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Message on a fence on Walthamstow Marshes. The area behind the fence is currently populated by four cows, brought in to maintain the ecosystem in a favourable state for some rare plant species.
9/2019 - Lead, SD
Home to an apparently now-closed gold mine, Lead, SD embraces its heritage with several pieces of Homestake Mining Company equipment on display. Operator's seat on loco 35.
I took myself on a bit of an expedition last week up to the Cwm Rheidol lead mine ruins. It was a bit of a last minute decision so my Light painting kit was limited - I'm going back at some point with some more toys (and a better safety plan!!!*)
f3.5
iso 100
10mm
80 second exposure
Led orb tool, LED Lenser and flash gels
*Compulsory warning: In no way do I advocate or recommend going anywhere near old ruins or mines. These places are dangerous.
This primered little early-fifties hot rod is the first in a possible series of lead sleds.
Minigarage is back son.
Laxey, on the Isle of Mann, was a quiet hamlet of just a few cottages in the mid 1700s. The main industries then were the bleaching of linen, and perhaps a little smuggling.
Lead was first mined here 1790, but it was not until the 1840s that mining gathered pace with the formation of the Great Laxey Mining Company. A Massive industry grew up in this valley, and at one time more zinc was produced here than from all other mines in Britain put together. Mining reached its peak in the 1800s, with almost ever home in Laxey touched by it in some way. Prosperity - or ruin - followed the successes or disasters in the mines.
Traders supplied the miners and their families with goods, and men came from considerable distances to seek employment here. The Washing Floors worked night and day to crush and sort the ore, employing women and boys. The harbour was developed to allow ships to dock and load up with ore.
At tourist industry even grew up around the mining complex, with summer visitors eager to climb the Great Laxey Wheel.
This first tunnel ('level') was driven into the hillside from about 1790. It is part of the oldest workings in the mine and is known as the Old Adit Level - an adit is a level with one end open to the daylight.
Lead book for magical and religious use. The Basilidians were a gnostic sect originating in the 2nd Century A.D. in Alexandria, Egypt, one of the cultural centers of the Mediterranean.
Abandoned ore crushing wheel on the site of the old Odin Lead Mine. Zero Image 6x9 pinhole camera, Kodak Ektar 100, 3 seconds at f235. Developed in Bellini C41 chemicals and scanned on Epson V600.
Synthetic Fluorescent Mineral: Salt w/ Lead Nitrate and Manganese - UV
This 2.5" wide melt consists of sodium chloride (halite) activated with a small amount of lead nitrate (in center). Then 2mL of a sat. aqueous solution of manganese sulfate was added at the center which dissolved the salt producing cracks. The salt was then allowed to recrystallize.
Contains:
Halite (FL Yellow,White /Green,White /Orange,Blue,White >LW/MW/SW)
Shown under UVabc light.
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A pellet just hitting a little button of lead. You can see the skirt of the pellet just diving in. Afterwords, the pellet is all smashed into a little cavity.
The button is made from a bunch of smushed up pellets from my trap.
Recycle.
Did a short bike ride today, up towards Santa Barbara. Watched a small pod of dolphins swimming south. Don't remember ever seeing dolphins in the wild before. I was envious of the surfers as they were very close.
This is Bunny (aka Bungee) our Maltese Puppy.... and the wife ... I cannot take credit for the idea behind this image but I loved the original so much I thought I would give it a go and try to take a similar shot, I must credit the original I spotted on 500px taken by photographer Dave Brownlee. see here 500px.com/photo/446975.
more of Daves work here www.davebrownlee.com/
Lead Foot - Cobbler's shoe form (sorry...it's actually cast iron not lead), machined stainless steel wheels, RC engine, conduit fitting, propane torch tip, carburetor float, lamp switch, jig clamps and typewriter parts. one foot long (of course!), 7" wide, 4" tall.
I said there was going to be a second one. The first was '49 Fordish, while this one is '49 Mercuryish. What do you think?
I love this Eden, she's so sweet and pretty!!
Eden is wearing the Touch of Frost Eugenia's dress, Splendid Jordan necklace, Haute Societe Vero's shoes and her sister's purse. :)