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Ballarat International Foto Biennale, 2023.
Architect: CD Figgis 1887. The Mining Exchange was built between 1887-89 as a location for trading shares in mining companies during the Gold Rush Era. It is unique for the arched rooms on the side which housed the various traders, the matching arched highlights over and the light bow string steel trusses which support the curved roof. The building underwent a major refurbishment in 2004 and forms part of a remarkable gold rush streetscape in Lydiard Street Ballarat.
Here is my 3 page article about Exact Mining Services which was published in the February 2010 Edition of Power Torque Magazine.
Huge thanks to Chris & Maree Mullett.
Taken last Spring on a walk along the Great Flatload Trail in Cornwall. So many remains of mining activity are to be found and explored along the trail, a few are here...
HWW!
It's another rainy, cloudy, winter day in the mountains as Norfolk Southern train T32 prepares to make its way through the mud and depart Middlesboro Mining.
Just playing around with a photo taken at the Clark County Museum in Henderson, NV. Definitely worth the visit if your in Las Vegas. This is of an old Mining shed outside.
Clifton, Arizona, USA. Once a booming copper mining town but now mostly declining or already in decay and the majority of people and business have moved just up the road to Morenci. The Freeport McMoRan copper mine located in Morenci is one of the largest in the world
Cliff dwellings along the San Francisco and Gila Rivers are evidence of an advanced civilization that existed long before Caesar ruled Rome. Many specimens of pottery and stone implements are still to be found in these ancient dwelling places. In the mid-1500s, both Fray Marcos de Niza and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado passed through the area, following the San Pedro north to the Gila River. Geronimo was born in 1829 near the confluence of Eagle Creek and the San Francisco and Gila Rivers.
In 1856 the first mineral discoveries of the Morenci/Clifton area were found by California volunteers pursuing Apaches, and conflicts between the Apaches and advancing Anglo settlers touched off a 26-year-long war. Mining for gold and silver began in 1864, followed by copper in 1872, and the mine at Morenci quickly grew to become the largest copper producer in North America. Clifton's population ballooned from 600 in 1880 to 5000 by 1910, and it quickly earned its reputation as the wildest of the "Wild West" boomtowns. Neighboring Morenci was swallowed up by an open pit mine in the 1960s, but Clifton was preserved, and today Chase Creek Street is still graced with lovely Victorian-era buildings from the town's halcyon days as the place to quickly make and lose a fortune.
In 1983, Clifton survived two nearly fatal blows, first a nearly three-year-long strike that began on June 30, 1983. Then later that same year, on October 2, 1983, Tropical Storm Octave sent 90,900 cubic feet of water per second into the San Francisco River, which burst its banks, destroying 700 homes and heavily damaging 86 of the town's 126 businesses.
All things come to an end, I hope you enjoyed it:
Series: German name begins with "Rot" (=red) 18 / 18
Andrena fulva ♀
Tawny Mining Bee
Rotpelzige Sandbiene
Rødpelset Jordbi
Exposure time (= flash duration): 50 µs = 1/20.000 s
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If you like my pictures of insects in flight, you should visit my special website on insect flight:
Wenn Ihnen meine Bilder fliegender Insekten gefallen, besuchen Sie bitte meine Homepage speziell zu diesem Thema:
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PLEASE, NO AWARDS, no Copy and Paste Comments and no group icons like "your wonderful photo was seen in group xyz". They will all be deleted as soon as I see them.
BITTE KEINE AWARDS, kopierte Kommentare oder diese Gruppen-Icons wie "Ich habe Dein wunderbares Bild in Gruppe xyz gesehen". Die lösche ich sobald ich sie sehe.
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Bucyrus Erie, Model 2570 used for mining coal. The boom is 420 feet long. The maximum load is 800,000 pounds. The total working weight of this machine is about 16 million pounds. Sullivan County, Indiana.
An open cut mine encroaching into the countryside in the Hunter Valley of NSW. If you use the satellite view on the map you can see the extent of the mine.
Fourth Nevada expedition in the last two months... lots of maps, lots of miles. Did a fair amount of four-wheeling in early July, fixed some flat tires, got stuck near here overnight in some deep spring mud before getting towed out by a hunter at dawn... fun times!
This is an impressive load for this Western Star highway tractor and trailer. The Western Star is set up with a Tridem axle system meaning is has three driving axles.
These are the first ten models of a series of mining equipment in scale 1:28.5, built over the last six years.
All models feature remote control functions, using SBricks and Power Functions or Powered UP components.
The creations are built after real existing equipment from various brands and different eras.
I still have some ideas to expand the collection...
#1: P&H 2355
#2: Euclid R-170
#3: Marathon LeTourneau L-1200 LeTro-Loader
#6: Marion 5760 The Mountaineer
#8: O&K RH 120 C
I noticed this Mining Bee cleaning out debris from her nest and camped at the entrance to see if I could get a few photos. Once she decided to come out we played "BeeKaBoo" cause I accidentally scared her back down into the tunnel a few times. Image taken in Bacoli, Italy in May of 2020.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to almost 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT , E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC. This is a single, slightly cropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI, Clarity, and Denoise AI in that order.
This is Draynes Wood on the southern edge of Bodmin Moor where the River Fowey tumbles off the moor via series of cascades known as the Golitha Falls. For a short distance the river flows west before turning to the south and eventually entering the sea between Polruan and Fowey.
This area of woodland has been designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a National Nature Reserve and a Site of Special Scientific Interest on account of its woodland flora. Here, in the river valley, there are numerous remains of the old mining industry, and the trenches that have been dug near the river have now filled with water. These are the remnants of Wheal Victoria copper mine, which was started in 1844 and is 600 feet deep in places.
In the ancient woodland there are three or four mine shafts where miners would have climbed down wooden ladders over 150 years ago. But in the end, Wheal Victoria copper mine was short lived, shutting down for a second and final time in 1855.
Along a road outside Bisbee AZ where copper was mined for many years, ending in 1975. The scaring (left side of the road) dominates the landscape 50 years later.
Voigtlander 40/1.4 Nokton Classic Leica M mount lens
The Worthing Copper Mine, located on the banks of the Field River at Hallett Cove, South Australia, operated between 1847 and 1857. Established on the Hallett brothers' farm, it is a significant site of Australia's first mining era, featuring the oldest remaining Cornish enginehouse (c. 1851-1852). The mine failed to yield high-grade ore and was largely a fraud on investors.
Žerjav is a small town in Slovenska Koroška which long time lived with its led any zinc mine. Its surrounding is completely devastated. Nowadays luckily the miner is closed and a museum can be visited there.
Locker room in an abandoned coalmine.
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GHH mining machine underground shovel, when they were introduced in the Monteponi mine, helped to make the work lighter and faster. He wouldn't mind seeing it displayed in a protected area and not exposed to the elements. A machine created to work indoors that ends its "career" outdoors. The most interesting part are the reinforcements made by hand welding along the entire profile of the blade of the shovel. Although not a certainly functional artistic work; this is proof of the mastery and skills that the staff had acquired in working in a mine like this.
Pala da sottosuolo GHH mining machine, quando vennero introdotte nella miniera di Monteponi aiutarono a rendere il lavoro più leggero e veloce. Non sabbe male vederla esposta in una zona protetta e non esposta alle intemperie. Una macchina che nasce per lavorare al chiuso che finisce al sua "carriera" all'aria aperta. La parte più interessante sono i rinforzi realizzati con saldatura a mano lungo tutto il profilo della lama della pala. Seppure non un lavoro artistico sicuramente funzionale; questo a riprova della maestria e delle competenze che il personale aveva acquisito nel lavorare in una miniera come questa.
A vintage Cambrian No 1 flame safety lamp, made by E. Thomas & Williams Ltd, a mining lamp with a riveted plate showing 'Shell Tankers (UK) Ltd 1982 Safety Award'.
These were given to Shell personnel who saw an accident-free year on their vessel.
Sadly, the number of motives stays the same when you're doing urban architecture photography. Light and viewing angles, though, do not. Here's a view of the famous Zollverein mine headframe, part of the World Cultural Heritage site in Essen.
I suppose one of the advantages of being a bit cooler today was that some subjects were a bit lethargic. I found this lovely little Bee on a fence at Wilford Claypit today. I imagine it might be an Andrena species, but I've no real idea, any help with ID appreciated. I positioned a sheet of blue foam below the fence to give this Summer like feeling.
A 6 image focus stack using an F/10 aperture, ISO 320 and a 1/160 shutter speed.
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Cool, partly cloudy weather makes the perfect conditions to photograph small solitary bees. I found this female Mining Bee foraging for pollen in a Dandelion. Gotta shoot them while I can because in a few short months they'll be gone for the year.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (almost 4x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI and Clarity in that order. Cheap trick: There was a light colored marble wall behind the flower and I positioned the critter close to it so the light from the flash would bounce off of the wall and back into the camera. I like to avoid black backgrounds whenever possible to maintain the suspension of disbelief. Everyone is use to seeing bees during the day, so an image that has a black background looks like a night time shot. You might not consciously think "bees aren't out at night" but a part of your brain will think that the image is "off" and you won't be able to just relax and enjoy it.
One last Andrena sp. for now, this one on eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis). This is presumably a different species from the previous two images, but identifying Anderna to species is a daunting task and I haven't made a real effort to try and figure these out.
Perth is a mining town. Mining is a major source of revenue for Western Australia and hence the state is relatively wealthy and has the highest median household income of any Australian capital city. The picture shows the precinct at the ground floor for one of the major mining companies. This is repeated throughout the city with some lovely grounds