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Nov 11
Move Along, Nothing to See Here – Project Flickr: Garbage
Move Along, Nothing to See Here – Project Flickr: Garbage, originally uploaded by James Milstid, aka PapaJames.
This was a tough topic to make somewhat artistic!
The crow was looking for tidbits near the garbage can. Nothing exciting today, so he’s moving along.
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Oct 11
Drive Thru
As I was waiting to get out of the parking lot, I spotted these two ladies sharing lunch at a local Wendi’s.
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Oct 11
Publicly Drunk
This group had just been escorted from the public library in Kent, WA and decided to loudly voice their complaints in the adjacent park. I was the only one there, but they didn’t seem to notice. This was as “up close” as I dared get!
Yes, that is a beer can in the seated man’s hand. They were pretty snockered… some of Kent, WA’s finest!
BTW, that’s the King County Courthouse behind them, teeming with police.
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Oct 11
Dreariness – Project Flickr: In the Sky
Dreariness – Project Flickr: In the Sky, originally uploaded by James Milstid, aka PapaJames.
Welcome to Seattle…
I usually love shooting the sky and clouds, but the greyness in Seattle is so drab right now! This is a shot of where I think the sun would be if I could see it.
Shot out of desperation for Project Flickr!
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Mar 11
Dry Run… Time Lapse
Bill and I will be leaving tomorrow for a three week road trip to Peoria, AZ and back. We’ll be visiting several National Parks and plan on documenting the trip. This is a practice run of the webcam I set up to do time lapse movies of the entire trip. I’ll post them as I can, most of the hotels along the way have WiFi. Should be a lot of fun!
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Sep 10
317 of 365: La Paloma – The Dove
Imagine…
Rather than coming home from work one day, you somehow find yourself and 32 others trapped in a cavern 2300 feet below the surface of the earth. No communication with the outside world. No amenities. Two or three day supply of food. Hot and humid. No idea if or when rescue will come. Oh, and virtual darkness.
Fortunately, the trapped Chilean miners now have communication and a method of receiving much needed food and supplies. It is known as La Paloma (The Dove) and is a 3.19” tube about 5.25’ long. It takes an hour to lower La Paloma through the 2300 foot long six-inch shaft and the trapped miners depend on it for their lives and welfare.
For some perspective, a clothes dryer vent is about 4”. Imagine if everything you needed to survive had to fit through your dryer vent hole. Multiply that by 33 people and several months in an enclosed space.
Today, September 18, is Chile’s Independence Day. The miners will celebrate with wine, cigarettes, and a 50” TV projection on the bare rock wall from a tiny projector and a fiber-optic link to the surface. No doubt there will be special treats and national coverage. The Chilean news is dominated by the miners’ plight. The trapped miners have it much better today than they did on August 2, 2010, when they became trapped.
But… the fact remains that they are still trapped. La Paloma, their lifeline, is their only supply line with the outside world. Everything that thirty-three men need to survive, physically and emotionally, for the next two or three months must fit into La Paloma. The integrity of the six-inch shaft and La Paloma are so vital to the men’s survival, they have assigned a crew to monitor it.
Today’s photo is a 3” PVC tube cut to 5’3”, the approximate size of La Paloma. There are also a few items for reference. Most won’t fit.
For more info, I encourage you to look at this Newsweek article…
www.newsweek.com/2010/09/14/surviving-the-darkness.html
(Thanks to Nan for pointing out the Newsweek article)
Imagine…
Kent, WA
September 18, 2010