I could feel the heat from the flames even after they started to die down as I captured a few frames of this process.
It was a race against mother nature to get this dragline excavator back up and running. The morning clouds were rolling in fast and our available light got darker and darker as the minutes passed.
An image I created for Rachel, a diesel mechanic at Vales Creighton Mine here in Sudbury Ontario.
I have been in a lot of shops and get to photograph some cool machinery like this Carlton Radial Drill
Every once in awhile I will have the opportunity to pair two clients into one image. While I was in Val-d’Or Quebec creating images for MacLean Engineering we visited Eldorado Gold’s Lamaque site to capture some underground images with the equipment. I was recently with Eldorado Gold in Greece (with Penda Productions) this past June and had a wonderful experience at their sites just as I knew I would here at the Lamaque Site as the Eldorado Crew is fantastic to work with. We managed to create some excellent images showcasing both companies in their environment and I am thankful to both companies for allowing me to create images of their sites, people and equipment.
Getting a good image of the CNC machine is sometimes tricky considering most of the process is done behind closed doors but you can always get creative in the placement of your camera during the setup process before the doors are closed.
Yesterday I spent the day at one of the Bristol Machine Shops in Sudbury with Epiroc photographing the different stages of the refurbishing process that Bristol meticulously provides. Days. I could spend days in this shop photographing the people, products and machines being used simultaneously throughout the day. Epiroc products displayed before and after the refurb process catch my eye over and over as we had our walkabout before I started my session. I have said this before and I will say it again, there is “art” everywhere in machine shops if you look for it and I will display some in my upcoming posts when I get the go ahead form my client.
I am a people person and people persons recognize other people persons right away. It didn’t take long for me to know that Roxane “Roxy” has the personality that brings laughter and smiles to the workplace and she made my time in the shop fly by if she was in the area.
It was Sumit’s first time underground here at the Eldorado Lamaque Site and I was glad to be able to join my MacLean’s Rep on his first journey to the underworld. After our day photographing some of the MacLean fleet I had to take a few moments and create his first underground portrait.
Well I am on the road to Quebec to go underground with MacLean Engineering again to visit the Eldorado Gold Lamaque site. The last time I visited Val’dor Quebec we were at the Bracemac-Mcleod mine where I photographed this LR3 Boom Lift.
