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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.
With another big storm moving in, the hydrant and the pug should be completely covered by Tuesday. ;)
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!
A red fire hydrant (standpost) against a sunlit grassy slope in Singapore.
The late afternoon golden hour sun catches the painted texture of the cast iron, highlighting the stenciled numbers and the heavy security chains against the green grass.
Processed using RawTherapee and GIMP 3.2.4
Apparently, fire hydrants need exercise too. This one immediately ran rust when opened. Jamestown can never be too careful with recent fire having a fire nearly reach the town from the north. I think a major clean up around town would be a plan too. I have already taken several shots of old Jamestown, Colorado, a century -old mining camp in the Boulder County Rockies. This is south above James Creek. Let's hope it doesn't tip over and get you a dunking. I have been busy traveling to new photo venues like Buttonrock Dam and Jamestown, Boulder County walking different paths and carrying the big camera and saw this pastoral view. I was in no particular hurry and I noticed this below the regular path to the tennis courts. This was in the "Elysian Park" at Jamestown, Colorado. James Creek has a big spot in my heart. Probably for my fly fishing "up the creek and for the evenings I have spent at the Merc." I think that because the flat spot to the right is mill tailings, I would put trout back, below here on the river. I will probably sit for a time when I get to the bench. I can honestly say that the Colorado Lottery has done SOME good work although voters had to bring lawmakers back to the true lottery path for parks and rec. once before. It at least got the bench painted orange. I'll bet the Wall Street money analysts would love to get their hands on that fund but have ever paused here, even the Wall Street 1%ers who ought to be in prison. The path lead me to this venue on a day when t-storms were slowly building. This spot is just down stream from the town "center" and is generally has much water as it ever has. Jamestown was an early mountain town started just after the gold rush. I wanted to look for possible scenes I have yet to discover. I opted for this scene under the building overcast. I hoped the sky would present possibilities later. I knew I'd have some work to try to contain the range so I extracted three layers. I wandered up the creek and took some detail shots that were available,
I wonder when I will run out of opportunities at the Golden Ponds so I am widening my scope. I did go back today. I will keep looking from time to time although I have more destinations in mind. I got stuck cleaning up an Eddie-mess this weekend. Well, because I knew how!
They set up this plumbing system that went over the sidewalk and then a block down the street to a fire. All professional-like.
This fire hydrant was the location of a straddle hold. This gymnast is a star in and out of the gymnastics arena.
Since 1857, the Mueller name has been known for innovative water distribution products of superior quality. We are North America’s largest and only full-line supplier of potable water distribution products. Our products are used throughout the water system from source to customer.
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.
Freshly painted and restored.
This model of fire hydrants, the so called "Bergen hydrant" was designed by Ralph L. Wilson, one of the first directors of the water department in Bergen, and have been used for over a hundred years, and is still the primary type of overground hydrant in use in Bergen.
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He was also an avid photographer, with a lot of his pictures publically available online by the University of Bergen.
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"
This hydrant, close to the former Stuart Crystal factory at Wordsley, was made by Stanton at a factory near Ilkeston in Derbyshire. In 1985 the firm was taken over by Saint Gobain, an industrial group based in Paris, which has been in operation, in one form or another, since 1665.