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The Navy Yard, formerly known as the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard was an important naval shipyard of the US for almost two centuries. It is now a large industrial park.
It began in 1776 at the Front and Federal Street intersection (in what is now the Pennsport) and was the first naval shipyard in the US. The newer (larger) yard grew as facilities began expanding in 1871 on League Island at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers.
With the end of the Soviet Union, the US Navy ended most of its activities there in the 1990s. Subsequently, in 2000, the Philadelphia city gov't took over and began to redevelop the land. The Navy still has a Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility and a few engineering activities at the site.
The shipyard's greatest period came in World War II, when the yard employed 40,000 people who built 53 ships and repaired 574 more. During this period, the yard built the famed battleship New Jersey and its 45,000-ton sister ship, Wisconsin. In the Naval Laboratory, Philip Abelson developed the liquid thermal diffusion technique for separating U-235 for the Manhattan Project.
Bays 5 and 6 of the former Electro-Voice manufacturing facility in Buchanan, Michigan. Established in 1946, the site has been vacant since 2000.
The buffer stop is still in place where the railroad siding ends at Kellers Feed Mill in Newport, Kentucky. The huge mill with its wood and steel siding is very out of place. A reminder of the era when train tracks wove throughout the business district. This building would qualify as a museum setting.
Not sure what types of business this old commercial building has been home to over the years. It still sports several ghost signs from its past. Can't say what it's used for today, either. It certainly ain't the Alamo. :-)
One single long exposure. No photoedition : straight out of the camera except for contrast/crop.
Model: Antoine Doneux
Lights: me
Trigger: Anne Sanka
Light painting session with Antoine Doneux, Bernard Seron, Hughes Pagacz, Anne Sanka, Gregory Lamouline
Nikon FM2n
Nikkor 28mm f/2.8 Ais
Kentmere 400
Dev: Legacy Pro L110 1:31 for 5.5 min at 68 degrees
I've always been fascinated by this sign.
Aiea, Oahu, Hawai'i
Walking around the loading docks at Pearl Ridge Shopping Center.
Captured @ f/0.95 (incorrect EXIF data)
View of the Wonder Bread Bakery loading dock at the end of the alley running behind what will soon no longer be my house...