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On the second day after my second cataract surgery, this time on my left eye, I am able to take photos in the garden.
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185137 185131 1P77 Manchester Victoria to Saltburn at Diggle 08 Nov 24.
A lonely mailbox sits on the edge of the great prairie. No longer used it still holds on to the memories of times past.
For the POST IT Theme in Competition Corner group.
This camera overlaps frames quite often. These looked good together.
I bought a bunch of rolls (30+) of Kodacolor Gold 400 on eBay for a little over a $1 a roll, all with expiration dates in 2016 and 2017 and this is the batch test for those rolls. Pretty good to my eye. I guess I'll be shooting a lot of Gold 400.
Camera: Voigtlander VF135
Lens: Fixed 40mm f2.3 Color-Skopar
Film: Kodak Gold 400
Developer: Unicolor C-41 (freshish)
Scanner: Epson V600
Photoshop: Curves, Healing Brush (spotting)
Cropping: None
A drilling bit sits atop the gates on the road into the old Humble Gas Plant in the Tomball Oil Field, Tomball Texas The gate is now on Humble Road. Oil and gas production was an important part of Tomball's history.
From 1907 to 1933 Tomball was a shipping point on the railroad with most of the people primarily involved in farming and ranching activities. The coming of the railroad in 1906 was followed by a post office in 1908. The town acquired its first school in 1908 . In 1913, electric lights and telephone service became widely available in the little town. By 1914 Tomball had a population of 350, a bank, a blacksmith, several stores, six hotels, and two cotton gins. Charles F. Hoffman was an early settler who operated the first general store, and J. J. Trichel was postmaster.
Then In 1933 Tomball changed forever in just a day. On May 27, drillers struck oil west of town on the property of J. F. W. Kob. Almost overnight Tomball became a oil boom-town. In 1935, the original contract negotiated between Tomball and the Humble Oil and Refining Company (later Exxon ) gave free water and natural gas to Tomball residents for ninety years in exchange for drilling rights within the city limits. On July 6, 1933, Tomball, popularly known as "Oil Town U.S.A.," was incorporated with a population of 665. With the discovery of oil, however, this figure tripled. Soon there were twenty-five to thirty oil and gas companies producing within a five-mile radius of Tomball. Humble built a "camp" in Tomball which included housing, recreation facilities and other facilities for its workers. Tomball became famous as a city with free gas and water but no municipal cemetery. The hydrocarbon reservoirs played out and Exxon sold their interest in the late 1980s. There is still a little production from the field and the gas plant is still operational, however most of the field has now been abandoned.
Information for this caption from;.
Handbook of Texas Online, Mike Dennis and Lessie Upchurch, "Tomball, TX," accessed March 05, 2017,
Model: Marina Hermosillo
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer. Hi-Res pictures and prints available at galleries.dreyerpictures.com
American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) and jockey Victor Espinoza win the Belmont Stakes (Gr I) and the Triple Crown at Belmont Park 6/6/15. Trainer: Bob Baffert. Owner: Zayat Stables
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