Esther's photos with the keyword: machine

2016 World Figure Skating Championships Making ice during a break in the skating competition Not the Sunday Challenge: visual pun. A play on the slang word meaning to relax and chilling the ice. AIMG 2021

American Textile History Museum - Lowell, Massachusetts - circular sock knitting machine AIMG 2405

American Textile History Museum - Lowell, Massachusetts AIMG 2401

American Textile History Museum - Lowell, Massachusetts AIMG 2384

Mill wheel - Lowell, Massachusetts. This wheel was water powered through a waterway built under the mill and controlled all of the factory machinery through driveshafts. AIMG 2410

Harvesting cranberries, Wareham, MA. To "wet harvest" cranberries, the bogs are flooded with water from nearby ponds. A harvesting machine is then driven through. This machine knocks the cranberries off the plant and they float to the surface. Workers pulling booms corral the cranberries and they are sucked by hose onto a truck to take them to the processing plant. Whole cranberries that are not destined to be immediately processed are picked in dry fields in a labor intensive and weather dependent process. AIMG 0364

My first impression of Nepal, apart from the hazy, smoggy view from the plane was the airport security in Kathmandu, Nepal. I like shooting security types with guns and I am always grateful when they don't shoot back. Somehow, I don't feel more secure knowing that there is a masked man with a machine gun roaming the tarmac. ODT: Stressed AIMG_9988

There is something very challenging about getting a person with a machine gun or automatic rifle to smile for the camera. In the US, they tend to be rather cranky about it. In Italy, they were only too happy to do so if requested. In China, it was strickly forbidden, although when the errant tourist did so, most guards at the major tourist sites merely ignored them. In India, some police were sufficiently scarey in the conduct of their duties to avoid even approaching. This man seemed friendly and very professional as he guarded the Taj Mahal and a smile from me while pointing to my camera got a pose and a smile back. AIMG_6105