Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR-Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1250 Camera.
This humble, somewhat dilapidated shelter, a few miles south of SFO airport, once housed a medium wave aviation beacon (NDB). It currently hosts a variety of aviation surveillance sensors. Its location is also waypoint on the way to SFO runway 28R.
This kind of infrastructure, integral to so much in the modern world, is often invisible if you don't know where to look for it.
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Matt Blaze
In response to this postInfrastructure is often quietly heroic, and deserves to be seen that way.
@mattblaze This is such a beautiful way to think about it. I've become more and more interested in photographing construction sites, seeing how things are actually built from the ground up and the construction workers who bring these projects to life and often go unacknowledged
by Star12Mt ;
@mattblaze Back when I was working on Google Cloud, I had this hanging on the wall next to my desk.
(Although ironically, one of the team's catchphrases was "NO HEROICS." Not because they aren't sometimes necessary, but because they're by definition unsustainable; if the system requires perpetual heroics to maintain, it's in need of rearchitecting so it works right whether or not Wonder Woman is holding it!).
by Mark T. Tomczak ;
@mattblaze are you familiar with @debcha's work? If not, seems like it'd be right up your alley...
https://www.ted.com/talks/deb_chachra_the_invisible_networks_shaping_your_everyday_life
https://muckrack.com/podcast/babbage-from-the-economist/episodes/9183036-babbage-deb-chachra-on-the-value-of-great-/#!
https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-infrastructure-works-inside-the-systems-that-shape-our-world-deb-chachra/20146889?ean=9780593086599
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Robert [KJ5ELX] :donor:
In response to this post@mattblaze I love this kind of thing. There's so much in the underlying infrastructure of the world that people take for granted, not because they don't want to but because they don't have a need to consider in order to live their lives.
But for those of us who do feel compelled to know more about how the world works, this stuff is so fascinating.
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