Work Pictures

So, I took a lot of pictures last year that I think are pretty alright. I want to share them, and the easiest way to do that would be to just have a few picture dump posts.

I’ll start off with some pictures I took while working. A camera is useful for documenting what is going on while surveying or observing construction, so I always carry one. It’s nice to have pictures that show where you were and what was going on. Plus, if the project makes it into the company newsletter you need some nice pictures to go with the article. I think I ended up with some decent project shots:

This is a Right of Way stake

A scoria pit that I helped survey

An old railroad tunnel

One of the more action packed moments of culvert installation

There are also plenty of non-work related pictures. I covered a good portion of western North Dakota over the summer, and I’d take landscape pictures whenever the scenery caught my eye:

  

Yeah, they’re just backlit trees in a cow pasture 

A canola field

  

Fields of flax

       

            No sunset pictures this trip. There are also the non-landscape features of North Dakota. Surprise, they're related to oil:

A common sight

You can generally see a couple of gas flares no matter where you’re at

The thing I always got the most excited about was wildlife photos. Maybe I just think that getting a picture of something that's alive takes more skill:

A dragonfly that landed on my passenger seat

An enormous fly

A Flickertail Gopher 

 

Cows!

Leopard Frog

A salamander I found hiking though the road ditch

Who would I be if I didn’t hunt down some waterfowl?

This is technically just a fresh water diving bird, but I’ll take it

And a bunch of lovely ducks

 

I even found some duck eggs

            I also took some picture to document the state of my life on the road. Pictures to capture the essence of what was important and what parts of life became inconsequential:

  

All I kept in my fridge was beef jerky and dill pickles

These are right of way peas, and they were a major part of my diet

Here is the other half of my diet

Here is my face after a day of surveying

 

Road Beard

My take of hotel toiletries for the summer

            I had a good time working over the summer, and not just because of all the pictures. There were boring or tedious moments, as with any job, but give me a camera and I’ll find something interesting (a book, and mp3 player full of podcasts also help). I also like to take pictures in my free time, especially while diving. Up next is shots I took while snorkeling.