Mining

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Jun
First Time In The Test Mine|Sudbury Mining
Mining / Mining Equipment / Photography / Sudbury Ontario / underground / 0 Comment / June 10, 2020

I finally had the chance to shoot at the bottom of the MacLean Engineering Test Mine located right here in my hometown Sudbury, Ont. Previously I had only photographed at the entrance and around the first bend but this time it was direct to the bottom.

The subject? MacLean Engineering’s SB 12 Blockholer.

Here is a well written description of the blockholer from Ernest V. Schaffernicht

“Blockholers are very important to modern mines as they are an essential part of the ore flow process. Even under the best of conditions and practices drill and blast or block cave operations have to deal with oversize pieces of rock that won’t fit into a scoop bucket. Sometimes these big chunks occur further up into the draw point.

These single boom purpose built drill rigs will drill the holes and load the explosives (emulsion or “pencil” bombs” remotely with TV cameras and radio remote control (RRC).”

Thanks again to Stuart Lister and MacLean Engineering for the opportunity.


8
Jun
Rokion In Australia
Mining / Mining Equipment / Photography / 0 Comment / June 8, 2020

Rokion along with my photography can now be found in Australia. The LDO Group (a family owned company) partnered with Prairie Machine is now the sole Australasian distributor of the Rokion Electric Vehicle fleet.

www.ldo.com.cau


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May
The Style In Mining
Magazine / Marketing / Mining / Photography / The People / 0 Comment / May 29, 2020

This style of mining/industrial portrait has become one of my signature looks. I have referred to it in the past as my “Thank You” portrait for taking the time to allow me to photograph them in their environment. This was taken last year at the end of “The Drift” shoot. Thanks Cindy and Vale Creighton Mine for making this happen.


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May
Mining In Manitouwadge
Mine Photos / Mining / The People / 0 Comment / May 19, 2020

Underground in Manitouwadge with Manroc. When you remove the color from an image your eyes are drawn to the main subject of the environment and hopefully it coincides with the subject you intended to spotlight.


15
May
Sunset Over Seabee | Mining Photographer
Mining / 0 Comment / May 15, 2020

One camera was capturing a time laps while this camera capture the still.


6
May
P&H 4100 XPC Mining Shovel
Mining / Mining Equipment / 0 Comment / May 6, 2020

I photographed this P&H 4100 XPC Shovel at the Marigold Open pit mine in Nevada this past October. With a skilled operator the movement of this machine is poetry.


4
May
Shooting Shotcrete
Mine Photos / Mining / Photography / Shop People / 0 Comment / May 4, 2020

Happy Monday everyone, I hope you all had a great weekend. Here is throwback shotcrete image from April 2018 with DMC Mining Services (check out their updated website www.dmcmining.com)

The shotcrete process is a hard one to photograph when the crew is working and I can only manage a few quick captures but I did get them to pose for a crew shot.


13
Apr
The Core Shack Photo
Mining / 0 Comment / April 13, 2020

Well I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend, I can honestly say it was a quiet one for this mining photog. With the Covid isolation in effect and photography not an essential service, I cannot create any “new” images which gives me a lot of time to organize my website and catch up on some essential reading in the industry.

From www.puregoldmining.ca instagram is an image I created in the core room while on site in Red Lake. Pure Gold currently has 1.2 million meters of drilling in their database.

Stay safe everyone and I hope to see you all on site soon.


26
Mar
CIM Magazine March/April 2020 | Battery Electric Vehicle
Magazine / Mining / Mining Equipment / 0 Comment / March 26, 2020

The image on the latest issue of CIM Magazine (https://magazine.cim.org/en/) features the Rokion R400 (www.rokion.com) Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) manufactured by Prairie Machine (www.prairiemachine.com) that we photographed underground at Vale’s Creighton Mine just outside of Sudbury, Ontario.


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Feb
The Rokion R100
Mining / Mining Equipment / Photography / 0 Comment / February 20, 2020

When collaborating with a new client we discuss the photography needs in regards to media, variety and application. If you contact me to discuss photography I will ask you what you images you have used in the past and we will discuss the different ideas to showcase your product in a way that is different than previous images.

My goal with all my images is to get people to view it, read it, click it and ask for more information about it. My goal is to create a variety of high impact usable images to be used on my clients website, marketing materials, trade show booths and their social media platforms as well as featured articles in trade magazines. Sometimes we have the time for elaborate setups and sometimes I am shooting on the fly but each time I present my clients with the best product I can create.

If you think your company is lacking on visuals I would love to talk to you. I will look at your content, your image library and I’ll be honest with you from the start if I think you already have great photography or if there is room for improvement.

Rokion R100 Series
More Info @ www.rokion.com
Location: Vale Creighton Mine, On



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