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14-APR-2007 Franky2005

Street Torturer
by Franky2005

Sony DSC-V3
1/30s f/4.5 at 7.0mm iso100 full exif

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Katherine Stanback's Photos11-Jun-2007 20:43
Great capture - it certainly looks like ballerina legs to me, I wish they would have waited for them to leave before they started replacingthe tracks :-)
Helen Betts09-Jun-2007 10:34
Wicked piece of equipment, Frank, and nice shot of it. Helen
Denise02-Jun-2007 15:40
Link to Demo Gallery Color Version here:http://www.pbase.com/stfchallenge/image/79808051

Amazing. Howie is really into looking at Challenge pics. He is having a great time with this one!!! I still love the "dead ballerinas" ;-))
Franky2005 02-Jun-2007 10:11
Thank you all! Denise, Howie is perfectly right I think. The machine was used during the replacement of trails of the city tram. They had to replace a complete crossing between Thursday and Sunday, including all the concrete work! I have not seen this machine in action and basically had been asking myself on the real purpose, thus Howie's comment helps me too. :-)
You can also find a different color crop in the demo now! Cheers, Frank
Denise02-Jun-2007 08:42
LOL!!!!!!!! Oh my I see the dead ballerinas!!!!!!!!!
Martin Polanic 02-Jun-2007 06:16
Man, that looks like a group of dead ballerinas at the bottom, maybe it really is some sort of torturing machine ;) ... whatever it is, it doesn't look friendly and I love how you captured it (would be great to see this at full-size too, with all that detail)!
Denise01-Jun-2007 22:27
Wow, this is some machine. You did an amazing job of capturing all this detail. I thought it might be a machine to pulverize asphalt. My husband thinks it is a machine that rides along the railroad tracks mixes up the gravel so that the tracks can be straightened.
Guest 01-Jun-2007 18:31
This must be modern art? I've never seen such a sinister looking machine. This picture scars me, excellent work.