Lloyd's Newfoundland Photos

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My home is in Chamberlains, CBS, Newfoundland: a place close enough to sea so that I can go there to watch the glorious sunsets over the bay, and the other infinite variety of sights and sounds that are forever changing, yet forever the same. I'm not as young as I used to be and don't get around much any more, but I've had many wonderful hours of enjoyment with my Yasihca 44 TLR and trusty old OM-2. I've always enjoyed photographing wild flowers, particularly the smaller ones, many of which , albeit mostly overlooked and dismissed as weeds, are exquisitely beautiful. Digital photography, complete with all the magic of its own portable darkroom, has brought a new dimension to the hobby. My OM-2 is retired now, but it is such a beautiful instrument, such a joy to hold and behold, that I don't think I will ever want to part with it. My digital, used mostly, is a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30. Its 35-420 mm Leica zoom lens can really reach out for those hard to reach shots. My photographs are strictly amateurish, but hopefully some have succeeded in capturing something of the moment that inspired them.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007


NICHOLSVILLE BRIDGE.
Built 1940. A Deer Lake landmark currently slated for replacement, though it would be a great shame if it is demolished rather than restored. This and the following eight photos were taken sixty years ago. August 1947, while en route ,via Deer Lake, Sandy Lake and the Hampden woods road , to Jackson's Arm



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DEER LAKE POWER PLANT , 1947
No parking lot, no automobiles, no roads, otherwise the exterior view has not changed much with the years. Built in 1925 to provide power for the Newfoundland Power & Paper C. Ltd. (N.P.&P) mill in Corner Brook.




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POWER PLANT.
Rear view showing gates where water from the penstocks is released into Deer Lake. The walkway is a great place from which to view salmon heading upstream.



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CONTROL ROOM, DEER LAKE POWER PLANT.
1940's technology. Note the telephone on the back wall.



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TURBINES, DEER LAKE POWER PLANT, 1947
Time exposure taken with an old Brownie box camera.



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TURBINES.
Closeup view.




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DEER LAKE BEACH.
Photo taken 1947, long before this became a popular recreation place. Note the escaped pulpwood on the shore.



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DEER LAKE.
View of beach with power plant in background.



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DEER LAKE BEACH.
View of road used by vehicles unloading pulpwood into Deer Lake from where it would be driven down the Humber to the mill in Corner Brook



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Saturday, November 24, 2007


CHILDREN ON LANCE COVE WHARF, C.1955
Copying pans was always great fun whenever the ice was in.



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Friday, November 23, 2007

HAMPDEN, 1947
Pulpwood delivered via Sandy Lake was dumped in the bottom of White Bay from where it was towed by boom around the Great Northeren Peninsula to Corner Brook. As much as 1500 cords were taken in one tow. The coastline was littered with escaped wood. I believe barges were subsequently used.



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UNLOADING PULPWOOD, HAMPDEN, 1947
Wood for Bowater's mill, Corner Brook, was towed in boom across Sandy Lake and then trucked from there to Hampden. I hitched a ride in this truck while en route to Jackson's Arm



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Thursday, November 22, 2007


FISHING SCHOONER.
Met crossing Bonavista Bay, 1952. Typical of the way sails were modified for schooners with auxiliary power. The drastically reduced mainsail was called a rider, or riding sail.




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Sunday, November 18, 2007


SEINING CAPELIN.
Eastport, 1964




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EASTPORT BEACH, 1964
Capelin was once the main source of fertilizer for gardening throughout Newfoundland.




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LITTLE BOATS.
Brigus South.




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FISHING BOAT.
Brigus Sauth.



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Thursday, November 15, 2007


PAULINE C. WINTERS and NINA W. CORKUM
Shown here tied up at a wharf in Grand Bank. Those bankers were much better known in their latter years as "coasters". The names will ring a familiar chord in the memory of older Newfoundlanders who resided along the NE coast.



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BANKING SCHOONERS.
Seen here anchored at Port aux Basques c.1953



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Wednesday, November 14, 2007


THEY'LL BE BACK.
One thing I noticed on my photo jaunts this summer was the almost total absence of bird song, except for the cacophony of the raucous crows and squawking gulls. Saw less than half dozen robins: one nesting pair and a couple of individuals. How many can remember when summers were charmed by the unending melody of those delightful creatures.



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CRYSTAL CLEAR.




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Sunday, November 11, 2007


HAPPY ADVENTURE.
Wintertime, c.1964



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MOTORBOATS AND PUNT.
Burnside, c. 1963



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Friday, November 09, 2007


NEWFOUNDLAND PONIES.
Rescued from the meat packers at the brink of extinction. When I photographed this pair, Lamaline, 1955, hundreds of them could be seen running free along the roadside all over the Burin peninsula.



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A FONDNESS FOR GREEN.

A few more photos of lovely Rose Blanche, taken in the early 70s.




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