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Petawawa Research Forest ON 24 Aug 2021
The control plot shows how without intervention, the White Pine does not regenerate here
I have wanted to shoot this for a long time. Its so unique. I tried to capture it with a dark feel, to help tell the story of the architecture, its medieval style and its past.
The Oswego Iron Furnace, built in 1866 at the confluence of Oswego Creek and the Willamette River, was the first iron furnace on the Pacific Coast. Between 1867 and 1885, it produced 42,000 tons of pig iron, sold as "Oregon Iron" to foundries in Portland and San Francisco. Before 1867, all iron on the Pacific Coast was brought by ship around Cape Horn.
The founders of the Oregon Iron Company—led by William S. Ladd, John Green, and Henry Green—sought to capitalize on iron deposits in the hills around Sucker Lake (now Oswego Lake). Controlling the means of iron production was part of their vision for a commercial empire in the Pacific Northwest. Most of Portland's cast-iron architecture and the pipe for its water system were made of Oswego iron.
The Oswego Furnace was Oregon's largest manufacturing enterprise in the nineteenth century. It consumed ore from two mines and charcoal from 22,000 acres of timber. Over the course of its operation, three companies owned the works: Oregon Iron Company, Oswego Iron Company, and Oregon Iron & Steel Company.
The furnace, which resembles a medieval tower, was modeled on the furnaces of the Barnum and Richardson Company in Lime Rock, Connecticut. The thirty-two-foot-high stack, as stone furnaces are called, stands on a twelve-foot underground foundation with massive walls built to withstand temperatures of 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit. Charcoal, ore, and limestone were fed into the top of the shaft, and air was injected into the bottom through three Gothic arches that gave access to ports in the smelting chamber. Molten iron was tapped through a fourth arch and channeled to molds in the sand floor of the casting house. In 1878, the second owners increased the height of the stack to forty-four feet.
The furnace closed in 1885 when the company built a larger furnace half a mile north. The firebrick lining of the shaft was removed and probably reused in the new furnace. An attempt to dynamite the stack in the early twentieth century failed but left gaping holes in the interior.
In 1974, the furnace, an example of the craftsmanship of nineteenth-century furnace builders, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The City of Lake Oswego completed a major preservation and stabilization effort in 2010, and the furnace is now an imposing presence in George Rogers Park. It is the only remaining iron furnace west of the Rocky Mountains.
If you control aqua in Texas, you’re a municipality. However, if you find yourself in control of aqua, you’re just thirsty. (Sea Life Aquarium, Grapevine Tx.)
This stunt plane popped up in the far skes, at least a mile away...
I have no idea what event was happening, or even where...
For some reason I'm kind of obsessed with this yellow machine.
Control - Downsampled from ~15, hotsampling! using SRWE; using this guide and CT by Frans Bouma; Lightroom
Demolition of the postal giro office in Hanover in the light of an early sun.
Abriss des Postgiroamtes Hannover im Licht einer frühen Sonne
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With an RMT strike on this day causing the independent freight lines by-passing Crewe to be closed, trains were passing through the station. The driver of Freightliner Class 70 No. 70016 opens up the power after approach control slowed him to a crawl before taking the junction to Manchester with 4Z20, the 10:30 Southampton MCT – Trafford Park intermodal on 3rd January 2023.
A control room out of the 80s.
A lot of dials. Even got to walk in behind these giant panels and see what was in there - it was surprisingly dull. I like that the power cables driving these dials and computational units were huge - looked like 600volt lines or something from back then.
This place was scattered with the strangest collection of computer manuals, emergency operational guidlines and even magazines from the date the powerplant closed in the 80's. Magazines about Pet grooming, Macleans (Canadian political rag) and even gardening... telling what the people monitoring the plant at the time it closed were interested in. Sort of a strange time capsule.