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Plaster and soot mottling on this Portuguese building almost made it look like a 3D print, but nope - just a weird color/texture.
The plaster cast is photographed contre-jour, but illuminated by a reflector. Fuji X-Pro1 plus a 2x tele converter plus Helios 44M-7 at F2. My B+W photos are usually processed in Luminar 4 and Silver Efex Pro 3.
When it came to something that had an interesting texture to post in Macro Mondays this week, with the theme of ‘Textures’, I had to look no further than the end of my arm! There, in all its pristine glory was a lovely white plaster cast!
Taking a macro shot of it, with difficulty, I might add, I was amazed by the mixture of textures that go to make up the cast. Plaster Bandage is made from a special woven cloth, uniformly impregnated with the finest quality, fast-setting plaster of Paris or by its real name Calcium Sulphate. After the process of applying wet casting material has been completed, the cast will start to dry in about 10 to 15 minutes. Eventually becoming solid and encasing the fractured bones!
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Digging through previously unpublished shots, such as this from April 2018, is just a sticking plaster on a gaping street photography wound. I wish it was safe for me to be out there now, perhaps one day in the distant future it may be so again. Stay safe everyone.
A late afternoon departure helps silhouette the 111's profile as it begins its 26 mile trek to the Fish Creek quarry rolling north over one of many dry wash crossings.
...es formt wesentlich! ;-)
Studie aus 4 Blickrichtungen
Martin Creed
Work No. 263 ( a protrusion from a wall) 2001
f 7,1 x4
1/125 s
1600-2000 ISO
105 mm
The old dormitory door, a pitiful barrier, had surrendered to her lock-pick skills with barely a whisper of protest. The intoxication of forbidden territories pulses through her veins, a siren's call she couldn't resist. The yellow caution tape - a feeble attempt at deterrence - had already been violated, its remnants littering the dimly lit stairways like discarded party streamers.
Caught in the surveillance camera's gaze, Flit pirouettes with a devil-may-care smirk, a taunting spectacle for the hapless sentinel tasked with monitoring this condemned building from the confines of a closet-sized office hidden somewhere on campus. Now, the real investigating begins: an adrenaline-fueled scavenger hunt in this derelict, abandoned labyrinth. Will it yield its secrets and spoils, or will it guard its treasures, determined to remain a mystery?
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Shortly after arriving in town and its crew tying down handbrakes on the 24 loads, and spotted the lone water tank car, USG No. 111 would rest in the evening sun where it’ll sit it out until the next call to duty.
In Plaster City, California the United States Gypsum Company operates the last narrow gauge freight railway in North America. The 3 foot gauge railway runs from the USG wallboard plant to a quarry North of town on a 27 mile line. The railroad transports limestone from the quarry to the plant and also supplements the water supply at the quarry with a water car. USG operates two MLW/Bombardier DL-535EW locomotives (numbers 111 and 112) which were built in 1982 for the Whitepass and Yukon Railway who never took delivery of them. Four units were built total, with 113 having been wrecked and the 114 getting delivered to the Whitepass & Yukon with a 14 year delay in 1994. 114 was later sold to the Durango and Silverton Railway.
Here USG 111 departs the Plaster City wallboard plant with the usual train of hoppers to be loaded at the quarry 27 miles East of town and a water tank to supplement the water supply out there. During my last visit there had been no morning train due to trackwork, but this time around the plant was much busier and both a morning and afternoon (and probably a night crew as well) ran this day. Plaster City, CA
this is the plaster ceiling in a delightful place called the Parkside Candy Shop in Buffalo, NY; besides being a place to buy wonderful candies and chocolates by the pound, it also is a soda fountain and serves sandwiches
if you've ever seen the Hollywood film "The Natural" you may remember the scene in which Robert Redford and Glenn Close dine here
Example of an older, asbestos plaster wall system on wood lath. While these plaster materials may look like any typical plaster, that's partly the point of this photo: asbestos-containing plaster might be present in any ordinary-looking plaster material; whether the plaster is troweled-on or spray-applied onto wood or metal lath, on gypsum wallboard panels, onto concrete or applied to any type of substrate. In this particular example, asbestos was found within the thicker, plaster base layer.
For a more conclusive determination about whether or not plaster contains asbestos (or any type of suspect material for that matter), multiple bulk samples of the material, including all layers of a "system", are to be properly collected by a trained, certified, and accredited ("licensed") asbestos inspector, and then tested via specialized, laboratory microscopy method(s) to determine asbestos presence or absence and its respective percentage therein. The testing can be relatively inexpensive, ranging on average between $6-to-$30 USD (or more) per sample, per layer, often depending upon required turn-around time
Another point of interest regarding the plaster system in the above example is that there are actually three layers of plaster: the bottom ("render") thick base-layer; the thin ("floating" or "setting") skim-layer, and a textured finishing layer. Each type of plaster layer, (base-coat, skim-coat, textured surfacing, etc.) has been known to contain asbestos.
The coarse, base plaster in this instance, sometimes referred to as "brown-coat" or "scratch-coat", in addition to asbestos, also contains small aggregate and animal hair fibers (likely bovine, equine, porcine, caprine, or cervine). These constituents are more visible in the inset image.
Although not in this particular case, sometimes the white, finish layer or "skim-coat" may contain asbestos. Or, even the textured finish, stucco-style spackling may contain asbestos as well.
Particular attention to different types of plasters, possibly applied in different building areas, such as: mechanical rooms, boiler rooms, fan rooms, auditoriums, stages, arenas, churches/temples (or other places of worship), cafeterias, theaters, air plenums, utility areas, electrical rooms/vaults, workshops, stairwells, corridors, decorative applications, lobbies, elevator shafts, radiator shielding, instrumental-music band/choir rooms, library/media centers, etc.; are all unique functional spaces that should be especially considered when evaluating the potential for differing types of homogenous area plaster applications.
Further yet, ceiling plaster may contain asbestos and wall plaster may not, despite being in the same functional space and having similar appearance/texture.
Of further importance in distinguishing different types of plasters that may exist in a building is knowing the renovation history of the structure, and also if additions were constructed or patching was installed that contain plaster(s) applied at later date(s). Each plaster from differing dates of construction or patches should be assessed separately.
There are also examples of asbestos inspection surveys in multi-floor buildings where asbestos (> 1% content) was found in wall/ceiling plasters on certain floors, but not others (trace to < 1%).
Keep in mind that if ACM (>1%) is identified in one layer of a plaster application, then the entire plaster "system" is treated as an ACM.
Additionally, don't forget about potential lead or cadmium-based paint or respirable silica dust exposure issues when dealing with older painted plaster materials during demolition or renovation activities.
It’s quitttin’ time, the engineer lightens his load dumping out his cooler before helping his conductor tighten handbrakes before heading home for the day.
With angry brush strokes
the pain of the wall
was removed – caused
by spray applied on the plaster that
covered the ancient stones -
as it depicted
an opinion by a medium of
a different time and mood.
UP 1413 once had the distinction of being the last SP Roman lettered unit on the roster but that’s no longer the case since its tour of duty in the LA area back in late 2020. So imagine my surprise when I saw it switching US Gypsum with another former SP GP60 as we followed the first USG turn back into town.
This building is across the street from the Old Town Artisans Shops in Tucson. I love the old rough textured walls with peeling plaster and bright red door. The bench painted with shades of orange was a perfect complement to the door.
2016/43 Rough
Tucson, Arizona
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Toledo-Grand Rapids freight Q335 is inbound at Plaster Creek with a restricting indication into Wyoming Yard. The spur to Alro Steel was still connected in this 2007 view.
Additional close-up view of a two-layer asbestos-containing hard plaster material. Image shows painted skim-coat layer on beige base-coat layer with various animal hairs and conspicuous chrysotile asbestos fiber bundles.
Emphasizing the importance of sampling EACH layer of a suspect materials "system"!
Image of an asbestos-containing plaster wall system, showing the base-coat layer with various animal hairs and chrysotile asbestos fiber bundles protruding from the crumbly plaster material.
Damaged wall section showing several layers of materials, including asbestos plaster base-coat (indicated by arrow).
Outer-most plaster-board system is comprised of more recently applied two-layered plaster on gypsum panel-board (drywall); this is on top of an older (original) 3-layer plaster system on concrete substrate. The initial brown, scratch-coat plaster was tested and found to contain approx. 2% chrysotile asbestos.