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Went to Grand Rapids today to pick up a G9 as my always with me camera and went downtown to shoot for a while with Dad. Lots of nice targets downtown but this hydrant really stood out against that blue wall. The wall is very small blue tile (maybe 3/4' square) that varied in color which give it that textured look in the background. Not sure how you pass up yellow and blue....
Note, I shot the g9 today in the same situation as my D300 with a 50mm 1.4 and I got to say that thing is amazing for a P&S.... Really high quality RAW files coming out and the color is really good. More to come but seems like it might be a great solution when you dont want to drag the kitchen sink.... 59... pretty good...
Fire Hydrant, New Westminster, BC
This was during the "Vancouver 4/3 photowalk".
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Dumfries, April 2018. Halina Micro 110 with expired ('04) Konica Centuria 200. Processed and scanned by Digital Photo Express Carlisle.
The top of an antique fire hydrant. The text says: "B. HOLLY'S PATENT SEPT 14 1869. HOLLY MF'G CO. LOCKPORT. N.Y." At first I thought this was the date it was made, but maybe it's the date of the patent?
There was this convention of Fire Hydrants on Lake Valley Road. Once they saw me take this picture they all dispersed.
A fire hydrant (also known colloquially as a fire plug in the United States or as a johnny pump in New York City, because the firemen of the late 19th century were called Johnnies), is an active fire protection measure, and a source of water provided in most urban, suburban and rural areas with municipal water service to enable firefighters to tap into the municipal water supply to assist in extinguishing a fire. Buildings near a hydrant may qualify for an insurance discount since firefighters should be able to more rapidly extinguish a fire on the insured property
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The concept of fire plugs dates to at least the 17th century. This was a time when firefighters responding to a call would dig down to the wooden water mains and hastily bore a hole to secure water to fight fires. The water would fill the hole creating a temporary well, and be transported from the well to the fire by bucket brigades or, later, by hand-pumped fire engines. The holes were then plugged with stoppers, normally redwood, which over time came to be known as fire plugs. The location of the plug would often be recorded or marked so that it could be reused in future fires. This is the source of the colloquial term fire plug still used for fire hydrants today. After the Great Fire of London in 1666, the city installed water mains with holes drilled at intervals, equipped with risers, allowing an access point to the wooden fire plugs from street level.
The invention of a post- or pillar-type fire hydrant is generally credited to Frederick Graff Sr., Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Water Works around the year 1801. It had a combination hose/faucet outlet and was of "wet barrel" design with the valve in the top. It is said that Graff held the first patent for a fire hydrant, but this cannot be verified because the patent office in Washington D.C. caught on fire in 1836 destroying many patent records from that period in the process.
In the United States, the AWWA and NFPA recommend hydrants be colored chrome yellow for rapid identification apart from the bonnet and nozzle caps which should be coded according to their available flow.
07/08/2012 Residents at Bay Ridge opening a hydrant to cool off. Kodak Ektar 100. Konica Autoreflex T3. Konica Hexanon 50mm 1:1.4.
General Amherst High School, art students, painting fire hydrants in the towns core. Decorations to celebrate Canada's 150th year.
Out of the Archives: A welder making repairs to a damaged hydrant. According to an annual report from 1928, hydrants broken by automobiles were a major concern because there was no effective way to prevent them. In that year alone there were 669 hydrants broken by automobiles. The average cost of repairing one was about $60.00, which today is equivalent to about $450.00. (Image ID: RS7541_155_2)
The fire hydrants in our town are all getting fresh paint. They used to be dull red, now they are this cheerful yellow and blue.
Our Daily Challenge: DRESS IT UP (I'm not sure if this is what was meant by the challenge, but I think this is dressing up an object that is generally far less attractive.)
365 Days in Colour: March: "yellow"