'Oddball' - a photo on Flickriver

'Oddball'

            'Oddball', an impressive and imposing relic of an opencast coalmining site south of Leeds, UK. 'Oddball' is a BE1150 Dragline; a 1240 tonne machine designed to grab 20 tonne chunks from the ground in huge scoop-like buckets to excavate coal. Too heavy for caterpillar tracks, Oddball is equipped with two huge feet at the bottom of legs that allowed the dragline to  move slowly backwards across the landscape. The sights and sounds must have been pretty jaw-dropping. The site is now St Aiden's nature reserve, run by the RSPB and Oddball is now home to nesting kestrels (nesting in another much smaller scoop-like structure near the top of the pulley system) and is used as habitat by many other birds, including several little owls. Taken using a mobile phonecam and processed in Capture One Pro 23 and converted to mono and toned using Nik Silver Effex Pro II.
   

Taken in: UK / England / Great and Little Preston (show map)

Taken on: June 29, 2025

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Camera: Apple iPhone 13 mini, f/1.6, 1/7353 sec, 5.1mm, ISO 50 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Apple iPhone 13 mini
Lens:	iPhone 13 mini back camera 5.1mm f/1.6
Aperture:	f/1.6
Exposure Time:	1/7353 sec
Focal Length:	5.1mm
ISO:	50
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
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