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FAA “BRIJJ” Station, Foster City, CA, 2024.
All the pixels, suitable for visual flight rules only, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54128020212
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Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR-Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1250 Camera.
This humble, somewhat dilapidated shelter, a few miles south of SFO airport, once housed a medium wave aviation beacon (NDB). It currently hosts a variety of aviation surveillance sensors. Its location is also waypoint on the way to SFO runway 28R.
This kind of infrastructure, integral to so much in the modern world, is often invisible if you don’t know where to look for it.
@mattblaze@federate.social I love this kind of thing. There’s so much in the underlying infrastructure of the world that people take for granted, not because they don’t want to but because they don’t have a need to consider in order to live their lives.
But for those of us who do feel compelled to know more about how the world works, this stuff is so fascinating.
Infrastructure is often quietly heroic, and deserves to be seen that way.
@mattblaze@federate.social Back when I was working on Google Cloud, I had this hanging on the wall next to my desk.
@mattblaze@federate.social This is such a beautiful way to think about it. I’ve become more and more interested in photographing construction sites, seeing how things are actually built from the ground up and the construction workers who bring these projects to life and often go unacknowledged
@mattblaze@federate.social are you familiar with @debcha@saturation.social’s work? If not, seems like it’d be right up your alley…
https://www.ted.com/talks/deb_chachra_the_invisible_networks_shaping_your_everyday_life
https://muckrack.com/podcast/babbage-from-the-economist/episodes/9183036-babbage-deb-chachra-on-the-value-of-great-/!
https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-infrastructure-works-inside-the-systems-that-shape-our-world-deb-chachra/20146889?ean=9780593086599@llorenzin@infosec.exchange @debcha@saturation.social yes! I’m a big fan.
@mattblaze@federate.social @llorenzin@infosec.exchange Thank you both!
