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I've been agonising over several gazillion shots of these that I took today, trying to pick out THE one to use for my Project 365 submission...
I figure this is the one, as it's better compositionally than the rest, but I'm not sure if I like the darkness of it. I was trying to make it shadowy and interesting but keeping the highlights of the glints off the aluminium.
Incidentally, it's a pile of five 'Mickey Mouse' assemblies that I was working on today...
Yes - Mickey Mouse. Each circular slide has two adjusters resembling ears :-D However, stacked up like this, they look more like a mutant Dalek...
Turbine blades in a marine version of the Rolls-Royce Olympus turbojet engine. Developed from the engine that powered Concorde. Precision engineering powering ships, as it always has. This engine has served its time and now rests at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine.
Yes, that's a regular sized paperclip, and yes, those are microscopic screws in the anodised components to the right of it...
No wonder my eyesight's shot...
These things just cracked me up today at work...
They were just sitting there in their egg tray ready for inspection, looking for all the world like earless black mice all straining to hear something...
Maybe it's just me then...
These are the dummy bullets being made by my work colleague, for display purposes.
It was a pretty naff picture, but I gave it a bit of help in Picnik, and liked the result, so you're stuck with a very abstracted and incongruous soft-focus treatment of a very harsh subject!
Proper pics will follow when the 'bullets' are finished!
Earless mice, skittles, inverted tadpoles... I can think of a thousand things these COULD be, but not what they actually ARE...
Answers on a postcard...
Whilst these trays are handy for storing the part-finished assemblies, they also fulfill my basic need for straight lines to photograph... I can't help it - I like nice neat patterns in the finished products!
At long last, this effing job is done, and content that my little soldiers are finally fit to be paraded, I can send them out, never to be seen again.
Hopefully.