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It's not actually winter but in the height of summer. The IR making it look like a snow scene. Taken near the now decommissioned nuclear power station at Bradwell, Essex.
This is the end....!
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The frost on the ground and trees makes the scene look like something out of science fiction novel depicting a nuclear winter.
The Dungeness nuclear power stations are a pair of non-operational nuclear power stations located on the Dungeness headland in the south of Kent, England.
Dungeness A is a legacy Magnox power station consisting of two 250 MWe reactors which were connected to the National Grid in 1965 and reached its end of life in 2006.
Dungeness B is an advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) power station consisting of two 520 MWe reactors, which began operation in 1983 and 1985. They were the first in a series of AGR reactors to be constructed across the UK. In March 2009, unexpected problems discovered during a maintenance shutdown on unit B21 resulted in the reactor remaining offline for nearly 18 months. In 2015, the plant received upgrades and was given a second ten-year life extension to 2028. In September 2018, as both units were shut down for a scheduled maintenance outage
Our uranium tree has displayed the most wonderful colours this autumn.
I'm off for a while as I'm running away to Greece this afternoon. See you all in a week or two :)
Oh, and HSS everybody!
Upon the bleeding horizon I saw the beginning of the end,
We had become such stuff that nightmares are made on,
The light of hope turned into the darkness of annihilation…
Memories of World War III
It was my third try at this location: the first time I got lost in the dark forest. The second time I had 10h of continuous rain. And now it finally happend and I got a shot I dreamed about for a long time... Btw, this is me on the edge ;)
When I drove through the first fields covered with fog I couldn't believe my luck since this is the best possible condition one could ask for at the Wegelnburg. The crazy colors of the sunrise did the rest!
I am currently experiencing this crazy thing called 'work' for the first time which is why I don't have that much time left for photography... I hope we can still stay friends :D
Pacific Fiction ...
Faithful to the heritage of conceptual art, fascinated by land art and especially by Robert Smithson, influenced by Olafur Eliasson’s teaching at the Institut für Raumexperimente in Berlin, Julian Charrière sets in motion research processes that give rise to performances, photographic records, films and installations.
His materials, including decaying organic matter, cryogenically frozen plants, sediment and salt bricks reflect particular times and spaces, both as tangible traces of what he calls a ‘geology of history’ and as explorations of humanity’s interdependent relationship with our environment.
Pacific Fiction – Study for Monument is one of a set of works created by Charrière following his exploration of the Marshall Islands and the Bikini atoll, part of his research into former nuclear testing sites as dystopian places par excellence.
The United States test-fired nearly seventy nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958, including Castle Bravo, the single most powerful H-bomb, which wiped two islands from the map.
Pacific Fiction, a pyramid of coconuts encased in lead, can be read as the model for a future memorial. The coconuts refer to the etymology of the Bikini atoll, which takes its name from the local Melanesian name ‘Pikinni’, ‘pik’ meaning ‘surface’ and ‘ni’ meaning ‘coconut palm’. The lead is used for its physical property of withstanding radiation. While the pile of coconuts echoes a stock of cannon balls, the work’s pyramid shape and its subtitle, Study for Monument, also conjure up images of a tomb, Egyptian pyramids, the architecture of the bunkers on the Bikini atoll shoreline, and the angular iron monoliths that slumber in the depths of the Pacific.
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Pazifische Fiktion ...
Getreu dem Erbe der Konzeptkunst, fasziniert von der Land Art und insbesondere von Robert Smithson, beeinflusst von der Lehre Olafur Eliassons am Institut für Raumexperimente in Berlin, setzt Julian Charrière Forschungsprozesse in Gang, aus denen Performances, fotografische Aufzeichnungen, Filme und Installationen hervorgehen.
Seine Materialien, darunter verrottende organische Materie, kryogenisch gefrorene Pflanzen, Sedimente und Salzziegel, spiegeln bestimmte Zeiten und Räume wider, sowohl als greifbare Spuren dessen, was er eine "Geologie der Geschichte" nennt, als auch als Erkundungen der wechselseitigen Beziehung zwischen dem Menschen und seiner Umwelt.
Pacific Fiction - Study for Monument gehört zu einer Reihe von Werken, die Charrière im Anschluss an seine Erkundung der Marshallinseln und des Bikini-Atolls geschaffen hat, die Teil seiner Recherchen über ehemalige Atomtestgelände als dystopische Orte par excellence sind.
Die Vereinigten Staaten haben von 1946 bis 1958 auf den Marshallinseln fast siebzig Atombomben getestet, darunter Castle Bravo, die stärkste H-Bombe, die zwei Inseln von der Landkarte tilgte.
Pacific Fiction, eine mit Blei ummantelte Pyramide aus Kokosnüssen, kann als Modell für ein künftiges Mahnmal gelesen werden. Die Kokosnüsse beziehen sich auf die Etymologie des Bikini-Atolls, das seinen Namen von der lokalen melanesischen Bezeichnung "Pikinni" ableitet, wobei "pik" für "Oberfläche" und "ni" für "Kokospalme" steht. Das Blei wird wegen seiner physikalischen Eigenschaft, Strahlung zu widerstehen, verwendet. Während der Haufen Kokosnüsse an einen Vorrat an Kanonenkugeln erinnert, rufen die ursprüngliche Pyramidenform des Werks und sein Untertitel Study for Monument auch Bilder eines Grabes, ägyptischer Pyramiden, der Architektur der Bunker auf dem Bikini-Atoll und der kantigen Eisenmonolithen hervor, die in den Tiefen des Pazifiks schlummern.
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High energy photons are emitted in energy transitions of particles in the nucleus of atoms. The release of energy into photons and energetic particles is a defining feature of the thermonuclear furnaces streaking across this three hour composite image. That same release of energy from atomic nuclei fuzing or fracturing forms the basis for nuclear weapons, first realized in the weapons of war just beyond the horizon in this image. While the light pollution from Los Alamos makes for a poetic counterpoint to the star trails overhead, it really is the result of much more common (and benign) energy exchanges and scattering from smoke particulates. Maybe our uses of photons can aspire to be life giving and sustaining like ones overhead in this image.
As a star trail image, I was shooting for better, but as a nightscape scene, I appreciate it and enjoy the range of color and phenomena in the sky. I hope you enjoy the benign use of the photons I collected to compose this image for your enjoyment and appreciation of the beauty we still have.
Hopefully you do too!
Peace and cheers!
A centralised version of the access tunnel into a nuclear shelter we shot at recently. Need to head back soon as we have more work to do here.
Like a scene from an apocalypse movie…an eerie and isolating atmosphere.
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Space is limited to get the cooling tower in a sunrise because of a major highway. No safe places to pull over and power lines , etc everywhere else, but I had to try...
More from my Infra Red set from Chernobyl/Pripyat. This is the iconic ferris wheel abandoned since 1986.
De Federale regering van België heeft besloten de kernreactoren van Electrabel Doel 1 en 2 langer open te houden. In eerste instantie zou de kerncentrale sluiten in 2015 maar dit is verlengd met 10 jaar. Doel 1 en 2 zijn samen goed voor 866 MWe.
Strange graffiti found in the upstairs bedroom of this abandoned homestead
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Not sure who put it there and it's message remains elusive but it's artistic and creative value could not be overlooked.
Late afternoon view from near the Pantex Plant towards Amarillo.
Pantex is the United States' only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility and is charged with maintaining the safety, security and reliability of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile.
68007 leads 68017, 68003 and 88004 plus two nuclear flasks through Carlisle station on the 07:27 Carlisle Kingmoor Sdg (DRS) to Sellafield British Nuclear Fuels.
Highest position on explore = 1 - Thanks guys!
New toys to play with - Bubble wall - Thanks very much to Ibstock Aquatics and Reptiles for sending me the extra Airline tubing!
Strobist info - Canon430ez behind kiwi with a CTO + Yellow gel, firing into 100mm piece of plastic piping to give a circular snoot. Canon 430ez to the right of fruit aiming down. White tile below fruit to provide extra lighting.
We have been getting some fabulous storms lately and have a magnificent view of them from our back landing. This one was crossing the Lockyer Valley