NatureMC, 6 months ago to writingcommunity 06 #ArtAdventCalendar - In-Between Times - #Pechelbronn in #Alsace was one of the world's first industrial oil fields: exploitation started in the 18th c. (They used the natural bitumen already in the 14th c.) The famous brothers Schlumberger started here, the know-how was exported to #Texas and #California. A project in photos and text ▶️ https://landscapesofchange.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-world-in-between.html @writingcommunity #ArtMatters #fossil #oil #petrol #bitumen #asphalt #drilling #histodon #photography #landscape #landscapePhotography A jumble of rusty and newer metal parts, blades of grass and a thick rope. In the centre, the connecting piece between pipes. The thin pipes used to be the pipeline that lay in the streets until the 20th century. The refinery closed down in the 1970s. Nature reclaims an ancient red lorry with brambles and wild vine. On the back of the lorry is a tangle of complicated machines. These lorries were once immensely expensive and coveted: in 1927, the Schlumberger brothers invented the world's first borehole survey based on electrical resistance. These lorries were used to find oil. Scrap metal and an old plastic bottle in a wild and colourful jumble. The parts are painstakingly mowed free of brambles because some of the pieces could still be used for the oil museum. Or the parts are used to repair historical machines in the exhibitions.
06 #ArtAdventCalendar - In-Between Times - #Pechelbronn in #Alsace was one of the world's first industrial oil fields: exploitation started in the 18th c. (They used the natural bitumen already in the 14th c.) The famous brothers Schlumberger started here, the know-how was exported to #Texas and #California. A project in photos and text ▶️ https://landscapesofchange.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-world-in-between.html
@writingcommunity #ArtMatters #fossil #oil #petrol #bitumen #asphalt #drilling #histodon #photography #landscape #landscapePhotography
A jumble of rusty and newer metal parts, blades of grass and a thick rope. In the centre, the connecting piece between pipes. The thin pipes used to be the pipeline that lay in the streets until the 20th century. The refinery closed down in the 1970s. Nature reclaims an ancient red lorry with brambles and wild vine. On the back of the lorry is a tangle of complicated machines. These lorries were once immensely expensive and coveted: in 1927, the Schlumberger brothers invented the world's first borehole survey based on electrical resistance. These lorries were used to find oil. Scrap metal and an old plastic bottle in a wild and colourful jumble. The parts are painstakingly mowed free of brambles because some of the pieces could still be used for the oil museum. Or the parts are used to repair historical machines in the exhibitions.