Here are some sunset shots I took last night coming home from Santa Fe. Check out the different colors of a single sunset, over a 30 minute period. Amazing stuff, that.
For those who don’t know, these are pumping units. They pump that there oil outa that ground, so you can have all this. I think that pumping units are beautiful machines.
Enjoy!
How many pumping units can you see in this picture?
I love how the sun is setting to the right of this Mark II pumping unit.
Sunset is almost done now. I love the blues and grays.
This is a conventional pumping unit. Aren't the colors absolutely beautiful?
Now you've had your science lesson, with a smidgeon of fluid mechanics, and if you read the link, end product analysis!
12 comments:
Beautiful sunset shots :-)
Thanks, girlie!
Sunsets are part of why I love West Texas.
Me, too. Beautiful, huh?
tee hee...my daddy was in the oil business for 25 years before he escaped in 1984 (the going got tough then). I used to work for him in the summer and we'd go to happy hour at the Slant Hole (a bar downstairs from his office) on fridays. There used to be a bumpersticker on the bar that said, "please don't tell my mama I work on an oil rig! She thinks I am a piano player in a whore house." I always thought that was darn funny.....but then I always knew how important oil was to the world :-D///and yes, lovely sunsets!!
When I was a wee lad, before the days of my vagrant yoot, I always thought oil rigs looked like horses, dipping their heads to drink.
Nice pix.
You are so good at what you do...writing and photography.(and probably a lot of other stuff, too!!) When you retire from your current job...you need to write a book!!
Maybe it's because I'm an engineer, but I've always thought machines were beautiful.
Great photos.
The answer is 14, I can see 14 if I zoom in and look hard. Thanks for the 15 mega pixel pic. Isn't that a reverse Mark II? Just Joking the pics are beautiful, you ought to send some to Lufkin. TWC- you are correct the head is called the horse's head and it even has a bridle to connect it to the sucker rods that move the downhole pump.
I have always loved that post you linked to. I keep a lot of it in my head and quote it often when needed.
What wonderful pictures!!!!! Thanks for sharing.
wow BEAUTIFUL shots Janie...
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