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Nala.
It is a known fact that Hervey Bay is the best location in Australia to indulge in whale watching and no visit to Hervey Bay is complete until you visit “Nala” the whale.
Despite being a huge sculpture Nala is actually a real living breathing whale and she is a humpback whale who has be calling in at Hervey Bay on an annual basis since 1992.
Weighing in at 22 tonne the Nala sculpture has some interesting statistics:
Length: 11.5m, Height: 8.3m, Width: 14.8m (including flippers), 9.5 tonnes of timber, 3.5 tonnes of stainless steel and 9 tonnes of steel framework.
It is interesting to note that a Humpback whale grows to an average length of 52 feet (16 metres) and weighs between 30-50 tons (27-45 tonnes).
Artist Ross Bradbury estimates that he invested a minimum of 250 hours of work just into the carving the local ironbark timber.
Add on the time to work the stainless steel fabrication the overall task was as mammoth as a whale.
Nala the Hervey Bay humpback can be viewed at the intersection of Main St and the Esplanade, Pialba.
Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia..
Nala the whale.
It is a known fact that Hervey Bay is the best location in Australia to indulge in whale watching and no visit to Hervey Bay is complete until you visit “Nala” the whale.
Despite being a huge sculpture Nala is actually a real living breathing whale and she is a humpback whale who has be calling in at Hervey Bay on an annual basis since 1992.
Weighing in at 22 tonne the Nala sculpture has some interesting statistics:
Length: 11.5m, Height: 8.3m, Width: 14.8m (including flippers), 9.5 tonnes of timber, 3.5 tonnes of stainless steel and 9 tonnes of steel framework.
It is interesting to note that a Humpback whale grows to an average length of 52 feet (16 metres) and weighs between 30-50 tons (27-45 tonnes).
Artist Ross Bradbury estimates that he invested a minimum of 250 hours of work just into the carving the local ironbark timber.
Add on the time to work the stainless steel fabrication the overall task was as mammoth as a whale.
Nala the Hervey Bay humpback can be viewed at the intersection of Main St and the Esplanade, Pialba.
Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia.
Phalanx of high-tension 'hydro' towers - Brampton, Ontario
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Sigma 150mm 1:2.8 APO macro DG HSM
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As we were driving home, a pretty sunset developed, so as I needed a composition on the the theme of ‘metal’, I decided to try and get the pylons with a pretty background.
This is a multiple exposure experiment using the HDR routine. I particularly like the overlayering of the struts.
Given a Dutch angle and crop in iPhoto to add some dynamism.
Burlington Bay James N. Allan Skyway - precast concrete and box girder structure, completed 1985 - carries traffic on Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) heading towards Fort Erie
●Twin girder-suspended deck-truss structure carries traffic headed to Toronto
●Ships on Burlington Bay Canal pass beneath centre spans headed to and from Port of Hamilton
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_Bay_James_N._Allan_Skyway
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Harbour
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ontario
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes
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Nikon Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR DX
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A page from the c1950 Franco Traffic Signs catalogue. The company made a range of fabricated steel sections that were designed to be bolted together to make a range of different shape and dimension traffic islands rather than using kerbstones.
For nearly a century the bridge, crane and engineering company of Sir William Arrol loomed large in the Scottish industrial sector. The company constructed some of the world's most famous bridges including the Forth Rail Bridge and, as seen here in sketch, the Forth Road Bridge - the latter opened in 1964. They also made a wide range of heavy industrial equipment, such as cranes, as well as constructing industrial and commercial buildings.
The company, founded by William Arrol, were based at Dalmarnock Iron Works and Parkhead Crane Works both in Glasgow. The catalogue is a many paged document showing the wide range of engineering jobs the company were involved in. John Brown's Clydeside shipbuilding yard was one of the most famous in the world, part of the massive West of Scotland shipbuilding industry that has now vanished, and here can be seen a set of 40t and 60t travelling cranes being used to fit out a BP tanker, "The British Queen".
For nearly a century the bridge, crane and engineering company of Sir William Arrol loomed large in the Scottish industrial sector. The company constructed some of the world's most famous bridges including the Forth Rail Bridge and, as seen here in sketch, the Forth Road Bridge - the latter opened in 1964. They also made a wide range of heavy industrial equipment, such as cranes, as well as constructing industrial and commercial buildings.
The company, founded by William Arrol, were based at Dalmarnock Iron Works and Parkhead Crane Works both in Glasgow. The catalogue is a many paged document showing the wide range of engineering jobs the company were involved in. Here is shown the 60 ton floating crane "Titan" owned and operated by the Port of London Authority in the days when the old east end docks complex was one of the largest in the world.
For nearly a century the bridge, crane and engineering company of Sir William Arrol loomed large in the Scottish industrial sector. The company constructed some of the world's most famous bridges including the Forth Rail Bridge and, as seen here in sketch, the Forth Road Bridge - the latter opened in 1964. They also made a wide range of heavy industrial equipment, such as cranes, as well as constructing industrial and commercial buildings.
The company, founded by William Arrol, were based at Dalmarnock Iron Works and Parkhead Crane Works both in Glasgow. The catalogue is a many paged document showing the wide range of engineering jobs the company were involved in. This image shows the importation and unloading of iron ore that was carried out at the General Terminus Quay in Glasgow, in connection with the new integrated steelworks that was situated further east in the Clyde Valley at Ravenscraig, in Lanarkshire. Ravenscraig, built for the famous Colville concern (under various managements) was one of the newest and largest steel plants in the UK, a symbol of investment in the important Lanarkshire iron and steel industry at the time which has now almost completely vanished.
For nearly a century the bridge, crane and engineering company of Sir William Arrol loomed large in the Scottish industrial sector. The company constructed some of the world's most famous bridges including the Forth Rail Bridge and, as seen here in sketch, the Forth Road Bridge - the latter opened in 1964. They also made a wide range of heavy industrial equipment, such as cranes, as well as constructing industrial and commercial buildings.
The company, founded by William Arrol, were based at Dalmarnock Iron Works and Parkhead Crane Works both in Glasgow. The catalogue is a many paged document showing the wide range of engineering jobs the company were involved in. Here is shown the erection of a group of 40t, 60t and 80t travelling cranes at the Musgrave Yard of the famous shipbuilders Harland & Wolff in Belfast.
historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=ontari...
Sigma 12-24mm 1:4.5-5.6 DG HSM EX
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Boulton & Paul were a long established general construction and fabrication company whose roots dated back to mid-Victorian times in Norwich. During the First World War they became involved in aircraft construction, and this division was in time spun off as a separate company. This 1953 advert is for their work in steel framework and construction and highlights housing in Cromer Street, near Kings Cross in London, being constructed for the local authority, the Metropolitan Borough of St. Pancras.
For nearly a century the bridge, crane and engineering company of Sir William Arrol loomed large in the Scottish industrial sector. The company constructed some of the world's most famous bridges including the Forth Rail Bridge and, as seen here in sketch, the Forth Road Bridge - the latter opened in 1964. They also made a wide range of heavy industrial equipment, such as cranes, as well as constructing industrial and commercial buildings.
The company, founded by William Arrol, were based at Dalmarnock Iron Works and Parkhead Crane Works both in Glasgow. The catalogue is a many paged document showing the wide range of engineering jobs the company were involved in. The company built many travelling carnes such as this, supplied to the Central Electricity Generating Board at Ferrybridge "B" power generating station in West Yorkshire. The crane spanned the main turbine hall as seen here.
A page from a substantial book illustrating the steel work and other engineering contracts carried out by the West Bromwich based Braithwaites. Founded in 1884 as Braithwaite & Kirk the company prospered mainly due to a healthy export business in the 'colonies' as well as in the home market and indeed in 1913 they opened an Indian branch as well as later acquiring additional works in Newport, Monmouthshire.
These two pages show electricity pylons, or transmission towers, that Braithwaites both constructed and erected. The mid-1930s say huge activity in the development of the UK's National Grid (Gridiron) that was instituted by the Government and that formed part of drive to both increase the availability of electricity but also to deliver a more efficient generation and supply industry based on new 'Selected" generating stations and a standardised current to replace the earlier rag-bag of small stations and varying voltages, etc.
http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=1066
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Sigma 50-500mm 1:4-6.3 APO DG HSM EX
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Abandoned and rusting steel-lattice hydro towers carried high-tension lines to now-demolished coal-fed Lakeview Generating Station. Discharge stacks are part of Lakeview Water Treatment Facility.
Nikon Nikkor 18-200mm 1:3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR DX
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A page from a substantial book illustrating the steel work and other engineering contracts carried out by the West Bromwich based Braithwaites. Founded in 1884 as Braithwaite & Kirk the company prospered mainly due to a healthy export business in the 'colonies' as well as in the home market and indeed in 1913 they opened an Indian branch as well as later acquiring additional works in Newport, Monmouthshire.
These two pages show electricity pylons, or transmission towers, that Braithwaites both constructed and erected. The mid-1930s say huge activity in the development of the UK's National Grid (Gridiron) that was instituted by the Government and that formed part of drive to both increase the availability of electricity but also to deliver a more efficient generation and supply industry based on new 'Selected" generating stations and a standardised current to replace the earlier rag-bag of small stations and varying voltages, etc.
Queen size sttel bed with 6 ft. headboard made from stained cypress. Drawer faces and skirt stained cypress also
Lincoln Electric TIG Welder.
Miller 185A MIG Wire-Feed-Welder.
My Milwaukee Porta BandSaw.
Milwaukee Variable Speed Angle Grinder(s).
Milwaukee Porta Band Saw- Deep throat.
Auto-Darkening Helmets
Leather Apron.
Can't imagine, working w/ out 'em!
As we were driving home, a pretty sunset developed, so as I needed a composition on the the theme of ‘metal’, I decided to try and get the pylons with a pretty background.
The original photo - a multiple exposure experiment using the HDR routine. I particularly like the overlayering of the struts.
I've tried this before with the HDR but this is the first time something decent came out of it.