#DirtyJobs

Do you remember Mike Rowe's TV show, DIRTY JOBS?

#DirtyJobs, Northport, Ala., April 29, 2026 at 2:45:01 PM. Converted to black-and-white with Adobe Lightroom BW11 preset.

On the TV show, Dirty Jobs, host Mike Rowe performed difficult, dangerous, and sometimes just plain filthy jobs alongside the men and women who did those jobs for a living. When I recently saw two workers changing a billboard I immediately thought, “Now that is a ‘dirty job’ that Mike Rowe could do.”

In fact, when I checked Wikipedia, I found that he he had worked as a “billboard installer”. Dirty Jobs ran for 179 episodes that aired from 2003 to 2012 and then again in 2022-2023.

Mike Rowe on left speaking with a billboard installer. Dirty Jobs episode 55 (June 26, 2007), “Billboard Installer.” Image source: IMDb.

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Pixel Peeping

Let’s take a closer look.

Detail from original file, viewed at 100%: you can make out the type of gloves this worker wearing.

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Photo (EXIF) Deets

• Make: Hasselblad X2D II 100C

• Date Time Original: Apr 29, 2026 at 2:45:01 PM

• Exposure Bias Value: 2

• Exposure Time: 1/2000 second

• FNumber: 8

• Focal Length: 55

• Focal Length In 35mm Film: 43

• Lens Make: Hasselblad

• Lens Model: XCD 55V

• Altitude: 18.62 m (61.08 ft)

• Latitude: 33° 13’ 1.74” N

• Longitude: 87° 34’ 26.7” W

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