Monthly Archives: February 2012

St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow – on a cold winter day 25 years ago

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Per Storemyr

I’m getting thousands of my old slides scanned at the moment. Since I’m not doing it myself, I reckoned that the “post-production” and archiving would cost me a few hours’, perhaps a day’s work. I was utterly wrong.

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With pickaxe into modern times II: Quarrying of Marés at the Balearic Islands

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Per Storemyr

As a follow-up of my two recent articles on traditional quarrying of sandstone and soapstone, here is an exciting film about manual extraction of Piedra de Marés at Menorca. Marés is a soft, yellowish biocalcarenite (calcareous sandstone), widely used since … Continue reading →