Notes
Deer Island sits at the mouth of Boston Harbor and is connected to my old home town by a narrow causeway. Over the last 400 years, it has been the home of an internment camp for Indians, an immigrant quarantine station, a poor house, and a county "House of Corrections". From 1900 to 1990, it served as a pumping station for minimally treated sewage from the city of Boston. The sewage was delivered via large tunnels under Boston Harbor from various pumping sub-stations around the city. It was then screened, to removed some percentage of "suspended solids", and pumped into the mouth of the harbor on the outgoing tide never to be seen again - except when the wind blew onshore or when weather conditions caused a change in local currents. In the 1990's the old pumping station was replaced with a state of the art system which included these 150 foot tall sewage digester "eggs".
Camera & Exposure Information
| Canon EOS 5D | |
| Focal Length: | 40 mm |
| Aperture: | f/6.3 |
| Exposure: | 1/200 sec |
| ISO Speed: | 100 |
Categories: [in the city] [landscapes] [technology]
Tags: deer_island industry
Comments
Strange it looks like some alien stuff here or a weird kind of macro or hand grenades ;-) Cool image with a fun composition.
Frida on 9th December 2008 @ 5:35pm
Kinda spooky looking through the blue mist. Love the capture.
sherri on 9th December 2008 @ 11:28pm
i've never seen anything like that. beautiful shot of something that probably is ultra disgusting on many levels :)
joe on 11th December 2008 @ 1:07pm
wow really cool. I love the balance here, strange objects in fog versus a bit grassy hillside. Also the colors works against each other, cool versus warm. My first thought was this looks like something from the computergame halflife 2
aptass on 18th December 2008 @ 1:46pm
Neat image. Has me thinking of the old British sci-fi flick --Quatermass 2
12bitphoto on 7th January 2009 @ 7:06pm