What Comes Down Must Go Up…………WAY up! (Part 3 – MAY 2025)
Like April, the “best of May” will be identified by date (and there is a lot to get to).
May 2 – Ooo, LOOK! “Art” involving the photographer AND his subject! This was taken from the site’s Main St perimeter and shows alternating views of my living room window, rebar from this project, a yellow-brick chimney from my building and the end of the hose of a very long extension from a concrete pumper on the site:
Though the hose looks fake – even to me! – this is all ONE photo………not bits and pieces stuck together.
Well, that was a nice start. It’s probably all downhill from here.
Most of the pictures involve machinery, but these 4 pix show workers:
From Passaic St:
From home…………concrete pumper being fed by two concrete mixer trucks:
May 5 – lifting rebar (far left):
May 6 – This may be the most workers I’ve ever seen on the ground at one time:
One group of three pictures of workers NOT on the ground (click to enlarge):
May 7 – These are two separate pictures: one to get the full concrete pumper and the other to get a closeup of two cranes from separate projects being framed by that pumper:
Two max closeups of the two projects’ cranes:
May 8 – Activity on the Passaic St side:
Lunch!
May 9 – Inclement weather:
If you look at the above picture closely, you can see cement coming out of the pumper hose.
Three stitched-together shots involving the pumper hose (click to enlarge):
I’m not sure what’s being covered up………..undried concrete?
4-image stitch, with 3 showing pumper extending. What is the man doing in the last image? Knocking off dried concrete? (click to enlarge)
May 10 – Some breezy stills today:
Video – More breeziness:
Wrapping up:
From Passaic St:
from Main St:
All the cement mixers on State St, as photographed from street level and home:
May 11 – Four perimeter shots:
May 12 – ON-SITE SHOOT:
I was invited by the site’s project manager to do some on-site photography as he guided me around (thanks, Chris!).
It was suggested that I wear steel-tipped shoes and a hard hat. I actually found that a pair of my lace-up white snow boots had steel tips and Chris lent me a white hard hat (which looked quite odd atop my black baseball cap), so I was all set:
Here’s my first PANO shot (click TWICE to fully enlarge):
When there’s no concrete pumper around, cranes lift a big bucketful of cement up to where it’s needed:
A closeup of the bucket:
Men working on what I think is an elevator shaft:
Last on-site PANO (click to enlarge):
May 13
Is that a camera on a tripod filming the climber?
That brown avalanche must look quite impressive when you’re that close:
May 14
Look how close the cement mixer is to the space where its cement is going (bottom right)…..a couple of yards? And look how far the cement actually has to travel to get there:
Couldn’t the mixer just back up to the hole and dump the cement? (I’m sure there’s a very involved reason why that’s not possible, but from a block away, I can’t see it.)
May 15
I thought this was an interesting-looking image. Are the poles holding up the str-ucture? If so, how is the pole on the far right helping? It’s not attached to anything:
May 16
Project Yellow takes a peek at Project Blue:
As Chris knows, I was hoping to get on the site when the concrete pumper was there, so I could get all kinds of crazy closeup PANO shots of its contortions, but I like what I can get from home (it might be TOO close on-site) (click to enlarge):
Note: these five shots were taken over a 67-minute period (and the pumper truck never moved).
I have no idea what’s being covered up, but maybe that makes it a better picture:
May 17
All its neighbors gather around to try to figure out what’s under the sheet:
May 19
I think this is the first big board I’ve seen here (just don’t ask me what it’s for).
I’d say this was a serious game of Peekaboo when one guy’s got a hammer in his hand:
May 20
Photographically, a lot of these structures look better in the morning sun. This would not look as good if everything was bright from the evening sun:
One advantage these pumpers have is lots of high-up advertising space:
Dunno what the wood toss thing is about, but it looks like I got it in 2 out of 3 shots (click to enlarge):
This is the second of two shots I captured this month that shows the concrete coming out of the pumper hose (the hose end is usually in something else and not visible):
The pumper extends halfway to Manhattan:
This is a shot where the evening sun is a huge plus:
May 23
Big piece slowly moved:
The concrete pumper arrives at the State St entrance:
Time to wrap it up!
37 minutes apart:
Highlight of the Month! (click twice to fully enlarge):
Two days into June, I already have this month’s highlight!
May 26
Veterans Day stroll around the perimeter:
The western view from Main St (click to enlarge):
Does that second (grayish) car look a little TOO compact? When you pan from left to right and a vehicle goes through your frame from right to left, it gets compressed (look at its front wheel – it’s not round, but rather football-shaped) and when you pan L to R and a vehicle is moving through your frame L to R, it can become ridiculously long.
Don’t believe it? You can apply that principle to anything that moves: planes, people, etc. Look up 3-in-a-row of my blog posts from 2022 with their titles all in caps and beginning with the word “WEIRDLY” (it helps to have a PANO setting on your phone’s camera). You’ll have a lot of fun with this.
May 28
New cover/wrapping:
May 30
Cleaning up the pumper:
The view from the SW corner of Passaic St and State St:
The view from State St – just north of Passaic St:
May 31
Last-day-of-the-month-Saturday stroll on State St and Passaic St (click to enlarge):
…AND – finishing up the month of May – standing on the Passaic St sidewalk and shooting a very wide PANO that goes from the apartments on State St (left) to the soon-to-be-gone old YMCA building on Main St (right): (click twice to fully enlarge)
See you next month with June in July……….
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