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The Winterslag coalmine near the Belgian city of Genk is the oldest mine in the province of Limburg, which started production in 1917.
This mine had a very bad reputation for safety at the start of production and as a result many fatal accidents have occurred.
When the mine closed in 1988, 66.593.000 tons of coal had been mined at depths up to 850 meters.
Every day 6.250 miners were rushed down and up through this shaft towers, as well as the mined coal with a speed from 12 meters per second.
The elevator cars and arm-thick steel cables have been removed and the shaft mouth is closed with a thick concrete plug.
The shaft building and its tower will be included in its entirety in the "C- mine" cultural centre in the city of Genk.
There were a lot of storms around last night at sunset and the sky was very angry looking with lightning strikes in the local area.
Too tired after the block of shifts from hell but decided to get back on the pushbike for the first time since lockdown easing and ride down to the National Waterways Museum for sunrise this morning.
Called in at the National Waterways Museum to have my Maccies breakfast. Hadn't planned on taking any images but after a much cooler night I thought there might have been a chance of some mist so had the camera with me.
No mist but it was around sunrise and the ship canal was like a mill pond so fired off a few with this being the pick of them
Stahl-/Sauerstoff-Konverter nach dem OBM-Verfahren (Sauerstoffbodeneinblasung), verwendet von 1974 bis 1992
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Steel / Oxygen converter according to the OBM method (oxygen floor injection), used from 1974 to 1992
The best of the recent cloudless still mornings with just a hint of mist on the ship canal.
On autopilot. So much so that this is completely unedited apart from removing the dust spots.
Seems apt....
Stahl-/Sauerstoff-Konverter nach dem OBM-Verfahren (Sauerstoffbodeneinblasung), verwendet von 1974 bis 1992
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Steel / Oxygen converter according to the OBM method (oxygen floor injection), used from 1974 to 1992
Streetview - Old building and ThyssenKrupp steelworks in Duisburg-Bruckhausen (Germany). Blast furnaces no. 8 and no. 9 in the background.
Stahl-/Sauerstoff-Konverter nach dem OBM-Verfahren (Sauerstoffbodeneinblasung), verwendet von 1974 bis 1992 ---- Steel / Oxygen converter according to the OBM method (oxygen floor injection), used from 1974 to 1992
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Heavy industry makes great and memorable images. Especially in black and white. And no one did that better than the great British photographer Bill Brandt (1904-1983). theimageflow.com/event/masters-of-photography-lecture-ser...
Although I took this photograph in colour, I had no other plan but to process it as a black and white. No other medium can quite capture the stark detail and grandeur of such a structure.
Long exposure of Stanlow/Innospec taken a few minutes earlier than the image I posted a couple of days ago. Again very little done to it other than removing the seagulls and dust spots.
Very little needs to be said today. The short titles tell the story in both photographs. In order to achieve the effect this photograph has been desaturated and layered with a sepia tone. It is not meant to be pretty.
The afternoon I took these shots was the worst kind of light. I could easily have played around in processing and brightened them up a bit (and got better view numbers as a result), but you know I hate that. Our world is fake enough without adding to the fakery. Give me reality, warts and all. And anyway, it's alright to feel blue from time to time. There is nothing more frightening than happiness cults.
Don't worry, be happy. Bah humbug! So this industrial landscape shows the world at Bell Bay, Tasmania as it really was that dull grey afternoon.
Detail eines Stahl-/Sauerstoff-Konverters nach dem OBM-Verfahren (Sauerstoffbodeneinblasung), verwendet von 1974 bis 1992
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Detail of a steel / oxygen converter according to the OBM method (oxygen floor injection), used from 1974 to 1992
Mess- und Regeltechniken waren immer schon von hoher Bedeutung in der Schwerindustrie. Hier zu sehen sind alte Thermo- und Manometer in der Gebläsehalle der Henrichshütte Hattingen, heute ein Museum.
(Carl Zeiss Sonnar 3.5 100mm)
Techniques of measurement had always been very important in the heavy industry. Here you can see old thermometers and manometers in the blower hall of the blast furnace plant Henrichshütte Hattingen, Germany.
Over the next week I want to take a look at an example of heavy industry. The focus will be on TEMCO, Bell Bay, seen through a range of different artistic approaches. The afternoon on which these photographs were taken was suitably dull. For this photo in particular accurate reproduction of the light and colour was important - as in any social realism.
The Tasmanian Electro Metallurgical Company (TEMCO) is Australia's only manganese alloy smelter and supplies two types of this critical steel additive to more than fifty companies around the globe. BHP Pty Ltd built the TEMCO plant in the early 1960s, at Bell Bay, near George Town. When the plant was opened on 11 May 1962, TEMCO formed a major part of the state's industrial sector – and remains so today. TEMCO's employment figures peaked at 475 in the early 1980s. The company's four electric-arc furnaces produce more than 250,000 tonnes of manganese alloys annually, eighty percent of which is exported. BHP sold the plant to Billiton PLC subsidiary, Samancor Pty Ltd, in 1998, but re-established its association with TEMCO a few years later in a merger which created BHP Billiton Pty Ltd.
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Röstöfen (Apold-Fleissner Verfahren) , errichtet 1942-1944, verwendet von 1944 bis 1968 --- Roaster boilers (Apold-Fleissner method), built from 1942-1944, used from 1944-1968
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the sad demise of one of Europe's most important industrial sites of coal mines and iron / steel works since the mid 19th century until the early 90s.
Since gaining heritage status a few buildings have been repurposed as music and events venues and a museum of heavy industry.
The photographs today pick up on two themes that are obvious when people see this manganese smelter at work. Heavy industry is dirty work, but someone's got to do it. Anyone who has seen Bill Brandt's magnificent black and white images from the industrial heart of England in the mid 20th century knows it's not pretty. But it is real.
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"“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me."
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886).
If there's one poet I love more than William Blake, it's Emily Dickinson. In many ways the Sage from Amherst was just as difficult to understand as Blake (whom she had read thoroughly of course). But Dickinson is beguiling for the way she dressed her complexity in simple words.
Here in this dull industrial landscape a lone swallow flies. We are kin to each other that bird and I. Here I was taking some photographs that capture a moment, and that feathered creature was darting around simply enjoying the thrill of the moment. Somewhere, as Emily Dickinson said, there is "Hope".
This is one of two images to be exhibited in Rome, January 8-18th at Millepiani Space.
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Röstöfen (Apold-Fleissner Verfahren) , errichtet 1942-1944, verwendet von 1944 bis 1968 --- Roaster boilers (Apold-Fleissner method), built from 1942-1944, used from 1944-1968
La decaperie was industrial plant where metal was pickled. It closed about ten years ago, as did the steel mill and rolling mill of the same industrial group, located nearby.
At 0709 hrs, the belly of the beast at Atlas Steel erupts in a fiery glow - a stark contrast to the cool blue atmosphere of surrounding Welland, Ontario.
Photograph taken with permission from Atlas Steel and the Trillium Railway.
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