On the way to work yesterday I decided to take the camera and leave a bit earlier. The sun was setting as I left home and there was the potential for a few good shots as I approached town. As you can see it's an industrial town, with the grain silos, industrial images and the well known fast food outlet enticing the passer by to pull in and buy a small tasteless burger. A small city with one large industry is common these days. In the past there was the other employers, like the railways, waterworks and highways departments. All good places for a school leaver to score an apprenticeship. You could make a choice, become a clerk in the railways or a bank or take an apprenticeship in trades like boilermaker, fitter, carpenter or electrician. Nowdays the emphasis is on tertiary studies, which means the kids of tomorrow have to leave town to attend the University of choice..........is this progress?
I particularly liked the photo with the silos reflecting in the water, a ripper, Like some ominous ship entering the space. Beautiful pic.
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perhaps eventually the Palace of the Golden Buttocks, so romantically pictured above, will be able to select its employees from hundreds of debt-ridden PhDs while the rest of the whirled struggles to find someone who can still do something practical...
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