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The loggia of the Mutual Workers' Support Society. I think the man towards the right has been dealt a bad hand. The man on the left, by looking at me, has completed the composition of this shot for me.
Visit to Pendon Museum.
1930's Vale of the White Horse at 4mm to the foot.
This enormous model represents a linear mile of Oxfordshire countryside. The models are all of real buildings though the landscape is more generic of the area.
Keraniganj, Dhaka | 2013
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Taken with Ansco Automatic Reflex f3.5 - a failed attempt by American company to create a Rolleiflex TLR killer in late 1940s. Nonetheless it is a beautiful over-engineered camera.
Beefing up up for the camera
Just one of the hundreds of workers from the 13th compound of Dharavi..
also known as the recycling center of Asia's biggest slum...
one for the ladies.....
by Fabrice Bourgelle Pyres
Railway worker - Grahamstown, South Africa. This is another image that has remained in my portfolio for many years (see earlier uploads in my photostream).
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I took it while I was a student studying for my Postgraduate Higher Diploma of Journalism at Rhodes University.
I was crossing the railway bridge when I looked down and saw this worker walking along the tracks. Immediately I saw the potential for a graphic composition using the structure of the bridge railing. Then it was just a matter of waiting for the worker to walk into the right position in the composition. All I had time for was one shot. My heart jumped when I pressed the shutter and I instantly knew I had captured something worthwhile. It's a good example of anticipating the moment.
Famous South African photographer, Obie Oberholzer, my teacher and mentor at the time, praised the image when he saw it. He suggested I print it on a high contrast paper to add more impact, which is of course exactly what I did.
I followed his advice and this image has stood me in good stead over the years.
My camera at the time was a Pentax ME 1. Shot on Ilford HP5, developed and printed in the University darkroom.
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The folk art on the pottery in Bangladesh tell stories of village life, of happiness, of family life and the life of the hard working people of Bangladesh. As for Dhamrai, it is the holy grail for the ancient “almost lost” art of pottery. Being losing all the glory in plastic and aluminum, many pottery artist still make pottery in the traditional way at the village in Shumulia,Dhamrai.
That a village where potters make all the terracotta pots, thalis, earthen ware that is still not so widely used in Bangladesh.
This is an under-aged worker in a lathe machine workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workshop produces spare parts for automobiles. Young labors, like these work under harsh working conditions without proper protection and are severely underpaid. But, for some this is the only way to support their impoverished families.
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History of the farm Elsenburg
In 1698 a farm in the Stellenbosch district was granted to Sameul Elsevier who was second in charge (secunde) under Governor Simon van der Stel. Elsevier named his farm Elsenburg after himself. Elsenburg was situated near the farm Muldersvlei, which belonged to Johannes Mulder who was the first magistrate (landdrost) of Stellenbosch (1685 – 1691).
Elsevier only lived on his farm for 9 years because he was one of the officials who were recalled with Willem Adriaan van der Stel to the Netherlands by the Dutch East India Company in 1707.
Elsevier built a house on the farm and after he had left, his son lived there until his death in 1709. After 1709 Elsenburg had five consecutive owners until 1742 when Johann Philip Giebelaar bought it.
Martin Melck was born in East Prussia in1723. He was a trained mason and he belonged to the Riga Mason’s Guild of Russia. Melck then joined the Dutch East India Company and was sent to the Cape where he briefly served as a soldier. Melck resigned from the employ of the Dutch East India Company and was employed as a farm worker by Johann Giebelaar, owner of the farm Elsenburg. After this Melck worked as a hired hand (kneg) for Jacob Cloete in Stellenbosch. Melck was part of the team of miners who mined for silver at the Simonsberg near Stellenbosch. This venture was exposed as a scam. Melck then became self-employed as a provider of lime and bricks for building purposes in Stellenbosch. During this period Melck was able to purchase two farms in the Stellenbosch district, namely Aan’t Pad and Watergang.
When Giebelaar died, Melck married the widow, Anna Margaretha Giebelaar ( neé Hop) and came into possession of the farm Elsenburg.
In 1761 Melck rebuilt the existing farmhouse into a U-shaped Cape Dutch house which was regarded as one of the finest examples of Cape Dutch architecture at the time. The front gable has a ‘holbol’ outline with two double casements and a wavy moulding horizontally above the casements. The original front door was an unique masterpiece. When Sir Herbert Baker redesigned Grootte Schuur for Cecil John Rhodes in 1892-3, he removed the original Elsenburg front door and replaced it with a door that was not so stately, thus changing the visual impact of the Elsenburg farmhouse. The original Elsenburg front door was then built into Grootte Schuur. In 1896 Grootte Schuur totally burnt down. It was rebuilt and the original door was replaced exactly as it used to be.
Anna Margaretha, Melck’s wife died in 1776 and he then married Rosina Loubser in 1778.
Throughout his life, Martin Melck remained a loyal member of the Lutheran Church in Cape Town. In 1774 he donated a building that he had built in Strand Street, Cape Town as a gift to the Lutheran congregation so that it could be utilized as a church. Melck also donated 2 erven to the Church so that a parsonage and sexton’s house could be erected. Today the Lutheran Church in Strand Street, Cape Town is a national monument whilst the parsonage is known as the Martin Melck House.
Melck died in 1781. The inventory of his estate shows that he died a very wealthy man and owner of several farms and properties.
In 1898 the Victoria College (now University of Stellenbosch) bought Elsenburg and established it as an Agricultural College. In 1916 the Elsenburg farmhouse was gutted by fire and the house was then rebuilt but not to its original splendour. Only much later it was restored to the original stately Cape Dutch house it used to be. In front of the house is a very large bell-tower dating from Melck’s time.
According to James Walton, the mill-stream on Elsenburg dates from 1761 when Melck rebuilt the house (see photograph). There was a water-mill in the mill-stream for the purpose of grinding corn. The small building next to the mill-stream, that housed the water-mill still stands today and some outbuildings that served as barns on Elsenburg, may date as far back as Melck,s time.
Photo of Exhibit Photograph displayed within the Power House of the former colliery.
Female workers circa 1930 bagging salt.
The presence of workable coal reserves at a coastal location gave rise to an extensive salt-boiling industry in Scotland, principally around the Firth of Forth but also as far west as Arran and as far north as Brora in Sutherland.
Water was pumped from the sea into huge iron pans. Coal was burnt in furnaces beneath them until all of the water had been driven off. The less than pure salt was then drawn off, stored and bagged.
Prestonpans was one of the first and the last salt-panning sites in Scotland.