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Canon dSLR https://www.harleycowan.com/manhattan-project daily 0.75 2024-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494820853767-7ISE4VUIYD50DY6CXCF7/Hanford-170306-18final.jpg Manhattan Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494830445227-7I6F91UXCSG51HPQ0E1E/Hanford-170306-05final.jpg Manhattan Project - A Cathedral of Science Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) This is the loading face of B Reactor (1944), the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor which produced the plutonium for the Trinity Test in Los Alamos, New Mexico and the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1545226828671-1U54NG5JSN6J3X3OZS31/Hanford-170308-32final.jpg Manhattan Project - B Reactor (1944) Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) Looking northwest toward B Reactor. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1557282337987-5KOXEYONVQ3GMN5M7767/Hanford-170308-26final.jpg Manhattan Project - B Reactor (1944) Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) Looking north toward B Reactor from C Reactor. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494833167409-9XBX5J2TNP3R6HJ6J35X/Hanford-170306-18final.jpg Manhattan Project - Control Room Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) A broader view of the reactor operator's console and scram panel within the Control Room. This chair is an original. Today, a different chair is placed here during tour season. Years ago, I was on a tour here and Dee McCullough, the reactor operator who was on duty the first night of operation, was acting as a docent. This chair was in place but had a rope across the arms. I was talking with Dee as the group moved on. He leaned over conspiratorially and asked, "Do you want to sit in it?" I said, "Is that permitted?" He said, "Well... it's my chair so I think I can decide!" 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494833346500-C0KMZD0VSZWETF1V6ZTH/Hanford-170307-11final.jpg Manhattan Project - Reactor Operator's Station Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) This is the reactor operator's console inside B Reactor. The clocks have been set to the time when B Reactor went critical on September 26th, 1944, marking the world's first self-sustaining chain reaction. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494828879897-D0OYAIOMEIUYEI1L6PSP/Hanford-170306-26final.jpg Manhattan Project - Wiring Harness Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) This wiring harness for the temperature monitoring equipment for B Reactor's bioshield, is hand-tied wax string. Circuits are hand-soldered. A Ray-o-Vac D-Cell supplies a constant flow of electricity to the circuitry. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494828756871-5K8N077NO936VKIG5CFD/Hanford-170306-22final.jpg Manhattan Project - Control Panel Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) This console in the Control Room is part of the monitoring instrumentation. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494827666298-4QFE3C3JRR7I38G2SSN2/Hanford-170308-24final.jpg Manhattan Project - 100B/C Area Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) B Reactor (1944), the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor which made plutonium for the Trinity Test in Los Alamos, NM and the Fat Man Bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan sits at the 100B/C site in the northwest corner of the Hanford Reservation. Since the creation of the reservation, only 3% of the land has been disturbed with construction. The K-West and K-East Reactors are in the distance and the last free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River (i.e., water levels not influenced by dams). 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1557281987845-J6GPFJ17R69CQHKLGE00/Hanford-170307-13final.jpg Manhattan Project - Scram Panel Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) This is part of the Control Room within B Reactor. These Venturi valve gauges monitor cooling water across the 2,004 process tubes containing fissile uranium fuel slugs. Don't cause a scram. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494913057810-ZW0IVN1VEBRYSYVQPDHS/Hanford-170309-25final.jpg Manhattan Project - Tagged Out Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) Here a hand-painted, wooden warning tag prevents workers from closing a cooling system valve at the loading face of the reactor. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494912971453-NYYF2NFGCJ2WFXA7F1T3/Hanford-170308-42final.jpg Manhattan Project - The Far Side Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) The south side of B Reactor is referred to as the far side because it is opposite from the Control Room. The most critical walls, those around the reactor core, are reinforced, cast-in-place concrete. Other walls were constructed of concrete brick and block, which could be completed faster. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494809720169-QPWL1T54F45OH7Z3RVVP/Hanford-170308-24final.jpg Manhattan Project - 100B/C Area B Reactor (1944), the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor which made plutonium for the Trinity Test in Los Alamos, NM and the Fat Man Bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan sits at the 100B/C site in the northwest corner of the Hanford Reservation. Since the creation of the reservation, only 3% of the land has been disturbed with construction. The K-West and K-East Reactors are in the distance and the last free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River (i.e., water levels not influenced by dams). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1545226912928-YA99DU42DWQVB86GLFAI/Hanford-170308-06final.jpg Manhattan Project - Diesel Oil Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) Diesel oil tank at B Reactor. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494907008533-UO6YG7KYVL4HSSA54MTC/Hanford-170308-50final.jpg Manhattan Project - Stack and Duct Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) A detail of the exhaust stack and ductwork of B Reactor. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494907092530-PI29I31DCY9481Q0DAGS/Hanford-170308-52final.jpg Manhattan Project - Transfer & Storage Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) An access door into the transfer and storage area on the far side of B Reactor and adjacent mechanical ductwork. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494828940813-BCPZJGD8RGFB1D795V7C/Hanford-170307-06final.jpg Manhattan Project - Ballast Tanks Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) Looking at the underside of the ballast tanks and the connection to the accumulators. 4x4 wood posts provide a "soft brake" if the ballast tanks were to crash down in an emergency. The system pumps are in the background. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1545064203779-HJSETYUNZICU31MY0HWR/1700309-6-Final-1000.jpg Manhattan Project - The Near Side Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park (2017) B Reactor with C Reactor (cocooned) on the horizon. The locomotive and rail cars, now on permanent display, were used to transport spent fuel from reactors to the 200 Area for processing and separation. The steel superstructure at the right of the frame is to allow for maintenance and removal of the reactor’s horizontal control rods. This photograph was published in Atomic Heritage Foundation’s 2018 edition of “Guide to the Manhattan Project in Washington State." 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1545226995365-9JYV5IJYOYZMSV5VFRZN/Hanford-170309-09final.jpg Manhattan Project - Vertical Safety Rods Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) The vertical safety rods (VSR) are used to rapidly shut down the chain reaction in an emergency. The rods contain boron, a neutron absorbing material which "poisons" the chain reaction by robbing it of free neutrons. Each circular hopper contained a sixty foot long safety rod which, during operation, would be suspended by the cables up above the reactor core. In an emergency or a power outage they would drop by gravity into the reactor. The rods have articulated segments so that even if an earthquake shifted the graphite blocks of the core, they could still snake their way down. Piping on the far wall was part of a last ditch safety system, tanks (no longer extant) filled with liquid boron solution which could be poured down the VSR channels. Wet graphite would make the reactor useless so, a few years after B Reactor began operating, the liquid boron system was replaced with the "Ball-X" system, spheres of boron encased in nickel. These could also pour down the VSR channels but be vacuumed out later. At the left in front of the short stair is one of the vacuums--it looks like a rocket. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494829197727-TORMC7W0S6CAMAT6495M/Hanford-170307-39final.jpg Manhattan Project - The Bruggemann Warehouse (1907) Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) The Bruggemann Warehouse on the Hanford Reservation. This was abandoned with the creation of the reservation. West and south façades shown. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494810416763-9H1UJZKUEXG0N0FRHM6J/Hanford-170307-34final.jpg Manhattan Project - The Bruggemann Warehouse (1907) Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) The Bruggemann Warehouse on the Hanford Reservation. This was abandoned with the creation of the reservation. This view is looking north inside the main storage space. Three pairs of carriage doors face east. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494829519695-D9D4Q9HIOUE7PODUSNRR/Hanford-170307-35final.jpg Manhattan Project - The Bruggemann Warehouse (1907) Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) The Bruggemann Warehouse on the Hanford Reservation. This was abandoned with the creation of the reservation. This view is looking at the east façade and its carriage doors from the window another room. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494803217948-PJPB5H7K5IWM8A7X05KN/Hanford-170308-26final.jpg Manhattan Project - B Reactor (1944) Looking north to B Reactor and its stack from C Reactor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494832349833-ICHZ3LWD96TR8N4A5B3H/Hanford-170307-42final.jpg Manhattan Project - Allard Pump House (1908) Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) The Allard Pump House on what is now the Hanford Reservation supplied Columbia River water to the towns of Hanford and White Bluffs and irrigated thousands of acres of farmland. Fill has been added on the south side of the building. Originally, the building as surrounded by water and access was from the bank via bridge. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494829813824-DM1MYEK7JSIXBUQ937WQ/Hanford-170307-48final.jpg Manhattan Project - Allard Pump House (1908) Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494830172086-YLIQ2AP4MA52P493JBVD/Hanford-170308-16final.jpg Manhattan Project - Hanford High School (1916) Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) Hanford High School, abandoned with the creation of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Little else exists of the town of Hanford, Washington. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1557282284689-4O9PESA5RT9FC7T0QC9S/Hanford-170308-037final.jpg Manhattan Project - Abandoned Rail Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) Once the site of a major railroad station, these ties are the only reminder at White Bluffs. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494830226448-FSR5QHVENUEXSWKY2WDQ/Hanford-170308-18final.jpg Manhattan Project - Rehabilitation of the White Bluffs Bank (1909) Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) The White Bluffs Bank, currently under restoration. This is the only building remaining at the abandoned town of White Bluffs, evacuated for the creation of the Hanford Reservation. The block building still contains its safe. The existing wooden window frames and sashes, thanks to the desiccating climate, were mostly salvageable and were repaired and reglazed. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494830264953-9BO2Z5VUXPT10RPX4QR4/Hanford-170308-20final.jpg Manhattan Project - The White Bluffs Bank (1909) Manhattan Project Nat’l Historical Park, Washington (2017) The White Bluffs Bank, currently under restoration, is the only building remaining at the abandoned town of White Bluffs, evacuated for the creation of the Hanford Reservation. Note the hand-painted sign, added after the bank was no longer in use, is being preserved in situ. It warns Hanford workers to "inspect, detect, and correct fire hazards," a serious problem at abandoned townsites. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494801849688-UISR7LWJCEJ9ZJZV9I4I/Hanford-170306-05final.jpg Manhattan Project - A Cathedral of Science This is the loading face of B Reactor (1944). The large internal volume gives visitors a perspective of the scale of the 250 megawatt, graphite-moderated pile. There are 2,004 process tubes into which uranium fuel slugs are loaded. U-235 nuclei fission releasing two or three neutrons. In a self-sustaining chain reaction, one of those free neutrons hits another uranium nucleus causing another split. The other one or two neutrons will escape, be absorbed by boron control rods, or be captured by a stable U-238 nucleus transforming it into an unstable U-239 atom. U-239 then converts a neutron into a proton via beta decay becoming neptunium-239. This atom is also unstable and quickly beta decays to plutonium-239, the top secret "product" of the Hanford Engineer Works (HEW). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1494801575387-8BDRW1X3UD0VMRQDKA5F/Hanford-170307-39final.jpg Manhattan Project - The Bruggemann Warehouse (1907) The Bruggemann Warehouse on the Hanford Reservation. This was abandoned with the creation of the reservation. West and south façades shown. https://www.harleycowan.com/jantzen-beach-carousel daily 0.75 2023-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602087967704-ASIDROSNC9LGSLH1SHQE/200816-103m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602087967704-ASIDROSNC9LGSLH1SHQE/200816-103m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602087967704-ASIDROSNC9LGSLH1SHQE/200816-103m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel - White Horse, Jantzen Bech Carousel (c. 1921) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1623004001427-0SYLD571EYOD7YZA91VV/200126-004sm.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel - Bybee-Howell House (1856) Sauvie Island, Oregon (2020) Georgian-style home, one of Oregon’s oldest surviving residences. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602095243554-VR32W46YNSKD8O4M10ZZ/200816-145m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel - Black Horse, Jantzen Beach Carousel (c.1921) A close-up of a C.W. Parker pony belonging to Portland’s Jantzen Beach Carousel. 120 format silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602088600310-GDKAUSN06SRZ2FSN2QFE/200816-066m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1590793815090-76J4YNJEUJWRLB72G5HR/200126-004sm.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel - Bybee-Howell House (1856) Sauvie Island, Oregon (2020) Revisiting Bybee-Howell four years after my first photograph. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602088466478-MRZIM0Q9B6R2TKAGF6BP/200817-048m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602095878654-FTIXJUILFIXXZE98DR0O/200816-098m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel - Fish and cantle, Jantzen Beach Carousel (c. 1921) Detail of saddle and cantle on a C.W. Parker pony belonging to Portland’s Jantzen Beach Carousel. 120 format silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602098622515-E8JGDDG9SXCZTVB0L427/200815-074m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel - Fish Cantle (detail), Jantzen Beach Carousel (c.1921) Detail of saddle and cantle on a C.W. Parker pony belonging to Portland’s Jantzen Beach Carousel. 120 format silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602091204126-Z8XBMO0F6LTFNACDFOY8/200817-123m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602091018147-YIQR9ITGDA23NMTX6FHP/200817-126m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602091318866-SXTRH97QVJ6HOK6P24V7/200817-021m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602098741913-5GXPBRVFLPCUDYQ0HOH8/200817-088m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1537670477189-F6OP5TCBLYDVQI8ND29Y/180918-009sm.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel - Chateau at the Oregon Caves (1934) Oregon Caves Nat’l Monument & Preserve (2018) The south facade and main entrance to the lodge (under the awning). Siding is Port Orford cedar with its bark. A shed dormer is broken by two gable dormers on the upper guest room levels. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602099471772-US8UFVL1FX1F6BMAQBC9/200816-046m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602099301720-IMI1KMEEI50GOZCS4R3V/200814-063m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/5b4d8d48352f53bd7a389073/5b4d8d5e758d46a039e884c4/1531809118534/ Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602099074338-VQCWTX3DQCN26F5EO7DF/200817-116m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602090702730-OLEDN5F8KMA0W6FIKDD6/200816-085m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel - Fish Cantle, Jantzen Beach Carousel (c. 1921) Detail of saddle and cantle on a C.W. Parker pony belonging to Portland’s Jantzen Beach Carousel. 120 format silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602098857150-A2BBADM5VAWG6JWJVFBQ/200814-056m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602090808531-A5LXUEU1XFSVPFBNVABU/200816-112m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602090276712-6RRFYEC7BVHR7U5KMTGB/200816-129m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602089969778-GAN9ILGB01KJDCZ304CJ/200817-001.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602089553422-SLN9339UN9DQ3M0BM6CT/200816-047m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602089710728-6G5W3RVNDHHLJ2M89C1N/200816-090m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602088806342-4T8O8NLUHACMRO85YX8N/200816-078m.jpg Jantzen Beach Carousel https://www.harleycowan.com/historicwonderland daily 0.75 2025-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1752516799952-B08ENRYZRMP2WNIAOR12/180926-140.jpg Historic Wonderland - Lobby of the Chateau at the Oregon Caves (1934) Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2018) Exposed wood beams of enormous size (about 18”x24”) are supported by peeled log posts (30” in diameter). The interior walls feature wainscoting of California Redwood heartwood with pressed fiberboard above and on the ceiling. Newer carpeting covers the original linoleum floors. Menno Kraai, general manager, sits at original lodge furnishings, Mason Monterey table and chairs. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1752516799952-B08ENRYZRMP2WNIAOR12/180926-140.jpg Historic Wonderland - Lobby of the Chateau at the Oregon Caves (1934) Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2018) Exposed wood beams of enormous size (about 18”x24”) are supported by peeled log posts (30” in diameter). The interior walls feature wainscoting of California Redwood heartwood with pressed fiberboard above and on the ceiling. Newer carpeting covers the original linoleum floors. Menno Kraai, general manager, sits at original lodge furnishings, Mason Monterey table and chairs. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1752516226492-N0I0M5XKZJG18I0PQ77A/Final+240413-11-Sue.jpg Historic Wonderland - Lobby of the Chateau at the Oregon Caves (1934) Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2018) Sue Densmore, Executive Director of the Friends of the Oregon Caves & Chateau, stands center amongst labelled bundles of salvaged finishes and trim. Photography for campaign to save the Chateau by Restore Oregon, Friends of the Oregon Caves & Chateau and Governor Kotek, listed as 11 Most Endangered Places of 2025 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1537670440258-FN5N3G6QR8LIIRUXOTG0/180918-015sm.jpg Historic Wonderland - Chateau at the Oregon Caves (1934) Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserv (2018) This is a view of the east facade and pond. The coffee shop was built out in 1937. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1537670477189-F6OP5TCBLYDVQI8ND29Y/180918-009sm.jpg Historic Wonderland - Chateau at the Oregon Caves (1934) Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2018) The south facade and main entrance to the lodge (under the awning). Siding is Port Orford cedar with its bark. A shed dormer is broken by two gable dormers on the upper two guest room levels. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1538930918251-TV415DXBQCNIG8VS6I8E/180925-044.jpg Historic Wonderland - Lobby of the Chateau at the Oregon Caves (1934) Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2018) The central fireplace is made of marble quarried on-site during blasting and construction. Original Mason Monterey tables and chairs populate the space alongside contemporary furnishings. The sprinkler system was added in 1955. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1752516262287-JUN1D0OPM5MT530JJ3NT/Final+240413-08m.jpg Historic Wonderland - Lobby of the Chateau at the Oregon Caves (1934) Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2025) Finishes and trim lie stacked in marked bundles waiting for the building restoration to restart. Photography for campaign to save the Chateau by Restore Oregon, Friends of the Oregon Caves & Chateau and Governor Kotek, listed as 11 Most Endangered Places of 2025 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. 4×5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1752508257033-DDYXKIWUCUA2RPQE6BGO/Final+240413-14m.jpg Historic Wonderland Chateau at the Oregon Caves (1934) Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2025) Historic doors are stacked in the dining room awaiting restoration. Photography for campaign to save the Chateau by Restore Oregon, Friends of the Oregon Caves & Chateau and Governor Kotek, listed as 11 Most Endangered Places of 2025 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1752516304095-DPUPX6BJCDU9SCFWB4NQ/Final+240413-12m.jpg Historic Wonderland - Stairs, Chateau at the Oregon Caves (1034) Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (2025) This to the pond. from the grand stair. Finishes have been stripped away and the restoration of the building has stalled. Photography for campaign to save the Chateau by Restore Oregon, Friends of the Oregon Caves & Chateau and Governor Kotek, listed as 11 Most Endangered Places of 2025 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1537670389181-CMOABE5YBBDUFPD04YU6/180918-028.jpg Historic Wonderland - Chateau at the Oregon Caves (1934) Oregon Caves Nattional Monument & Preserve (2018) This is view of the south wing from the southwest. The main entrance is under the awning. Siding is Port Orford cedar with its bark. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1623004001427-0SYLD571EYOD7YZA91VV/200126-004sm.jpg Historic Wonderland - Bybee-Howell House (1856) Sauvie Island, Oregon (2020) Georgian-style home, one of Oregon’s oldest surviving residences. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1623003294765-YOX1U3EL4KEH9V0R2F5W/210429-006.jpg Historic Wonderland - Watzek House Entry (1937) Portland, Oregon (2021) John Yeon’s house for Aubrey Watzek. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1621182464731-4Q7NS8XAFH1VASHDIANE/210429-001.jpg Historic Wonderland - Watzek House (1937), Reflecting Pond Portland, Oregon (2021) 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1623015021056-TBSFY7TM75P1MBT8FNW3/210422-001.jpg Historic Wonderland - Watzek House (1937), Reflecting Pond, Drained Portland, Oregon (2021) This image was made while the reflecting pond was drained in order to show its construction. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1623005047502-G0L9W0XIDZHY1JD6KOSO/210429-003.jpg Historic Wonderland - Watzek House (1937), Living Room Portland, Oregon (2021) John Yeon’s house for Oregon lumber baron Aubrey Watzek. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1531809128574-UYSSMBAZAGJ2XXXCB1TP/Watzek1802XX001sm.jpg Historic Wonderland - Watzek House (1937), Venetian Room Portland, Oregon (2018) John Yeon’s house for Oregon lumber baron Aubrey Watzek. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1623003854146-33PUI53H0EDFAZS22Q73/210422-004.jpg Historic Wonderland - Watzek House (1937) Portland, Oregon (2021) Exterior of living room. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1582678831986-Q3P3CDJWSRPMS4QDB8PN/image-asset.jpeg Historic Wonderland - Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist (1953), Sanctuary Portland, Oregon (2020) No longer extant. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1582678989144-PG620991FL2DPLSMIG0W/200223-001Final.jpg Historic Wonderland - Tenth Church of Christ, Scientist (1953), Sanctuary Portland, Oregon (2020) No longer extant. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1531809286577-TBJ92X2FQFZAWM9Z9R36/180527-03.jpg Historic Wonderland - East Grandstands (1925) Eugene, Oregon (2018) A view from the track looking south along the historic east grandstands at Hayward Field on the University of Oregon campus. No longer extant. This photograph was taken two days prior to its demolition. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1531809525404-J3F5M2H7526AJXD9EDH0/180527-10.jpg Historic Wonderland - Benches at East Grandstands (1925) These are wooden bleacher benches in the historic east grandstands of Hayward Field at the University of Oregon campus. Note seat numbers stamped into the surface of the wood. No longer extant, this photograph was taken two days prior to demolition. Some benches and other material were salvaged for a historical exhibit to be included in the new Hayward Field track and field facilities. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1580716858415-QL2BQ9R1G7HYYWI02HYF/200127003.jpg Historic Wonderland - The Gordon House (1963), Living Room Silverton, Oregon (2021) Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957 for Evelyn and Conrad Gordon, this Usonian was built posthumously. After Evelyn Gordon’s death, it was sold to David and Carey Smith who decided to demolish it in favor of a new house. In 2001, after the Frank Lloyd Wright Conservancy obtained a reprieve from dismantling it, the building was moved from Wilsonville, Oregon to the Oregon Garden at Silverton. This is Frank Lloyd Wright’s only building in Oregon. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1580716639002-0OILZJ9VUGAA91UU5VIX/image-asset.jpeg Historic Wonderland - The Gordon House (1963), Nook Silverton, Oregon (2021) The sitting nook in the living room features custom built-in and movable furnishings. The clerestory plywood fretwork has a 15-degree angle which repeats in details throughout the house in table and countertop edging and base trim. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1617605313748-ARRF0IFT5NMDGZMTDVI9/201016-031+final.jpg Historic Wonderland - Grand Stair, Multnomah County Courthouse (1911) Portland, Oregon (2021) Third floor landing of the grand stair. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1602087967704-ASIDROSNC9LGSLH1SHQE/200816-103m.jpg Historic Wonderland - White horse, Jantzen Beach Carousel (c. 1921) A close-up of a C.W. Parker pony belonging to Portland’s Jantzen Beach Carousel. 120 format silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1617605444519-FJPXQM6B9WHWYFZY5K0R/201116-034+final.jpg Historic Wonderland - Grand Stair, Multnomah County Courthouse (1911) Portland, Oregon (2021) Grand stair ballustrade detail. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1617604605137-IZAK8QVRFZIEB28SFQ9I/201116-044+final.jpg Historic Wonderland - Cell Block 'A' Door Selector, Multnomah County Courthouse (1911) Portland, Oregon (2021) A detail of the mechanism that opens cell doors in Cell Block ‘A’ of the county jail. No longer extant. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1580716473461-621VQ59TOZVFYPX2S039/image-asset.jpeg Historic Wonderland - The Gordon House (1963), Living Room Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this Usonian was built posthumously. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1617604945172-PWLVW9BN1I1GDULZ6647/201116-040+final.jpg Historic Wonderland - Minoru Yasui Jail Cell, Multnomah County Courthouse (1911) Portland, Oregon (2021) Medal of Freedom recipient Minoru Yasui was detained in this cell for nine months for violating curfew for Japanese-Americans during WWII. While the county jail is no longer extant, this cell was cut apart, removed, and donated to the Japanese-American Museum of Oregon. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1617605642644-A3022QFMXVYDWW98N9L7/201116-043+final.jpg Historic Wonderland - Door of Solitary Confinement, Multnomah County Courthouse (1911) Portland, Oregon (2021) Interior detail of solitary confinement cell door with graffiti. No longer extant. 4x5 silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1580716858415-QL2BQ9R1G7HYYWI02HYF/200127003.jpg Historic Wonderland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1752517729982-VW272YWLRMZT9C5HA4GJ/Final+240413-01m.jpg Historic Wonderland https://www.harleycowan.com/vladivostok-95 daily 0.75 2022-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1618173033619-49PYGLK1J84S0C3K9VQ0/Vladivostok054.jpg Vladivostok '95 - End of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, Vladivostok Spring, 1996. The train station in Vladivostok is the end of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. The building has always been spectacular and had just undergone a major restoration. I rode the Trans-Siberian between Vladivostok and Khabarovsk a couple times, an overnight trip. 35mm silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1618173033619-49PYGLK1J84S0C3K9VQ0/Vladivostok054.jpg Vladivostok '95 - End of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, Vladivostok Spring, 1996. The train station in Vladivostok is the end of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. The building has always been spectacular and had just undergone a major restoration. I rode the Trans-Siberian between Vladivostok and Khabarovsk a couple times, an overnight trip. 35mm silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1618172683207-86FUHDLGB5A5L2QOUOL3/Vladivostok072.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Train platform, Vladivostok Fall, 1995. 35mm silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1619397925588-EO6QY436RMTFZZ2MH725/Vladivostok+Color011.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Subotnik Far Eastern State Technical University, Vladivostok, Russia (1996). Subotnik was a day of service held over from Soviet times. I joined my architecture classmates and Professor Grigory Ignatov (back row, third from left) to clean up around our campus which overlooked the Golden Horn Bay. My friend Valera Savostenko (front row, center holding shovel) is now also a professor in the School of Architecture & Design. 35mm color print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1618170963824-OHJKRV82X6ETKPBTBINX/Vladivostok038.jpg Vladivostok '95 - The Troika, Sportivnaya Gavan, Vladivostok November 1995. I love these photographs of The Troika from Khabarovsk: Andrea, Michelle & Eve. I believe both of these are from the Thanksgiving visit to Vladivostok. I’m almost positive the wonderfully expressive look I captured from Andrea (at left) was actually her telling me to hurry up and snap the shutter. This photo is at the viewpoint at the end of Svetlanskaya Street above Sportivnaya Gavan. 35mm silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1618173470342-QK0UIGC9L61PTF5UU0ZC/Vladivostok013.jpg Vladivostok '95 - The Troika, Train platform, Vladivostok November, 1995. I love these photographs of The Troika from Khabarovsk: Andrea, Michelle & Eve. This photo is saying goodbye on a platform at the train station. The train from Vladivostok was an evening departure arriving the next morning in Khabarovsk. 35mm silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1620530648061-3163FM7VJTB7XXTIJ8ZD/Vladivostok+Color005.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Main Square, Vladivostok (1995) A weekly market on the main square. 35mm color print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1618173675865-ITPU6UQA2SP9K5I6O74X/Vladivostok094.jpg Vladivostok '95 - On the Balcony with Taz the Cat, Posyetskaya Street, Vladivostok Spring, 1996. Ash and Maggie, my good friends from down under, were headed back to Melbourne for a couple weeks and asked if I’d like to get out of the dorm and watch their cat, Taz, while they were away. A chance to have a clean, warm apartment over on Posyetskaya Street all to myself—you bet! This was a shot from the balcony looking up the street. Taz liked to sit outside. It was a quiet street but there was some good people watching. Taz was pretty playful and a bit of a character. We got along great as roommates. I vignetted the lower right corner with the camera strap but even with the flaw, I’ve always liked this photo. It captures residential Vladivostok. Another time (not on my watch) Taz leapt from the balcony and fell three stories into a rebar grated window well below. He lost a few teeth and beat himself up terribly—hid in a closet for over a week once he was found and brought back upstairs. Poor cat. 35mm silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1618171951866-ZLNAMXI3E409ZOFT6DTG/Vladivostok015.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Funicular, Vladivostok Fall, 1995. 35mm silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1619411811816-AXV89E43D1MY2IHDGTMZ/Vladivostok+Color012.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Communist Rally Vladivostok, Russia (1996). This was a communist party rally in the main square prior to the presidential elections. Zyuganov was the Communist Party candidate running against Yeltsin. Zhironovsky was the Liberal Democratic Party candidate and Yavlinski was with the progressive Yabloko Party. 35mm color print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1619319356615-7TIBWSR39CPIX2DJBCC8/Communist%2BRally%2B-%2B001.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Trudovaya Rossiya Vladivostok, Russia (c. 1996). Demonstrations for the upcoming presidential elections, this is a communist party gathering on the main square. 35mm color print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1619319280828-C6BFM1I8LN6WT9QFIS56/Communist%2BRally%2B-%2B002.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Election Rally Vladivostok, Russia (c. 1996) Demonstrations for the upcoming presidential elections, this is a communist party gathering on the main square. 35mm color print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1619319382039-X7PG7OA9XZZ7AVPZ05JX/Communist%2BRally%2B-%2B004.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Traditional Singing at Communist Party Rally Vladivostok, Russia (1996). This performance of traditional singing and dancing was part of demonstrations for the upcoming presidential elections. 35mm color print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1618174566195-YHKGD4POBFK7XJAZ7J3L/Vladivostok083.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Yolka, Bortsov Revolyutsii Square, Vladivostok December, 1995. New Year’s Eve is the biggest holiday in Russia but December and January are busy with Christmas, New Year, Old Christmas, and Old New Year. This is the tree with the “White House,” the regional seat of government, behind it. 35mm silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1618171802171-OYL0S30X0DRS8QK2JN4G/Vladivostok025.jpg Vladivostok '95 - The Café, Vladivostok Fall, 1995. Vladivostok being newly open to foreigners and western investment had a small population of expats, Brits, Aussies, Kiwis, Greeks, Danes, Scots, Canadians, Americans, and more. The population ranged from maybe 150 to 200 residents in summer to probably under 50 in winter. Dave Poritzky had a multi-story apartment known affectionately as “The Café” where anyone was welcome to drop in at almost any time. The first photo is a group of regulars (expat and Russians) at the attic kitchen table. (My camera had an automatic setting that I got a lot of use out of!) We had just returned from holding Vladivostok’s first inaugural St. Patrick’s Day Parade (more on that later). I don’t know what I would have done had I not found this amazing gang of folks. Most of us are still in touch and, even though we are in all time zones across the globe, have had Zoom meetings together as recently as 2020. 35mm silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1618172145252-VFQ3CEBWLAWGNUYQJT85/Vladivostok075.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Siberian & Far East Study Abroad Group, Vladivostok November, 1995. Of about 180 students from the U.S. on the Middlebury College study abroad program, just 13 of us were in all of Siberia and the Far East. The students in Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Khabarovsk joined us in Vladivostok for the week of Thanksgiving. This was taken at a restaurant called «Океан». 35mm silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1618172858613-LE7F1M21XPVYHZGQIWNB/Vladivostok036.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Amur River, Khabarovsk Fall, 1995. This is the shoreline of the Amur River in Khabarovsk. 35mm silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1618173256109-0NIT2SV56ZRPAK83ASIF/Vladivostok047.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Grigory Igantov, Svetlansaya Street, Vladivostok Spring, 1996. I was the first and (as far as I know) only western student to attend Far Eastern State Technical University (ДВГТУ) in Vladivostok. I attended the School of Design. Here I am on Svetlanskaya Street with professor and friend Grigory Ignatov. 35mm silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1619398757217-44HNA21J9H09DEA5HY5H/Vladivostok+Color013.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Victory Vladivostok, Russia (1996). This billboard on the main square of Vladivostok would change monthly. In late spring, it announced the arrival of Victory Day, the celebration of Germany’s surrender at the end of WWII. 35mm color print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1620537856254-44KCUHM1IB9JY6DBVRP0/Vladivostok%2BColor014.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Foreign Students at Victory Day Celebrations (1996) I and my study abroad friends over at Far Eastern State University decided to go as a group to see the Victory Day celebrations. When we arrived, we suddenly became very self conscious because we realized one of our fellow students was a Japanese national and started to worry about how he would be received. Until 1993, Vladivostok had been strictly closed to foreigners and even Russians from other cities for about seventy years. As it turned out we had nothing to worry about. We were all welcomed with open arms. One of the people we encountered was this man with his medals on his brown suit jacket. My memory has faded but I believe he said was only surviving one of fourteen friends who went off to fight in the Great Patriotic War (WWII) and had served three tours of duty. He teared up while telling us his story: “Why did I survive?” It was emotional for all of us. He was pleased that we had taken the time to come join the celebrations and gave us each a big hug, including our Japanese friend to whom he said, ‘After all, it was so many years ago and now we are all friends.” 35mm color print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1620537759262-TRUOVVRUBSR5FODNBJLX/Vladivostok%2BColor017.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Victory Day Celebrations Vladivostok, Russia (9th of May, 1996). Victory Day, celebrating the surrender of Germany at the end of WWII, remains an important holiday across Russia. In Vladivostok, men and women dressed in their old uniforms, donned medals, and celebrated in the parks with singing, eating, and the obligatory vodka. 35mm color print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1620537682946-LTJ6XWXMOGEVWE5O77UC/Vladivostok%2BColor016.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Victory Day Choir (1996) Veterans singing for Victory Day celebrations in the park. 35mm color print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1618172463156-MZCB7MFZWN98W29H60SG/Vladivostok003.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Dormitory, Vladivostok July, 1995. This is me standing in front of my dormitory at Far Eastern State Technical University (ДВГТУ). My room was on the top (10th) floor facing the hill behind the building. There was a regional coal strike that went on for months and the city had rolling power outages and was without hot water (which heated the building). Even when the coffin-sized elevator worked, you didn’t want to use it in case the daily rolling power outage should hit while going to your floor. I was issued two mattresses, one for the narrow bed frame (which resembled a hide-a-bed couch frame) and one for the wall next to the bed. The wind came over the mountain hitting my window and blew through wide cracks of daylight in the wooden frame. By the time the trickle of tepid water came on in November, an inch of ice had formed over the inside of the window, mercifully preserving us from drafts for the rest of the winter. 35mm silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1618171379285-R2XJ5B0BMD0LXR4SD0HC/image-asset.jpeg Vladivostok '95 - Golden Horn Bay, Vladivostok Fall, 1995. Vladivostok is a naval port which is part of why it had been closed to foreigners up until 1993. Golden Horn Bay was lined with Russian warships and submarine sightings were occasional. Two years prior, the thought of me freely walking around and taking pictures would have been unthinkable. 35mm silver gelatin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1619412982460-EJONBYESF671U2Z1PI2N/Vladivostok+Color002.jpg Vladivostok '95 - Walking on the Ocean Vladivostok, Russia (1996). The ocean freezes over for a couple months. This was about half a mile out but ice fishers went out much farther. I set the camera up on a wooden crate left behind by a fisherman. My hat is nutria fur. 35mm color print https://www.harleycowan.com/the-high-arctic daily 1.0 2023-05-11 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/t/641262c6044dd94f882b6234/1672269958156/ The High Arctic https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/63accf3f7235712113ae7ff7/63acd086c99e872becd058f3/1672269958156/ The High Arctic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1672542252558-J4WA7FCE1BHG6CIQ8GHE/Image+2m.jpg The High Arctic - Anchorage at Gipsvika While visiting a historic miners’ cabin in Gipsdalen valley in Sassenfjorden, Spitsbergen, I captured this view of our ship, Antigua, at single anchor in Gipsvika Bay. It was mid-October and the stream cutting through the glacial moraine in the foreground was frozen solid. Svalbard has no trees and little soil and a dusting of new snow highlights the layers of ancient sedimentary rock forming its mountains. This sheet film was developed onboard our tall ship as we sailed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1672542219119-A1I3U9CFRPE0QJDI91Q1/Image+1m.jpg The High Arctic - Anchorage at Gipsvika While visiting a historic miners’ cabin in Gipsdalen valley in Sassenfjorden, Spitsbergen, I captured this view of our ship, Antigua, at single anchor in Gipsvika Bay. It was mid-October and the stream cutting through the glacial moraine in the foreground was frozen solid. Svalbard has no trees and little soil and a dusting of new snow highlights the layers of ancient sedimentary rock forming its mountains. This sheet film was developed onboard our tall ship as we sailed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673285817803-S1PZIHPMIOBQIBD0G0JW/Image+24m.jpg The High Arctic - Captain Jonathan Captain of the tall ship Antigua, Jonathan, outside the wheelhouse. We sailed under wind power more on this voyage than the ship had on all others combined this season. The Antigua is rigged as a barquentine, three masts with square sails on the foremast only, fore-and-aft rigged on the main and mizzen. It only takes a small crew to operate, although passengers like myself were welcomed to haul lines, set sheets, and furl sails with the crew. I was making a portrait of the first mate, Matu, inside the wheelhouse. Jonathan was sitting back, watching us, making the occasional comment for Matu and smirking a bit. Then Matu had to leave to deal with something. I was putting stuff away when Jonathan asked what it was all about. I said I thought it might be fun to get some photos of the people who brought us out here. I said I’d be happy to make a picture of him if he wanted. He said, “No, I don’t need to.” To which I replied, “Yeah, no worries! I don’t need to bother everybody.” “Well . . . I could do one.” “Ok, sure. Let me set up something a little different. Maybe out here…?” I made two shots in this absolutely beautiful light in front of the wheelhouse and they both turned out. At the end of this season, Jonathan is giving up captaincy to head back to the Netherlands to be a kindergarten teacher (for which sailing a bunch of us around the dangers of the Arctic might well prepare him). This sheet film was developed onboard our tall ship as we sailed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673831096379-GRGU3QXOGOE6D2Q60GE6/Image+9m.jpg The High Arctic - Sarah Gerats, Expedition Leader Our expedition manager and lead guide, Sarah. This was taken in Virgohamna on Danskøya, the launch site for Andrée’s ill-fated balloon attempt for the North Pole in 1897. The site is still littered with wood from structures and metal barrel hoops, all protected and untouchable. In fact, we couldn’t venture as far as we would like because a fresh dusting of snow made it impossible to know what we might be stepping on so we stayed strictly along the high water mark of the shore. Note, Sarah’s rifle. It is illegal to be on land without rifles and flares (and training) as protection from polar bears. The goal is never to kill a bear except as a last resort. Both gun and flare are used to scare off a bear while humans find a way to retreat. The guides would visit a landing first, then if everything was safe and land-able, the artists would come over about 8 or 10 at a time in a zodiac. The ship had three zodiacs but we typically only used the two larger ones. The guides would set up a perimeter in which we could work. They kept watch on the surroundings. Only twice did we ever see polar bears in the distance. Notice Sarah’s radio near her collar. The guides and the ship kept in close communication the whole time we were out. Since we had such good winds, we sailed to far off places we had no right to expect to visit. Some of our crew and guides had seen a few of these sites before but we quickly got the sense that we were really exploring, not checking off a list, and our plans changed with the weather. This sheet film was developed onboard our tall ship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1672739478195-Z7MJOZ436GPMRQ0258EM/Image+14m.jpg The High Arctic - Anchorage at Hornbækpollen Sailing the Antigua into Hornbækpollen through a small break in the rocks that form this tiny bay was damned exhilarating! We were under wind power alone. I helped work the foremast square sails from the forepeak. We had to furl sails to slow down but the wind in the rigging kept us moving at a couple knots. We slipped through a gap that was a biscuit toss to either side with little more than a meter or two under our keel. Once through, we had to work smartly lest we run aground. We brought the yards around, started our turn, dropped anchor, and, as we drifted over, came to the sweetest stop. Cheers and high fives all around! Once all was ship shape, we dropped a zodiac and motored back to those rocks to catch the last light of the day. Clouds and fog rolled in and it began to snow. The shot looks bright but I could hardly see the image on the ground glass. It was getting cold and my breath fogged the camera, my glasses, and the loupe. I used several degrees of tilt to put the plane of focus through the foreground, ship’s hull, and distant mountains. Because of the low light and the movement of the ship, I couldn’t stop down much. Those masts fall out of focus pretty quickly but I really like the final image. The next day, we would climb that ridge in the background to see what was on the other side. This sheet film was developed aboard our tall ship as we sailed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673285773434-JCTD9V45EDJM04DGDNYK/Image+21m.jpg The High Arctic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673285704245-Z3NW8Y9WFCUBJCLXV4IQ/Image+16m.jpg The High Arctic - Anchorage at Sallyhamna Here we were anchored at Sallyhamna in Fairhaven in the far northwest of Spitsbergen. We had tremendously favorable winds that swept us up the west coast overnight. The cabin belonged to Waldermar and Sally Kraemer (after whom the harbor is named). It was built in 1937 over an older whaler’s blubber oven. Other blubber ovens dot the landscape to the right. Sally wintered-over here alone. This was one of the few sites we visited with a healthy growth of moss and lichen. This is because century-old oils and blood from whales still provide enough organic nutrients to support their growth. These lichens are protected, as are the remnants of structures. People are not allowed to walk on them. This sheet film was developed onboard our tall ship as we sailed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673292346723-97WX97Q5EYB8M2UCQQCB/Image+10m.jpg The High Arctic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673292346632-75S5XAOGE66P3KNEZMJ8/Image+11m.jpg The High Arctic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1672739478794-GXVXIB4JC8H5EFX1O9LJ/Image+4m.jpg The High Arctic - Esmarkbreen Glacier Esmarkbreen was one of the few glaciers we could walk up to. This spectacularly twisted ice form leaned perilously over but, so far, has refused to succumb to gravity. The moraine I am standing on was covered by several stories worth of glacial ice a decade earlier. Ymerbukta Bay was near the end of our time onboard. In Norse mythology, Ymer was the first being and father of giants. When he was slain, Odin used his body to create the earth, water, and sky. To stand dwarfed at the foot of an ancient glacier is to experience those primordial beginnings of our world. Some glaciers are alive with grinding, crashing, even thundering noise and it can be difficult to tell exactly where the sound is coming from. Some calve dramatically into the sea. Esmarkbreen was quieter than others and invited us to come close, which made it all the more impressive. We had several hours to work on the moraine on this particularly cold afternoon. Days were getting shorter by nearly twenty minutes per day and the moon was up pretty much all hours. As we worked, the sky dimmed, the moon got brighter, and cold air washed down on us from above. Despite the chill in the air, Svalbard is warming six times faster than the rest of the world. This problem will accelerate as thawing permafrost releases methane, over twenty times more effective than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Dark surfaces like the moraine absorb heat. Glacier shrinkage and loss of pack ice also reduces the earth’s capacity to reflect solar gain back out of the atmosphere. The ice in this photo is thousands, if not tens of thousands, of years old. In the past hundred years, Esmarkbreen has retreated five kilometers or about a quarter of its length. How long does Esmarkbreen have before it succumbs entirely? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673286083373-Z37POW5NBWBJFEYXERUQ/Image+5m.jpg The High Arctic - Moonrise, Esmarkbreen Glacier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673292387701-8F20X8YWNWYB5HWMLL8B/Image+26m.jpg The High Arctic - Moon over Esmarkbreen Some days the light was so strange and wonderful. Every day had about twenty minutes less daylight than the one before it. Sometimes the sun and the moon would hang above opposite sides of the horizon. This moonrise was toward the end of our trip at Esmarkbreen Glacier. As light quickly faded in the afternoon, the full moon grew more distinct. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673286082673-I7MEQFVXBVN59DNZTRB9/Image+7m.jpg The High Arctic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673286100558-RKT9O4OZF0SVOU7M3JD9/Image+8m.jpg The High Arctic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1672739575184-I5J1Y35FK2HC9UW24AWB/Image+12m.jpg The High Arctic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673285694129-6TTBSV91Y14VE709A3V2/Image+15m.jpg The High Arctic - Hildago A very important member of our expedition crew was Hildago (not Hidalgo). He belonged to Piotr, one of our guides. Hildago joined us on the zodiac for most landings and helped keep an eye out for polar bears. But once he was satisfied, he would find a good spot to curl up for a couple winks. On the ship, he wasn’t allowed in the galley but he tried occasionally. Always made me feel bad when he got expelled. But he wasn’t ever left wanting for attention. He’s a handsome, mild-mannered guy with a brown eye and a blue eye and had a beautiful singing (howling) voice. At age 8, Hildago is retired but spends his typical free days working at Huskies Cafe in Longyearbyen. This sheet film was developed onboard our tall ship as we sailed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1672741156050-25DZDESOP3T6KUOIL4RY/Image+13m.jpg The High Arctic - Walruses of Smeerenburg Several walruses of a larger colony lie resting in a group on a snowy beach at Smeerenburg on Amsterdamøya (Amsterdam Island). The mountainous coastline of Spitsbergen is visible in the distance. We took our time approaching this colony of about fifty. They knew we were there. We raised some initial curiosity but kept our distance and they did not mind our presence. The photograph suggests a more placid scene than it was. They were noisy, restless bedfellows perpetually complaining and poking at one another. Some left their group to try another. A handful of animals hauled in or hauled back out to sea while others bathed in the shallows. We were generally upwind but occasionally it would shift and we got a nostril full of something between cow pasture and low tide. This day was incredible. It was a joy to see these animals thriving in their natural habitat. We spent nearly an hour watching and, although I shot all dozen of my sheets of film, it was tough to pack up and hike back down the coast to our zodiac, straining to hear their grunts and groans as they faded away into the silence. Three centuries of commercial hunting brought Svalbard walruses nearly to extinction. In 1952, a hunting ban was passed to protect the hundred or so walrus remaining. Today, the population has rebounded and approximately six thousand live in the archipelago. Terrestrial haul-out sites like the broad, shallow beaches at Smeerenburg are vital to walruses, especially as populations rebound and pack ice retreats and shrinks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673292421941-VUZAQ4YB1ORFELL3ZKA3/Image+32m.jpg The High Arctic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673285727871-VOXL4P9DD3V78T36W0OZ/Image+17m.jpg The High Arctic - Anchorage at Prins Karls Forland Our lovely barquentine, Antigua, off Prins Karls Forland with Spitsbergen behind. This was toward the end of our voyage. I had had a frustrating morning at our landing. The wind was strong and nearly took my camera several times. Each time I set up a shot, the light would go flat before I could snap the shutter. While returning to the ship, I said, “There’s the shot,” but it was too late. Our zodiac was leaving. There would be no opportunity for project work in the afternoon—a hike was planned. At lunch, I lamented over the shot not taken. Then, an idea! I proposed to our guide Sergei to let me go on the first zodiac. I’d jump out, set up the shot, and break everything down before the second zodiac was ready to return to the ship. Sergei was skeptical, “You’d have to be quick…” When the time came, I jumped in first and sat at the bow. Everyone else piled in and away we went. I was the first out at shore. Now, a large format camera is not easy to assemble but I knew my gear. I got it mounted to the tripod, added rail extensions, leveled it, and got the ship in focus, metered the shot, placed my zones, and set the aperture and shutter. I shot four sheets. The second zodiac was taking off from the ship. (It’s in my last two frames.) Then I broke that camera down as quick as could be and got everything back in its spot in the case. (The box wouldn’t close if everything wasn’t just so.) The base wouldn’t unscrew from the tripod—and the second zodiac was here unloading people! Finally it came apart! I closed the case and ran over. A large format land speed record: I was on shore less than 6 minutes! Sergei gave me a nod and a grin. Estée was piloting the zodiac and looked amused. As we pulled away she asked, “So…do you want to go back normal speed or fast?” “I’m happy to go fast.” She gunned it and we sped across the chop, spray flying, but we were too fast for it to come aboard. This film was developed onboard our ship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673285739597-A3APEKEWNWOYQUOYY4XU/Image+18m.jpg The High Arctic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673285771329-C0AUAYCBXAX5ZESCHECQ/Image+20m.jpg The High Arctic - Jäderin Expedition Landing Marker, 1898 Stones arranged on a beach spell out the name of the Jäderin Expedition that landed here in 1898. Our expedition leader, Sarah, leans against a large boulder at the top of the marker. Rocks piled against the other end of the boulder look similar to a whaler’s grave but we suspect they once held up the wooden pole now lying on the ground. The marker is difficult to see from a distance and a flag would have been helpful to future visitors looking for the landing site. We began our voyage without a set itinerary; our tall ship would sail where the winds took us. Departing Longyearbyen, we had no concept of the possibility, much less any right to expect, that four days later we would have crossed north of the 80th parallel and breezed past Moffen Island to stand on the north coast of Nordaustlandet. But that is precisely what happened, and upon finding ourselves in this loneliest of places, Sarah recalled a story about Swedish explorer Edvard Jäderin. In the late 1800s, the Swedish and Russian governments planned a joint scientific expedition called “Arc-of-Meridian” which would take place between 1899 and 1902. The goal was to make triangulated measurements, north to south, across Svalbard to determine whether the earth was spherical or if its curvature flattened near the pole as predicted by Newton. Russians were responsible for the south and the Swedes for the north. In 1898, Edvard Jäderin led a preparatory expedition to scout Nordaustlandet. There was rumored to be a beach where Jäderin’s crew landed and laid out stones spelling their name and date. While there were some vague clues to its location, neither Sarah nor our other crew had ever seen it. Until now. Hands down, one of the greatest days on our voyage was discovering these stones laid down 125 years earlier and left undisturbed ever since. Nearby is a similar marker from 1928 written in Russian that was made by the crew of the Soviet icebreaker Krassin (Red Bear). Krassin participated in the rescue of Umberto Nobile’s crew of the crashed dirigible Italia. In between is an arrangement of stones in the shape of a swastika believed to have been made around 1941 by the crew of a Nazi submarine transporting personnel to a nearby weather station. This sheet film was developed onboard our tall ship as we sailed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673292435983-4T80H1TKS93RIPYRT42N/Image+43m.jpg The High Arctic - Krassin (Red Bear) Marker, 1928 Next to Jäderin’s expedition marker (previous post) was a similar stone marker left in 1928 by the Soviet icebreaker Красный Медведь (Krassin, Red Bear). This ship participated in a multinational rescue effort following the crash of Umberto Nobilé’s airship Italia. The rescue attempt is a bigger comedy of errors than the airship crash. Famous explorer Roald Amundsen’s plane disappeared on his way from Oslo to Spitsbergen to join the search. It takes 48 days to rescue all the survivors and stranded rescuers. This sheet film was developed onboard our tall ship as we sailed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1673285801965-5UCRKAUPKUARK9GM6TNP/Image+22m.jpg The High Arctic - Erikbreen Glacier Over the ridge from the previous post at Hornbækpollen was this view down to Erikbreen Glacier and its massive freshwater lake. Sediment colored the water darker and browner than the sea looking back. Fresh snow from the evening before gave texture to the landscape. It was a very windy day that more than once threatened to sweep my camera from the heights but I found some shelter in a nook in the rocks. Glaciers make grinding, crashing, even thundering sounds. And you never know exactly where it’s coming from. This glacier was was actively making noise but only once did we see the falling ice that produced it. Svalbard, very close to the North Pole, is warming six times faster than the rest of the world. This problem will accelerate as thawing permafrost releases methane, more than 20 times effective than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Dark surfaces absorb heat. Glacier shrinkage and loss of pack ice also reduces the earth’s capacity to reflect solar gain back out of the atmosphere. 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The grass is littered with owl pellets and the tree, one of the few on the reservation, has several nests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725955235145-W1F6B7UE5NI4DZN67G4G/T-Plant+240430-15m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant - T-Plant and Yard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725955245549-VRWWBTGMRUBWDXJM0MKE/T-Plant+240430-16m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant - T_Plant Signage Looking northeast from the edge of the site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725955245286-01SZ1L4F5D9019GMOMYP/T-Plant+240430-17m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant - T-Plant Building T-Plant is about 880 feet long. Exhaust stack to the right, Lab Building in the foreground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956005752-7PP7L2E20IN7AHQ51JYE/T-Plant+240429-01m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956006122-6J5CI6MIM89YSQ4DPC79/T-Plant+240429-02m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956015327-J4Q9XBSGWUX1DNH1WH8A/T-Plant+240429-03m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956016011-NHYGWXTITWFWVWHNNBOS/T-Plant+240429-04m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956023817-URH6APF10N2MGE0I5W9X/T-Plant+240429-05m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956024409-NXPOGJG5CY0GOVO8GGT6/T-Plant+240429-06m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956032458-PPZ59YDSQ60LBCDWEEOQ/T-Plant+240429-07m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956033027-LLHHMW7YVM8FNCL395GH/T-Plant+240429-08m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956040357-IWSSH9JELPJUKEV7CGVK/T-Plant+240429-09m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956041288-EP4A08JGAQWOP9J3BTQV/T-Plant+240429-10m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956048447-C47PLOKEWJ2P9DM57GZB/T-Plant+240429-11m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956049261-ILBQIV8K3RI9PU96BVZP/T-Plant+240429-12m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956053735-D5VHPV03PNNRAVHEZ85J/T-Plant+240429-13m.jpg Manhattan Project: T-Plant https://www.harleycowan.com/manhattan-project-townsites daily 0.75 2025-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956231528-BZO4M0GTX4IEVQRXWXRW/Hanford%2BHigh%2BWitness%2BTrees.jpg Manhattan Project: Townsites - Witness Trees at Hanford Townsite Hanford High School is the only standing remnant of the town of Hanford, forcibly evacuated by eminent domain in 1943 to create the Hanford Engineer Works, known today as the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Two cleared trees were dragged with cables and left to desiccate. One remains standing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5749c7ed07eaa010521aeb9a/1725956231528-BZO4M0GTX4IEVQRXWXRW/Hanford%2BHigh%2BWitness%2BTrees.jpg Manhattan Project: Townsites - Witness Trees at Hanford Townsite Hanford High School is the only standing remnant of the town of Hanford, forcibly evacuated by eminent domain in 1943 to create the Hanford Engineer Works, known today as the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Two cleared trees were dragged with cables and left to desiccate. 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