Beautiful light at the entrance of the old Compressor House at Geevor tin mine. The building was used to create compressed air for equipment down the mines.

For an account of my trip to Cornwall, with more pictures from Geevor, and lots of interest to anyone who’s watched Poldark:

Cornwall

old steam compressors in the machine hall at the coking plant Hansa in Dortmund.

The ruin of the old compressor house at Levant Mine, in thick fog. It was used to make compressed air to work the drills in the mines.

For an account of my trip to Cornwall, with more pictures from the old mines, and lots of interest to anyone who’s watched Poldark:

Cornwall

Entrance to the compressor house, with the sea beyond.

For an account of my trip to Cornwall, with more pictures from the old mines, and lots of interest to anyone who’s watched Poldark:

Cornwall

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With my three uploads today I've been looking at reflections in the windows of the foghorn shed at the Low Head Lighthouse in northern Tasmania. Once again we see the view behind me of the sea, sky and clouds. And through the glass we also catch a glimpse of the air compressors of this massive foghorn that can be heard 30 kilometres out to sea. But with the reflection it creates an almost surreal image in the René Magritte sense.

It was installed in 1929, and if you look closely you can see some of the fine engineering that went into producing this compressor.

Abandoned factory

Kodak Gold 200 with Mamiya RB67 and Sekor 90 mm

The compressor house on a different day - no fog and actually plenty of sunshine. Fantastic structure.

For an account of my trip to Cornwall, with more pictures from the old mines, and lots of interest to anyone who’s watched Poldark:

Cornwall

abandoned power plant of a steel manufacturing company

impressions @ Kokerei HANSA, Dortmund-Huckarde

abandoned carbide factory and hydro power plant - compressor hall

San Ardo, California 2004

abandoned carbide factory and hydro power plant - compressor hall

Taken at Houghton Grange

San Ardo, California 2004

Museum of industry

Scan from 6x6 color positiv film, AI enhanced.

Male and female rotor.

De Compressorenhal bevindt zich op de eerste verdieping van het indrukwekkende Energiegebouw.

In de grote persluchthal stonden de luchtcompressoren. Beneden in de mijn werden de machines met perslucht aangedreven om het ontploffingsgevaar via elektrische vonken te vermijden.

Bron: c-mine.be/energiegebouw-0

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The Compressor Hall is located on the first floor of the impressive Energy Building.

The air compressors were located in the large compressor hall. Down in the mine, the machines were powered by compressed air to avoid the risk of explosion via electric sparks.

Source: c-mine.be/en/energy-building

Iron ore processing plant

Op 13 juli mocht ik voor het werk weer eens op pad. Dus alle spotmeldingen niet zo gevolgd met als gevolg dat ik bij het naar boven lopen op station Driebergen-Zeist verrast werd met het geluid van een compressor van een 1600/1800. Even snel naar boven lopen gaf mij zicht op dit SGM sloopkonvooi van Arhem naar de Houtrakpolder in Amsterdam. De trein stopte gelukkig even voor het laten inhalen van een Intercity en dat leidde tot dit telefoonplaatje van het laaste sloopkonvooi van SGM naar de Houtrakpolder. Vanaf daar gaan de bakken over de weg naar de sloper, de SR 706 gaat mee voor het rangeerwerk.

abandoned carbide factory and hydro power plant - compressor hall

4 stage compressor for air. Manufactured at DEMAG in the 60s. Freshly overhauled it still runs today....

I think Peter Lindbergh would have liked it.

Ilford HP5+ exposed like 1600ISO, developed in Kodak's HC110.

Mamiya645 proTL, Sekor45/2.8

abandoned carbide factory and hydro power plant - compressor hall

50 mm diameter at the base

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharger

This was manufactured on a 5 axis Robodrill CNC machining center.

loreph.it/portfolio-item/exploration-060/

Disused gas factory, Italy

shot at airport in the early mornings of winter