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This unedited shot sat around since the 2013 flood and I grabbed it for a quick edit and my serious cleanup. I recently posted the belated Elevated rails snap but that was located south of this golf course shot where the irrigation ditch across the grass was never closed and rolled across here and then some housing (behind me) and finally the Golden Ponds rails. This golf course was well flushed clean and watered. This too will be in my edited backups soon as I clean up my new computer for Windows 10. Cleanup everywhere! Windows, Flotsam, weeds sticks and signs. The flood water must have been over a foot here.
This was in the fall of the year and Longmont is finally finishing the final damage cleanup now. We may finish sometime in the 2020 decade. With insurance, it COULD have been long done... well except for continual insurance payments and except for the standard insurance company rudeness tax that would fall short of repaying the damages (part of their enormous destiny cut). We all had to pay for it (and our normal city work crew salaries) - we are self insured as is Boulder County. But then not a dime went to Wall Street insurance companies and only OUR laborers were paid, though as slow as it was. Lizard tears and Kleenex for Wall Street, here! Let's pray Bernie sends the 80,000 health insurance plua pharmaceutical jobs following in the trail of the buggy whip industry.
I'm still spending my "Frozen" winter time converting to Windows 10, Billy's most recent and ugliest OS, perhaps as a boost to linux, ever foisted upon the community I bet Billy has a 24/7 bodyguard as do the retiring GOP legislators as Trump delegates action to his terrorist crew. Gates was trying to prove that Jane was not even close to plain and proved it with Widows 10. I lodged another blow today. God, did they ditch logics and much of what worked well in Windows 7.
I know, I know I have skidded into Flickr doldrums, and edited on my old laptop, but I hit all sorts of Windows 10 barriers to progress, two of which I enumerated in earlier comments. I manage to choke out one or two pictures but it should pick up when my new Win 10 machine is loaded.
Fishing net floats tens to wash up on the beach
RealitySoSubtle 6x12 with Ilford Delta 100
Developed in Eco Pro 1+1
Taken from an early 1980's publicity slide, a Birmingham Co-op milk float in an unidentified street (presumably also in the Birmingham area).
5/52
Was super busy this weekend shooting concerts on Friday and Saturday so this was what I was able to come up with my minimal free time. A fairly simple photo for this week, but I am happy about it because of the new style. I have never done a "floating" photo before so I am pretty happy with the result. I have many plans for adapting this style once I have a little bit more time on my hands.
I have always loved floating photos and the many different meanings that can come from it, though. Recently in my life I have felt to be in a sort of a daze, and this photo to me kind of reflects that feeling. Just kind of waiting for something to happen.
The Mount Elliott Mining Complex is an aggregation of the remnants of copper mining and smelting operations from the early 20th century and the associated former mining township of Selwyn. The earliest copper mining at Mount Elliott was in 1906 with smelting operations commencing shortly after. Significant upgrades to the mining and smelting operations occurred under the management of W.R. Corbould during 1909 - 1910. Following these upgrades and increases in production, the Selwyn Township grew quickly and had 1500 residents by 1918. The Mount Elliott Company took over other companies on the Cloncurry field in the 1920s, including the Mount Cuthbert and Kuridala smelters. Mount Elliott operations were taken over by Mount Isa Mines in 1943 to ensure the supply of copper during World War Two. The Mount Elliott Company was eventually liquidated in 1953.
The Mount Elliott Smelter:
The existence of copper in the Leichhardt River area of north western Queensland had been known since Ernest Henry discovered the Great Australia Mine in 1867 at Cloncurry. In 1899 James Elliott discovered copper on the conical hill that became Mount Elliott, but having no capital to develop the mine, he sold an interest to James Morphett, a pastoralist of Fort Constantine station near Cloncurry. Morphett, being drought stricken, in turn sold out to John Moffat of Irvinebank, the most successful mining promoter in Queensland at the time.
Plentiful capital and cheap transport were prerequisites for developing the Cloncurry field, which had stagnated for forty years. Without capital it was impossible to explore and prove ore-bodies; without proof of large reserves of wealth it was futile to build a railway; and without a railway it was hazardous to invest capital in finding large reserves of ore. The mining investor or the railway builder had to break the impasse.
In 1906 - 1907 copper averaged £87 a ton on the London market, the highest price for thirty years, and the Cloncurry field grew. The railway was extended west of Richmond in 1905 - 1906 by the Government and mines were floated on the Melbourne Stock Exchange. At Mount Elliott a prospecting shaft had been sunk and on the 1st of August 1906 a Cornish boiler and winding plant were installed on the site.
Mount Elliott Limited was floated in Melbourne on the 13th of July 1906. In 1907 it was taken over by British and French interests and restructured. Combining with its competitor, Hampden Cloncurry Copper Mines Limited, Mount Elliott formed a special company to finance and construct the railway from Cloncurry to Malbon, Kuridala (then Friezeland) and Mount Elliott (later Selwyn). This new company then entered into an agreement with the Queensland Railways Department in July 1908.
The railway, which was known as the 'Syndicate Railway', aroused opposition in 1908 from the trade unions and Labor movement generally, who contended that railways should be State-owned. However, the Hampden-Mount Elliott Railway Bill was passed by the Queensland Parliament and assented to on the 21st of April 1908; construction finished in December 1910. The railway terminated at the Mount Elliott smelter.
By 1907 the main underlie shaft had been sunk and construction of the smelters was underway using a second-hand water-jacket blast furnace and converters. At this time, W.H. Corbould was appointed general manager of Mount Elliott Limited.
The second-hand blast furnace and converters were commissioned or 'blown in' in May 1909, but were problematic causing hold-ups. Corbould referred to the equipment in use as being the 'worst collection of worn-out junk he had ever come across'. Corbould soon convinced his directors to scrap the plant and let him design new works.
Corbould was a metallurgist and geologist as well as mine/smelter manager. He foresaw a need to obtain control and thereby ensure a reliable supply of ore from a cross-section of mines in the region. He also saw a need to implement an effective strategy to manage the economies of smelting low-grade ore. Smelting operations in the region were made difficult by the technical and economic problems posed by the deterioration in the grade of ore. Corbould resolved the issue by a process of blending ores with different chemical properties, increasing the throughput capacity of the smelter and by championing the unification of smelting operations in the region. In 1912, Corbould acquired Hampden Consols Mine at Kuridala for Mount Elliott Limited, followed with the purchases of other small mines in the district.
Walkers Limited of Maryborough was commissioned to manufacture a new 200 ton water jacket furnace for the smelters. An air compressor and blower for the smelters were constructed in the powerhouse and an electric motor and dynamo provided power for the crane and lighting for the smelter and mine.
The new smelter was blown in September 1910, a month after the first train arrived, and it ran well, producing 2040 tons of blister copper by the end of the year. The new smelting plant made it possible to cope with low-grade sulphide ores at Mount Elliott. The use of 1000 tons of low-grade sulphide ores bought from the Hampden Consols Mine in 1911 made it clear that if a supply of higher sulphur ore could be obtained and blended, performance, and economy would improve. Accordingly, the company bought a number of smaller mines in the district in 1912.
Corbould mined with cut and fill stoping but a young Mines Inspector condemned the system, ordered it dismantled and replaced with square set timbering. In 1911, after gradual movement in stopes on the No. 3 level, the smelter was closed for two months. Nevertheless, 5447 tons of blister copper was produced in 1911, rising to 6690 tons in 1912 - the company's best year. Many of the surviving structures at the site were built at this time.
Troubles for Mount Elliott started in 1913. In February, a fire at the Consols Mine closed it for months. In June, a thirteen week strike closed the whole operation, severely depleting the workforce. The year 1913 was also bad for industrial accidents in the area, possibly due to inexperienced people replacing the strikers. Nevertheless, the company paid generous dividends that year.
At the end of 1914 smelting ceased for more than a year due to shortage of ore. Although 3200 tons of blister copper was produced in 1913, production fell to 1840 tons in 1914 and the workforce dwindled to only 40 men. For the second half of 1915 and early 1916 the smelter treated ore railed south from Mount Cuthbert. At the end of July 1916 the smelting plant at Selwyn was dismantled except for the flue chambers and stacks. A new furnace with a capacity of 500 tons per day was built, a large amount of second-hand equipment was obtained and the converters were increased in size.
After the enlarged furnace was commissioned in June 1917, continuing industrial unrest retarded production which amounted to only 1000 tons of copper that year. The point of contention was the efficiency of the new smelter which processed twice as much ore while employing fewer men. The company decided to close down the smelter in October and reduce the size of the furnace, the largest in Australia, from 6.5m to 5.5m. In the meantime the price of copper had almost doubled from 1916 due to wartime consumption of munitions.
The new furnace commenced on the 16th of January 1918 and 77,482 tons of ore were smelted yielding 3580 tons of blister copper which were sent to the Bowen refinery before export to Britain. Local coal and coke supply was a problem and materials were being sourced from the distant Bowen Colliery. The smelter had a good run for almost a year except for a strike in July and another in December, which caused Corbould to close down the plant until New Year. In 1919, following relaxation of wartime controls by the British Metal Corporation, the copper price plunged from about £110 per ton at the start of the year to £75 per ton in April, dashing the company's optimism regarding treatment of low grade ores. The smelter finally closed after two months operation and most employees were laid off.
For much of the period 1919 to 1922, Corbould was in England trying to raise capital to reorganise the company's operations but he failed and resigned from the company in 1922. The Mount Elliott Company took over the assets of the other companies on the Cloncurry field in the 1920s - Mount Cuthbert in 1925 and Kuridala in 1926. Mount Isa Mines bought the Mount Elliott plant and machinery, including the three smelters, in 1943 for £2,300, enabling them to start copper production in the middle of the Second World War. The Mount Elliott Company was finally liquidated in 1953.
In 1950 A.E. Powell took up the Mount Elliott Reward Claim at Selwyn and worked close to the old smelter buildings. An open cut mine commenced at Starra, south of Mount Elliott and Selwyn, in 1988 and is Australia's third largest copper producer producing copper-gold concentrates from flotation and gold bullion from carbon-in-leach processing.
Profitable copper-gold ore bodies were recently proved at depth beneath the Mount Elliott smelter and old underground workings by Cyprus Gold Australia Pty Ltd. These deposits were subsequently acquired by Arimco Mining Pty Ltd for underground development which commenced in July 1993. A decline tunnel portal, ore and overburden dumps now occupy a large area of the Maggie Creek valley south-west of the smelter which was formerly the site of early miner's camps.
The Old Selwyn Township:
In 1907, the first hotel, run by H. Williams, was opened at the site. The township was surveyed later, around 1910, by the Mines Department. The town was to be situated north of the mine and smelter operations adjacent the railway, about 1.5km distant. It took its name from the nearby Selwyn Ranges which were named, during Burke's expedition, after the Victorian Government Geologist, A.R. Selwyn. The town has also been known by the name of Mount Elliott, after the nearby mines and smelter.
Many of the residents either worked at the Mount Elliott Mine and Smelter or worked in the service industries which grew around the mining and smelting operations. Little documentation exists about the everyday life of the town's residents. Surrounding sheep and cattle stations, however, meant that meat was available cheaply and vegetables grown in the area were delivered to the township by horse and cart. Imported commodities were, however, expensive.
By 1910 the town had four hotels. There was also an aerated water manufacturer, three stores, four fruiterers, a butcher, baker, saddler, garage, police, hospital, banks, post office (officially from 1906 to 1928, then unofficially until 1975) and a railway station. There was even an orchestra of ten players in 1912. The population of Selwyn rose from 1000 in 1911 to 1500 in 1918, before gradually declining.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
Frozen float featuring Elsa in the Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away parade at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida on Sunday, July 20, 2025. This float would be better photographed from the front. Elsa's moves have her looking either straight ahead or back to the screen behind her. This may change over time as Disney gets guest feedback of the parade. The screens go all around and show various scenes and characters from both Frozen movies.
This week I am sharing photos from the new Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away parade in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. This was the first official night of the parade and I was not going to wait for hours in the heat (106+ degrees F heat index) for the perfect spot. Instead, I settled for a back row view. It allowed me to work on my exposures and included my fellow guests which helps give a sense of scale to the floats.
Do you have photos of Walt Disney World? I invite you to post them to the Focus on Disney World flickr Group which I help to moderate.
On Facebook there was a small competition to build something related to Carnaval. While I'm from a part of the Netherlands where we don't celebrate Carnaval, I did find it a fun challenge. The only restriction was 16x16 studs.
I just read TinTin: Destination Moon and thought it would be cool to design a small rocket.
I hope you like it and please feel free to leave a comment.
The end of an overcast day. The 3rd plane had just come in. Float planes fly in and out of here every few minutes. It gets really busy, almost like YVR. This is the best way to get to the Sunshine Coast and points north.
A shop selling floral floats at Har Ki Pauri Haridwar - India. They are of different size. The biggest ones cost around US$1. The camphor / clarified butter earthen lamps placed on top of them are lit & the whole bokeh is floated in river Ganges (Ganga) as a offering for evening prayer by the pilgrims (The same can be seen in my previous post)... The best part of this is the whole bokeh is completely biodegradable and hence don't pollute the river...
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Floats carved by Garifuna fishermen traditionally netting green sea turtles - a practice no longer in tune with today's view to nature
i love posting bokeh, everyday BUT bokeh wednesday XD
ahahaa. i don't really mean to, it just happens like that :)
these weeks have been blowing by really fast.
i don't know why. it seems like everyday is thursday. i like
thursdays, just so i can say "HO BOII TOMORROW IS FRIDAY :D"
and i like fridays.
i haven't really been putting in those fact things lately.
so here you go :D
51. i very rarely care when people die in movies, but when animals die, i freak out.
52. i can never fall asleep in my own bed, but i fall asleep instantly in anybody else's.
53. i laugh at most scary movies.
54. i always feel like my hair is much too long.
55. technically, i have walked across an entire country :D
i have been listening to "secondary" by brand new over and over and over lately.