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While driving the back roads of Minnesota in the middle of the night, you've yet to see another car on the road . . . your gas tank gauge is hovering near empty . . . fortunately you spot an island of light in the dark . . . YES! A place to fill up . . . but you notice someone wandering about, just outside of the range of light from the island . . . the person is carrying something . . . sticks, a bat, a tripod??? . . . the last item is illogical . . . why would someone be taking a photograph of a gas pump in the middle of the night . . . common sense tells you to keep driving . . . better to be safe than sorry.
My inspiration for photographing gas stations at night were the images taken by Frank Loose which can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/frankloose/albums/72157720238061513
Looking forward to more nights out looking for other gas stations to photograph.
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Sometimes it is fun to take my Yashica 44 for a walk. I have been cutting down 120 film to 127 with variable results.
I fell in love with this diesel pump at a local farm.
The swirly bokeh and the looks from the Fomapan 100 at ISO 50 makes a very nice combination.
John Deere gas pump at Inman Antique Expo
Inman, Georgia
Hasselblad SWC/M
Handheld 1/2 second
38mm Zeiss Biogon
CFV II Digital back
A rusted water pump without a handle greets occasional visitors to this multi-faceted barn that has several additions to the original structure. Few youngsters today can identify with pumps like this and an older adult has to explain to them what purpose they served years ago.
Before we got electricity on our farm in 1949, our farm place had a couple of these and one of them was a shorter version standing on the edge of a white tin sink in our kitchen and was the source for water in our home. There was no switch on our kitchen pump and if you wanted a cool drink on a hot summer day you had to grab the handle and pump up and down until the pump “caught” and started to bring up water.
I was too young at the time to understand the physics behind how a pump could bring up water by simply pumping the handle but I learned not to feel badly about my ignorance as I realized my mother who was 38 at the time didn’t understand it either. She would often have to go outside and yell for my dad to come in and she would advise him the pump was dry probably needed new rings as it would not work anymore.
Dad would snort and find some water to pour down the pump shaft and then give the handle some strong action and it wasn’t long before water would once again gush out.
Our outside pump near the hog shed was another matter. Sometime my dad would have to start a small fire in the winter time to thaw it out before it would work. My older brothers who fancied themselves aspiring Red Skeleton comedians would encourage me to lick the pump handle, telling me the sub-zero winter temperatures made it taste sweet.
(Photographed near Stark, MN)
The pumping station Lely is an electrically driven pumping station in 1930 and is still used to keep the Wieringermeer dry. The building was designed by Dirk Roosenburg.
One of the few remaining water pumps that were dotted around London in the 19th Century.
Seen whilst in a rush to get somewhere else, I took a short-cut and there it was!
I don't know what a "pump house" is, but this is one at the start of the Cliff Walk. The fence was a bonus. HFF!
The Leawood Pump House was built near Cromford, Derbyshire, England in 1849 to supply water to the Cromford Canal, built some 50 years previously. It is a Grade II* listed building
Though these gas pumps are no longer in use, they provide a great glimpse back into a time many of us remember, when things seemed a lot simpler.
I can still recall the first time I saw a pump your own gas station in Michigan! They had yet to hit Florida, and I was amazed that people were allowed to fill their own tanks! Now it's hard to find a station where you DON'T.
Our local mountains had their first snowfall of the season. I managed to escape work for the afternoon and visited Seymour.
The ski runs only have a foot of snow. Above them, I followed the regular trail until Pump Peak. Here I wandered around in the fresh stuff. No snowshoes, but only sinking up to my knees in the deeper spots.
During the winter these trees are thick with snow and ice. It was a nice variation to have them only mostly covered. A happy hour was spent making the only footsteps and trying out different compositions. The sweet late-afternoon light was a pleasant bonus! I can relate to children who enjoy playing in the same school playground day after day. Roaming Seymour in the winter never gets boring for me. It's my outdoor amusement park.
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