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a few weeks ago I suddenly noticed how many different kinds of fire hydrants were near my house. they are all so different. and so an obsession with photographing hydrants began.
i have a bunch of pictures already, but they are all waiting to be edited. this isn't the first one i took, but it is the one that will start this very strange (for me!) project.
White fire hydrant, outside in near noon sun. a lot of the detail on this thing was just blown out. Hindsight makes me think if I had bothered I could've used off camera lighting to light the trees in the background and bring the exposure of the hydrant down a stop or so.
March photo challenge..day 19..'fire hydrant'
At first I thought I hated some of this challenge cause it was just not possible to make a few of these look at all interesting..then I realized it was my own lack of creativity that I'm hating. I need to start putting some more thought into these things (if I can!). This is an old style fire hydrant system so I thought a little rework and black and white were in order. Wish me luck for the rest of this month! ha!
This fire hydrant sports a bandaid. Did it have an ouchie? Not as serious an injury as this hydrant suffered.
There are very few of these 1921 version pre-Worboys 'Torch of Learning' SCHOOL signs left in the country and I know of no other that is in similar excellent condition complete with its reflectorized red triangle. Its a real gem hidden away deep in the South Devon countryside! Its also still serving its original purpose of warning motorists of the nearby village school. For a close up view of this sign see www.flickr.com/photos/61719529@N07/8537616517/in/photostr... . For the later 1957 version of the pre-Worboys SCHOOL sign, see www.flickr.com/photos/61719529@N07/8537216739/in/photostr… .
Also noteworthy in this photograph is the yellow fire hydrant sign, itself a gem of a former time when the pipe size and distance to the pipe were inserted into the sign face as metal plugs from the rear. For a close up view of the fire hydrant sign, see www.flickr.com/photos/61719529@N07/8537613519/in/photostr... .
This photo was previously posted at www.flickr.com/photos/63942060@N04/6352264508/in/photostr... . Because of difficulty accessing my posts under my user name that neither Flickr Technical Support nor I seem able to resolve, the photo has been reposted under my current user name. Note that under the alternate post, there is discussion on the authenticity of this sign, the design of which was superseded in the 1950s. See my post at www.flickr.com/photos/61719529@N07/8537216739/in/photostr… for the later 1957 version of the pre-Worboys SCHOOL sign.
Photograph date: 27 September 2011
Photograph reference: P1010188
I think they repainted all of the fire hydrants in downtown Austin. This leads me to wonder why on earth they did that and how much did it cost?
In my area fire hydrants are color coded to indicate what jurisdiction supplies the water. This color scheme indicates that this is a WSSC hydrant.
365 Days in Colour: January: "dark green"
In the neverending quest for people to cling to their youth and to erase any signs of living from their faces, technology has created injectible fillers for wrinkles and lips made out of rooster combs (similar to collagen, which is made from cows). I kid you not. I wondered if this tag was not an activist rooster's silent, grass roots call-to-action to his brothers-in-farms. Vive la resistance!
"Eighteen hand-carved marble sculptures are installed at intervals along Wellington West Street. The Wellington Marbles, a sculptural series by local artists Marcus Kucey-Jones and Ryan Lotecki was commissioned by the City of Ottawa’s Public Art Program for Wellington Street West as part of the Wellington Street West reconstruction project.
Each sculpture playfully captures the form of a fire hydrant fused with everyday objects such as local foods, artistic tools and musical instruments. By sculpting forms and objects connected to the surrounding neighbourhood, The Wellington Marbles pay tribute to the local history and modern renewal of the community. Kucey-Jones and Lotecki chose the fire hydrant as a sculptural form for this street “as it is rooted in its familiarity in the urban landscape. It is an object found in every community connecting people in an uncelebrated yet vital manner.” The hydrants and their coupled forms present the viewer with a sense of humour, playfulness, and culturally reference the area.
Quarried in Carrara, Italy, the marble used for this installation was selected for its fine quality and for its association with classical art. In the same vein, the artists offer a series of sculptures representing contemporary imagery as a monument to the urban streetscape. The artistic practices of Kucey-Jones and Lotecki span many media and have brought innovative and imaginative artwork to communities across Canada and around the globe. "
from www.ottawa.ca/rec_culture/arts/public/commissions/welling...
"Eighteen hand-carved marble sculptures are installed at intervals along Wellington West Street. The Wellington Marbles, a sculptural series by local artists Marcus Kucey-Jones and Ryan Lotecki was commissioned by the City of Ottawa’s Public Art Program for Wellington Street West as part of the Wellington Street West reconstruction project.
Each sculpture playfully captures the form of a fire hydrant fused with everyday objects such as local foods, artistic tools and musical instruments. By sculpting forms and objects connected to the surrounding neighbourhood, The Wellington Marbles pay tribute to the local history and modern renewal of the community. Kucey-Jones and Lotecki chose the fire hydrant as a sculptural form for this street “as it is rooted in its familiarity in the urban landscape. It is an object found in every community connecting people in an uncelebrated yet vital manner.” The hydrants and their coupled forms present the viewer with a sense of humour, playfulness, and culturally reference the area.
Quarried in Carrara, Italy, the marble used for this installation was selected for its fine quality and for its association with classical art. In the same vein, the artists offer a series of sculptures representing contemporary imagery as a monument to the urban streetscape. The artistic practices of Kucey-Jones and Lotecki span many media and have brought innovative and imaginative artwork to communities across Canada and around the globe. "
from www.ottawa.ca/rec_culture/arts/public/commissions/welling...
to anyone who thinks that these are the real colors, please contact me for information on a particular traffic artery that i have for sale; it connects brooklyn and lower manhattan and can be had for a song (not unlike myself).
btw, the original is in Swainsboro, GA is painted a bright white. to me it was a blank canvas.