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Taken for group 'Macro Monday' theme 'Intended Contact' November 5th 2018.
This is a soldering iron laid on a rest with the wire to be tinned laid touching the iron. The solder is in my shaky hand. The smoke is coming off the hot flux.
Oh yeah, its great for a flaky scalp!
White balanced to the color of the sparks to make it look a bit different. Wire wool is all the rage at the moment but I'm trying to resist saturating my stream with it, so this will do for now :)
I hope this is a thought provoking shot. a) These are cultivated poppies growing wild at the edge of a farmer's field. b) The view is in the countryside but clearly the town in the background is not far away. and it is encroaching fast (We have to build 850 homes per year! !http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/politics/11676516.Planning_inspector_wants_850_new_homes_built_in_Basingstoke_and_Deane_every_year/) Clearly the poppies are on the wire literally but it is as though they cannot make up their minds whether they belong in the town or the country, just as the idiom, 'on the wire' or 'on the fence' suggests. The ominous thing is they won't have long to make up their minds because the town will soon encroach. I know there are many other meanings about on the wire. It would be interesting to hear them, especially from around the world.
Oh and another thought provoking idea - look at which camera I used!
wire is my new favorite magazine in that they actually tracked me down to pay for this shot of rammellzee. (and they pay in GBP)
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Driving along the back roads of west central Oklahoma I came across this coil of barbed wire on a fence post. It is an interesting subject of the life of the farmer in Oklahoma.
Took a pretty boring photo of barbed wire and turned it black & white. Suddenly I had a really great photo instead.
There is no wire here for these kind of shots so how about another from the archives a while back.
Those of you who follow my work know I have a thing for shooting freight under wire. Well this past Thursday I got a tip that CSXT Middleboro based daytime local B727 would be making a relatively uncommon move that was long on my wish list to shoot. B727 runs five days per week between Middleboro and Attleboro on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal maintained and dispatched Middleboro Subdivision serving customers and interchanging with the MC along the way.
On Thursdays they normally sneak out on to Amtrak's NEC main at BORO interlockong for a two and half mile shove west down Track 4 to East Junction to work a couple customers on that historic bit of trackage that I've written about in this caption: flic.kr/p/2jck93J
But there is one other customer in the area that every once in a while gets a switch. And on this day after shoving out they reversed direction and ran east a mile to a short twisting lead splitting off just short of Holden interlocking. This lead reaches down into the building of Polyfiber Inc. a subsidiary of Holland Manufacturing makers of industrial packaging, specialty coated and laminated products, water activated tapes and other products.
B726 has run the mile west with three cars trailing three GP40-2s. Here just short of Holden they will make two trips down and back on the lead to pull one empty and spot one load before shoving back east through Attleboro station toward East Junction. They are seen here on track 4 at MP 198 setting over the empty they just pulled from Polyfiber before starting back down the twisting lead with the load to spot.
Attleboro, Massachusetts
Thursday January 14, 2021