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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
07
Sep 10
306 of 365: Downtown Stroll
I shot this one through the windshield as I was waiting for the light to change. I wonder if she knew that she wasn’t walking alone.
Auburn, WA
September 7, 2010
05
Sep 10
304 of 365: Streetlight
304 of 365: Streetlight, originally uploaded by James Milstid.
My theme was ‘urban’ today. This was shot in downtown Kent, WA., which is a small town south of Seattle. Kent is surrounded by farms and a bit of industry.
So does that make it ‘rural-urban’… ‘ruban’… ‘urbal’?
Hmmmm…
Kent, WA
September 5, 2010
05
Sep 10
Street Photography
Very well done video of street photography in Miami…
http://streetlife.ipanemic.com/2009/01/south-beach-paradise/
30
Aug 10
298 of 365: White Rose
298 of 365: White Rose, originally uploaded by James Milstid.
The roses in the front yard are making a charge into September. Lots of buds and looking good!
Kent, WA
August 30, 2010
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Aug 10
295 of 365: Multiple Me’s
So I was walking along the Soos Creek Trail and ran into this motley looking bunch. They wanted a photo, so what could I do… I obliged!
I’ve been wanting to try this for some time now. Several photogs at DPS have done it and it always intrigued me. So here’s my entry.
I do need to give kudos to Indigo – www.flickr.com/photos/artofindigo/ – for her recent multiplicity photos… and the inspiration!
Kent, WA
August 27, 2010
30
Aug 10
294 of 365: Unsettled
294 of 365: Unsettled, originally uploaded by James Milstid.
I got out of the truck at the Safeway store, looked West and saw this awesome sky.
Kent, WA
August 26, 2010