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The top of Dallas’ Reunion Tower resembles a giant steel dandelion seed head rising into the clear blue sky over North Texas.
'Crittall' were the largest manufacturer to take advantage of the new opportunities, and the company played a leading role in revolutionising the world-wide use of the metal casement. Indeed its name eventually became a generic term for steel windows.
Wrapped up the first half of my Tasmania holiday — the solo exploring leg. Five days, thirty beaches, and roughly a thousand photos. Will be a while sorting through all those when I get back! Hopefully there will be a few keepers. The skies were either completely clouded over or crystal clear and sunny , not ideal, but nature’s way of reminding me that she’s the boss of beach photography lighting.
It’s been bitterly cold — think single digits, wind howling across empty beaches kind of freezing. I even considered swapping my shorts for trackies a few times. Considered. 😉
Now it’s back to being social with the family. Kicked off this morning with a mountain bike ride in Fern Tree (a suburb in the hills above Hobart). It was 0.1°C with a feels-like temp of -9.9°C. I’m not saying it was cold, but I’m pretty sure my face tried to leave my head.
Heading to Dark MOFO tomorrow night - Hobart’s eccentric midwinter festival of art, music, food, black-clad locals sipping mulled wine under red lights , and all things wonderfully weird. Can’t wait to try a Squidlipop, yes they are a real thing 😋
In the meantime, here’s a quick one from Day 1: Steels Beach at Scamander on Tassie’s northeast coast. Please forgive the noise, I’m travelling light without access to proper editing gear (read: no denoise wizardry).
Hope everyone’s keeping warm and inspired!
Waterscape 46/100 in 2025
This male Kestrel - presumably fledged this summer - was so confiding that I was able to walk up close enough to get a shot with a 105mm macro lens. He was perched on top of a steel casting that forms part of Steel Henge, a structure made from materials found on the site of a former foundry in central Rotherham that was transformed into the Centenary Riverside nature reserve by Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust
Petronas Towers at blue hour, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Weirton Steel S2 211 lugs a string of ladle cars through Weirton Junction, West Virginia. I'm not sure of the reason for the leading derelict ladle car.
Remaining stacks of the Bethlehem Steel plant, now surrounded by a park. The lighted walkway is normally open to the public but, alas, wasn't when we were there.
Bethlehem Steel was one of the largest producers of steel in its heyday. It was founded in the mid-19th century, prospered for a while in the railroad boom, and then branched into shipbuilding, where it supplied its steel for the Navy, in particular the (in)famous USS Maine. It later went into shipbuilding business, constructing as much as 20% of the Navy fleet during World War II. The company also supplied steel for the Golden Gate bridge. Most steel production stopped in the 1980-ies and the company was dissolved in 2003. [paraphrased from Wikipedia]