Photographed for the MacLean IQ Series Remote Control Systems at the MacLean Engineering R&D facility in Lively, Ontario Canada.
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It’s no longer notebooks and notepads but Ipads & Tablets. Data entry has never been easier to input organize and process using technology.
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The upward climb to the surface after a long day in the warm humid environment of the underground.
Sometimes you wake up and go to work in the dark hours of the morning, work all day in the underground with the minimal light your equipment provide and at the end of the shift when you exit the portal, the sunshine slaps your face and your eyes protest for the briefest moment as they adjust to the ambience of the surface world.
There is a difference.
I see it immediately. The “cut it out and paste it” scenario. It’s a quick inexpensive way to showcase a product and some are really good, others? Well, not so much lol. You can tell when some thought has been put into the final image. The cut-out is precise, the scale matches the surroundings and the rendition gives a good representation of what the equipment will look like in it’s natural environment.
I may be biased, but nothing beats the real thing in it’s real environment. #miningphotog.
Over the years I have gone through a large variety of cases to hold my gear and all have eventually perished one way or another over time considering the environments I bring them to. I have been eyeing this Nanuk 965 case for awhile now for my international travels and I finally got it in my hands last month. I prefer rolling cases for my gear (as does my assistant) for ease of movement as well as the multiple handle locations throughout the case. Yesterday we finally got to load all the gear into it and bring it out on the job for the first time. I am looking forward to adding to my collection………….as does my assistant lol. Check out these Canadian made cases at www.nanuk.com
If you can give me 5 (maybe 10) minutes of your time I can capture a portrait of you to show your family and friends as well as create an image that can be an asset to the company’s image library. I LOVE creating images of people at work. It’s one of my favorite aspects of my career. A lot of the times the people I photograph have never had their image captured at work except for cell phone snapshots.
In my 25+ years experience I know that if you capture a great portrait of someone, they will cherish it, talk about it, and show it. I get excited when I am the “first” to create a work portrait of someone, especially if they have been in the industry longer than I have. When people are proud of what they do and where they do it, share it and talk about it, you just can’t go wrong.
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It’s a momentous occasion and one that should be documented for any company, the gold pour. It’s fast, it’s hot and in order to get an ideal image some planning needs to be done in regards to when what where and how.
There is a process to the pour and specific steps need to be completed before we proceed with the capture. When and where is the technician going to be and how do you successfully capture the composition while remaining safe and out of the way during the whole process? How do you frame the image for marketable use and how do you coordinate the ambient lighting as well as the intensive glow during the pour?
We go through “practice pours” and I note what movements the technician takes within the operating space so we can safely capture the image. There is a lot of movement in close quarters so safe positioning of equipment and personnel are though through. It’s fast, and over in a few seconds and if you don’t have all your measures in place before hand you can easily miss the “money shot”.
If your going to be in writing have the quality of images worthy of a cover. This months issue of Diesel Progress Magazine (www.dieselprogress.com) features the innovative Relay BEV from Miller Technology with electric drive systems lead developer Paul Summers behind the wheel.
I photographed the Relay in the Miller Industrial shop a few years back and then recently again in it’s working environment underground at the Young Davidson mine here in Northern Ontario. We created a good variety of key marketable images during that session with some of them featured within the issue’s write up.
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It felt good to be back behind my camera creating images for my clients. This week I found myself at the MacLean Engineering Underground Research & Demonstration Facility here in Sudbury, Ontario. The goal? Create an image that showcases the tele-remote package for MacLean’s Ore Flow Suite. Composition was critical for this specific image to get all the necessary elements into the frame.
Thanks again Stuart Lister, Stephan Bedard as well as the MacLean Engineering Team for the collaboration.
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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.
