2018 Week 07 Photos

2018 Week 07 Photographs

by Corey Lablans Photography 

(38^th Week, Year 5 – 1722 days – 1 missed) 

2018 02 12 – The lights shine from behind one of the drill beams while dust fills the air as another drill works on the 300 bench.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm Manual f2.8 @28mm f5.6 1/40^th I.S.O. 4000) 

2018 02 13 – I’m pouring the blast hole samples into a sifter, getting it ready to put into the crusher. A small portion of this is then pulverized and analyzed for gold.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm Manual f2.8 @28mm f5.6 1/250^th I.S.O. 4000)

2018 02 14 – The setting sun lights up the evening sky over Fort Frances, Ontario.

(Nikon D7000 w 80-400 f4.5-5.6 @80mm f8 1/250^th I.S.O. 200) 

2018 02 15 – A few white-tailed deer stand around on Mission Island along the shoreline of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Adriane and I found out why all the deer congregate here, one of the houses puts out a tub of feed.

(Nikon D7000 w 80-400 f4.5-5.6 @400mm f5.6 1/640^th I.S.O. 400)

2018 02 16 – While visiting Adriane and Johnathan in Thunder Bay I played chess numerous time; it was fun. I haven’t played in well over 10 years. It was approximately 1500 AD when the modern form of chess came to be.

(Nikon D7000 w 17-35 f2.8 @35mm f4 1/400^th I.S.O. 2000) 

2018 02 17 – Icicles form beneath a bridge at the Lorne Allard Fisherman’s Park in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lorne Allard was a long-serving city councilor who helped make the park a reality.

(Nikon D7000 w 80-400 f4.5-5.6 @340mm f5.3 1/3200^th I.S.O. 400)

2018 02 18 – People make their way through a snow maze at the 2018 Voyageur Winter Carnival. The historical site brought winter alive with the snow maze, musket shooting, winter tubing and snowmobile stunt shows.

(Nikon D7000 w 17-35 f2.8 @17mm f6.3 1/500^th I.S.O. 400)

Thank You

Corey Lablans

cldailyphotos@gmail.com

2018 Week 06 Photos

2018 Week 06 Photographs

by Corey Lablans Photography

(37^th Week, Year 5 – 1715 days – 1 missed) 

2018 02 05 – In 1878 the Conservative Party under Prime Minister John A. Macdonald enacted the “National Policy,” levying high tariffs on foreign goods to stimulate the growth of Canada. The Canadian Pacific Railway came out during this time, laying the way for westward development, which ties into these grain elevators along the shoreline of Thunder Bay.

  
(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm Manual f2.8 @28mm f5.6 1/1000^th I.S.O. 200) 

2018 02 06 – This is the living room of a new apartment I just moved into. I’m now living in Fort Frances.

(Nikon D7000 w 17-35 f2.8 @17mm f10 1.6sec. I.S.O. 200)

2018 02 07 – This is one of the two crushers at the assay lab, just one step in preparing samples for gold analysis.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm Manual f2.8 @28mm f2.8 1/125^th I.S.O. 2000)

2018 02 08 – Herbs come from non-woody plants, while spices come from the flowers, roots, seeds, bark and/or fruits of plants.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm Manual f2.8 @28mm f4 1/40^th I.S.O. 2000)

2018 02 09 – Blast hole samples are ready for riffling after being put through the crusher. Riffling is a process of splitting the sample to obtain a representative sample.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm Manual f2.8 @28mm f2.8 1/320^th I.S.O. 2000)

2018 02 10 – A drill on the 280 meter bench at night.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm Manual f2.8 @28mm f5.6 1/80^th I.S.O. 4000)    

2018 02 11 – A view looking into one of the sample bags awaiting processing. The next step is to put it in the oven to dry. The material needs to be 100% dry for fire assay.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm Manual f2.8 @28mm f5.6 1/125^th I.S.O. 2000)

Thank You

Corey Lablans

cldailyphotos@gmail.com

2018 Week 05 Photos

2018 Week 05 Photographs

By Corey Lablans Photography

(36^th Week, Year 5 – 1708 days – 1 missed) 

2018 01 29 – One of the large shovels digs overburden, as haul trucks await to be loaded; a full moon shines over overhead.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm f2.8 @28mm f8 1/100^th I.S.O. 400) 

2018 01 30 – A beautiful sunrise over the open pit gold mine, the colours changed rapidly.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm f2.8 @28mm f8 1/80^th I.S.O. 400)

2018 01 31 – Mt. McKay is seen in the foreground with Thunder Bay in the background. The city of Thunder Bay took shape in 1970 when two cities: Fort William and Port Arthur amalgamated.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm f2.8 @28mm f4 1/5000^th I.S.O. 400)    

2018 02 01 – The wind has created these fascinating snow patterns on the ice at Big Sandy Bay, Wolfe Island.

(Nikon D7000 w 80-400 f4.5-5.6 @400mm f5.6 1/8000^th I.S.O. 400)

2018 02 02 – An ice carver works on a sculpture of Gord Downie for FebFest in Kingston, Ontario.

(Nikon D7000 w 80-400 f @230mm f5.3 1/2500^th I.S.O. 400) 

2018 02 03 – A crowd of people fill the foreground with a snow carving of a downhill skier in the background at Jacque Cartier Park in Gatineau, Quebec for Winterlude.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm f2.8 @28mm f5.6 1/5000^th I.S.O. 500)

2018 02 04 – My mom saved some Christmas treats that my aunts made and brought them out for me when I came home.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm f2.8 @28mm f4 1/100^th I.S.O. 800)    

Thank You

Corey Lablans

cldailyphotos@gmail.com

2018 Week 04 Photos

2018 Week 04 Photographs

By Corey Lablans Photography

(35^th Week, Year 5 – 1701 days – 1 missed) 

2018 01 22 – I just opened a box of Magic: The Gathering Rivals of Ixalan cards.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm Manual f2.8 @28mm f4 1/60^th I.S.O. 200) 

2018 01 23 – A pine tree is silhouetted against the setting sun as I drive back to the house in Emo, Ontario.

(Nikon D7000 w 80-400 f4.5-5.6 @240mm f7.1 1/1000^th I.S.O. 200) 

2018 01 24 – These are small rock fragments (chip samples) collected from the blast holes after drilling. These are used to do a crude geological map of the blast pattern.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm Manual f2.8 @28mm f4 1/125^th I.S.O. 2000)

2018 01 25 – Glacial deposited material is exposed at the upper portion of the mine. In this photograph you can see material deposited by glacial runoff producing a braided river followed by a period of calm water, either a lake or pond.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm Manual f2.8 @28mm f8 1/200^th I.S.O. 500)

2018 01 26 – Oil is added to one of the drills operating in the east outcrop. The east outcrop is mostly used for road material.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm Manual f2.8 @28mm f8 1/100^th I.S.O. 400)

2018 01 27 – Cones indicate where the drills need to drill a blast hole. Blast holes are filled with explosives and detonated, breaking up the rock to be taken to the mill.

(Nikon D7000 w Sigma 28mm Manual f2.8 @28mm f8 1/25^th I.S.O. 400)

2018 01 28 – A large shovel removes material to load a hauler while on the 290 bench at the mine. Depending on the grade it is sent to one of many places: the mill, tailing, roadwork or somewhere else.

(Nikon D7000 w 70-200 f2.8 @135mm f5 1/8000^th I.S.O. 400) 

Thank You

Corey Lablans

cldailyphotos@gmail.com