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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Infrastructure is often quietly heroic, and deserves to be seen that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

@[email protected] 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

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