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05/19/2005 11:42:22 AM · #1 |
Drill Rig
The camera in your hands wouldn't exist without various metals mined from the earth. In hommage to the intrepid exploration geologists who find these deposits, take a photo of a working drill rig and the heroic geologists running it in order to find the deposits that go into your camera.
Looks like I'll be spending next week down in Utah for meetings and hopefully I'll have the time to tour the site, where we have a couple of rigs running. So a perfect time for this challenge would be next week. OK, SC, let's help Slippy get that Blue Ribbon!
:-D
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05/19/2005 11:43:40 AM · #2 |
| I work for a drilling company, bring it on!!! |
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05/19/2005 11:49:12 AM · #3 |
| HOw many people would have access to photographing a drill rig? I don't think many. I wouldn't even know where to find one where I live (NY). I may have to travel quite far to find one. Besides, how many of these drilling companies would allow access to their drilling sites? None, I would think. |
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05/19/2005 12:01:12 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Drill Rig
The camera in your hands wouldn't exist without various metals mined from the earth. In hommage to the intrepid exploration geologists who find these deposits, take a photo of a working drill rig and the heroic geologists running it in order to find the deposits that go into your camera.
Looks like I'll be spending next week down in Utah for meetings and hopefully I'll have the time to tour the site, where we have a couple of rigs running. So a perfect time for this challenge would be next week. OK, SC, let's help Slippy get that Blue Ribbon!
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How do you tell which of the geologists are the heroic ones?
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05/19/2005 12:04:18 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by singsunshine:
I work for a drilling company, bring it on!!! |
I'm boring myself. Almost the same?
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05/19/2005 12:04:28 PM · #6 |
I live in coal mining country and drill rigs are in abundance here...just dont make it a members only challenge at least till i get to be a member :o)
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05/19/2005 12:07:36 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Olyuzi:
HOw many people would have access to photographing a drill rig? I don't think many. I wouldn't even know where to find one where I live (NY). I may have to travel quite far to find one. Besides, how many of these drilling companies would allow access to their drilling sites? None, I would think. |
drilling companys around here dont mind going on the sites as long as u dont mess with the equipment and theres security guards around to make sure...if u could find a main entrance and ask for permission to photograph and give the reason why they will give u permission and possiably want to purchase prints.
edit to add: as long as the rig isnt running at the time usually the guards will let ya...but if u want to photograph while running u would have to get permission from the corporate office i would think
Message edited by author 2005-05-19 12:09:24.
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05/19/2005 12:17:09 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by BradP:
Originally posted by singsunshine:
I work for a drilling company, bring it on!!! |
I'm boring myself. Almost the same?
LOL |
There's a limerick there somewhere `O> |
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05/19/2005 12:17:20 PM · #9 |
How about tunnel boring machines? :)
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05/19/2005 12:19:32 PM · #10 |
I am about to go on a drill job in the four corners area but will not be able to send in any photo's as I have cable internet and we will be out in the back country. I hope to get some good shots and wll post them when I get the opportunity
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05/19/2005 03:55:23 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by puma:
I am about to go on a drill job in the four corners area but will not be able to send in any photo's as I have cable internet and we will be out in the back country. I hope to get some good shots and wll post them when I get the opportunity |
Coolio. Hopefully I'll have some to post up as well.
Just so everyone knows how to spot one, a heroic geologist looks something like this:
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05/19/2005 04:19:35 PM · #12 |
im not sure..
is this a drill rig?
there is a 'waldo' outthere somewhere to get an idea how big this 'thing' is
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05/19/2005 04:32:57 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Drill Rig
The camera in your hands wouldn't exist without various metals mined from the earth. In hommage to the intrepid exploration geologists who find these deposits, take a photo of a working drill rig and the heroic geologists running it in order to find the deposits that go into your camera.
Looks like I'll be spending next week down in Utah for meetings and hopefully I'll have the time to tour the site, where we have a couple of rigs running. So a perfect time for this challenge would be next week. OK, SC, let's help Slippy get that Blue Ribbon!
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my gosh slippy any chance to get someone to take a photo of you....
whats gold at today...it sounded like you wanted to melt down our cameras and sell them for scrap....(buzz cradles her lumix and says "dont worry baby i'll make the bad man stop")
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05/19/2005 05:03:26 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Olyuzi:
HOw many people would have access to photographing a drill rig? I don't think many. I wouldn't even know where to find one where I live (NY). I may have to travel quite far to find one. Besides, how many of these drilling companies would allow access to their drilling sites? None, I would think. |
I think that is why he was suggesting the topic. Kinda tongue in cheek, ya know?
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05/19/2005 05:38:03 PM · #15 |
| I'm going down to my dentist's office... he's minimg silver-mercury amalgam! |
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05/19/2005 06:37:08 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by karmat:
Originally posted by Olyuzi:
HOw many people would have access to photographing a drill rig? I don't think many. I wouldn't even know where to find one where I live (NY). I may have to travel quite far to find one. Besides, how many of these drilling companies would allow access to their drilling sites? None, I would think. |
I think that is why he was suggesting the topic. Kinda tongue in cheek, ya know? |
i have been taking pictures 2 full afternoons of this big browncoal digging projects in Nordrhein Westfalen Germany
i ignored every stop sign i could find
i think it really helps when u drive a jeep in this areas..he
sometimes one have to take a little risk to get better photos
by now i have a real fine collection of these immense quarries
(im going to post them sometime)
and i really plan to go there soon again
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05/21/2005 07:06:51 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by messerschmitt:
im not sure..
is this a drill rig?
there is a 'waldo' outthere somewhere to get an idea how big this 'thing' is
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That's one huge coal-scoop, or maybe oil-sand scoop. The last time I saw something like that I was in a helicopter on my way to a project in Northern Alberta. I would fly over the oil sands every day on my way to pluck samples from streams up to the north while the helicopter pilot hovered overhead. Very exciting work, especially when the pilot whacked tree branches with his blades to set me down.
Message edited by author 2005-05-21 07:08:35.
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