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Elevators are proving to be a great source of old and unique power, and its just great. This old Geep may no longer be in use, but sits at the end of the line at an elevator in Jose, IL.
My day started two hours earlier in Regina, now I was here in Viceroy watching the sun come up and listening for sounds of a train approaching from the west. Great Western is supposed to have a ballast train called at Shaunavon for 0500 to run east of here to Horizon for loading. It was pretty quiet in Viceroy so I didn't have any trouble hearing that B23-7 chugging as it rolled east at 10 mph.
Viceroy appeared to only have a handful of occupied houses but at one time supported at least two baseball diamonds.
The elevator to our apartment in Rome. Very old fashioned where you had to open/close the doors yourself. Reminded me of the one in the film Charade.
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 24mm F2.8D lens. Fomapan Action 400 35mm B&W film.
Elevator from 1976 in the old part (built in the 1920's) of our local hospital. Usually old elevators get updated over time with more modern button panels, etc - but this one ist still in all its 70's glory. Big chunky buttons, floor indicator above the door and of course not to forget the fake wood decor.
Despite the fact that I especially like wooden grain elevators, I think that this one is my new favorite with its unique to me tower on the left, and the printing on the oldest elevator in the large agglomeration.
The grain elevator and the Co-op, two mainstays of small town prairie life.
Davidson, Saskatchewan
July 2019
If you would like to see more aerial photography, please check my album from the Summer of 2018.
Yet another one. I remember making the exposure but not where I was. I swear, I'll get these things located and descrived.
The Rookery
209 South La Salle Street
Chicago, Illinois
"1931 - William Drummond incorporated an Art Deco aesthetic and divided the two-story entrance lobby into separate floors. He replaced Wright’s open-geometric elevator cages with solid bronze doors etched with birds."
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Captured with my Nikon Df and a manual Nikkor Ai 50mm ƒ1:1.2, post processed with the new VSCO Film Pack 06.
I had never seen a grain elevator in my life, until I took my first train trip to Western Canada many years ago. As we crossed Manitoba and Saskatchewan, the visions of grain elevators approaching against the backdrop of canola fields and those fabulous prairie skies were very powerful.
Then I learned that there were thousands of them in Saskatchewan only, in the 1930s, but today only a few hundred remain, very few still being used, most of them abandoned, weather beaten, on the verge of demolition.
To me, grain elevators are the architectural equivalents of European medieval castles, or Dutch wind mills (a little exaggeration here, maybe?). They've captured my imagination like no other buildings in North America have (lighthouses and barns come to my mind too, I love them as well). These are the photographs I took in August 2013.
Richard Roger's Lloyds of London Building (1984)
"Whereas the frame of the building has a long life expectancy, the servant areas, filled with mechanical equipment have a relatively short life, especially in this energy-critical period. The servant equipment, mechanical services, lifts, toilets, kitchens, fire stairs, and lobbies, sit loosely in the tower framework, easily accessible for maintenance, and replaceable in the case of obsolescence. The key to this changing juxtaposition of parts is the legibility of the role of each technological component, which is functionally expressed to the full."
Barbie Campbell Cole and Ruth Elias Rogers, ed. Richard Rogers + Partners. p130-131.
The Creator's Words
"Buildings are not idiosyncratic private institutions: they give public performances both to the user and the passerby. Thus the architect's responsibility must go beyond the client's program and into the broader public realm. Though the client's program offers the architect a point of departure, it must be questioned, as the architectural solution lies in the complex and often contradictory interpretation of the needs of the individual, the institution, the place and history. The recognition of history as a principle constituent of the program and an ultimate model of legitimacy is a radical addition to the theories of the Modern Movement."
Richard Rogers. from Barbie Campbell Cole and Ruth Elias Rogers, ed. Richard Rogers + Partners. p19.
(Great Buildings www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Lloyds_Building.html)
Out for a drive coming back from somewhere and grabbed this image of a grain elevator aka "Prairie Giants". They were designed to receive, store and ship grain in bulk. They are a disappearing symbol of the Canadian Prairie skyline.
Some have even called the grain elevators “Prairie cathedrals.”
Passed this through a few Apps to get this Painterly effect.
Lisbon, Portugal.
The Santa Justa Lift, also called Carmo Lift, is an elevator, or lift, in the civil parish of Santa Justa, in the historic center of Lisbon, Portugal. Situated at the end of Rua de Santa Justa, it connects the lower streets of the Baixa with the higher Largo do Carmo (Carmo Square).
Since its construction the lift has become a tourist attraction for Lisbon as. Others, including Elevador da Glória and Elevador da Bica, are actually funicular railways, and the other lift constructed around the same time, the Elevator of São Julião, has since been demolished.
The structure is constructed of stylized steel similar to that of the Eiffel Tower and was the project of an apprentice of Eiffel.
Shot with a Mamiya 645 Pro | Sekor C 80mm f/2.8 N
Shot on Kodak Ektar 25
An old grain elevator in Dorothy, Alberta
I accidently shot this at 400 ISO and the film lab pushed it twice instead of four times, so I had a lot of work to make it look decent. I used Negative Lab Pro, Lightroom and Photoshop.
A pair of GP7's with BUGX reporting marks work under the massive elevator at Penny Newman Grain at the Port of Stockton, Central California Traction trackage.
Friday, October 20, 2023, 9:57 AM.
Mirrors and angles and such.
- oooh, this has got popular!
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