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Ugo Mulas was one of the greatest italian photographers. This script is taken from Verifications from the website of his fundation
"In 1970 I began taking photographs whose subject matter was photography itself, a sort of analysis of the operations of photography aimed at identifying its basic elements and their intrinsic significance. For instance, what is a sensitive surface? Why using a telephoto or wide-angle lens? Why do you choose a certain format? Why making enlargements? What relation exists between a photograph and its caption? And so on. All fundamental subjects of every photography manual but seen from the opposite side, that is by a seasoned professional with twenty years of experience, while manuals are usually addressed to and read by beginners.
My digressions may spring from the typical need of self-taught people who, darkness being their starting point, want to be clear-headed about what they do, remove any doubts and they still have a sort of naivety and a great enthusiasm as to their hard-won expertise.
I have called this series of photos Verifications because they were meant to clear the meaning of those operations I have been repeating for years, hundred of times a day, without never stopping to consider their inherent value and always seeing only their utilitarian side. I have dedicated the first of these photographs or verifications to Niepce. A single example of his photograph has survived, a picture shot from the window of his house at Le Gras. About a hundred and fifty years have passed from that time, but for a photographer that is an already mythical age when people talked about photos made by the sun, about self-delineating natural objects which do not need the artist's hand. An age when a particularly imaginative scientist, who had no faith in his drawing skills, became convinced that, apart from the pencil, there should be another, more efficient way to catch these fleeting images, and found it. And another scientist, presenting Daguerre's invention said that pictures created themselves in the dark room.
A mythical age that burns out in a few years together with the dream of having found the way to eliminate the inaccurate and tendentious hand of the artist. In a few years photography becomes a big business: factories sprout everywhere, new patents are licensed almost every day. Nadar already writes with painful irony: "Photography, this wonderful invention, product of the most extraordinary minds, which inspires the most imaginative minds, and whose practice is within the reach of the worst of imbeciles".
Long dreamed of by its inventors as evidence of truth, regarded as a way of freeing men from the responsibility of representing truth, in a short time it swiftly took the opposite direction. Because of the blind trust everyone had in its objectivity and its mechanical impartiality, photography ended up lending itself to the most ambiguous manipulations. Photography did not give man the certainty of being able to objectively reproduce himself and the world, as Niepce and Fox Talbot may have dreamed of. It ended up, instead, favouring the small élite of painters who relieved themselves of the burden of those servile operations that represented one of the constant but more frustrating aspects of their job and that became part of the photographer's profession. Indeed the worst of them turned photographers, often with success, because the new medium was more congenial to their interests and gifts while others used photography as a model for their painting. It can happen, as in Hill's case, that no trace is left of the paintings, while only the photographs remain as evidence of their value.
Nowadays photography and its by-products, television and cinema, are everywhere at any time. No longer our eyes, this magic meeting point between ourselves and the world, have to do with this world, reality, nature; we see more and more through other people's eyes.
It may be an advantage: to see through thousands of eyes instead of only two; the question, however, is not so simple. Only very few of these thousands of eyes work autonomously following their own quest, their own vision. These eyes are, even unconsciously, connected to few minds, to precise interests, to a single power. This way, unconsciously, even our eyes instead of transmitting us true information, maybe poor and scanty but authentic, submerge us with countless visual information which are twice as bewildering because their falsity is hidden behind a sort of splendour. In the end we renounce our own vision which seems so poor in comparison with the one worked out by the professionals of visual communication. Little by little the world is no longer sky, earth, fire, and water; it is printed paper, it is full of ghosts conjured up by ever more perfect and persuasive media.
I know reality is more complicated and ambiguous than that. But my remarks have only one aim: to reconstruct and understand the things I was reflecting upon some years ago when I started thinking to this photograph and non photograph which is my work dedicated to Niepce. The need to clear up to myself the reason of certain declarations and refusals such as the one concerning an idea, very popular in the 1950's when I started photographing. According to this theory a photograph is not important for its truthfulness, but for the effect, the impact it can have on the viewer's mind. I believe this idea originated from a misinterpretation of some of Cartier-Bresson's words and pictures exacerbated then by a certain kind of journalism.
From then on, it has further degenerated not only in photo-journalism but in every field where photography has become a commercial business. An example is cinema which has turned day by day more vulgar and aggressive to meet the tastes of an audience that, like a drug addict, needs always one more dose. Some films regarded as dramatic twenty years ago, today make us almost smile. A rather different case is that of photography which, after all, works with reality as Cartier-Bresson stated presenting Images à la sauvette in 1952. "A travers nos appareils, nous acceptons la vie dans toute sa réalité" (Through our cameras, we accept life in its entirety), which is an epitome of what can be said or written about photography. He is less clear when writes that you should get closer to your subject furtively and that the photographer has always to do with fleeting moments. These sentences, read out of their context and referred to certain extreme pictures by Cartier-Bresson, may have contributed to the spread of the taste for a predatory photography. The photographer, in this case, is always in search of the most unusual and unpredictable image like a predator always in ambush and ready to snatch whatever fleeting moment, as long as it is exceptional, possibly unique and unrepeatable.
This theory certainly presents some true and attracting aspects, but I could not accept the idea of a whole life spent behind a camera waiting for this rare event to happen. Or the idea of these few dozen or hundreds of privileged moments to collect in an album or book, like a hunter putting his most important trophies on the walls of his house. I refuse this theory of the fleeting moment, because I believe that all moments are equally fleeting and the one is as good as the other. Actually I think that the less significant moment may be indeed the exceptional one. Similarly I have never liked photographing far off, exotic countries, I have seen neither China, nor India, nor Japan, nor South America, nor Lapland, nor Oceania, even if my profession has sometimes forced me to set out on some long and boring journeys. I do not want to deny the usefulness of travelling both for pleasure and on business, as long as you do not stay all the time with your eye glued to the camera. For I think that a photographer can live equally exciting and interesting adventures by merely walking between Porta Romana and Porta Ticinese, maybe exploring the flats of his own neighbours of whom we often ignore even the names. The really important thing is not the privileged moment, but to determine one' s own reality; afterwards all moments have more or less equal value. Once chosen one's own territory we could again witness the miracle of the "pictures creating themselves", because at that moment the photographer has to turn into a mere operator. This means that his intervention should be limited to the instrumental operations: framing, focusing, choosing exposure time in relation to aperture, and taking the photo at last. Here, "through our cameras, we accept life in its entirety", so even in any of its "fleeting moments", and thus we come back to that mythical time I mentioned before, a time of "self-delineating natural objects which do not need the artist's hand".
The photographer's task is to identify his own reality, that of the machine to record it in its entirety. Two closely connected but also different actions which remind me of certain operations typical of some 1920's artists. I think of Marcel Duchamp's ready made, of some of Man Ray's objects. In these cases the artist's intervention was altogether insignificant from the operational point of view. It consisted in fact in a conceptual identification of a reality already materialized whose mere indication was sufficient to allow it to live in 'another' dimension. Thus the object, until that time identical to thousand of others, became part of an ideal sphere forever detached from the inert world of things.
I think it proper now to cite some words from an article Marcel Duchamp wrote in The Blind after that, in 1917, the organisers of the first New York Salon des Indépendants refused to show the Fountain, the famous urinal by Richard Mutt (a manufacturer of medical products) sent by Duchamp. "Whether Mr Mutt made the fountain with his own hands or not has no importance; he chose it; he took an ordinary object and placed it so that its useful significance disappears under a new title and point of view; he created a new thought for that object". And what is my object dedicated to Niepce if not a ready made, with all its peculiarities? It is, as Marcel Jan writes in his book on Surrealism, "a banality which is the starting point of a series of complex developments". The unused, unexposed roll which has been only developed, fixed and printed, loses its utilitarian meaning and produces a series of reactions whose outcome is the group of photographs I gathered under the title of Verifications.
VERIFICATIONS
OMAGE TO NIEPCE
THE PROCESS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
THE TIME OF PHOTOGRAPHY
THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
THE ENLARGEMENT
THE ENLARGEMENT
THE LABORATORY
LENSES
SUN, APERTURE AND EXPOSURE TIME
LENSES AND SPACE
CAPTION
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH NINI
END OF VERIFICATION"
Fission material check by US National Nuclear Security Administration representative. Read more here www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2013/vietnamheu.html
Photo Credit: Sandor Tozser / IAEA
IAEA inspectors return to the DPRK after a period of absence of more than four years. Metal seals like these will be used by Agency inspectors in the country's nuclear facilities. They can show evidence of any unauthorised attempt to gain access to secured material or equipment. The IAEA returns to the North Korea to monitor and verify the shutdown of the country's nuclear facility in Yongbyon. (Vienna, Austria, 6 July 2007)
Photo Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA
Video cameras in their secure housings used for remote monitoring of nuclear sites. The cameras are one of several technological tools used by IAEA inspectors to carry out safeguards and verification checks around the world. (Vienna, Austria, 23 Sept 2002).
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
The Cask Radiation Profiling System (CRPS), is a data acquisition system to acquire gamma and neutron radiation profiles in CANDU spent fuel dry storage facilities. The CRPS motor unit is used to ascend a gamma or neutron detector inside the verification tube of a spent fuel storage silo. Detector pulse information is provided during the consistent detector motion, and, together with information of the detector movement’s speed, is recorded in a data acquisition file on the CRPS control unit. The data acquisition file is used to verify the presence of spent fuel stored in the respective repository.
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Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
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Improved Cherenkov Viewing Device (ICVD)
The ICVD is a hand-held light intensifying device, optimized to view Cerenkov light for items counting, used for verification of the presence of spent fuel in a cooling pond. IAEA Vienna, Austria. 2 March 2018.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
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Smearing test on the surface of the VPVR/M package. Read more here www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2013/vietnamheu.html
Photo Credit: Sandor Tozser / IAEA
Convoy on the way from Dalat Institute to a military airport outside of Ho Chi Minh City. Read more here www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2013/vietnamheu.html
Photo Credit: Sandor Tozser / IAEA
Tension is just right. Thickness is as it should be. Yeah, it's ready. I can let go of this blade and get onto the thread. It should support my weight.
Fixing the bottom shock absorber on the VPVR/M package. Read more here www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2013/vietnamheu.html
Photo Credit: Sandor Tozser / IAEA
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Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General briefs the international press and media after his arrival at the Vienna International Airport. He met with Iranian officials Ali Akbar Salehi, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and Javad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister during his two day official visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran. DG Grossi is accompanied by his Senior Advisor, Edgard Perez Alvan, Mark Bassett, Special Assistant to the DG for Nuclear Safety and Security and Safeguards and Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards. Vienna International Airport, Schwechat, Austria. 21 February 2021
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
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Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from the 6th. February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during her lifetime, and was head of state of 15 realms at the time of her death.
Her reign of 70 years and 214 days was the longest of any British monarch, and the longest verified reign of any female monarch in history.
Elizabeth - The Early Years
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in Mayfair, London, on the 21st. April 1926 as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother).
Her father acceded to the throne in 1936 upon the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, making the ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth the heir presumptive.
She was educated privately at home, and began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In November 1947, she married Philip Mountbatten, a former prince of Greece and Denmark, and their marriage lasted 73 years until his death in 2021.
They had four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward.
When her father died in February 1952, Elizabeth—then 25 years old—became queen of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon (known today as Sri Lanka), as well as head of the Commonwealth.
Elizabeth reigned as a constitutional monarch through major political changes such as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, devolution in the United Kingdom, the decolonisation of Africa, and the United Kingdom's accession to the European Communities and withdrawal from the European Union.
The number of her realms varied over time as territories gained independence and some realms became republics.
As queen, Elizabeth was served by more than 170 prime ministers across her realms. Her many historic visits and meetings included state visits to China in 1986, to Russia in 1994, and to the Republic of Ireland in 2011, as well as meetings with five popes.
Significant events included Elizabeth's coronation in 1953 and the celebrations of her Silver, Golden, Diamond, and Platinum jubilees in 1977, 2002, 2012, and 2022, respectively.
Although she faced occasional republican sentiment and media criticism of her family—particularly after the breakdowns of her children's marriages, her Annus Horribilis in 1992, and the death in 1997 of her former daughter-in-law Diana—support for the monarchy in the United Kingdom remained consistently high throughout her lifetime, as did her personal popularity.
The Death of Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth died at Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, on the 8th. September 2022 at the age of 96, and was succeeded by her eldest son, Charles III.
Her state funeral was the first to be held in the United Kingdom since that of Winston Churchill in 1965.
Final Thoughts From Queen Elizabeth II
"Therefore I am sure that this, my
Coronation, is not the symbol of a
power and a splendour that are gone,
but a declaration of our hopes for the
future, and for the years I may, by God's
Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and
serve you as your Queen."
"I declare before you all that my whole life,
whether it be long or short, shall be devoted
to your service and the service of our great
imperial family to which we all belong."
"I have in sincerity pledged myself to your
service, as so many of you are pledged to
mine. Throughout all my life and with all my
heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust."
"I have been aware all the time that my
peoples, spread far and wide throughout
every continent and ocean in the world,
were united to support me in the task to
which I have now been dedicated with
such solemnity."
"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not
give you laws or administer justice but
I can do something else - I can give my
heart and my devotion to these old
islands and to all the peoples of our
brotherhood of nations."
"I have behind me not only the splendid
traditions and the annals of more than a
thousand years, but the living strength
and majesty of the Commonwealth and
Empire; of societies old and new; of lands
and races different in history and origins
but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and
in aim."
"The lessons from the peace process
are clear; whatever life throws at us,
our individual responses will be all the
stronger for working together and
sharing the load."
"To what greater inspiration and counsel
can we turn than to the imperishable truth
to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?"
"The upward course of a nation's history
is due in the long run to the soundness
of heart of its average men and women."
"We lost the American colonies because we
lacked the statesmanship to know the right
time and the manner of yielding what is
impossible to keep."
"It is easy enough to define what the
Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is
quite a popular pastime."
"To all those who have suffered as a
consequence of our troubled past I
extend my sincere thoughts and deep
sympathy. With the benefit of historical
hindsight we can all see things which
we would wish had been done differently
or not at all."
"Like all the best families, we have our
share of eccentricities, of impetuous and
wayward youngsters and of family
disagreements."
"Grief is the price we pay for love."
"The events that I have attended to mark
my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling
experience. It has touched me deeply to
see so many thousands of families, neighbours
and friends celebrating together in such a
happy atmosphere."
"I have to be seen to be believed."
"First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself.
She was an exceptional and gifted human
being. In good times and bad, she never
lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to
inspire others with her warmth and kindness.
I admired and respected her - for her energy
and commitment to others, and especially
for her devotion to her two boys."
"No one who knew Diana will ever forget
her. Millions of others who never met her,
but felt they knew her, will remember her."
"I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever
we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's
loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is
a chance to show to the whole world the
British nation united in grief and respect."
"The British constitution has always
been puzzling and always will be."
"My husband has quite simply been my
strength and stay all these years, and I
owe him a debt greater than he would
ever claim."
"At Christmas, I am always struck by how
the spirit of togetherness lies also at the
heart of the Christmas story. A young
mother and a dutiful father with their baby
were joined by poor shepherds and visitors
from afar. They came with their gifts to
worship the Christ child."
"In remembering the appalling suffering
of war on both sides, we recognise how
precious is the peace we have built in
Europe since 1945."
"Madam President, speaking here in
Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore
the weight of history, as it was yesterday
when you and I laid wreaths at the
Garden of Remembrance."
"It's all to do with the training: you can
do a lot if you're properly trained."
"At its heart, engineering is about using
science to find creative, practical solutions.
It is a noble profession."
"These wretched babies don't
come until they are ready."
"For many, Christmas is also a time for
coming together. But for others, service
will come first."
"What were once only hopes for the future
have now come to pass; it is almost exactly
13 years since the overwhelming majority
of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland
voted in favour of the agreement signed on
Good Friday 1998, paving the way for
Northern Ireland to become the exciting and
inspirational place that it is today."
"I know of no single formula for success.
But over the years I have observed that
some attributes of leadership are universal,
and are often about finding ways of
encouraging people to combine their efforts,
their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm
and their inspiration to work together."
-- Once, when walking the grounds of Balmoral with her protection officer, Queen Elizabeth ran into some American tourists. It became clear they didn’t recognise her.
“Have you ever met the Queen?” they asked.
“No,” she responded, and then pointed at her protection officer. “But he has.”
-- On the occasion of her 72nd. wedding anniversary, the Queen loudly commented during a public appearance:
“What’s the date?”
-- After Princess Michael of Kent made a comment on television about how she’d like to shoot the Queen’s Corgis, the monarch is said to have retorted:
“They’re better behaved than she is.”
-- At the 2016 Chelsea Flower Show, a gardener told her how lilies of the valley have poisonous traits. The Queen is said to have replied:
“I’ve been given two bunches this
week. Perhaps they want me dead.”
-- In 2007, the Queen made an official visit to the White House. During the welcome ceremony, President George W. Bush mistakenly said the Queen helped Americans celebrate their bicentennial in 1776, not 1996.
He quickly corrected the error, but the Queen didn’t let him off the hook. At a formal dinner two days later, she began her speech by saying:
“I wondered whether I should start
this toast by saying, ‘When I was here
in 1776...’”
-- When visiting New Zealand in 1986, the Queen and her late husband, Prince Philip, were pelted with eggs thrown by protestors. Later, at a state banquet, she remarked:
“New Zealand has long been renowned
for its dairy produce, though I should say
that I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs
for breakfast.”
-- In the summer of 2013, royal baby watch reached a peak as the world waited for the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s first child. When pressed for clues at an engagement, the Queen simply replied:
“I hope it arrives soon, because
I’m going on holiday.”
-- In the 1960's, she watched the Everly Brothers singing 'Cathy’s Clown' as part of the annual Royal Variety Performance. To say she was unimpressed was an understatement. She muttered to her lady-in-waiting that they sounded like “two cats being strangled”.
-- Once, while driving up to the Royal Windsor Horse Show, a guard failed to recognise her. “Sorry, love, you can’t come in without a sticker,” he’s said to have told her. The queen, unfazed, replied:
“I think if you check, I will
be allowed to come in.”
-- During an interview for the documentary The Coronation, the Queen joked to royal commentator Alastair Bruce about the difficulties of wearing a crown:
“You can’t look down to read
the speech. If you did, your
neck would break.”
-- In an argument with the Queen Mother, the elder royal said to her daughter: “Who do you think you are?” To which the Queen is said to have replied:
“The Queen, Mummy, the Queen.”
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General briefs the international press and media after his arrival at the Vienna International Airport. He met with Iranian officials Ali Akbar Salehi, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and Javad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister during his two day official visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran. DG Grossi is accompanied by his Senior Advisor, Edgard Perez Alvan, Mark Bassett, Special Assistant to the DG for Nuclear Safety and Security and Safeguards and Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards. Vienna International Airport, Schwechat, Austria. 21 February 2021
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General briefs the international press and media after his arrival at the Vienna International Airport. He met with Iranian officials Ali Akbar Salehi, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and Javad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister during his two day official visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran. DG Grossi is accompanied by his Senior Advisor, Edgard Perez Alvan, Mark Bassett, Special Assistant to the DG for Nuclear Safety and Security and Safeguards and Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards. Vienna International Airport, Schwechat, Austria. 21 February 2021
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Some are just at the edge of the parameters; some are colorful; some are good macros. Will put up the actual pictures in a bit.
Fitting the upper shock absorber on the top of the VPVR/M container. Read more here www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2013/vietnamheu.html
Photo Credit: Sandor Tozser / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General briefs the international press and media after his arrival at the Vienna International Airport. He met with Iranian officials Ali Akbar Salehi, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and Javad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister during his two day official visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran. DG Grossi is accompanied by his Senior Advisor, Edgard Perez Alvan, Mark Bassett, Special Assistant to the DG for Nuclear Safety and Security and Safeguards and Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards. Vienna International Airport, Schwechat, Austria. 21 February 2021
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Chemist at the IAEA Clean Laboratory performing chemical separation of U and Pu. IAEA Seibersdorf, Austria
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Chemist at the IAEA Clean Laboratory performing chemical separation of U and Pu. IAEA Seibersdorf, Austria, 6 October 2010
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Navy sailor verifies building keys for the CFAO Air Operations building in Okinawa, Japan. CFAO supports the full spectrum of Navy operations on Okinawa and its major tenant commands are Commander Task Force 76, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5 and Patrol and Reconnaissance Force 7th Fleet.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Matthew Dickinson
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A couple of weeks into the renewed activity, and the intention to completely demolish the upper reservoir is clear. Under previous development proposals there have been suggestions that the site of the upper reservoir may be used for parking/infrastructure relating to whatever development was introduced to the site around what remained of the other reservoirs.
2016 Update: this set charts the demolition of the Baildon Moor Reservoirs which began in 2012. Most of the set is from the first stage of demolition, with a further period of activity in late 2013 when the stone linings were removed. In 14-15 a little wildness returned to the site as represented by nesting Oystercatchers. As of early 2016 what remained of the reservoirs is being infilled as the site is prepared for some sort of development. As this is mostly a legacy set I suggest you consult local media for more recent news, for example Bradford T&A has covered the story.
2013 update: work resumed (October 2013) on the significant demolition activity on the historic Baildon Moor reservoir site. All of the reservoirs have essentially been demolished, with the lining stone being stripped out for reuse. Further clearing of vegetation took place, including the attractive patch of heather and bilberry which covered the bank of the bottom reservoir. Given that there is Green Hairstreak butterfly colony a few tens of yards from the reservoir wall, who knows what flora and fauna have been lost. We are left with three large muddy pits, little in the way of vegetation and an increasingly damaged perimeter wall which the owners seem to have given up on. The site is available to let, but one wonders what sort of use might be deemed "suitable" in this moorland environment.
We have made enquiries to the Parish Council and to Friends of Baildon Moor as to what this most recent development activity might be leading towards, as we have been unable to find any development proposals in the public domain. Nobody seems very sure, but the development of fishing lakes has been suggested as one possibility. I have nothing to verify that though.
To me the best two solutions would be either to 1) complete the demolition, remove the boundary wall and return the area to common land with the aid of some ecological restoration, or 2) develop the site as a nature reserve, in a similar way to other post-industrial sites like opencast workings. This latter option could involve development of a wetland (given that the largest areas of open water on the moor have now been lost), perhaps with the sponsorship of some organisation like the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. I expect the land owner has more economically lucrative aspirations though.
The images in this set do get frequently viewed, and there seems to be no-one else recording the activity, so I'll continue to do so. This is personal activity motivated by my concern for the visual effect on the surrounding moorland environment, damage to the heritage of the area and inappropriate development in a special place. Hopefully the hundreds of other of my images and journal entries that I've made available on Flickr and Blipfoto, of the moor, its wildlife and local heritage stand as some testimony to my long-standing affection for this place.
Background:
In July 2011 contractors moved onto the site of the Baildon Moor Reservoirs and began clearing it of vegetation and knocking through the two lower reservoirs. This came as a surprise to members of the local community and led to widespread concern. It emerged that the actions related to the proposed development of some sort of water-based recreational centre. No planning application had been submitted for the work.
After listening to public concern about the development and the manner in which it was being conducted, Baildon Parish Council issued a statement about the developments which can be viewed here: baildonparishcouncil.gov.uk/website/index.php/doc-remos/M...
After the major ground work had been completed the site went quiet over the winter of 2011/12. The lower two reservoirs refilled, but to such a height that new concerns were expressed, and according to the Friends of Baildon Moor (see minutes of the Feb 2012 Committee Meeting here: baildonmoor.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Feb-... ) the reservoirs were drained, and a civil engineer from Bradford Council has ordered that no further work be done until a full survey had been conducted, and appropriate plans submitted for approval, this justifying some of the initial concerns of residents.
Although this set focuses on the initial stage of clearance, I will update it periodically with any further visible evidence of developments on site.
i pulled this print in the darkroom today, and really liked it. it's a little crooked, though.
i recently got a diana f+ & the 35mm back to go with it, plus a few lenses and such. hopefully, i'll get to do more with film in 2010 (:
10 days until 365! i still need to buy a new pro account.
The Verification Operations Section of the Regional Department for Stabilisation of the OSCE was based in the Poljooprema Building in Sarajevo. The VOS office is on the 2nd (3rd) floor, where the white satcom antenna can be seen. VOS were responsible for the coordination and facilitation of all Dayton Accord inspections, and also were involved in training of factions' arms control personnel. I spent four months attached to VOS as Logistics Officer Jan-Mar 1999.
Training Safeguards Inspectors: Hot Cell and Glovebox Training in Georgia
Most hot cells and gloveboxes in the world are contaminated with nuclear materials which makes safe entry extremely difficult. The only way to see into most hot cells is through a small lead glass window (pictured) that requires inspectors to use mirrors. The hot cells at the Andronikashvili Institute of Physics were only used for a short time and handled radioactive isotopes with a short half-life. Therefore, the hot cells are not contaminated and are safe to enter.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
The plutonium lab at Seibersdorf Analytical Laboratory (SAL). Seibersdorf, Austria. 26 January 2016
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
So they are. Now the question I’m wondering is… am I going to have to bitch every time I need a video verified? :-)
By the way one video was an quicktime animation screen recording (generated by SnapzPro) and the other was a quicktime cylindrical panoramic, both are free. I’m curious how Google will allow me to present this content. I’ll link them when they “go live” so you can test them out.
The plutonium lab at Seibersdorf Analytical Laboratory (SAL). Seibersdorf, Austria. 26 January 2016
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Shipment leaves the Dalat Institute. Read more here www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2013/vietnamheu.html
Photo Credit: Sandor Tozser / IAEA
Chemist at the IAEA Clean Laboratory performing chemical separation of U and Pu. IAEA Seibersdorf, Austria
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA