Platinums of National Express West Midlands
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Where the utilities hang on the outside in the alley as a series of afterthoughts to the original building.
Black smoke used to come out of the chimneys, then air intake pipes for the condensing boiler were installed in the chimneys... doesn't look great, but it saves heating costs and gas (which is actually becoming scarce now). Sure, then you can also put a G5 mast next to it... so what...
Pentax FA* 70-200 / f2.8
Walking back through the fields after a day in the woods looking ( unsuccessfully ) for fungi late evening November 2018. There is two farm buildings in this image ,the one in silhouette is Middle Intake Farm, I cant find the name of the one in the foreground with all the trees but both are in a state of ruin...
The entrance to the intake pipe is marked by the pole and floating white marker. Water is fed from this pipe via the penstock down to the power station in the Rakaia Valley.
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of one of my favourite candid portraits from Glasgow, captured in June 2019. I hope that you are all having a great weekend of photography - stay safe!
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished archive shot from August 2018. I hope that you like it. Stay safe in this crazy world my Flickr friends.
Technician Thomas Hardy had been ankles deep in his third tube of the day, his jump suit completely soaked through from being baked in this metal hell hole when the inevitable happened. A bead of sweat stung his eye and he dropped the cover plate that he had been trying to attach. He heard it fall, and fall, and fall, bouncing off the sides of the tube, through the many fans that hadn't been turned on yet and finally coming to rest some four stories below. Tech Tom pondered the piece of plastic for a moment, it was just decorative, something to cover up a minor relay and it's tiny wires. No one could see it, and the wires couldn't get wet in here...
The Bunker had been built 27 years ago to protect government officials, surgeons, people who had the means to line the right pockets, etc. from a nuclear attack. It was hoped that it would never be used of course, but it had been empty and maintained ever since. As a maintenance employee, Tech Tom had a golden ticket, he and his family were inside within minutes of the detection of warheads being launched. There were no sirens, nothing on television or radio, just a message on the selected fews' phones. No need to tell the general populace, they'd just clog the roads and then no one would live.
The long dining hall sat 1,000, or one third of the people inside so they were divided into groups of three and ate in shifts and it was time for group three.
It was surreal to hear laughter at a grim time like this, but laugh they did, Tech Tom figured they laughed for the same reason people have sex after a funeral, a reaffirmation of life, thankful to still be here instead of being among the millions dead and dying on the outside. Then Tom coughed, a little cough really, but then he noticed many quiet stifled coughs around him almost drowned out by the sounds of laughter and forks on plates. Tech Tom looked up at the shiny ventilation system...
Years ago a spider had made her home inside of Intake 22E7b, more specifically the open relay box, a nice quiet place to lay her eggs in their cocoon. This eventually caused a break in the two dollar circuit that was responsible for closing the vents on Intake 22E7b....
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A black capped chickadee takes a break from his daily intake of seeds before flying off to another feeder
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of an old shot from July 2015. I have been playing around with colour grading a bit in these re-edits and opted for a slightly matte look in the blacks on this shot.
I now have over 5000 photographs in my 'Glasgow' album on Flickr. Enjoy!