To me, mines high on the moors are the most evocative of any industrial sites. I was lucky enough to explore the still-working and steam-powered Montcliffe Colliery, on the Pennines above Bolton in the 1960s and the impression it left has always stayed with me. Grove Rake, near Rookhope in Co Durham must be about the very last survivor of these wild, remote outposts, the hills around it littered with old iron, lead and spar mine workings.

November 2010

Students clean up the alley behind the Boggs school

Photographer- Rachel Freedman-Doan

just before a California sunset. As winter settles in on the east it's nice to visit family on the other coast!

From the set of "E.R."

A student at Sewamuktha Kandawura MahaVidyalya, Polonnaruwa, sweeps the garden before classes commence. Some classes are held under trees for lack of space. Photo credit: Shahidul Alam April 22, 2008. Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka.

Sitting in the air-conditioned cabs of the modern farm machinery now, it must be hard to imagine a person riding this hay rake behind a team of horses, raking the mown hay into rows to be picked up and stacked for the coming winter feed for the animals.

RAKE: Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner Greg Kinnear (R) makes his broadcast television series debut in the bold new legal drama RAKE, created by Peter Duncan and executive-produced by Peter Tolan and Michael Wimer. Kinnear is KEEGAN DEANE, one of life’s great addicts, a brilliant and frustratingly charming criminal defense attorney, whose chaotic and self-destructive personal life often gets in the way of his professional one. Keegan takes on the cases that nobody else will touch, ruled by a resolute optimism, belief in justice and dogged determination to defend those who seem beyond redemption – much like himself. The bold new legal drama RAKE is slated for midseason on FOX. Also pictured L-R: Ian Colletti, Miranda Otto, Tara Summers, Necar Zadegan, John Ortiz and Bojana Novakovic. ©2013 Fox Broadcasting Co. Cr: Patrick Ecclesine/FOX.

lex35 krappy kamera :)

beach art

Strobist Info: Vivitar on camera right at low power about three feet and slightly above coffee grounds.

Will be used in this post next week.

Hay rake, abandoned homestead, Sherman Co, OR. March 2013.

Kiev 88CM :Zavod Arsenal 150mm Kaleinar-3B f/2.8 : Arista EDU 400 : PMK Pyro

Viva La Roller Paint.

Some very very old gardening tools I found in my grandma's garden hovel. Think they haven't been used for decades.

First leaf raking session for this year.

Speaking of lack of leaves. The Maple Leafs are off to a horrible start this year. Current record is 0-7-1. It's going to be a long year. Here's this year's roster;

Blake, Jason C

Grabovski, Mikhail C

Mitchell, John C

Primeau, Wayne C

Stajan, Matt C

Wallin, Richard C

Hagman, Niklas LW

Kulemin, Nikolai LW/RW

Mayers, Jamal RW

Orr, Colton RW

Ponikarovsky, Alexei LW

Rosehill, Jay LW

Stalberg, Viktor LW

Stempniak, Lee RW

Beauchemin, Francois D

Exelby, Garnet D

Finger, Jeff D

Kaberle, Tomas D

Komisarek, Mike D

Schenn, Luke D

White, Ian D

Gustavsson, Jonas G

MacDonald, Joey G

Toskala, Vesa G

Designed for Hockey, suited for war.

A prominent feature on the twisting, turning A5004 from Buxton to Whaley Bridge. The rake descends down to the Goyt Valley and reservoirs of Fernilee and Errwood.

Benched in southern CA.

The Rake, at 14 Winchester Walk in Borough Market, near London Bridge, Southwark, is a great pub for exploring craft beer - both British and American.

Clean-up workers rake up debris thrown from the Dutch Village Apartments at the intersection of Mc Clean Blvd. and E. Northern Parkway in northeast Baltimore. The town homes Community was damaged around 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 from high winds that may have been from a tornado. (The Daily Record/Maximilian Franz)

Drying the coffee beans.

Doka Estate, located on the slopes of the Alajuela Poas Volcano. Costa Rica.

GROWING UP SKIPPER COLORING BOOK 1979

Argus 40 / Not too bad for a camera that can be picked up for almost nothing

Ethan and I raked up this pile of leaves to compost over the winter.

I found some volunteer labor to rake my yard this year.

Raking shadows across the Rope Walk in Sandwich, Kent

At Kentwell Hall, Suffolk

He's a cad, don't you know ... the kind no-one should tie a shoelace in front of.

WR's Pure AC Retrofitted EMU converted into Muck special resting in Mahalakshmi Workshop..

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Rake no. 3041-42

At the Tori-no-ichi festival, some stalls are selling lucky rake for praying happiness.

A long rake of EE units with EO45 sandwiched in the middle, seen on the arrival road at Hutt Workshops. This rake derailed 3 days prior when trying to enter the workshops, with the result that D2462 (closest to camera) ended up at the south end of the consist when originally at the north. For the record, from left to right the vehicles are DM527, D2553, EO45, D2489, DM510, D2735, DM470, D2462. History tells us DM510 and its trailer D2489 get returned to service, but the rest seemingly do not. Hutt Workshops, 18th July 2011

This old John Deere rake is hardely used anymore.

Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT

Canon EFS 18-55mm lens

These figures are near this one, and look like they are probably in the same ink. But they are more exposed and weathered, and about half of the times I've walked past this panel, even knowing where it was, I could not find it. So I've boosted the contrast quite a bit and can't claim the colors are exactly correct any more (the rock is fairly red and I've made it brown) but you can see the pigments better. There are a lot of BCS figures with a rake on one arm and a snake approaching from the other side, so I wonder if that's what this is. (Whatever that is . . .)

Scanned from Kodak slide film.

a portion of the Rakes of Rochester dance. (Jane Austen Evening, 1-17-2009, Pasadena, CA)