Caterpillars at rest #1 by goodoleboy
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Captured 1/24/15, very early morning, adjacent to the local I-5 Freeway widening project, currently in progress.
Twin excavators sit idly behind a long row of K-rails on a no work weekend. Actually, these guys remind me more of a praying mantis than a caterpillar. I mainly go into this area on a Saturday morning when there is usually no one around to thwart or question my photographic activities. Since there has been hardly any rain to interfere with the freeway construction, progress has been going lickety-split, and may be ahead of schedule.
Totziens.
Comments (9)
claude19
amazing capture !!! excellent opportunity !!!
Mulltipass
Great Capture!! This has been a common site throughout Cali for the last few years.
Hendesse
Like sleeping giants. Fantastic shot, great perspective and details.
magnus073
Nice work on this very cool capture, Harry.
Cyve
Amazing view and fantastic capture my friend !!!
MrsRatbag
And here I thought I'd be looking at some biological activity; we have a ton of these critters around here right now too, and mostly when you see them they are resting. But don't get me started on road construction!!! Fantastic lighting to showcase the wonderful steel detail in these yellow monsters, Harry. Well captured!!!
sharky_
He he...Reminds me of scorpions. Interesting shot. Aloha
debbielove
O.K. so you tricked me lol I was expecting the bug type! I guess even machinery has to snooze sometime! Rob
anahata.c
Hendesse called these "like sleeping giants". Yes. And I do know what Denise is talking about, re the intrusion of street repair. Even in my 27th floor apt, when repair is below? It's like living next to a construction site. But as photography---at least in your hands---it's marvelous. Yes they look like mantises. Wonderful composition, you've given a swath of clean sky to balance out the shot, and the rest is equally big swaths of abstract "surface". That tall wall, with its wonderful striated textures. The wire mesh on top of the wall. The simple dirt road next to it. Your impeccably placed crane peaks, both in line with the top of the wall (a little over the wall and under the wires---same distance for both caterpillars---very nicely done, Harry). The cabs of the caterpillars also line up perfectly with that big abutment in front---both are seen in full, with the cabs' bottom corners meeting the line of the abutment. And the abutment and then the road: It's an abstract, and quite impressive. It's, oddly, big in feel, but cloistered. I'd imagine that this would be very noisy when the construction is going on. Fine work on this road site once again, Harry. (I may have said this elsewhere in your gallery, or personally...but when some architectural landmarks came down in Chicago, a famous photographer went through the wreckage. It was dangerous. One day the wreckage fell on him and he was killed. Now: I'm not suggesting that you're in that kind of danger! I know you wouldn't stand next to huge crumbling walls, etc. But just pointing out what some of you go through to get a shot. This may be a safer spot than the inside of a wrecked building, but it still takes guts to trek into these big sites, walking over god-knows-what just to get the right angle, the right pov, etc etc. Not many people do that. So, kudos for tackling these places so we can see sights most of us never capture, and many of us never really look at anyway. You've given us glimpses into the great abstract tapestries that dwell inside huge cities...)