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Until I go off to Venice in a month's time for the Carnival and some new images, it's back to the archives. Last October a few of our Camera Club members visited the Armley Mills Industrial Museum in Leeds. It contains exhibits dating from the 18th and 19th centuries showing the history of textiles, clothing, engines and locomotive manufacture in the area. The original buildings were developed in the late 18th century when a woollen mill and a corn mill were built. A fire in 1805 destroyed these mills but they were rapidly replaced with the building which can be seen today. From the early 19th century Armley Mills became one of the world's largest woollen mills, continuing the cloth-making tradition until Leeds City Council took over the mills in 1969 in order to create a museum illustrating the mills and the city's industrial past.
The staff were very helpful and we were allowed to use tripods, which was just as well, as the light was quite low, and luckily the day we went there weren't many other visitors around to get in the way! Here yarn is being spun, and a guide, after explaining about the workings of the machinery, put it into action for us, and captured its movement in V2.
Techie stuff – see Exif
Single Raw images processed in Adobe Camera Raw, tweaked in Photomatix Pro and Elements 6.
Thanks again to everyone for your votes & comments on my previous uploads, it really is appreciated and encouraging.
Trev 
| Title: | Spinning a yarn |
| Username: | 
TrevBatWCC |
| Uploaded: | 19 Jan 2012 - 10:39 AM |
| Camera: | Nikon D3000  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | AF-S DX Nikkor 18-55mm VR  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 12 Oct 2011 - 12:33 PM |
| Tags: | Armley Mills Industrial Museum, General, Spinning, Yarn |
| Votes: | 43 |
 | Variant - Tests |
Comments
must get there.. looks like a great place
was there about 5 years ago but you had to go in as a group
has that changed ?
Nice YARN Trev, oh never mind, like these old buildings with character, excellent processed images, I do like them both.
Regards
Trev.
Two excellent images Trev. I'm ashamed to say that though I live within spitting distance of this place, until I saw your shots, I didn't know it existed!
I'm preparing for Venice too. Thus far it has cost me a fortune in new toys, and there are more to come!!!
Spent a while mousing between these - it has to be V2 for me. I prefer the composition anyway, but the sense of motion in one confined area is quite remarkable. Putting the place on the mental to-do list...
Moira
I have to agree with Herself (well, it had to happen some time 
) about the composition of V2: I think it is more important to see the beginning of the row on the left that leads us into the picture rather than the edge of the gear-cover on the right. It also shows us the source of the side-lighting from the left. In fact those a re minor points: what impresses me most is the motion capture in V2, where the wavy spokes on the wheels at ground level have turned into the busy legs of sprinters all running their hearts out to escape first!
As always, you have chosen the ideal subject for your treatment and supplied a wealth of rewarding background information for which we are all very grateful.
Regards
Bill
interesting image well taken, sharp as a new pin with a lot going on and plenty to discover
I like the perspective, and those lovely shaped wheels. Interesting to see it in action.
A corking couple of photographs, well done.
The question you asked Barbs, the Blooming Rose and the Junction are no longer public houses. I do not know if you know the Grove on Back Row? In Holbeck really, but local enough.
jon
Two super images Trevor, love the processing.
I really like V2 with the captured motion.
David
Super images here. I worked for many years in a carpet factory where we produced our own yarn .This was known as mule spinning where the the large white rolls have come off the carding machines and spun out on to small bobbins .They are then twisted together to give to give 3 or more ply yarns ......Phil
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