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I'd planned to do some photography around the Pwllheli area on Saturday with a friend of mine. Unfortunately the weather put paid to that and we ended up coming home earlier than planned from our holiday. However the rain that was around during the day cleared for a bit so we headed to the beach to walk the dog and I took my camera with a view to photographing the other pipeline. I also wanted to see how my new tripod would perform under the kind of conditions I bought it for.
Actually it was a great evening to be out with a camera and tripod. The tide was coming in fast, the wind was blowing some and there were very well defined clouds (that'd bring rain just after I'd finished). It's funny how I probably would never have considered going out in weather like that before I took up photography but now I dream of days like it.
Anyway my intention was to take a look at the other pipeline that's on this stretch of beach. Whilst there I got some good ideas for shots but I'm not completely happy that I executed them as well as I could so I think I'll revisit. I did though wonder over to the pipeline I've photographed before, which is one of my favourite images (see comments) and tried a different composition.
Shot details
Canon 600D (T3i/Kiss X5)
Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 EF-S USM @ 10mm
B+W ND110
ISO 100
180 second exposure @ f9
PSE10, SEP2, The GIMP
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Bringing refined oil north from the refineries on the south coast.
Asahi Pentax K1000SE with SMC Pentax-A Zoom 35-105mm f/3.5 lens on Kodak Portra 400.
CC week 2 is Post Processing Play
CC rainbow: Orange
When I saw this bright shiny new pipeline shutoff, I had to stop and take a picture. No idea if it is for natural gas or something else. No matter. My imagination turned it into a Bactrian camel.
Later, I cloned out distractions in the background. Then found an image of scrap metal sculpture of a camel, cut off its head and attached it to the pipeline shutoff. Post processing done with Photoscape X.
The pipeline was built between 1951 - 1955. The pipeline is 60 kilometres long.
An amateur video of the construction and opening can be viewed here if interested (~4mins) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mxg9RvYsHs
Katmantoo, South Australia
The 800-mile-long Trans Alaska Pipeline System is one of the world's largest pipeline systems.
Did you know that the largest pipeline in U.S.
crosses northeast Kansas.....Who knew
The swell at Pipeline had fallen away from the day before but was still big enough to impress.
HD PENTAX-DA 55-300mm f4.5-6.3 PLM
A pipeline from the Chevron refinery running along the side of the road. Currently to a large majority of Canadians, pipelines are bad. To my knowledge this isn't that type of pipeline, but I really wanted to make it look eerie.
Waves were up and surfers were having fun at the Pipeline on Oahu's North Shore, Hawaii 4/5/2013. Aloha
The dismembered remains of Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns 0-4-0 saddle tank 'Stella No.2' (W/No.7799 built in 1954) in the process of being reduced to scrap metal at Norwood Coking Plant, Dunston, on an appropriately murky 24th August 1971, steam shunting at the works having just been taken over by a Hunslet four-coupled diesel-hydraulic loco. The plant had originally opened in 1912, producing coke around 225,000 tons of coke per annum, as well as tar, benzole, sulphate of ammonia and gas as by products. The plant was originally linked at the northern end with the BR Tanfield branch, and at the southern end with the Pelaw Main Railway line to Dunston, but both sections were abandoned in 1962 and 1963 respectively, after a new BR rail connection had been installed to the north of the plant, interfacing with the Low Fell to Blaydon freight only line. Supplementing end-product taken out by rail, a ten-mile-long gas pipeline, built in 1952, inter-connected both Norwood and Derwenthaugh coke works with Consett Ironworks, providing gas for use in steel production. Norwood’s coke production finally ceased in May 1980 following closure of the Ironworks, the local coking coal collieries, and a general decline in demand for foundry coke. Coke stocking at the site from other plants continued until the last stocks were depleted in 1985, after which the rail connection was removed. The cleared and landscaped site was then used as the venue for the 1990 National Garden Festival, after which it was redeveloped for residential housing
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