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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.
Three Legged Cross, Dorset
Andrena sp.
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The last but one deep mining colliery in Britain was Thoresby which was sunk in 1925. This was taken during its last week of production.
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
This fellow is taking a break from pollinating on a branch of wood littering the ground next to a patch of flowers at the Montreal Botanical Garden. I believe it is probably a mining bee (Andrena sp.), but any further information/confirmation would be welcomed. Quite the mustache on this one!
Pentax D-FA 100mm F/2.8 WR Macro plus Raynox DCR-250, with off-camera diffused Godox V850ii flash. Two-frame handheld focus stack. This bee is considerably smaller than a honey bee, I'd guesstimate roughly 10-14mm.
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My last of 4 record shots of bees from yesterday's looooong walk, via a diversion because of a landslip, from Failford to Stair along the River Ayr. This one was busy mining its burrow in a footpath. Any help with ID much appreciated.
The bee in this shot, and those in the previous two uploads were all in the same spot.
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I called at the mining museum at Astley Green where I was made very welcome by the volunteers.
The steel lattice headgear for Number 1 Shaft is the only colliery headgear remaining in Lancashire. The structure, which is over 100 feet high, was built by Head Wrightson & Co. in 1912 and replaced the original wooden shaft sinking headgear.
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.
I used Luminar 4 to process this middle of the day shot and make it an evening sunset. This shed and the mining machinery around it belong to the Long Tunnel Extended Mine in Walhalla, Victoria. In the forty years of its operation, the mine produced 13.7 tonnes of gold until it closed in 1911.
A couple weeks ago, Wilbur and I went to look for the miner's camp of the Horseshoe Mine. Instead of finding the camp, we found the mine. Initially Wilbur wasn't interested in returning to unpleasant bushwhacking on the backside of Mailbox Peak, but I convinced him I knew where to look. So we went and found the camp fairly easily.
Not much is left of it. While the outline of the buildings are somewhat visible, no actual structure is standing. Just a few pots and pans, cans, bottles, washbasins, the base of a stove, parts of rusty bedsteads and a laundry sink are scattered about in the last stages of decomposition. One of the most interesting relics was the system of rusty pipes for bringing water from a nearby creek. We followed the pipes until they disappeared under a tangle of blown down trees. It also appears the camp may have been used by loggers who came about 10 - 20 years after the miners as there were a couple of rusty, twisted saws present as well as some truck engine components.
We ate lunch near the site of the camp and thought about what the surroundings must have been like during the era of mining from 1904 - 1909 when the hillsides were covered with old growth forests. We surmised the miners used mules and wondered how they cared for them on the steep slopes covered in trees. And we wondered about the difficulties of logging. We could see the springboard notches in the enormous decaying stumps around us. Both the miners and loggers lived challenging lives trying to extract a living from the earth.
PS: The mine and the camp are difficult to find. I had GPS coordinates but they were marginally helpful as the GPS coordinates we got onsite were different than the ones available on-line. Good luck if you try to go there. Creek crossing and bushwhacking steep slippery slopes criss-crossed in blow-down await you.
Narrow gauge rail bogies at Lancashire (Astley) Mining Museum.
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Saturday Self Challenge 24/03/2018 - Shadows .
So for the challenge a created scene representing the past days of Cornish tin / copper mining , most of which is in the form of the iconic engine houses that dot the countryside in Cornwall .
The ingredients for the shot are as follows :-
one cooker top -
sheet of card sellotaped to the kitchen cupboards -
two upturned pudding bowls -
one piece of plush fabric -
one of my model engine houses -
camera & tripod -
one small LED torch .
And that is that , I did try a shot with a larger model with a small smelly block burning to make smoke in the chimney but it did not show up enough . The inspiration came from a shot I took years ago of an apparent smoking chimney or stack as they are known as in Cornwall .
Since I am playing around with shadows there is only one choice of track for Sight & Sound - one of the all time great guitarists
It seems like ages since I've posted any macro. I've been playing around with some new lenses, but today I felt the need to go out and find some small friends, so on went the MP-E!
I found this small solitary bee wandering around on the patio floor. I think it had a damaged wing as it could only fly small distances before wandering around again. I placed my finger in front of it, and it quickly climbed up so I guess it must have been a bit cold.
It was happy to pose for a few photos, so I gave it some honey-water by way of payment before leaving it in a quiet corner.
Stacked from 4 images @ 1:1 (quite a bit crop)
I think this is an Early Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa) but didn't capture the tip of her abdomen where a tuft of orange hairs might confirm that - I was too interested by the pollen collected on her legs...
There were a couple of these in our Staffordshire garden today. I thought at first that they were female Halictus rubicundus but have been advised by a follower on Twitter that it's actually Andrena dorsata - the Short-fringed Mining-bee.
This is great because it's a new bee for the garden and a new bee for me too. Hopefully I'll recognise it if I see it again!
The ceiling in the entrance of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
The building houses, among other departments, the Materials Science and Engineering Department.
The Beaux-arts revival style building was designed by renowned architect John Galen Howard and is a California Historical Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.