Nut and Bolt. Rusted.

DAY 56

25 FEB 09

My daughter had an away game with her junior varsity soccer team. They were playing at a field we'd been to before with a different team; it was actually a large and pretty darned nice soccer complex. When my son and I got there, it was a chilly evening, and we ended up having to go back out to the truck a couple times. Lucky for us there wasn't many people there.

One of the times we were heading back to the bleachers, I happened to look down at where the bleacher legs met the cement pads. There were these wonderful rusty bolts. At least, they were wonderful from a photography perspective. I certainly hope they weren't rusted through and in danger of breaking.

For our purposes here, we'll say the rusty bolts were wonderful. Wonderful enough to be photographed. I took a handful of pictures of them; this one was my favorite.

Nothing new in the post-processing: noise reduction, sharpening, curves adjustment and border addition.

(Yes, the post title is a lame attempt at a B-52's reference.)

Rusty Old Tractor

DAY 21

21 JAN 09

My husband likes to build things. When he was younger, he built racing motors. For Christmas, he built my son a go-kart. A few years back, he built himself a tractor by taking parts from a bunch of old ones.

Two of those rusty old tractors are sitting near the back of our property, waiting for him to build a garage so he can hide them. At least, that's what he keeps promising me. They aren't visible from the street, so that's a good thing.

To be fair, I should add the one he built looks great, and is a real workhorse.

Post-processing on this one included sharpening and noise reduction, and I dialed back the saturation a bit.