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It is seven fifty AM on a bright and sunny morning. Ten more minutes to go before Clyde will be done with his shift. He knocked off the last of the donuts. Panic attack! What if his relief man did not show up? It would not be the first time that he was tardy. One time he game in three hours late. What is rule # six on the Watchman List of duties? Do not leave your post until properly relieved. Screw overtime. Clyde paced the loading dock deck and inhaled Pell Mell and wished that he was in the sack. At seven fifty nine AM Lodi Elkins arrived and assumed the day watch. Clyde M. Brewer was relieved.

As seen in the Financial District, San Francisco.

Processed to black and white in Adobe RAW then sepia toned in PS

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Grand Rapids, Michigan

Nikkormat FT2

Nikkor-O 35mm f/2

Ultrafine Xtreme 400

Waterville, Maine

Camera: Diana Mini

Film: Fujifilm Superia X-tra 400 (stamped from Walmart)

Expired: Unknown, but was probably purchased around 2010-2011

Photo Date: Apr 7, 2019

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Parked boxcar at the loading dock at the Danbury Railway Museum.

Organic and man-made textures.

Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Back Into This To View It Large, and On Black!

Photo shoot in Vestal, New York. An old train depot which now serves as the Vestal Museum.

Nantes, France.

Loading dock area on the side of the building.

Harrison Montana is the sort of place I didn't think existed anymore. This small mill is served once a week as needed at the end of a branch once mothballed by previous owner BN. Three cars in, three cars out, only two switches and a small pocket track through the mill.

The local has pulled into the north end of the mill track and the conductor is conferring with a guy working to unload fertilizer from a hopper car. Even the Farmall he uses to move and power the unloader is straight out of the '50s. With the car not yet empty they decided to move it and the 3 outbound cars it's coupled to out to the stub past the south switch, the train would pull north and the conductor would do a gravity drop to place this car back on the mill track. The whole place would make an excellent table top model railroad.

July 29, 2013.

I saw this sign on my way out of the loading area, which was completely open.

A view that's soon to disappear, as the parking lot on 17th/18th Streets morphs into yet another Far West Side luxury apartment building.

UPDATE: eight years later, the XI, now rebranded as One High Line, is supposed to be completed in Winter 2024.

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Maybe it's the Dirty Ghetto Kids skateboard logo tagged on the loading dock of an empty warehouse?

On This Date: Photo taken 7/2/2012

Lake O's tiny little passenger depot used to live downtown, where it was dwarfed by the neighboring grain silos when I first saw it in the early 1980s. For most of the depot's career it was on the Pere Marquette and C&O mainline through Michigan. In 1988 the community moved the building north to the edge of the local fairground, where it now serves as a historical museum.

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A new camera note: On 7/2/2009 I purchased a Fujifilm Finepix F200 to replace my Finepix F10, which had failed. It seemed like a logical replacement, but I soon came to dislike the F200. The colors were different and the menu system was intricate enough to be confusing.

I only took a few hundred photographs with the camera, the first of which was of the planters on our porch. When the sensor developed a dead spot I replaced the camera rather than getting a warranty repair.

Number of pix taken on various July 2nds: 248

Year of oldest photo: 1988

How I Rated the Date's Photographs:

. 1 Star: 1

. 2 Stars: 21

. 3 Stars: 158

. 4 Stars: 51

. 5 Stars: 14

ab-800 w/shoot through umbrella up high and CR, cybersyncs

The Nest

Thompson Hotel

110 Stewart St

Seattle, WA 98101

206.623.4600

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ODC-At The Back

We took a trip To Nichols, NY today and Stu picked up his brand new Double Bass. It was quite a trip, it rained all the way there and back!

Bricks, Brews & Crews GRAFFITI ART Murals Project at The Loading Dock at 2 North Kresson Street in Baltimore MD on Friday afternoon, 16 August 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography

Bricks, Crews & Brews September 2018 event page at www.facebook.com/events/1676696389125389/

Learn about the September 2018 Monument City Brewing Company Graffiti Art Murals Project at loadingdock.org/INVENTORY_pages/partnerships/index.htm

Follow THE LOADING DOCK at www.facebook.com/theloadingdockinc

Elvert Barnes PUBLIC ART 2019 at elvertbarnes.com/PublicArt2019.html

Elvert Barnes BMORE 2019 at elvertbarnes.com/Bmore2019.html

Gantry crane at the Gantry Plaza State Park on the East River in the Hunter's Point section of Long Island City, Queens, New York. In the background the inevitable Empire State Building.

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Old loading dock building prior to demolition.

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Bricks, Brews & Crews GRAFFITI ART Murals Project at The Loading Dock at 2 North Kresson Street in Baltimore MD on Friday afternoon, 16 August 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography

Bricks, Crews & Brews September 2018 event page at www.facebook.com/events/1676696389125389/

Learn about the September 2018 Monument City Brewing Company Graffiti Art Murals Project at loadingdock.org/INVENTORY_pages/partnerships/index.htm

Follow THE LOADING DOCK at www.facebook.com/theloadingdockinc

Elvert Barnes PUBLIC ART 2019 at elvertbarnes.com/PublicArt2019.html

Elvert Barnes BMORE 2019 at elvertbarnes.com/Bmore2019.html

Warehouse

Queen St. East, Toronto.

This warehouse has 117 loading docks, all of which were empty on this Sunday. At the time of photography the building was new. Photographed as I sat on my recumbent trike shortly after beginning a ride on the Sumner Link Trail.

Philadelphia Navy Yard