Ch 80 Machinery - Inelligble

[vangogh]

I live near Kew Bridge Steam Museum. Its an old water pumping station & has lots of old pump engines & Cornish beam engines. They're huge!

Here's a pic of one of the huge beam engines. I haven't a chance to upload any of the others. Its ineligble as it was taken about a month ago, but thinking of going for a reshoot if I can.

http://IconicCreative.smugmug.com/photos/116929000-M.jpg

What do you reckon?

Nicola

[TomaS]

Like the idea. Try to compose a shot to emphasize the 'hugeness'. This image gives me no clue as to size.

[vangogh]

HHm difficult to do but here's a couple more I took:

http://IconicCreative.smugmug.com/photos/116947968-M-1.jpg

http://IconicCreative.smugmug.com/photos/116947947-M-1.jpg

http://IconicCreative.smugmug.com/photos/116947982-M-1.jpg

Apparently you can hold weddings here & they fire up the Cornish Beam Engine for you!

[nalvarez]

I think going back for a reshoot would be good. Adding more context and scale to the subject woul help connect to what we're looking at. good work!

[shoppix]

Very nice. As others have noted we need to relationship to scale.
What is, or used for, a Cornish Beam Engine??
shoppix (Steve)

[vangogh]

Here's a link to the museum giving a descrition of the beam engines:

http://www.kbsm.org/engines/

You can see the part that I took a close up from. The big eyelet screw heads are level with my face & I"m 5'3". But that is just one of the bases for the uprights which tower above you into the top of the tower. These are attached to a balance arm which moves up & down, pumping the water.

I only have 2 standard kit lenses. Any suggestions as to how I can get these to show the whole height as there are floors inbetween 7 you can't see right up to the tp, but have to go up a flight of stairs. I thought of a collage.

[vangogh]

Here's a link to the other's I took at the site to give you a better idea of the size of the place.

http://iconiccreative.smugmug.com/gallery/2083831/1/116929000

The beam engine is in the tall tower.

[Awais Yaqub]

i agree with nalvarez :D
nice photos !!