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Someone decided they could modify one of the cookout fire pits
in the picnic area of Robin Hood Park...into a shelter.
Here is a prize from the unedited stash that will break the noir series. This is clearly the case of a captive audience. One for me, one for you and one for the geese. This is without doubt an example of the Tom Lehrer song, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park." That's probably closer to the truth than feeding wildlife although these geese won't go anywhere to be wild. These snacks probably shouldn't go into the kids either. Here's an instance of starting to shoot wildlife after our spring started to green up. These domestic fowl have taken up permanent residence here, water or ice. No wonder! I met a birder who declared he spotted 28 species on his last outing here. I headed out for another loop of pond #2 and saw gaggles of geese disembarking to weed the surrounding grass areas. These are pretty well in tune with the pitcher. They must not have been really startled and I have nearly had mallards walk over my feet. Seems proper; I walk on them too. This pose struck me as a near form of communication that had not been translated to me except in their actions. In fact I could have been slightly steadier; I found a monopod for quick but steady shots. The day had skies that were less than satisfying. The sky has been bad for a while again and promises more.
Some of the foliage was really greening up in early June and some of the trees were finally budding after the later spring. I bet the parking at the park will be maxed when spring arrives this year.
I was at Golden Ponds, the Longmont, Boulder County greenbelt and rec area and I wanted to look for possible shots even though the sky had been the pits lately. We are about a month away from the longest day but the weather granted us an extended spring. I wandered the green space and took some detail shots that were available, The rippling water gone so I relied on the ducks wake to churn the water, my favorite cottonwood is brown and most cattails and milk weed is seeding the next year's supply. I shot few pictures and kept the sky out of the frame but it's presence shows in the water. I love shooting high contrast scenes with this camera and lens.
A vertical edit of this Porsche leaving the pits. I'm a sucker for blue skies, clouds with character, Porsches and green grass. Oh, I like sun, too.
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This was a gift from my friend Bill. He gave this to me 49 years ago. I think it is such a wonderful little carving. Not sure if it's an almond or peach pit.
A preview of an article on my hometown that I need to extract from my brain: This Milwaukee-to-Green Bay Milwaukee Road train in Plymouth, WI, led by GP40 2059, is about to cross County Trunk J north of town. In the background is a gravel pit that once included a Potawatomi Indian burial ground; the Milwaukee and Northern took the gravel, bones and all, to fill the marshy land to the north along Road America. Spring of 1984.
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The purpose of this observation is to determine the nature of the pitted terrain around this small crater that’s on the floor of a much larger crater in the Idaeus region of Mars. The pits appear to be irregular-sized, perhaps partially caused by the heat of the impact affecting ice in the ground.
Image is less than 5 km (3 mi) across. For full images including scale bars, see the below link.
NASA/JPL/UArizona
Potemkin: "Oh wait, you don't wear the bicycle on your shoulders? It doesn't let you fly?"
gLasspanic: "Help me, my hair is stuck in the gears."
Pit Babes del equipo Yamaha sonriendo amablemente a la camara y realizando el simbolo de victoria con la mano. Impresionantes las dos.
From Wikipedia:
The Lavender Pit is a former open pit copper mine located at 31.4310 N, 109.9002 W in Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona. It is located near the famous, very rich Copper Queen Mine. The Lavender Pit was named in honor of Harrison M. Lavender (1890-1952), who as Vice-President and General Manager of Phelps Dodge Corporation, conceived and carried out this plan for making the previously unprofitable low-grade copper bearing rock of the area into commercial copper ore.
Phelps Dodge Corporation opened the Lavender Pit in 1950, at the site of the earlier, higher-grade Sacramento Hill mine. Production through 1974 totaled 86 million tons of ore averaging about 0.7% copper, or about 600,000 tons of copper produced, with gold and silver as byproducts. About 256 million tons of waste were stripped, but a portion of this was acid-leached for additional copper [1]. Turquoise was also a by-product of this mining activity. Bisbee turquoise, also known as Bisbee Blue, is amongst the finest turquoise found anywhere in the world [2]. Mining operations in the pit ended in 1974. The undeveloped Cochise deposit, located immediately north of the Lavender pit, contains an estimated 190 million tons of rock containing 0.4% acid-soluble copper [3], which may be mined in the future.
Looking southeast down into the pit. Notice the brown water acid pond. Because of the competent host rock, this pit has much steeper sides than other open pit copper mines in the southwest area. The pit covers an area of 300 acres (1.2 km²), and is 900 feet (274 m) deep. Large tonnages of dump rock are placed around Bisbee, notably north of the residential district of Warren and other parts of the southeastern Mule Mountains area. This dump material, along with the large open hole of the pit, is unsightly and unpopular with many tourists and residents, but was typical of the mining practices of the time.
The Pit, as it was called here in the City of Eugene before it was, after years and years of being "the pit" was transformed into student housing, and also, Lane Community College Downtown Campus. These photos I took before "the pit" which was once a downtown department stores basement was filled with gravel, a lot of gravel.
A former mining pit, Ore Pit Pond is now a 40-foot deep swimming pond located in the Copake Falls Area of Taconic State Park.
Possibly L. variicolor or scabrum, but I'll bow down upon more eminent identification!
Hilton Gravel Pits NR, Derbyshire
We are looking inside Pit 1 of Rockdale transfer station after being completely emptied out towards the end of a weekday. It’s about 3m deep and 3m wide, with enough length to accommodate three full size garbage trucks unloading at once. You may figure that from the left side the trucks unload, with the long elevated block of steel stopping the wheels from going into the pit. On the right side you’ve got your barrier to help avoid having the public visitors who are hand unloading fall into the hole. This is generally the set-up for most of the transfer stations across Sydney, only there are a couple of different sizes, including double length pits which have garbage fed towards the middle into a single compactor. On the far end of this pit you can see the deeper drop and shiny steel surface within it, which is the trailer feeding packer in its extended or closed position. You may also notice the guide rails on each side of the pit which are ridden by the push blade - basically a massive version of a rear loader ejector, powered by a single telescopic hydraulic cylinder with fat bore.
- Kahlil Gibran
You know that feeling you sometimes get? The one that twists the pit of your stomach and haunts your senses and ripples through your thoughts urging you to turn away, go back, change directions?
You should listen to it.
Today I had that eery feeling and yet I took a hike up Skyline anyways only to take a tumble down the overlook, smashing my 50mm beyond repair and my mouth along the way. And I take Coumadin (blood thinners), so it was especially awesome. So here's the last 50mm I took before the spill and the last 50mm shot you'll be seeing from me for awhile. (But isn't the horrible facial expression perfectly suiting?)
And now that I've made you all feel extremely uncomfortable and awkward by bombarding you with the details of my personal life, I'm off to sulk. I'm sure I'll delete this post and my childish rant a bit later after I've had time to put the event in perspective.
The Calcutta Pit was one of 5 collieries (pits) in Swannington. These gradually stopped being mined in the late 19th century. However, when pumping stopped in these pits, the water began to seep down into mines in the newly developing town of Coalville. In order to solve this problem, it was necessary to set up a Joint Pumping Company, at the former Calcutta mine to drain the whole new coalfield. The Calcutta pumping engine was made by Robert Stephenson and Co. It was capable of removing 54,000 gallons of water an hour. It was installed in 1877 at a cost of £13,000 and worked until 1947 when it was replaced with electric pumps. The building is listed Grade II and is now used as offices.
In August 2021 we visited Pleasley Pit on the Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire border. This museum is well worth a visit, it has retained the feel of a working colliery and will be an education to many. Check the website and make sure the wheelhouse is open as you'll get great views of the engines and winding gear:
I'm going to include some B&W pictures taken in about 2010 when I visited with a Leica M5 loaded with Adox CHS50.
This 'still life of old boots reminded me of how mining is now an industry of the past.
Ja que fa fred i mal dia, els ocells venen a menjar el pa que els hi deixo, Aquest pit-roig, ha vingut al vespre.
ESP: Ya que hace frÃo y mal dÃa, los pájaros vienen a comer el pan que les dejo, Este petirrojo, ha venido al anochecer.
Inspired by Val's IR photos, (www.flickr.com/photos/xenas_images/) I recently purchased a small point'n'shoot camera that was modified to shoot black & white Infrared images. This is one of my first halfway decent images made with this camera.
The Clay Pit is a place where clay was once extracted to make bricks. This photo makes it look almost like a meadow. In reality, it's kind of a blight that's slowly being rehabilitated.
Cougar Mtn. Regional Wildland Park, Bellevue, WA
Sometimes I wonder If my pitbull has a little pointer in her blood, she does this quite a bit.
EXPLORE 2009-10-03 #493
Having arrived with the Diamond Valley Railway charter, D3 639 sits over the pit at Seymour as 8037 looks on. 22/8/15
The Lost Sea Caverns
Sweetwater, Tennessee
The bottom of this pit has never been found. Legend has it that if you stare in the pit long enough, you will see the face of the devil.
The Jota Sport Oreca-Gibson LMP2 prototype launches out of its pitbox and heads back onto track.
4 Hours of Silverstone,
FIA World Endurance Championship,
Silverstone,
2019.
The last one in England, on the River Wensum in Norwich City Centre. Basically intensive farming for food for rich folk. Eating swan fell out of fashion in the 19th century.
Rixton Clay Pits is a former clay extraction site in Rixton, near Hollins Green, Warrington, England. Formerly farmland, boulder clay extraction started in the 1920s for brick making in the adjacent brickworks, and ceased in 1965 - since then it has been allowed to return to nature.
Whilst out and about I spotted this shaft in the field close to the Macclesfield Canal. It is not marked on any Coal Authority plan. In the eighteenth century it will have worked the Gees Seam at a depth of 160-170ft. The mound is made of pit shale and rock that was brought out whilst sinking the pit. The shaft is situated in the slightly greener area at lower centre of the image. The flat circular area behind is where the horse gin was located to wind baskets of coal on the end of a rope. The colliers will have been lowered into the workings on the same rope. There are lots more unrecorded shafts in the area which often show up well during dry conditions in the summer.