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| UER Forum > World > Shougang: Iron and Steel Plant the Size of a City (Viewed 2074 times) |
YoelT
Location: Viet Nam Gender: Male Total Likes: 99 likes
| | | | Shougang: Iron and Steel Plant the Size of a City < on 1/31/2022 5:26 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | A steel works the size of a city is a pretty fascinating thing. I couldn't find that I posted a full thread from this place on UER before. Let me introduce you to one of my favorite sites in the world: Shougang Steel I finished a lengthy article (actually only part 1) on the history of this place if you want to read every thing. I will give an excerpt here: In 2018 Capital Iron and Steel was included as one of the first 100 places on China’s Industrial Heritage Protection List which selected sites key to the industrial history of China. Multiple attributes such as its history and size make the plant a significant location. Shougang Factory covers a land area of 8.63 km² although it is only a component of the even larger Shijngshan industrial cluster. At its peak, the iron and steel factory operated 5 blast furnaces 6 coke ovens and rolling mills. Many components of the plant were superlatives, such as the first top-blown oxygen converter in China and the largest wire rod and billet chain casting plant in China[4]. The No. 2 blast furnace, completed in 1979, was the first modern blast furnace in China. At one point, the Shougang factory yielded a fourth of the profit and taxes in the city of Beijing and around 100,000 people worked and lived at the plant in the years before the relocation. | I first learned of this places only a few months after it shut down in 2011 and then was able to visit several times later that year. There are a few sites I've visited repeatedly, but never with the spread of this one. My last visit was in late 2019 just before the pandemic locked me out of the country. I still have pics and stories from the last few visits that I never posted. In 2011 you could literally take a city bus from the metro station that would drop you off right in the middle of the complex where you could roam freely. It was so large even over several days you could see only a small fraction. Today, you can take that same bus route, but now the blast furnaces are part of a pretty cool industrial heritage museum/park and several venues for the 2022 Beijing Olympics are really tastefully integrated. Shougang Pano [15537] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [15556] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [15924] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [15775] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [15546] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [15626] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [15627] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [15656] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [15930] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [15691] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [15697] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [15703] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [15748] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [15808] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [16739] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [16804] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr Shougang Steel [17402] by Yoel Taomas, on Flickr
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| Kuroneko
Location: Tokyo Gender: Male Total Likes: 41 likes
| | | Re: Shougang: Iron and Steel Plant the Size of a City < Reply # 11 on 5/21/2022 11:15 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Great appreciation of the subject, and even greater use of camera and any post-prod. Assume digital, and some filmy filter added, which normally results in cliched clown vomit, over-cooked shit (more is better right?). But, these are just great to my filmy eye - subtle, adds to the feel, even, consistent tones, with a great latitude. I may need to correct my distaste for the typical dry brightness of digital photography. You're gunna tell me now, these are just I-phone snaps or something?
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| YoelT
Location: Viet Nam Gender: Male Total Likes: 99 likes
| | | | Re: Shougang: Iron and Steel Plant the Size of a City < Reply # 12 on 7/30/2022 9:01 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Kuroneko Great appreciation of the subject, and even greater use of camera and any post-prod. Assume digital, and some filmy filter added, which normally results in cliched clown vomit, over-cooked shit (more is better right?). But, these are just great to my filmy eye - subtle, adds to the feel, even, consistent tones, with a great latitude. I may need to correct my distaste for the typical dry brightness of digital photography. You're gunna tell me now, these are just I-phone snaps or something?
| I took them on a Motorola Razr haha But really, thanks for the assessments. Digital with some postprocessing done is correct. If I processed these today, I probably would have done even less. Even though I have been back to the place several times over the years, none of the photos really come close to what I was able to capture on my first few visits. I do have a few film shots from there also:
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