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Bestwood Colliery in all its dystopian glory.
Captured using: Samsung A22
Image created using: Topaz Labs, and Topaz Studio
Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum) coming out of an Agapanthus floret
Bourdon des champs sortant d'une fleurette d'Agapanthe.
From one large paint brush to another, this is how to work.
Wait is he really painting that? Wow that must have taken a long time to accomplish.
Happy Macro Mondays
I was down at the auto repair shop the other day. When I mentioned to the mechanic that I had a toothache, he said that he’d be happy to yank that sucker out for me. “Lie down right here and open wide,” he said. “I’ve got just the tool to do it.” ;-)
Crazy Tuesday: “Hand Tools” theme
HCT
This was the R5's version. Not too shabby either ;)
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This Red Breasted Sap-Sucker loves to work this particular tree. He is there regularly and has left his mark all over the tree.
Ville de Rouen.
La rue du Gros-Horloge, anciennement rue Courvoiserie, est une voie de Rouen, en France. Elle tire son nom du Gros-Horloge, l'un des monuments emblématiques de la ville.
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Champasak (Laos) - Si vous allez dans des lieux essentiellement dédiés au tourisme, vous ne verrez pas de telles scènes.
On sait que partout dans le monde, pour les besoins de la fabrication du béton, on pille sans vergogne le sable sur les plages et dans les rivières. La construction des bâtiments et des infrastructures routières participent ainsi à la destruction de nombreux écosystèmes. Et en Asie, plus encore qu'en Europe, le béton reste le roi des matériaux. Il y a belle lurette que les traditionnelles maisons en bois ont été remplacées par des blocs en béton. Un choix imposé par la déforestation ?
Ce que l'on sait moins, c'est que les graves de terre et de mer, sont également pillés à grande échelle. Pour mémoire, les graves ou granulats issus des roches naturelles, servent à la fabrication du gravier servant de substrat pour la construction des routes, et des gravillons entrant dans la composition du béton. Ici, ce sont bien des « cailloux » qui sont prélevés dans les eaux du Mékong. Eux aussi sont destinés à l'industrie du BTP. Si la commande change, alors ce sera le sable qui sera chargé sur la barge. En Europe, depuis plusieurs années l’extraction des granulats est règlementée, même si de nombreuses dérogations sont accordées. En Asie et en Afrique notamment, où le peu de règlementations qui existent peuvent être aisément contournées en raison d’une corruption institutionnalisée, c’est « open bar ».
Pillons, pillons nos ressources naturelles, il n'en restera... rien !
• Champasak (Laos) - If you go to places that are mainly dedicated to tourism, you will not see such scenes.
We know that everywhere in the world, for the needs of the manufacture of concrete, we plunder without shame the sand on the beaches and in the rivers. The construction of buildings and road infrastructure thus contributes to the destruction of many ecosystems. And in Asia, even more than in Europe, concrete remains the king of materials. It's been a long time since the traditional wooden houses were replaced by concrete blocks. A choice imposed by deforestation?
What is less known is that land and marine aggregates are also plundered on a large scale. For the record, aggregates from natural rocks are used to manufacture gravel serving as a substrate for road construction, and gravel used in the composition of concrete.
Here, it is indeed "pebbles" that are taken from the waters of the Mekong. They too are intended for the construction industry. If the order changes, then it will be the sand that will be loaded into the barge. In Europe, for several years the extraction of aggregates has been regulated, even if many derogations are granted. In Asia and Africa in particular, where the few regulations that exist can be easily circumvented due to institutionalized corruption, it is "open bar".
Let's plunder, let's plunder our natural resources, nothing will be left of them!
This is the first image in a two-frame sequence: This wee four-day-old piping plover had been hunting for insects on the beach when it suddenly stopped and began scratching at its beak. Finally, one last swipe as it flung a tiny bug to the ground. You can see it a little if you zoom in on this first image. The second image is the very next frame, post-extraction. Perhaps that’s one of the hazards of hunting live insects. They're not always cooperative when you're trying to eat them. I had been alone with them, laying as flat and unobtrusive as possible when this one came super close to where I laid. July 11, 2019
L’extraction consiste à expulser de la chaudière les sels minéraux de l’eau précipités en boues par le T.I.A. La vanne d’extraction est située au point le plus bas de la chaudière et les boues s’y stockent par gravité.
Photographed the reflection of the McIntyre Gold Mine No. 11 Shaft Headframe on Pearl Lake located in the Town of Schumacher in the Township of Tisdale located in the City of Timmins in Northeastern Ontario Canada
Standing at 53.34 metres (175 feet) in height, the No. 11 shaft headframe is the sole remaining building of the McIntyre mine, which finally ceased operations in the 1990s after 90 years of continuous extraction. A headframe serves as the top of an elevator shaft, supporting the machinery that allows miners to travel deep into the mine and carry ore and waste rock to the surface. Sitting below No. 11 is a mineshaft 2.5 km deep that gives access to the ore below.
The No. 11 McIntyre Headframe consists of a sturdy steel frame, sheathed in B.C. fir tongue-in-groove planks, and clad with galvanized corrugated iron. Inside, the headframe once housed two ore skips and three-man cages. In its heyday, it handled about 80 per cent of the material extracted from this landmark mine.
Though no longer in operation, the No. 11 headframe continues to be a much-loved city icon, with images occasionally projected onto its large flat surface to mark special occasions.
Source: Ontario Association of Architects
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Definition: a small elite securing and extracting ("raking in") an excessive slice of the economic cake without investing in the common good. In the UK, this has created a high-inequality, high-poverty cycle. This cycle is the responsibility of the British Tory Party and, consequentially, the rake ought to be its visual signature - not the tree. Fuji X-Pro1, 7Artisans lens at F16 plus a 16mm macro extension tube.
Osprey at work pulling its catch out of the water with just one set of talons. Looks like it's showing off but likely just couldn't get a grip with the others.
Gas flare :- At oil and gas extraction sites, gas flares are similarly used for a variety of startup, maintenance, testing, safety, and emergency purposes. In a practice known as production flaring, they may also be used to dispose of large amounts of unwanted associated petroleum gas, possibly throughout the life of an oil well ( from WIKI )
Macro Mondays theme: “Stone”
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And no, I'm not referring to my forthcoming trip to the dentist (well hopefully not). Instead a carpet of valerian and a brightly coloured class 20 cab provide the colour.
Veteran class 20's 20118 and 20901 are seen edging out of the sidings at the former Kellingley Colliery site. The rake of wagons had been stored for some time so care was needed to ensure that nothing had seized. The 6Z20 stock move would convey the wagons from Kellingley Colliery - Chaddesden Sidings. Quite what they will be required for next I don't know.
Clearly not a level playing field as Green Heron pretty much always wins. With menhaden on Horsepen Bayou.