Challenge: Weekend 5/25-5/27/13: Photojournalism - Storytelling
May 25, 2013 08:48:45 #
Hi PAToGraphy, happy Memorial day weekend to you and everyone else at UHH. Here's a batch of pics on the death of a tree. The tree was becoming a hazard and could have squished a home of two in the town I live in, so down it came.
PAToGraphy wrote:
Happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone. Gracie and I... (show quote)
A couple of locals discussing the tree removal.
Using an excavator to lift the logger as he delimbed the lower branches in order to make a cut into the tree trunk.
Cutting a notch, which helps direct which angle the tree will fall.
Cleaning out the notch. The excavator is hold the tree from falling towards any structures.
After making a cut on the opposite side of the trunk from the notch, the excavator helps the tree fall with a little nudge.
Going down.
The tree comes down in a cloud of dust, pollen and pine cones.
Now it's time for cleanup as the logger begins to section off the tree trunk for removal.
May 25, 2013 08:55:18 #
PAToGraphy wrote:
Happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone. Gracie and I are your co-hosts for this weekend in which there are likely to be many stories told as families get together. We are looking forward to your interpretation of "photo journalism".
Great Photo story Pat I will see what the week end brings.
May 25, 2013 08:56:18 #
PAToGraphy wrote:
I am posting one more image without a caption. As you look at it what does it "say" to you. I have passed it frequently and managed to shoot it today. I have had several thoughts as to what this image could tell. Later in the weekend, I'll work it into another "news" story.
Wonderful catch of the flags
May 25, 2013 08:58:01 #
Roadrunner wrote:
Well good morning people, this is Jim le Roadrunner from CJRR (Canadian stations begin with a ''C'') doing a short report on what became of hayfields and cow pastures in St-Jean-Chrysostome, where the population commute, where the sun never shines (so it seems) but the photography is nice.
Roadrunner very well done unfortunately it is happening all to often.
May 25, 2013 08:59:20 #
oh I love a good story...this looks like it will be fun
Thanks Pat for getting us started with a good story and great images...
Im thinking it will take me a bit to get my story together...maybe an old story....maybe a new one today...
this will require some thinking and planning....
Thanks Pat for getting us started with a good story and great images...
Im thinking it will take me a bit to get my story together...maybe an old story....maybe a new one today...
this will require some thinking and planning....
May 25, 2013 08:59:40 #
Roadrunner wrote:
Jim le Roadruner back again with yet another update on weather happenings in the Québec City areas were due to days of rain, high easterly winds, there is flooding on high tides.
In preparation for this morning's high tide I did this interview with the Etchemin river, at its mouth as it empties into the St. Lawrence aiding the advent of local flooding this morning
In preparation for this morning's high tide I did this interview with the Etchemin river, at its mouth as it empties into the St. Lawrence aiding the advent of local flooding this morning
WOW lots of force there can you hear boulders moving, stay dry
May 25, 2013 09:03:29 #
markeisenbeil wrote:
Hi PAToGraphy, happy Memorial day weekend to you and everyone else at UHH. Here's a batch of pics on the death of a tree. The tree was becoming a hazard and could have squished a home of two in the town I live in, so down it came.
Wow quite a tree, i bet it out weighed the machine holding it.
Nice group thanks for sharing
May 25, 2013 09:46:28 #
markeisenbeil wrote:
Hi PAToGraphy, happy Memorial day weekend to you and everyone else at UHH. Here's a batch of pics on the death of a tree. The tree was becoming a hazard and could have squished a home of two in the town I live in, so down it came.
Quite a job! When I first saw it I immediately looked for telephone wires....Yeah cleanng up is a loser..LOL
May 25, 2013 09:47:07 #
dane004 wrote:
WOW lots of force there can you hear boulders moving, stay dry
Thanks for your comments dane...yeah it is rocking and rolling around here
May 25, 2013 10:21:34 #
Nice one RR. I liked your approach in telling the story.
Roadrunner wrote:
Well good morning people, this is Jim le Roadrunner from CJRR (Canadian stations begin with a ''C'') doing a short report on what became of hayfields and cow pastures in St-Jean-Chrysostome, where the population commute, where the sun never shines (so it seems) but the photography is nice.
May 25, 2013 10:25:42 #
Now this family of seven or eight of which four were boys, Claude being the second oldest one and the one I know the best. They lived out on the Pénin Rang on the corner of the Chemin du Centre, which is still not paved, on a small maybe 80 acre farm and out there the entire Rang were farmers up until Id say thirty years ago.
Okay, Louis, their father was apparently quite a hard character and his kids, the boys anyway, became the laughing stock of the village as they never really emerged from the times sixty years past. As you go by the now abandoned, but well kept farm your memory might have a renaissance of times gone a long time now, back to when you were a kid on the family farm and they will wave to you..
Regardless of their social standing, I hold this family in high respect. Ysee, these are true farmers, loyal and honest, church going people who still believe in ghosts and rely on the thickness of onion skins to determine the severity of the winter and they check the height of the bees nests to get an idea of the potential depth of snow coming up next winter. They also use a couenne de lard (pork fat) on cuts and also for water proofing their boots. They know about divining sticks, can smell the weather, wouldnt miss Hockey Night in Canada for all the corn in the county either.
Well the farm dated back to 1840 and the last Rouleau there is now someplace else, still alive but can't find the door. The placebecame abandoned and last year a family bought it up and are making it like it was before
Okay, Louis, their father was apparently quite a hard character and his kids, the boys anyway, became the laughing stock of the village as they never really emerged from the times sixty years past. As you go by the now abandoned, but well kept farm your memory might have a renaissance of times gone a long time now, back to when you were a kid on the family farm and they will wave to you..
Regardless of their social standing, I hold this family in high respect. Ysee, these are true farmers, loyal and honest, church going people who still believe in ghosts and rely on the thickness of onion skins to determine the severity of the winter and they check the height of the bees nests to get an idea of the potential depth of snow coming up next winter. They also use a couenne de lard (pork fat) on cuts and also for water proofing their boots. They know about divining sticks, can smell the weather, wouldnt miss Hockey Night in Canada for all the corn in the county either.
Well the farm dated back to 1840 and the last Rouleau there is now someplace else, still alive but can't find the door. The placebecame abandoned and last year a family bought it up and are making it like it was before
Claude
May 25, 2013 10:54:28 #
Wonderful stories so far. I'm gonna have to give this some thought. Glad I have the whole weekend to think about it lol.
May 25, 2013 10:55:29 #
markeisenbeil wrote:
Hi PAToGraphy, happy Memorial day weekend to you and everyone else at UHH. Here's a batch of pics on the death of a tree. The tree was becoming a hazard and could have squished a home of two in the town I live in, so down it came.
p2 Excellent! You clearly captured every important step and did it well. Loved the image of it falling in a cloud of dust, dirt and debris. Thanks for posting this interesting story.
May 25, 2013 10:56:06 #
dane004 wrote:
Great Photo story Pat I will see what the week end brings.
P2 Bet you'll come up with a good one.
May 25, 2013 10:56:54 #
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