Post Your Photos of Machinery

[IanG]

Sugar beet factory now demolished. Very heavy vibrations the images are surprisingly sharp

Ian

[Vaughn]

Sugar beet factory now demolished. Very heavy vibrations the images are surprisingly sharp Ian

That is what a friend found photographing in an old building that shook everytime a truck went by -- the camera (8x10) vibrated in concert with the building to give sharp results!

Are those large cylinders rotating in the top image?

[sully75]

Me too, but I guess my curious nature wants to know why. Is that asking too much?

Perhaps about your pictures. I'm honestly just working through my own pictures, trying to make them better. I don't necessarily care what people would change with them. I can see their weaknesses pretty well. And I'm probably far more critical about my own stuff than other people are about my stuff. Or not. Sometimes I really like a picture even if no one else likes it. I'm ok with that.

I guess if you have something constructive to say, then say it. If you just like a picture, if something resonates with you, just saying that is fine.

Or, put differently:

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[Jeffrey Sipress]

Air compressor in the shafthouse up at the Cerro Godro Mines, Inyo Mountains, CA






Caterpillar bulldozer engine, Crooked Creek Station,White Mountains, CA

[IanG]

That is what a friend found photographing in an old building that shook everytime a truck went by -- the camera (8x10) vibrated in concert with the building to give sharp results!

Are those large cylinders rotating in the top image?

Yes that cylinder's got the sliced sugar beet and waters passes through to extract the sugar, later it goes for pressing, the pulp was then dried and sold for animal feed. The same drum and a conveyor belt are moving in the 2nd image. That drum is something in excess of 40 tons in weight, so a very heavy vibration, I think a minute or two exposure. And yes everything vibrates in harmony



The evaporators



Sugar spinning, quite a dangerous area two or three years before I made this image part of a centrifuge had broken seriously injuring the operator. He was luck to survive the skull injury.



This had been my job the previous year, in the main Control room. We forget how much computers now control all our lives and when they went down the plant was in chaos, and it was a struggle to regain control and safely shut production down.

Ian

[Robert A. Zeichner]

"Steam Cathedral"
from a 2-1/4 sq. neg on TMY

[windpointphoto]

Rachel

[sully75]

Perhaps about your pictures. I'm honestly just working through my own pictures, trying to make them better. I don't necessarily care what people would change with them. I can see their weaknesses pretty well. And I'm probably far more critical about my own stuff than other people are about my stuff. Or not. Sometimes I really like a picture even if no one else likes it. I'm ok with that.

I guess if you have something constructive to say, then say it. If you just like a picture, if something resonates with you, just saying that is fine.

Or, put differently:

Click Here

Ps I didn't mean that as a dig on "your" pictures. Just saying that if someone likes "my" pictures, I'm ok with that.

[Leigh]

Rachel

Barely noticeable among the pipes.

Neat.

- Leigh

[jp]

Yes that cylinder's got the sliced sugar beet and waters passes through to extract the sugar, later it goes for pressing, the pulp was then dried and sold for animal feed. The same drum and a conveyor belt are moving in the 2nd image. That drum is something in excess of 40 tons in weight, so a very heavy vibration, I think a minute or two exposure. And yes everything vibrates in harmony

The evaporators

Sugar spinning, quite a dangerous area two or three years before I made this image part of a centrifuge had broken seriously injuring the operator. He was luck to survive the skull injury.

This had been my job the previous year, in the main Control room. We forget how much computers now control all our lives and when they went down the plant was in chaos, and it was a struggle to regain control and safely shut production down.

Ian

Great photos!

BTW, are these done with pyrocat-hd? (I've started to play with this and have noticed it has a unique look in the results.)