Sunday photoblogging: Coal loader at Avonmouth

by Chris Bertram on February 23, 2020

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Coal loader at Avonmouth

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Alan White 02.23.20 at 3:41 pm

This is so striking in part because of the seeming purity of the contrasting colors–you have to really zoom in close to see signs of real world wear and tear.

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Brett 02.23.20 at 5:34 pm

Very nice composition. Reminds me of Ralston Crawford’s Buffalo Grain Elevators painting in the Smithsonian.

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JanieM 02.23.20 at 9:45 pm

Great shot, and a really tempting color scheme…

I enjoy these weekly photos, Chris, along with your other posts, even though I almost never comment any more.

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Dr. Hilarius 02.23.20 at 10:17 pm

Nice, could almost be a painting or a model given the uniformity of the colors and abstraction of the structures.

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Victor Smith 02.24.20 at 2:20 am

Great photo! What a beautiful contrast of colours. Victor owner at Pro Concrete Coffs Harbour

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James 02.24.20 at 1:07 pm

I thought I was looking at a Jeffrey Smart painting.

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William S Berry 02.24.20 at 7:07 pm

You’d expect a bit of a coating of sooty dust. It looks like they have better dust control than the bulk handling systems (mainly coke and alumina) I’m familiar with in U.S. industry.

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bad Jim 02.25.20 at 7:03 am

It puts me in mind of one of Kevin Drum’s silliest lunchtime photos, a giant robot monster.

“In reality, it’s the tower at Grand Arts High School on the other side of the Hollywood Freeway. It was originally intended to be functional, with a meeting space inside and a viewing platform on top, but that never happened.”

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