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Day 4 - Pilkington's Glass
Day 4 - Pilkington's Glass
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Camera: Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: St Helens, Merseyside, UK
Date: Feb 4, 2007
Aperture: F14
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/500sec
Date Uploaded: Feb 4, 2007

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 Pilkington's Glass was founded in 1826 as a family-run business in St Helens, Lancashire. Initially, the firm's name was Pilkington Brothers, but in 1894, the company Pilkington Brothers Limited was formed. The company was floated on the public stock market in 1970. It was for many years the biggest employer in the northwest industrial town. The distinctive blue-glass head office tower-block still dominates the town's skyline.

In 1957 Pilkington invented the Float Process, a revolutionary method of high quality flat glass production by floating molten glass over a bath of molten tin, abolishing the costly need to grind and polish glass to make it clear. Pilkington then sold the Float Process under licence to the rest of the world.

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 02/18/2007 06:02:54 AM
nice shot, the 'plane trail makes it. thanks for the history lesson. i always thought that process was older, and mercury was used first. goes to show how much i know!
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 02/14/2007 07:36:29 PM
Great industrial shot and post processing
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 02/12/2007 08:54:28 PM
Great industrial shot. I love the multiple lines reaching upward. Thanks, too, for the history lesson - it's always interesting learning about various places!
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 02/07/2007 08:23:04 AM
Nice composition and subject. Perhaps a bit soft, but very nice and looks historic. If you jump up the contrast slightly on this it will take on a very dramatic toning.
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 02/05/2007 03:30:35 PM
Love the black and white. You created a wonderful image from something very ordinary and uninteresting. It must be the stark nature of the chimneys that make the image better than average.
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 02/05/2007 08:16:59 AM
very nice and industrial.
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 02/04/2007 12:07:15 PM
Great photo and I really like learning all this history of different places.
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 02/04/2007 11:34:46 AM
You really captured the industrial feel. Good job.
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 02/04/2007 10:39:14 AM
Beautiful b&w of this factory.
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 02/04/2007 09:57:02 AM
I like all the different size stacks throughout the photo. Might bump up the contrast or dodge and burn a little to really make them pop.
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 02/04/2007 09:44:32 AM
We have a Pilkington factory just around the corner - I'm going off to check it out for photo-ability later on! Small world hey?
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 02/04/2007 05:53:52 AM
Cool, I've never seen a glass factory before.
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 02/04/2007 05:34:21 AM
Something about the smokestacks I find very intriguing. I guess Freud might have something to say about that. ;~D
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 02/04/2007 05:28:57 AM
Nice photo Jane! I really do like these industrial looking photos. And they do work so well in black and white. I feel like I'm learning so much about the different places our dpc friends live :)

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 02/04/2007 05:18:54 AM
Very good industrial shot, perfect in black and white, composition is spot on I love it!
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