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I was asked to photograph a part-machined component, as there was a problem that needed to be pointed out to the client...
I just couldn't stop myself getting all arty-farty with it though... ;-)
Not only did I spend time taking pictures of my Dad's watch today, but I was pressed into service to attempt some hasty pictures of components made by my company to use on our new website...
These are for use in fibre optic connectors - the ceramic ferrules have a minute hole down the centre if you look carefully. In fact, all these tubes have a central hole for a fibre. My problem today was that I had no way of securing these to the background, and every time my lens bumped the sheet of card with the company logo on, the bloody tubes would roll away!
Someone's misfortune is our gain...
Another local engineering works has just gone out of business and we have been fortunate enough to acquire some of their equipment for our own use. These are stop/go gauges and there are an awful lot of them!
As precision engineers, we were reknowned for producing microscopic components for the fibre optics and telecommunications industries...
Lately, we have diversified into other fields and now produce parts for the gas and oil industry as well as components for the aerospace market - which seem humungous compared to the miniscule parts of yesteryear!
These part-finished chunks caught my eye and I just HAD to shoot them for posterity...
Wandering around the empty workshop after hours, I discovered this box of components awaiting cleaning...
How many times have I said these aren't to be piled up like this??? That aside, I rather liked the monochrome look, highlighted as it was by the rich amber of the oil pooled in odd corners.
Heads will still roll tomorrow though...
One of the huge bar-feeds on our CNC machines at work. It reminds me of those old Gatling guns you see in war movies...
Colour tweaked to warm things up and make the sticky oil residue look like it's doing something artistic...
I thought I'd put all this kind of thing behind me when I left Junior school...
One of today's charming little tasks at work was to fill the engraved lines in these knobs with engraver's wax, a filthy, repetitive job whereby one rubs the wax crayon into the grooves with a finger, leaves it to warm up on a hotplate, then polishes off the surplus.
So, when you next see something with engraved lines on it, think of the poor sap that has to do the 'colouring-in'!
Before I'd even got my coat off at work this morning, I was pressed into service as photographer to take some shots of a component that hadn't gone according to plan...
After I'd done the basic 'component-with-a-ruler-for-scale' shots, I indulged myself with a spot of arty-fartiness and played with the effects of the early morning sun shining through the bore of the piece. Unbeknown to me, the Engineering Fairy waved her wand whilst my back was turned, and it wasn't until I uploaded the shots to computer that I noticed the rainbow effect inside...