The top of Dallas’ Reunion Tower resembles a giant steel dandelion seed head rising into the clear blue sky over North Texas.

“You talk about her as if she's made of spun glass. Know what I see? Steel.”

~ Marie Rutkoski

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Paris, Parc André Citroën .

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Shot at F8. Lead and steel.

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

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One of several stormy days in S. Wales recently. This is looking across Swansea Bay towards Port Talbot steelworks shortly after sunrise. The light across the bay changes every second on days like this.

Port Talbot remains the largest steelworks in the UK and one of the largest in Europe.

Petronas Towers at blue hour, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Duisburg, Germany, 2018.

Upper West sides Manhattan Valley viaduct. Built in 1898-1901 extending Riverside Dr. North of 125th St.

I can hold my breath

I can bite my tongue

I can stay awake for days

If that's what you want

Be your number one

I can fake a smile

I can force a laugh

I can dance and play the part

If that's what you ask

Give you all I am

I'll get through it

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.

The hands of Adrian the farrier.

At Mill Farm, Staple Fitzpaine in Somerset.

Thank you everyone for your beautiful, thoughtful and lovely comments on my image of 'Daisy and the loo roll' forgive me for my slow response and getting back to your photo streams. We are in isolation and my motivation is totally flat. I have my beautiful garden, safe from everyone and I took a few Spring images yesterday. Please stay safe, take care, isolate and remain in good health. I will endeavour to sit with a cup of tea later and go through your inspiring images and get back to you all.

Have a fabulous and virus free day ~ KissThePixel2020

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The Mannesmann building on the Rhine banks. The building is one of the first modern German high-rise buildings and was the administration building of the Mannesmann Group. The sculpture in front of the house is symbolic of the company's history as a large German steel company and the emerging period of the German Wirtschaftswunder after World War 2, even with it’s used material steel.

steelworks Völklinger Hütte

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This is from a few years ago, we all have so many photo's in our archives that never see the light of day and this is one of mine.

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]