...under Blackfriars Bridge, London

Close up of a disused Bridge

taken through the sunroof of our car

as we crossed the Astoria Bridge on

this day four years ago.

- we have not taken a road trip since

have been rendered inert by Covid pandemic

and general lethargy ...

but we talk about it often

so maybe that is the first step ...

This is a close-up HDR photo of rivets and the patina of the scraped and scored history of the bottom of my aluminum canoe.

Cast iron bridge left over from Dr Beeching's rail cuts in the 1960's

Landis Valley Museum, Lancaster, PA

B 17 at Duxford IWM

Created for Shock of the New's "Heavy Metal" challenge.

The original photo is of the side of a plane.

Do view on black for greater apparent luminosity.

Along today's walk route.

Project 365-257

This is a close-up photo of two rivets and a line of welded solder on a truck trailer that suggests a pareidolia portrait.

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Rivets on the side of locomotive.

Railway bridge

Hamburg

I find the make up of a stalk of wheat rather fascinating with all the individual ears and hairy bits running off it .

This is four shot focus stack using my computer monitor as a black backdrop.

To feed the world.

Descending order

Freihafenelbbrücke Hamburg

Flickr-Architekturspaziergang 😂😂😂😂

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Another shot from the train station in Coopersville.

This is a close-up minimalist photo of rivets on two metal panels on a snow plow train engine.

This is a photo of rivets on a train snow plough at the railway museum in Musquodoboit Harbour.

At street level underneath one of the older overpasses of Kyoto's elevated train structure. Japan

We were camped next to Scott in Petaluma, CA, an iron worker on the Golden Gate Bridge restoration project. Rivets from the original construction where being replaced with high strength structural steel bolts - around 2003.

Davis County, Utah

14mm Samyang ED AS IF UMC

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Here are some of the remaining riveted pipes that fed water into the Duck Reach hydro electric station. In this post-industrial age it is a wonderful thing to see such dedicated workmanship in the crafting of metal pipes.

All around the old Steam Locomotive...

Taken at the Aerospace Museum, Sacramento, CA.

Burlington Canal Lift Bridge in Hamilton Ontario. The lift bridge allows boats to pass through the canal from Lake Ontario to Hamilton Harbour by lifting the 4 lane road bridge up 33m (108 ft)