Not a exactly a recent picture but I did just have the film developed. I found this camera in my house still loaded with film. I snapped off a few pictures of my dogs to finish the roll and sent it in for development. The camera, a Kodak Advantix 3200 AF APS, was one I used for work years ago.
This shot was taken around December of 2000 on a project I was doing for the U.S. EPA in Clearlake Oaks, California. The site is an old mercury mine that was one of the biggest mercury producers in the world. I was there to abandon two geothermal wells that were installed as a test to generate electricity. The wells had been improperly abandoned years before by shoving telephone poles down into them. The wells are a few thousand feet deep, hot and under high pressure. We utilized the pictured workover rig to drill out the telephone poles and abandon the wells properly. The body of water you see next to it is the open pit mine filled with water. It has a pH of less than 3 from the Hydrogen Sulfide gas bubbling up everywhere in it. Between the pH, H2S and mercury there is nothing living in it.
The film is Kodak Advantix 400.
Workover Rig by
Bryan Chernick, on Flickr
