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A really cool park worker. She is a hard worker and as nice as can be. She was happy the temps are out of the high 80's and back into the high 50's or low 60's.
Workers take a break from loading the harvested sugar cane onto trucks- Negros Occidental, Philippines
there's a very funny and at the same time ugly thing happens in moscow: one army of migrant workers sticks those paper notes everywhere and another army of migrant workers follows them and sticks these notes off...
I think the man on the right side is a chimney-sweeper. He is barefooted because working on a slippery roof was safer without shoes.
I have no clue about the three men with white work coats and I cannot identify what they are carrying on their shoulders. Could it be that they are stove fitters? I think there must be a relationship to the chimney sweeper.
(No time or place given. I suppose 1880s)
Keraniganj, Dhaka | 2013
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From a book produced, I suspect as part of the opening of the company's grand headquarters building at Millbank in London. The photo was taken by one of the great photographers of the day - the German born but British based Emil Otto Hoppé (1878 - 1972). It shows the company housing built for workers at the Billingham plant on Tees-side.
Billingham Works was a greenfield site that sprang from the needs for ammonium nitrate for munitions during the First World War. The highly complex method used to fix atmospheric nitrogen had been developed by the German chemists Haber & Bosch in 1913. The site was chosen by the Ministry of Munitions in 1917 and construction started in 1918. By 1920, the Cheshire based alkali company of Brunner, Mond had acquired the works and they set to developing the process, aided by acquired German technology from BASF, until the company was merged into ICI upon its foundation in 1926. The works became hugely important for its products that were used for both fertilizers and munitions. However, during the lengthy period of capital investment required to make the chemical process into a production process, the finances of even the mighty Brunner, Mond appears to have been strained and I wonder if one of the reasons they fell in with the ICI scheme was partially due to the need to access further capital. One issue of a greenfield site, even one close to existing towns such as Stockton and Middlesbrough, was that of housing a workforce the size of that at Billingham that by 1932 employed 5,000 people. Part of the need was met by houses constructed by the local authority on land provided by BM such as these seen here.
A size comparison showing a great big drone (male) next to an ordinary worker (sterile female).
Last summer my mother noticed honeybees swarming around the shed in her backyard, so she called a beekeeper. They turned out to be nesting in the neighbor's shed, and the beekeeper said he could collect them but it would have to wait until spring so the colony would be strong enough to survive. This weekend he came with his girlfriend/assistant and extracted the colony. They marked out the colony location with an IR camera, sawed out that section of 3/4" plywood floor with a circular saw, lifted it out, and turned it upside down on a folding table. Then they disassembled it, comb by comb. The bees they vacuumed up, collecting them in a shopvac-head bucket for later return to the new hive. The honeycomb they harvested. The brood comb they placed in empty beehive frames, holding the pieces in place with rubber bands. They proceeded slowly, looking for the queen the whole time. Just when they were ready to give up, they found her in a remnant of comb back in the shed. The bees were amazingly docile, at least compared to what I had expected. Queen, bees, and comb were reunited in their new digs, a double-decker hive, and are off to a new life in the countryside. The floor was screwed back down, with the exit from the sub-floor airspace to the outside blocked by sprayfoam.
Paris | 2016
Carl Zeiss Jena Prakticar MC 50mm Æ’/1.4
1985 | 6 blades iris | PB mount | @ Æ’/2
2 versions of this lens exist ... one labelled prakticar aus jena with 6 blades aperture and a second one labelled Carl Zeiss jena with 6 blades aperture closing as a star (flic.kr/p/HtDRgY)
excepted these two details they are exactly the same
"Created in God's image, we were given the mandate to transform the earth. By their work people share in God's creating activity… Awareness that our work is a sharing in God's work ought to permeate even the most ordinary daily activities" – Pope St John Paul II.
Today, 1 May is the feast of St Joseph the Worker.
This window of the saint is in the Catholic Chaplaincy chapel of Dartmouth College.