Ben Messick Photography

Electric City

Because of the hydroelectric dams in the area, Great Falls is known as “Electric City.” The Black Eagle Dam plant started producing electricity in 1890! This is a photograph of their many consumers– the Calumet Montana Refinery. It recently celebrated its 100th birthday and currently produces 30,000 barrels a day.


I took this photograph this week in in Great Falls, Montana. I used a Nikon Z5 camera using a NIKKOR Z 24-70mm ƒ/2.8 S lens (1/100 sec at ƒ/5.6, ISO 100, 53mm). I edited and cropped the image in Adobe Lightroom.

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