Stevenson & Cheyne
engineering works
Beside the Water of Leith, Bonnington,
Edinburgh |
Coffee Break -
1993
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Peter Stubbs. Please contact
peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photograph taken February
18, 1993
Stevenson & Cheyne
Engineering Works |
Coffee Break
Here the workers move in
close to one of the braziers that gave off some heat in the large
cold engineering works on this cold February morning.
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One of the workers
settles down with his coffee and newspaper, as the other, Jimmy, uses his
home-made sword to toast his bacon roll! |
Sepia Picture
I then converted the
image to sepia, which I thought seemed appropriate for an image that
looks as if it might have been taken in the early 1900s. It
was, in fact, taken in 1993.
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Sepia +Colour Picture
However, in the sepia
image above, it was not very obvious that the brazier was lit, so I
made the image at the top of this page, which is mainly sepia but
retains some of the original colour:
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