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how can you tell time without this tool? I can't leave the house without it.

 

finally figured out reverse lens

 

not happy with the background, but my favourite shot of the day

I like to think of myself as a steel mill train aficionado, though one facet of the subject I've never managed to frame up before are ore trains - the start of the entire process. This is mostly because all of the steel plants near me have direct lake access - and thus receive most bulk materials by boat. There are quite a few ore trains that still run in the United States, especially in Minnesota and Northern Michigan - two regions I have yet to visit - but none directly around me. EXCEPT Canadian National's as needed runs from Minnesota down to the Gulf, U724 and empty counterpart U723.

 

These trains were the subject of a recent conversation I had with a buddy from up north, which reminded me that I had, in fact, caught one last winter on the IC. This is an empty northbound, rolling thru Pesotum, Il. I hadn't yet heard about these trains at the time, and initially mistook it for a unit stone train - evidently it's quite hard to distinguish the modern ore jenny from rock hoppers. Nevertheless, I attempted to chase it for the simple fact that it had neat rolling stock - but, already running out of light, that dream came to a swift end when, in Tolono (the next town north of here), the train would be stopped at the NS as the day met a swift end.

 

It was still a two hour drive home from here, and about 30 minutes into it we drove straight into a blizzard - heavy snow and winds, whiteout conditions, freezing highway. It was rough! It seemed like every time I visited the IC (which was quite frequently last winter) it would end driving into similar snowy conditions.

 

The CN still runs these ore trains, and I would absolutely KILL to do another one of my 100+ mile chases of one down (or up) the IC sometime this winter. But as 90% of all unit trains go, they run as needed, so I will need quite a bit of luck and then some...

 

An aside on the title, for those who care. I absolutely fell in love with the IC around this time last year - and from a photographic standpoint, the line really only works in dead-of-winter January gloom. Bark Psychosis' (my favorite music artist, as some of you may know) album Independency was playing on every single trip, and every track on the album shares a similar sort of vibe with the line. Tooled Up is the particular track I was listening to when I was editing this, take a listen if you can:

 

youtu.be/j3J_O7YJ7NE

Exposition 9h30 env

 

Lunette TS 86/464 Quadruplet APO astrographe

Réducteur Televue x0.80

Focale 371mm à F 4.3

Monture EQ6 Pro

Autoguidage Lunette Orion 50mm Guide Scope 163mm

Camera Starshoot Autoguider

Imageur ZWO ASI2600MM Pro

Roue à FiltreZWO 7*36MM

Filtre Baader L, R, V, B ,S2, Ha et O3

 

Sky Quality 19.95

Magnitude CLASS 5 Bortle

  

SGP SEQUENCE GENERATOR PRO, SIRIL et UWE ASTRO TOOLS

Over the past couple days I've taken some pretty crappy shots that I've hesitated about. It happens. Here's all the outtakes (mostly from Storm Coast), just gonna move on.

 

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Hattiwatti's Cinematic Tools (Freecam, Hide HUD, DOF, Fog)

+ Custom SweetFX

An old Chicago Pneumatic Tool air compressor from 1929 left abandoned near the old mining ghost town called Barron.

 

If you visit this area be advised that most of the town is private property and the owners may be around during the summer and fall, so be respectful and take nothing but pictures.

Tools: Minolta SRT 100x, Minolta Rocker 45mm F2, Kodak Colour 200. I have a decade worth of photos, check out my albums! Find me on Instagram & please like Millie Clinton Photography on Facebook! These images are protected by copyright, please do not use them for any commercial or non-commercial purposes without permission.

Inside an old style tool shop. This is how I remember them as a child .

Art in the Pearl, Portland, Oregon

Leica M3, 50mm

Tri-X in Rodinal

Scanned w/Nikon Coolscan V

February 25, 2026

Tool box, Photocredit: @waltherwer #tools #toolbox #oldtools #milling #DDR #machining #mechanicalengineering #working #old #noscrewdrivers #spanner

What's the weekend without some Critter antics :-)

Playing in the back of my ute.

Textures thanks to wojtar and ShadowHouseCreations.

numbers - picnik

View On Black

Experimenting on my macro bellows with Jupiter 8 lens attached. Even closer!

industrial tools ...

in my Industrialscape Series 2 ... Pic # 94 ...

 

Taken on June 22, 2020

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Nowadays, it's called a hex wrench; it's used for putting hexes on things. Photo taken with off-camera flash, using green paper as background. Focus is on the face of the short end of the wrench.

Vintage hedge cutter

Philadelphia Flower Show

"Pop" is what I called my grandfather and "Pop" is what my kids called my dad. These are a few of the tools from both of their tool boxes which I have inherited. A still life homage to: "Pop"

I love the textures here.

 

Tool (noun) - a device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function.

 

Sea Otter uses a rock to break open a large clam. Morro Bay, California.

Tools I Used

1)In Game Photo Mode

2)Image Composition Editor (for stiching)

#handtool

#macromondays

 

A Craftsman Philips screwdriver I bought in 1976.

Macro Mondays 11.6.2018 "Hand-Tools" - candidate #3

 

Focus stack

Fisherman tool with sunrise,with orange sky ,at Pakpra, Phatthalung ,Thailand

We're Here! : Tool Porn

 

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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60 X30 softbox camera left. Reflector camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.

Fendt Traktor Farmer

For strawberry fields

and vegetables

Multi tool - Geräteträger

The Dr. Seuss Experience

Toronto, Ontario

"Red and yellow" - The Flickr Lounge

"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #21" "Instruments" "Focus Friday"

The Pawn House in Palmetto, Georgia

• ~35 Megapixel Rendering

• SweetFX / ReShade

Hatti's Cinematic Tool (FreeCamera, Timestop, FOV)

• SRWE for Hotsampling

 

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To match this week’s theme, “Tools and Utensils,” for the group Macro Mondays. This is a micro (macro) of the can opener blade on a Victorinox Swiss Army Knife.

  

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