Heavy industrial abstracts

I love visiting “heavy industry” because there is so much available in a small space that makes great pictures.

Yesterday’s 2-hour tour of the Encina Wastewater Treatment Facility in Carlsbad is a great example, yielding 257 pictures, or an average of one picture every 28 seconds.

Although I haven’t cataloged all the pictures yet, here are five of my favorites so far:

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Encina Wastewater Treatment Facility
6200 Avenida Encinas
Carlsbad, California

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My fascination with heavy industry developed when I was six

I lived in Brigham City, Utah, after my dad committed suicide, from 1961-1965.

Not too far from where we lived was a Thiokol plant, a gravel pit, and a railroad yard—lots of heavy industry.

That heavy industry created in me an appreciation and fascination with heavy industry, so whenever I’m out and about, and come across heavy industry, even if I don’t have a clue what it is, well, pictures of it are going to make their way into my photograph collection.

I traveled all the way up to Los Angeles and then headed east about sixty miles, to get these pictures of heavy industry in and around Pomona:

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