Cruisn digs deep

Cruisn · Jan 10, 2009

Rocanville potash Mine in saskachew: 1km down

A friend from my car forums took me for a tour was a good time, saw lots of cool stuff. the photos sometimes might be a little shakey, I didnt have a tripod and was trying to shoot at 1/5 and slower shutter speeds... and thats not so easy. lol using the flash lost the colour.
enjoy:
right of the elevator:

The fuel room:

Our wicked tour truck:

Getting permision to go:

Sorter:

Conveyor:

Underground machines:

The miner:

Another miner in better lighting:

Start of a conveyor:

The conveyor starting up:

And that meant the machine was running

Where they hit water in the 80's

Cement wall with pressure gauges and valves:

There was a lot of water I guess:

exit time:

And back up we go: 1min 30 seconds total

jeroen · Jan 10, 2009

Wow! The Discovery Channel in photographs

This is by far the coolest series I have seen here in ages.

Talonted90 · Jan 10, 2009

Really cool series. How dusty did your lens get?

Cruisn · Jan 10, 2009

jeroen said:
Wow! The Discovery Channel in photographs
This is by far the coolest series I have seen here in ages.

thanks man. I had a bunch more pictrures but they have a slight blur to them form lack of tripod. I was not to happy. lol

Talonted90 said:
Really cool series. How dusty did your lens get?

you dont wanna know... lol. I did really good till I went back and watched the machine cutting through the ground we were on the exhasut path saide of the conveyor and couldnt cross it to the fresh air said so it and the camera got coated bad.

LaFoto · Jan 11, 2009

These are really interesting! Well pulled off, even without the tripod there! I like to see the motion in the conveyor belts!

They instantly reminded me of my brother's selfs which I once found on another site (a German one, obviously), look_here ---> after looking: still astonished I felt reminded?

Cruisn · Jan 11, 2009

LaFoto said:
These are really interesting! Well pulled off, even without the tripod there! I like to see the motion in the conveyor belts!

They instantly reminded me of my brother's selfs which I once found on another site (a German one, obviously), look_here ---> after looking: still astonished I felt reminded?

nice shots you had there. looked good. ya no tripod we werent even sure they would let me take my camera down. so we tried to keep a low profile. lol. I wish the one of the conveyor was a little more in focus on the floor and area.

LaFoto · Jan 11, 2009

Those are not my photos, remember. My brother took them of himself. Camera on tripod. Him pretending to be working (later he sure DID work). So they are his. But he works down mines at times. He's the one responsible for the safety of all those cars and trains down there.

TwoRails · Jan 11, 2009

Nice series. Well done without a tripod. As mentioned above, they do have that Discovery Channel feel to them.

Cruisn · Jan 11, 2009

LaFoto said:
Those are not my photos, remember. My brother took them of himself. Camera on tripod. Him pretending to be working (later he sure DID work). So they are his. But he works down mines at times. He's the one responsible for the safety of all those cars and trains down there.

oh okay. lol. misread. thats really good for posed photos. lol. safety is huge down there. which is good though. this mine i shot is the #1 in mine safety... not sure what they compare to though.