Photography Patricia Cardet

MACHINERY

Machines have their own beauty. It reveals itself in their design, their functionality, their age, their history. Sometimes, we find beauty in ugliness or rather what we call ugliness. 

Let us also ask ourselves what treasures of ingenuity, skill, work and time the machines contain. They are not always synonymous with progress and are sometimes not very environmentally friendly, but they are undoubtedly part of the development of humanity and as such deserve our attention and sometimes our affection.  

  • 1 – Raising anchor

    1 – Raising anchor

    On merchant boat from Israel to Cyprus | June 2007

    [f/4.5 1/60 sec 16.7mm ISO 100]

  • 2 – Windlass

    2 – Windlass

    On merchant boat from Israel to Cyprus | June 2007

    [f/5.6 1/200 sec 130mm ISO 125]

  • 3 – Captain's domain, Japan

    3 – Captain's domain, Japan

    Tatsukushi Marine Park (竜串海域公園), Tosashimizu-shi (土佐清水市), Tatsukushi (竜串), Kochi Prefecture (高知県), Shikoku (四国, Japan | October 2019

    [ƒ/1.8 1/32s 4mm ISO 120]

  • 4 - Dashboard, Japan

    4 - Dashboard, Japan

    Tatsukushi Marine Park (竜串海域公園), Tosashimizu-shi (土佐清水市), Tatsukushi (竜串), Kochi Prefecture (高知県), Shikoku (四国, Japan | October 2019

    [ƒ/1.8 1/32s 4mm ISO 120]

  • 5 - Tractor Ford 3000, about 1970, Portugal

    5 - Tractor Ford 3000, about 1970, Portugal

    Palmeira de Faro, Portugal | October 2015

    [f/10 1/15 sec 50mm ISO 100]

  • 6 – Tractor Ford 3000, about 1970, Portugal

    6 – Tractor Ford 3000, about 1970, Portugal

    Palmeira de Faro, Portugal | October 2015

    [f/10 1/15 sec 50mm ISO 100]

  • 7 – Old combine harvester, Portugal

    7 – Old combine harvester, Portugal

    Palmeira de Faro, Portugal | October 2015

    [f/5 1/2000 sec 50mm ISO 100]

  • 8 – Electricity pylon, Israel

    8 – Electricity pylon, Israel

    Haifa, Israel | August 2014

    [f/16 1/50 sec 100mm ISO 100]

  • 9 – Electricity pylon, Israel

    9 – Electricity pylon, Israel

    Haifa, Israel | August 2014

  • 10 – Electricity, Greece

    10 – Electricity, Greece

    Perama (Πέραμα), Ioannina, Epirus, Greece | April 2017

    [f/9 1/1250 sec 100 mm ISO 100]

  • 11 – The forgotten ceramic insulator, Israel

    11 – The forgotten ceramic insulator, Israel

    Dalton (דַּלְתּוֹן‎), Israel | February 2007

    [f/7.1 1/320 sec 120mm ISO 125

  • 12 – Where does the nickel ore go? New Caledonia

    12 – Where does the nickel ore go? New Caledonia

    Conveyor and landing stage from where ore is transported by ore carrier to the Doniambo plant – Le Nickel - SLN | Thio, Province Sud, New Caledonia | January 2023

    [f/1.5 1/5500 sec 5.7 mm ISO 50]

  • 13 – Sluice between Pemara and Ioannina, Greece

    13 – Sluice between Pemara and Ioannina, Greece

    Lake of Ioannina (Lake Pamvotida or Pamvotis (Λίμνη Παμβώτιδα/Παμβώτις), seen from the Ioannina Island, Epirus, Greece | April 2017

    [f/16 1/30 sec 23mm ISO 200]

  • 14 – Sluice, Switzerland

    14 – Sluice, Switzerland

    Mörel-Filet, Valais | December 2018

    ƒ1,8 1/120s 4 mm ISO 32

  • 15 – Kurobe Dam, Japan Alps, Japan

    15 – Kurobe Dam, Japan Alps, Japan

    Dam water discharge |Kurobe Dam (黒部ダム), Toyama Prefecture (富山県, Toyama-ken),Chūbu Honshu, Japan |September 2023

    ƒ/ 5 1/125s 33 mm ISO 200

  • 16 – Kurobe Dam, Japan Alps, Japan

    16 – Kurobe Dam, Japan Alps, Japan

    Homage to the workers who built the dam. The project took the lives of 171 people. Kurobe Dam (黒部ダム), Toyama Prefecture (富山県, Toyama-ken),Chūbu Honshu, Japan |September 2023

    ƒ/1, 5 1/2750s 5,7 mm ISO 50

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