// It was one of the things they had talked about, and one of the things that was in the works. Letters were exchanged and arrangements were in the works . . .

This Canada Goose Gosling forges ahead despite being photographed. I love watching their everyday activities and their behaviors towards each other.

Das Glück des Lebens kann niemand schmieden, immer nur das Glück des Augenblicks.

Nobody may forge the happiness of life, but we can forge the happiness of the moment.

- Karl H. Waggerl -

We encountered this Leopard (Panthera pardus) cub several times on our visit to the Okavango Delta. Almost a year old, she still relies heavily on her mother for food and protection. She’s trying hunt on her own, but from what we saw she has a way to go. She has the physical prowess, but she lacks experience. At the critical moment of a hunt, she would break cover and walk right up to the prey. The whole neighborhood notices her and the squirrels in every tree loudly alarm. Zero element of surprise and her hunt is over. We are confident that she will figure it out. It was fascinating to watch her forging her way in the world and figuring out how to be a successful hunter.

Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine

Sheffield Forgemasters is a heavy engineering firm located in Sheffield, England. It is one of the few remaining steel businesses in what was the heart of Britain's steel industry, with origins dating back to the 1750s. The company specialises in the production of large bespoke steel castings and forgings, as well as standard rolls, ingots and bars. The photo here shows the bag fitration plant which cleans the dust and gases from the electric arc furnaces it operates.

In the 1980s, Forgemasters manufactured components for the Iraqi Project Babylon "supergun", which it had believed were for a petrochemical refinery. The British investigation exonerated the company's directors, and the incident became known as the Supergun affair.

The next 40 years saw a rather turbulent period for the company. First, it was divided and sold to American buyers in 1998, although the Sheffield Forgemasters name was retained. Then, in 2003, the new owners went bust and the business was eventually acquired in 2005 by another new owner. In the summer of 2007, severe flooding from the River Don caused a complete work stoppage. However, three weeks after the event, repairs were ahead of schedule and the works were approaching full production.

Forgemasters suffered as the British steel industry declined in the early 2010s. But the company's financial health attracted attention due to its involvement in Britain's nuclear submarine programme and the next few years saw various efforts to secure the company's future. In July 2021, the UK government announced that the Ministry of Defence had launched an offer to take over the company for £2.56 million, and intended to invest a further £400 million over the next decade to support defence outputs. Sheffield Forgemasters is now capable of producing the largest and most technically challenging cast and forged steel components in the world.

From Broadway Street in Downtown Los Angeles, California.

Umtaa Palataa (31) works tirelessly at the forge crafting weapons and armor for Alliance soldiers.

Great Blue Heron...

Oil on canvas by Michael Kent - 18" x 24"

Hey there! It’s my 3rd entry for Iron Forge! Seed part used: 11 times

My train is forging ahead,

while the torso are losing their heads.

Train build really trained me to use torsos.

De windwijzer van de buurman / the neighbor's weather vane

“The soul is healed by being with children.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist and philosopher

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Harold Hobbson in action

Toy Project Day 2329

More low tide patterns.

A friend introduced us to a Katana (Japanese sword) maker in Seki, located at the foothills of the Gifu mountains. Seki is famous for high quality knifes and swords. Fukudome-sensei showed us the process in his workshop from the beginning. He took raw porous iron, heated it up, pounded on it, folded it, and repeated the process over and over again. It takes him 22 days to forge a high quality Katana.

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The Viking Lord controls his rage and anger by forging ~ Only the finest will do for this ~ Never asking another to do what he would not himself. All the time planning his retribution.

Run. Run. Run. Run

Run. Run. Run. Run

Run. Run. Run. Run

Run. Run. Run. Run

You better make your face up in your favourite disguise

With your button down lips and your roller blind eyes

With your empty smile and your hungry heart

Feel the bile rising from your guilty past

With your nerves in tatters as the cockle shell shatters

And the hammers batter down your door

You better run

Run. Run. Run. Run

Run. Run. Run. Run

Run. Run. Run. Run

Run. Run. Run. Run

You better run all day and run all night

And keep your dirty feelings deep inside

And if you're taking your girlfriend out tonight

You better park the car well out of sight

Cause if they catch you in the back seat trying to pick her locks

They're gonna send you back to Mother in a cardboard box

You better run

Pink Floyd ~ Run Like Hell 1979

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forging though a pile of boo

Night & Day....After a couple days of gloomy weather, this is a glimpse of the big push for some brighter and warmer days. I am really leaning toward the B&W conversion on this one, I have posted it in comments below .

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Abanilla is a town in Murcia, bordering Alicante, in Spain. Its intricate streets and alleys make up a labyrinth in which it is worth getting lost in the early afternoon when solitude and silence take over the place. Some of the narrow streets and a long staircase seem to fall from the hill where the castle once stood. At the top, a small, charming cactus garden and splendid panoramic views await us. Visiting the towns of the Iberian Peninsula is like visiting a true catalog of wrought iron that protects its windows - or simply beautifies them -: an endless array of geometry as diverse as it is surprising. The history of this craft is lost in the past but we can always enjoy its forms. In most of the designs, suggestive spirals are present that await us with their rich iconography.

Forging through the rain, 60103 'Flying Scotsman' accelerates away from Dandry Mire viaduct on the approach to Garsdale station heading the 1Z64 17:34 Carlisle to York 'Waverley' charter on Sunday 22nd August 2021. Scorching on the smokebox door is evident, which had presumably occurred during this return working. The open firebox door is seen to be illuminating the fireman in these extremely dull and wet conditions. Heavy rain is a sure way of dampening down the 'Flying Scotsman mania', such as I had experienced earlier in the day further south.

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Taken with a Canon 60D and a Canon 100mm f2.8 Macro

A modern-day blacksmith at work in the re-created 19th century smithy at Old Sturbridge Village (OSV), Massachusetts, USA.

This blacksmith's shop dates from 1810 and was originally located at Bolton, Massachusetts. It was moved to OSV in 1957.

OSV is a kind of 'living museum' similar to those found in the UK, such as at St Fagans in Wales, or the Black Country Museum, for example.

Thursday 13th October 2022.

Opening a new field during harvest.

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Winter Storm cruising sometime around midnight.

Taken and processed with an iPhone 3GS.

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A staff member at the Allaire Historic Village in New Jersey demonstrates the art of making iron implements, in this case it was a hook to hang things on. This is a wonderful living history site. The blacksmith's shop dates from 1836.

Making a clothes hook at the Sugarbush Festival. Blandford Nature Center in Grand Rapids Michigan

*this is a piece I made in the late 80's.

It uses a processes like anti-clastic forming, forging, fabrication techniques.

At the Batavia warf Lelystad Holland.Here, a group of enthousiasts and scientists rebuilt a 17th century VOC ship, The Batavia. Everything was done like back in the days, including the ironwork. This man was forging weaponry.

at the Believe Inn, Chicago.

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Captured forging north out of the early morning mist in Golborne Dale, 22112 & 221108 on the 06.03 Birmingham New Street - Preston.

Much maligned and I only photograph them in good light, the Avanti West Coast 221's are now an 'endangered species'.

I personally hate to travel on these things but they have put in a prodigious amount of miles for their TOC's since their introduction in 2002.

* In December 2019, Avanti West Coast placed an order for 10 seven-car Class 807 electric units which will replace its Class 221 fleet, along with 13 Class 805 bi-mode units as part of £350 million contract with Hitachi. These are planned to enter service in 2023.

A friend introduced us to a Katana (Japanese sword) maker in Seki, located at the foothills of the Gifu mountains. Seki is famous for high quality knifes and swords. Fukudome-sensei showed us the process in his workshop from the beginning. He took raw porous iron, heated it up, pounded on it, folded it, and repeated the process over and over again. It takes him 22 days to forge a high quality Katana.

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The work of Basque painter and sculptor Agustín Ibarrola, more than 100 railroad ties - turned into ornate "totems" - grace the rim of "Halde Haniel" spoil tip in the heart of the Ruhr district, between the cities of Oberhausen and Bottrop in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Polaroid Spectra, Impossible Project Spectra Film.