Show Navigation

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
{ 101 images found }

Loading ()...

  • Tomatoes: Tomato production facility cannery, Stockton, California, USA.
    USA_AG_TOM_08_xs.jpg
  • Aerial photograph of the production facility for freshly harvested tomatoes.  Seen are truck trailers of just harvested tomatoes. Tomato cannery. San Joaquin Valley, California.
    USA_AERL_26_xs.jpg
  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. The dairy floor is cleaned by flooding water as each new group of cows comes in to be milked. Maddox Dairy is currently home to 3500 milking cows, calves, heifers and bulls. The dairy is a "birth to milking operation", with four, double-12, pregnant herringbone-milking parlors, free stall barns, calf raising barn and calving facilities. The dairy does their own embryo transfer work and markets their genetics worldwide. The Maddox Dairy was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award for being a "Visionary Holstein Breeder", having bred more than 330 Gold Medal Dams, 502 Excellent cows, and their advancements in gene research for the Dairy industry.
    USA_AG_DAIR_04_xs.jpg
  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. Maddox Dairy is currently home to 3500 milking cows, calves, heifers and bulls. The dairy is a "birth to milking operation", with four, double-12, pregnant herringbone-milking parlors, free stall barns, calf raising barn and calving facilities. The dairy does their own embryo transfer work and markets their genetics worldwide. The Maddox Dairy was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award for being a "Visionary Holstein Breeder", having bred more than 330 Gold Medal Dams, 502 Excellent cows, and their advancements in gene research for the Dairy industry. .
    USA_AG_DAIR_03_xs.jpg
  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. The dairy floor is cleaned by flooding water as each new group of cows comes in to be milked. Maddox Dairy is currently home to 3500 milking cows, calves, heifers and bulls. The dairy is a "birth to milking operation", with four, double-12, pregnant herringbone-milking parlors, free stall barns, calf raising barn and calving facilities. The dairy does their own embryo transfer work and markets their genetics worldwide. The Maddox Dairy was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award for being a "Visionary Holstein Breeder", having bred more than 330 Gold Medal Dams, 502 Excellent cows, and their advancements in gene research for the Dairy industry.
    USA_AG_DAIR_07_xs.jpg
  • An electric power plant adjacent to a cemetery in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
    USA_PR_02_xs.jpg
  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
    USA_100528_162_x.jpg
  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
    USA_100528_132_x.jpg
  • Aerial photograph of truck trailers full of just-harvested oranges and grapefruits ready to be made into juice at this Lindsay, California citrus juice factory. San Joaquin Valley. The factory is surrounded by orange trees.
    USA_AERL_13_xs.jpg
  • A free Mexican wine tasting event at Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts in Napa, California. Napa Valley. Copia brought the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region to Napa for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. (Sixty-five miles south of San Diego lies a region some believe to be the ?next Napa Valley.? Wineries in the Guadalupe, Santo Tomas and San Vicente valleys produce 95% of the wine made in Mexico, and their sophisticated, distinctive wines are winning awards, boosting tourism and drawing wine lovers from all over the world.)..COPIA is proud to bring the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. Enjoy dozens of wines from 19 wineries paired with zesty nibbles created by local chefs, as you meet the winemakers and chefs.
    USA_060128_08_rwx.jpg
  • A free Mexican wine tasting event at Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts in Napa, California. Napa Valley. Copia brought the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region to Napa for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. (Sixty-five miles south of San Diego lies a region some believe to be the ?next Napa Valley.? Wineries in the Guadalupe, Santo Tomas and San Vicente valleys produce 95% of the wine made in Mexico, and their sophisticated, distinctive wines are winning awards, boosting tourism and drawing wine lovers from all over the world.)..COPIA is proud to bring the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. Enjoy dozens of wines from 19 wineries paired with zesty nibbles created by local chefs, as you meet the winemakers and chefs.
    USA_060128_05_rwx.jpg
  • A golfer teeing off at a golfcourse overlooking the oil refinery at Grangemouth, Scotland.
    SCO_01_xs.jpg
  • Page, Arizona. Lower Antelope Canyon, slot canyon above ground entrance with flash flood warning and monument to those who drowned there in 1997.
    USA_100529_246_x.jpg
  • Page, Arizona. Lower Antelope Canyon, slot canyon above ground entrance with flash flood warning and monument to those who drowned there in 1997.
    USA_100529_049_x.jpg
  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
    USA_100528_159_x.jpg
  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
    USA_100528_158_x.jpg
  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
    USA_100528_144_x.jpg
  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
    USA_100528_134_x.jpg
  • Vats of gumballs at US Chewing Gum factory in Oakland, California. USA.
    USA_OAK_08_xs.jpg
  • Aerial of the terraced Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California. USA. Designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates LLC.
    USA_MUSE_1_xs.jpg
  • Redwood logs in the millpond awaiting processing at Scotia Redwood Mill, the largest redwood mill in the world.  The town of Scotia is owned by Pacific Lumber Company and populated entirely by its employees. Humboldt County, California, USA.
    USA_FRST_07_xs.jpg
  • Buffalo Bill's Brewery, founded by photographer Bill Owens in 1983. In Hayward, California. Bill Owens shovels grain into a fermentation tank. MODEL RELEASED.
    USA_BEER_02_xs.jpg
  • Poultry. Turkey slaughterhouse in Lincoln, California, USA.
    USA_AG_TURK_10_xs.jpg
  • Rice: rice silo at night with half moon near Yuba City, California, USA.
    USA_AG_RICE_13_xs.jpg
  • Aerial photograph of truck trailers full of just-harvested oranges and grapefruits ready to be made into juice at this Lindsay, California citrus juice factory. San Joaquin Valley. The factory is surrounded by orange trees..
    USA_AG_ORAN_04_xs.jpg
  • An aerial photograph of mounds of harvested almonds at sunrise.  The almonds must dry in the sun for a few days before they are ready for packaging and shipping. Kern County, California. USA.
    USA_AG_NUTS_04_xs.jpg
  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California.
    USA_AG_DAIR_03_xs.jpg
  • Aerial photograph of a beef cattle feedlot using potato waste from a  French fry factory supplying McDonald's using Simplot potatoes, Idaho.
    USA_AERL_27_xs.jpg
  • A free Mexican wine tasting event at Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts in Napa, California. Napa Valley. Copia brought the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region to Napa for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. (Sixty-five miles south of San Diego lies a region some believe to be the ?next Napa Valley.? Wineries in the Guadalupe, Santo Tomas and San Vicente valleys produce 95% of the wine made in Mexico, and their sophisticated, distinctive wines are winning awards, boosting tourism and drawing wine lovers from all over the world.)..COPIA is proud to bring the vintners, restaurateurs and artists of this vibrant, up-and-coming wine region for a festive celebration of cuisine and culture. Enjoy dozens of wines from 19 wineries paired with zesty nibbles created by local chefs, as you meet the winemakers and chefs.
    USA_060128_10_rwx.jpg
  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Scavenging pigs eat the undigested grain in a mountain of beef cattle manure at the Harris Feed Company huge feed lot, Coalinga, California. USA.
    USA_AG_PIG_21_xs.jpg
  • Aerial photograph of a beef cattle feedlot using potato waste from a  French fry factory supplying McDonald's using Simplot potatoes, Idaho..
    USA_AERL_27_xs.jpg
  • An electric power plant adjacent to a cemetery in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
    USA_PR_01_xs.jpg
  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: New style, all metal buildings at a hog farm in Greenfield, Iowa. USA.
    USA_AG_PIG_04_xs.jpg
  • Condumex telephone cable factory. Queretaro, Mexico.
    MEX_105_xs.jpg
  • Sr. Amifua and Sr. Carona consult plans at an autoparts factory. Queretaro, Mexico.
    MEX_104_xs.jpg
  • Condumex telephone cable factory. Insulation storage for robotic system. Humberto Stiller checks stock. Queretaro, Mexico. MODEL RELEASED.
    MEX_103_xs.jpg
  • Supervisor lecturing a computer assembly worker at an  IBM computer factory in Guadalajara, Mexico.
    MEX_101_xs.jpg
  • Fiat car factory, Turin, Italy. In the 1980's Fiat used automated carriers guided by wires in the floor to move cars and parts from one assembly station to another: LAM. Called 'Robogate' by Fiat.
    ITA_05_xs.jpg
  • Robotic welders at the Fiat car factory, Turin, Italy. Called Robogate in the 1980's.
    ITA_03_xs.jpg
  • Fiat car engine factory, Turin, Italy. In the 1980's Fiat used automated carriers guided by wires in the floor to move engines from one assembly station to another: LAM.
    ITA_02_xs.jpg
  • Fiat car engine factory, Turin, Italy. In the 1980's Fiat used automated carriers guided by wires in the floor to move engines from one assembly station to another: LAM.
    ITA_01_xs.jpg
  • Physics: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Main complex. (1986) 3. 2 km (2 mile) long linear accelerator at the Stanford Linear Accel- erator Center (SLAC), California. The end at which the electrons start their journey is in the distance; the experimental areas where the accelerated electrons are smashed into targets, or used for further acceleration in electron-positron Colliders, is in the group of buildings seen here. The giant red- roofed building in the experimental area is End Station A, where the first evidence of quarks was discovered in 1968-72. .Stanford Linear Collider (SLC) experiment, Menlo Park, California. With a length of 3km, the Stanford Linear Accelerator is the largest of its kind in the world. The accelerator is used to produce streams of electrons and positrons, which collide at a combined energy of 100 GeV (Giga electron Volts). This massive energy is sufficient to produce Z-zero particles in the collision. The Z-zero is one of the mediators of the weak nuclear force, the force behind radioactive decay, and was first discovered at CERN, Geneva, in 1983. The first Z-zero at SLC was produced on 11 April 1989.
    USA_SCI_PHY_37_xs.jpg
  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
    USA_100528_150_x.jpg
  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel, UT
    USA_100528_138_x.jpg
  • Redwood logs in the millpond awaiting processing at Scotia Redwood Mill, the largest redwood mill in the world. The town of Scotia is owned by Pacific Lumber Company and populated entirely by its employees. Humbolt County, California, USA.
    USA_FRST_08_xs.jpg
  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Scavenging pigs eat the undigested grain in a mountain of beef cattle manure at the Harris Feed Company huge feed lot, Coalinga, California. USA.
    USA_AG_PIG_21_xs.jpg
  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. The dairy floor is cleaned by flooding water as each new group of cows comes in to be milked.
    USA_AG_DAIR_07_xs.jpg
  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. The dairy floor is cleaned by flooding water as each new group of cows comes in to be milked.
    USA_AG_DAIR_04_xs.jpg
  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Pigs confined in individual pens do not have enough room to turn around. They are fed with an automated system at Swine Producers Unlimited. Los Banos, California. USA.
    USA_AG_PIG_12_xs.jpg
  • Condumex telephone cable factory. Gilberto Padilla M. working in gang twiner cabling area. Queretaro, Mexico. MODEL RELEASED.
    MEX_102_xs.jpg
  • Fiat car engine factory, Turin, Italy. In the 1980's Fiat used automated carriers guided by wires in the floor as well as more traditional conveyors (seen here) to move engines from one assembly station to another: LAM.
    ITA_04_xs.jpg
  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Farrowing pens at the Dee Brothers hog farm, State Center, Iowa. USA.
    USA_AG_PIG_09_xs.jpg
  • Toilet in a rural coffee shop in Okinawa, Japan. The toilet has automatic anal sprinklers and a blow dryer.
    Japan_JAP_031005_01_x.jpg
  • Dyen Sabai Restaurant overlooking the Nam Khan River facing Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_110318_975_x.jpg
  • Toilet in an apartment of a young married couple with a small child in Osaka, Japan. The toilet has automatic anal sprinklers and a blow dryer.
    Japan_JAP_030925_01_x.jpg
  • UEC Solar. Shot in San Francisco, research facility. California. Solar photovoltaic chip on a human finger. UEC (United Energy Corporation of Hawaii) Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a water bearing tk (frictionless) so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_33_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Power Tower. Computer Operated Reflectors operated by Sandia National Laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) is the only test facility of this type in the United States. The primary goal of the NSTTF is to provide experimental engineering data for the design, construction, and operation of unique components and systems in proposed solar thermal electrical plants planned for large-scale power generation. Albuquerque, New Mexico. (1980).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_20_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Power Tower. Computer Operated Reflectors operated by Sandia National Laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) is the only test facility of this type in the United States. The primary goal of the NSTTF is to provide experimental engineering data for the design, construction, and operation of unique components and systems in proposed solar thermal electrical plants planned for large-scale power generation. Albuquerque, New Mexico. (1980).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_19_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Power Tower. Computer Operated Reflectors operated by Sandia National Laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) is the only test facility of this type in the United States. The primary goal of the NSTTF is to provide experimental engineering data for the design, construction, and operation of unique components and systems in proposed solar thermal electrical plants planned for large-scale power generation. Albuquerque, New Mexico. (1980).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_18_xs.jpg
  • Mie Ohshiro, 100 years old and slightly deaf, listens intently as 28-year-old nursing home aid Satoru Yamanoha repeats a question posted by a visitor about this Naga City Okinawa day care facility. "I enjoy it because I have lots of friends here," she says, "and my son and his wife also use this place." Mie lives with her second son and his family but comes to the center two or three times a week for a traditional Okinawan lunch, physical therapy, and companionship.
    JOK_5667_f1x.jpg
  • Almonds lay on the ground after being shaken from the tree by the machine harvester.  They will then be swept up into boxes and loaded on a flatbed trailer and delivered to the production facility for drying and packaging. Kern County, California. USA.
    USA_AG_NUTS_02_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: .UEC (United Energy Corporation of Hawaii) Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic  and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a frictionless water bearing so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. Borrego Springs, California (1990).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_26_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: .UEC (United Energy Corporation of Hawaii) Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic  and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a frictionless water bearing so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. Borrego Springs, California (1990).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_25_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1987).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_22_xs.jpg
  • Silicon Valley, California; The Portola Valley Classic, a horse jumping competition sponsored in part by Hewlett Packard, Yahoo, Nasdaq, Mercedes, and Cartier is held at the Portola Valley Training Center, the largest equine boarding facility in Northern California. The grand prize for the competition in 1999 is $25,000. Other prizes consist of sponsor's products. Rider and horse clear over a Yahoo! jump. (1999).
    USA_SVAL_100_xs.jpg
  • Exemplifying the attempts by Japanese researchers to put a friendly face on their robots, DB's creators are teaching it the Kacha-shi, an Okinawan folk dance. Unlike most robots, DB did not acquire the dance by being programmed. Instead, it observed human dancers?project researchers, actually, and repeatedly attempted to mimic their behavior until it was successful. Project member Stefan Schaal, a neurophysicist at the University of Southern California (in red shirt), believes that by means of this learning process robots will ultimately develop a more flexible intelligence. It will also lead, he hopes, to a better understanding of the human brain. The DB project is funded by the Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) Humanoid Project and led by independent researcher Mitsuo Kawato. Based at a research facility 30 miles outside of Kyoto, Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 51.
    Japan_JAP_rs_234_qxxs.jpg
  • By creating a simulacrum of the human eye, the DB project leader and biophysicist Mitsuo Kawato hopes to learn more about human vision. The DB project is funded by the Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) Humanoid Project and led by independent researcher Mitsuo Kawato. Based at a research facility 30 miles outside of Kyoto, Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 55.
    Japan_JAP_rs_227_qxxs.jpg
  • Tomatoes: Tomato cannery facility, Stockton, California, USA. Washed tomatoes going up a conveyor to the factory.
    USA_AG_TOM_12_xs.jpg
  • Tomatoes: Tomato cannery facility, Modesto, California, USA.
    USA_AG_TOM_11_xs.jpg
  • Sunrise in an almond orchard in Kern County, California. Almonds lay on the ground after being shook from the tree by the machine harvester.  They will then be swept up into boxes and loaded on a flatbed trailer and delivered to the production facility for drying and packaging. USA.
    USA_AG_NUTS_01_xs.jpg
  • Aerial of Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a water bearing tk (frictionless) so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_78_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas, SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_77_xs.jpg
  • Aerial of Solar energy installation: Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_75_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985) .
    USA_SCI_ENGY_29_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1988).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_24_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1990).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_23_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_21_xs.jpg
  • Near Area 51 in the town of Rachel, Nevada. State Highway 375. ?Research? center.  Area 51 is a top secret American military facility located at Groom Lake, Nevada, USA. The site contains a large air base, where research into crashed unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and their alien crews has allegedly been carried out.
    USA_SCI_UFO_39_xs.jpg
  • (1992) At the California Department of Corrections medical facility, in Vacaville California, prisoners entering in the system have their blood drawn for DNA records. DNA Fingerprinting.
    USA_SCI_DNA_36_xs.jpg
  • Silicon Valley, California; Deborah Rieman with one of her 6 horses. Deborah Rieman greets her horses Porsche 911 Targa Trade In (white and gray dappled, named from her trade-in that purchased the horse) and Adrenaline Rush (chestnut brown, named for the reaction to riding the horse) before taking them out for warm-up runs and jumps. The horses are two of Deborah's six that are housed at the Breakwell Charlebois Stable facility in Portola Valley, California. Model Released (1999).
    USA_SVAL_119_xs.jpg
  • Silicon Valley, California; Deborah Rieman, jumping with trainer at a Stable facility in Portola Valley, California. She was the CEO of an Israeli-founded company Checkpoint, Inc. that became successful designing and selling security firewalls which secure an organization's internal network from external hackers. Model Released (1999).
    USA_SVAL_118_xs.jpg
  • Silicon Valley, California; The Portola Valley Classic, a horse jumping competition sponsored in part by Hewlett Packard, Yahoo, Nasdaq, Mercedes, and Cartier is held at the Portola Valley Training Center, the largest equine boarding facility in Northern California. The grand prize for the competition in 1999 is $25,000. Other prizes consist of sponsor's products. Rider and horse clear over a Yahoo! jump. (1999).
    USA_SVAL_103_xs.jpg
  • Intended to provide 360-degree images of its surroundings, Omniclops, the robot "omnicamera," is being developed by Hagen Schempf (holding Omniclops) of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Schempf is now with the Robotics Engineering Consortium in Pittsburgh, PA. Founded in 1994 with seed money from NASA, the consortium is located off the Carnegie Mellon campus and operates with great autonomy in this enormous facility. Behind Schempf on the main floor are autonomous forklifts; out of sight, other rooms are chockablock with robotic harvesters and mine diggers. The forklift, which can understand commands like "unload the truck in bay 4," should be deployed in Ford factories by the end of 2000. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 144.
    USA_rs_102_qxxs.jpg
  • Showing off its dexterity, DB slowly juggles three small round beanbags under the alert supervision of researcher Tomohiro Shibata. The DB project is funded by the Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) Humanoid Project and led by independent researcher Mitsuo Kawato. Based at a research facility 30 miles outside of Kyoto, Japan, Kowato began work by adapting a robot designed by SARCOS, a Utah robotics company. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 52-53.
    Japan_JAP_rs_278_qxxs.jpg
  • A man who hopes to become known as the Father of the Artificial Brain, Hugo de Garis of Starlab in Belgium argues that "artilects", artificial intellects, are inevitable. He also thinks humankind may come to rue the day it created them. De Garis was working at a research facility 30 miles outside of Kyoto, Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 28.
    Japan_JAP_rs_237_qxxs.jpg
  • DB gazes intently at the camera by means of two pairs of lenses in each "eye." In a configuration increasingly common in humanoid robots, one lens in each pair sharply focuses on the center of the visual field while the other gives a broader perspective. These two points of view, surprisingly, mimic the human eye, which seamlessly blends together information from the fovea centralis, a small area of precise focus in the center of the retina, and the parafovea, a larger, but much less acute area surrounding the fovea. Similarly, DB has a vestibular system in its ears, vestibular systems being the inner-ear mechanisms that people use to balance themselves.  The DB project is funded by the Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) Humanoid Project and led by independent researcher Mitsuo Kawato. Based at a research facility 30 miles outside of Kyoto, Japan.
    Japan_JAP_rs_235_qxxs.jpg
  • Ten years and tens of millions of dollars in the making, the Honda P3 strides down its course at the car company's secret research facility on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan. The product of a costly decade-long effort, the Honda robotic project was only released from its shroud of corporate secrecy in 1996. In a carefully choreographed performance, P3 walks a line, opens a door, turns a corner, and, after a safety chain is attached, climbs a flight of stairs. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 34-35.
    Japan_JAP_rs_15_qxxs.jpg
  • Hou Songfeng in the concrete mausoleum-like breeding room of his scorpion-raising facility: Ru Yang Boda Scorpion Breeding Company,  a new addition to China's burgeoning market economy. The Boda ranch's thirty employees are raising more than three million scorpions for public consumption in a football field-sized brick building; Songfeng would like to expand his market into the United States, Luoyang,  China. (page 94, 95) .
    CHI_meb_122_xxs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_79_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_30_xs.jpg
  • In this photo-illustration, graduate student Josh Davis (underwater, in a wet-suit) helps the RoboPike breach out of the water in order to show how well the robotic fish might be able to swim one day. Photographed at the Department of Ocean Engineering Testing Tank Facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The idea for the image of the RoboPike breaching came from Professor Triantafyllou, whose dream it is for a robotic fish to swim well enough to be able to jump out of the water. Published in Smithsonian Magazine, August 2000 issue, page 55.
    Usa_rszz_595_120_xs.jpg
  • Aerial photograph of the California aqueduct, which carries water from north to south through the middle of the state. San Joaquin Valley. Agricultural land is seen on both sides of the aqueduct. Kern County, CaliforniaThe California State Water Project is the nation's largest state-built water and power development and conveyance system. Planned, designed, constructed and now operated and maintained by the California Department of Water Resources, this unique facility provides water supplies for 23 million Californians and 755,000 acres of irrigated farmland.
    USA_AERL_03_xs.jpg
  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. Dairy Cows eating surplus oranges, ground up for cattle feed. The Maddox family owns and operates three different locations: Maddox Dairy, RuAnn Dairy and Golden Genes. Maddox Dairy is currently home to 3500 milking cows, calves, heifers and bulls. The dairy is a "birth to milking operation", with four, double-12, pregnant herringbone-milking parlors, free stall barns, calf raising barn and calving facilities. The dairy does their own embryo transfer work and markets their genetics worldwide. The Maddox Dairy was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award for being a "Visionary Holstein Breeder", having bred more than 330 Gold Medal Dams, 502 Excellent cows, and their advancements in gene research for the Dairy industry. .In Visalia, California, surplus whole naval oranges are fed to dairy cattle. Other surplus oranges are chopped up and dried in the sun for cattle feed by Sungro Co. near Bakersfield, California.
    USA_AG_DAIR_08_xs.jpg
  • Kids playing on a street in the Kibera slum,  Africa's largest slum settlement where nearly a million people live in grinding poverty, with no access to running water and ablution facilities.
    KEN_090301_313_xw.jpg
  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. Artificial insemination. Maddox Dairy is currently home to 3500 milking cows, calves, heifers and bulls. The dairy is a "birth to milking operation", with four, double-12, pregnant herringbone-milking parlors, free stall barns, calf raising barn and calving facilities. The dairy does their own embryo transfer work and markets their genetics worldwide. The Maddox Dairy was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award for being a "Visionary Holstein Breeder", having bred more than 330 Gold Medal Dams, 502 Excellent cows, and their advancements in gene research for the Dairy industry.
    USA_AG_DAIR_06_xs.jpg
  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. Artificial insemination. Maddox Dairy is currently home to 3500 milking cows, calves, heifers and bulls. The dairy is a "birth to milking operation", with four, double-12, pregnant herringbone-milking parlors, free stall barns, calf raising barn and calving facilities. The dairy does their own embryo transfer work and markets their genetics worldwide. The Maddox Dairy was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award for being a "Visionary Holstein Breeder", having bred more than 330 Gold Medal Dams, 502 Excellent cows, and their advancements in gene research for the Dairy industry. .
    USA_AG_DAIR_05_xs.jpg
  • Aerial photograph of Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. The Maddox Dairy is currently home to 3500 milking cows, calves, heifers and bulls. The dairy is a "birth to milking operation", with four, double-12, pregnant herringbone-milking parlors, free stall barns, calf raising barn and calving facilities. The dairy does their own embryo transfer work and markets their genetics worldwide. The Maddox Dairy was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award for being a "Visionary Holstein Breeder", having bred more than 330 Gold Medal Dams, 502 Excellent cows, and their advancements in gene research for the Dairy industry. Surrounding the dairy are fields growing hay for the cows.
    USA_AG_DAIR_02_xs.jpg
  • A vendor fries fish for sale in the Kibera slum, Africa's largest slum settlement with nearly one million inhabitants, the majority of whom have no access to running water and ablution facilities.
    KEN_090301_190_xw.jpg
  • Silicon Valley, California; Linda Jacobson, Virtual Reality Evangelist at Silicon Graphics, Incorporated, Mountainview, California. Jacobson stands poised over the operations area of one of Silicon Graphics' RealityCenters. The high tech console operates the large wrap-around screen behind her. Jacobson's dream is to be the host of a virtual reality talk show. In the meantime, this former Wired Magazine reporter is content to tout the virtues of Immersive Visualization?the newly coined industry name, she says, for virtual reality. The tangible element of her job at SGI is to manage and market SGI's RealityCenters?facilities designed to do quick representations in a fully interactive graphical interface. These can include virtual factory tours; automobile mock-ups; and mock-up product changes depending on the desires of purchasing company. Model Released (1999).
    USA_SVAL_127_120_xs.jpg
  • Whizzing around a hospital floor in Danbury, CT., HelpMate delivers patients' meal trays to hospital nurses. Now in healthcare facilities across the United States and in several other countries, the battery-operated, $100,000 HelpMate can transport food, drugs, and hospital wastes and even perform simple patient-care functions, such as guiding patients through hospital corridors. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 186.
    USA_rs_451_qxxs.jpg
Next

Peter Menzel Photography

  • Home
  • Legal & Copyright
  • About Us
  • Image Archive
  • Search the Archive
  • Exhibit List
  • Lecture List
  • Agencies
  • Contact Us: Licensing & Inquiries