, but some of the shots were taken with other lenses.
Check out an album containing more of my photos shot in 2018.
Asahi Pentax Spotmatic
Asahi Takumar f4 300 mm lens
Manfrotto tripod and ball head.
Metered with a Sekonic L-358.
135 format Ilford FP4 Plus 125 ISO film.
Scanned using a Nikon Super CoolScan 9000 ED with the FH-835S 35mm strip film tray.
A small spaceship I imagine being some sort of exploratory vehicle operating out of a larger space station. The build was a fun vessel for messing with angles possible using cheese slopes,
1979 was the final year for the passenger car-based Ranchero utility truck, being based on the intermediate LTD II (a rebadged Torino) between the 1977 and 1979 model years. Since the compact Falcon Ranchero was dropped in 1965, Ford moved its utility model up to the larger intermediate Fairlane/Torino platform, which was rebadged as LTD II for 1977 to be a smaller option for full sized LTD customers in response to GM's new downsized full size models.
The LTD II was among the largest passenger cars ever built in the intermediate class and was only available with V8s. With fuel economy a growing issue, Ford effectively replaced the dated LTD II with a new downsized intermediate with compact dimensions and offering similar or greater interior and cargo room, the 1978 Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr on the new Fox body platform. The Ranchero continued to the end of the 1979 model year with either a 5.0 (302) or 5.8 liter (351) V8.
By then passenger car based utility trucks were declining and Ford officially offered no successor to the Ranchero, though the 1981 Durango was built by an aftermarket company using the downsized Fox platform Fairmont and officially distributed and sold by Ford dealers with factory warranty.
This is a 500 series standard model.
Factory delivered suggested retail price $5,866 for standard 500 series, curb weight as delivered 3,698 lb, maximum 1,250 lb load rating with heavy duty package, 3,500 lb towing capacity when equipped, 133 HP (5.0/302 V8) or 151 HP (5.8 liter/351 V8).
1979 Ranchero brochure: www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/ford/79ra/79ra.html
engine lonnings in carlisle is pylon city. i would like to formerly apologies for the volume of pylon and pylon related image i will be uploading this week!
For last week's Station Saturday I shared a photo of the wonderfully restored Knife River passenger and freight depots. So for today continuing the Missabe Monday theme here is a complementary shot featuring the little village's namesake.
The North Shore Scenic Railroad's First Class Two Harbors Fall Colors Tour is on its return run to Duluth as they pass over the Knife River bridge at its outlet into Lake Superior at about MP 19.7 on the Lake Division just west of the depot. Leading the way very much on home rails is DMIR 193 an EMD SD18 blt. Apr. 1960 as the last of nineteen of the model purchased by the road. Chop nosed in 1992 the the locomotive was donated to the museum in 1998 and then repainted in 2002 at the Missabe's Proctor shops.
The North Shore Scenic Railroad operates on 26 miles of government owned track which was originally the Duluth and Iron Range Railway's mainline built as an extension from Two Harbors (then known as Agate Bay). Opened in 1886 only two years after Charlemagne Tower's road hauled its first trainload of ore down from the Soudan Mine, this extension provided the D&IR with a physical connection to the rest of the national rail network. Known as the Lake Division under the auspices of the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range it had revenue passenger service until 1961 between Duluth and Ely. As it was not a route for ore trains the line's utility diminished until it was shuttered in 1982 and then petitioned for abandonment a few years later. St. Louis and Lake County banded together to form a regional railroad authority and then purchased the line from the DMIR in 1988. Tourist trains began running in 1990 and for the first half dozen years it was attempted to operate as a for profit entity. Today the railroad is a volunteer run non profit arm of the museum running over 700 trains during the regular May to October season and then more around the holidays!
Unincorporated Knife River
Lake County, Minnesota
Friday October 6, 2023
Utility room African style with a wood-fired boiler in the corner, called "donkey," and the job instructions for the farm workers on the wall.
The photo was taken on Farm Rietfontein, Dordabis, and uploaded for Monochrome Monday....and Wall Wednesday.
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Have a wonderful week, everyone!
These utility lines cross through a neighborhood of Victorian homes and cottages. Much of Sonora has been leveled by wildfires, so it's good to see some survivors! The large Victorian house on the left was divided into flats in the 1920s.
The original Italianate mansion was built in the late 1880s by a successful gold miner. It was considered to be one of Sonora’s finest homes. Although it has had many owners, it is still known as the Clark-Nichol Home, for the original owners.
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Fat chair/bench among the water meters. . . a place for the gardener to eat his lunch, perhaps, back in the days when there were hired gardeners? A curious frame. . .
HBM!!
I appreciate what appears to be a handmade chair--certainly not bought ready-made from a store--back in the 1920s.
A coffee cup being used as an ashtray.
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Zuiko OM 35mm f/2.8 + Olympus OM-2sp : Kodak Tri-X 400 : Epson Perfection V850 Pro Photo Scanner.
Officially designated 'MTAPC' (Multi-Terrain Amoured Personnel Carrier), the MTAPC was likened to a Bull due to its thickset and muscular appearance; thus the name stuck. It was designed and built by German manufacturer Strauss Kinetisch in 2016 for the purpose of providing Security Forces a cost-effective, fast, and maneuverable Armoured Personnel Carrier. It is now used globally, notably by UNIST. The model pictured is a MTAPC-16 used by UNIST personnel in Urban combat situations, hence the white paint-scheme.
The 'Bull' MTAPC is relatively lightly armed, and can be fitted with either one M2HB Machine Gun or one GMG. It has a capacity of up to ten persons, including a driver and passenger.
Was going to be an entry for the Brickarms Tremendous Technical contest, but I literally finished this as the deadline passed. The cabin was an absolute bitch to do. So many techniques at play that I've never used before. Oh, and the rear door opens out into a ramp for embarkation/disembarkation.
Perhaps this hints at some Modern Conflict related stuff in the near future? :3
Camera used: Hanimex 35es
Film used: Kodak Ultramax 400
The vignetting was not intentional, but is a happy accident.
A trio of ex-CNJ GP40s spend the night west of the Hoboken Engine House. Of the order of 13 engines only five are currently in service with two still pulling passenger trains. The remaining eight are either in various stages of rebuilt to dedicated work engines or have been placed in storage for eventual rebuild.
Unassigned Power @ Hoboken Terminal, Hoboken, NJ
NJTR GP40PH-2 4105
NJTR GP40PH-2 4109
NJTR GP40PH-2 4112
The electrical and telecommunication lines behind the Perkins Building in downtown Brookhaven, Mississippi.
Grass Valley, CA
January 2018
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I've uploaded pictures of this building before, but I had never seen it at night. I could say my photos are bad because I didn't have a tripod, but they would turn out bad anyways. As I really want to share them with you, here they go. This night it was lit to mark "Pink October".
According to the National Park Service:
"The Niagara Hudson Building in Syracuse is an outstanding example of Art Deco architecture and a symbol of the Age of Electricity. Completed in 1932, the building became the headquarters for the nation’s largest electric utility company and expressed the technology of electricity through its modernistic design, material, and extraordinary program of exterior lighting. The design elements applied by architects Melvin L. King and Bley & Lyman transformed a corporate office tower into a widely admired beacon of light and belief in the future. With its central tower and figurative winged sculpture personifying electric lighting, the powerfully sculpted and decorated building offered a symbol of optimism and progress in the context of the Great Depression."
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My first go at transferring an LDD model into Mecabricks and rendering it. I'm totally up for any hints, advice or top tips about how to use this, as it's all new to me!