The headline is "Rust!"

TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
edited January 25, 2012 in Other Cool Shots
An old linotype machine.

2012-01-20-003-X2.jpg
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2012
    Nice combination of rust and machinery - different!
    Eric ~ Smugmug
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2012
    Good find, Tony. Now here is a subject literally crying out to get the royal treatment. Have a go at it....show us what hidden wonders really exist here.

    Tom
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,955 moderator
    edited January 25, 2012
    Hmm...I think Tom is suggesting overdrive processing and maybe cropping to turn it into an abstract. You could certainly do that--and the potential is probably unlimited in this one--but as a merely recreational rustaholic, I find this a fascinating shot as is. So much to see here. clap.gif
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  • TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2012
    black mamba wrote: »
    Good find, Tony. Now here is a subject literally crying out to get the royal treatment. Have a go at it....show us what hidden wonders really exist here.

    Tom

    I go along with the rust thing because old and rusty objects - especially
    vehicles - appeal to me. I'm not a subscriber, though, to deliberate
    over-processing. I like to show the subject as it is. This one is bumped
    a little with Contrast, but it's pretty much shown as seen.

    This linotype machine has been sitting outside of a printing company
    as a form of art...like a garden gnome. The rust and decay is real.
    Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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  • NealAddyNealAddy Registered Users Posts: 145 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2012
    What a fascinating machine! I'd love to study this up close.

    Great capture!
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  • TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2012
    NealAddy wrote: »
    What a fascinating machine! I'd love to study this up close.

    Great capture!

    I should remember, but I don't. I worked for two newspapers - The Indianapolis
    Times and the Chicago Tribune - and watched the linotype operaters, but I don't
    remember much about the machine itself...just the type clanking out of the
    machine. I didn't work in the pressroom, but I'd wander around the buildings
    watching the various activities that went into putting out a newspaper in the
    web press days.
    Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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  • toragstorags Registered Users Posts: 4,615 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2012
    Good grab

    Those "Rube Goldberg" machines used to be fun to watch
    Rags
  • JuanoJuano Registered Users Posts: 4,890 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2012
    Richard wrote: »
    Hmm...I think Tom is suggesting overdrive processing and maybe cropping to turn it into an abstract. You could certainly do that--and the potential is probably unlimited in this one--but as a merely recreational rustaholic, I find this a fascinating shot as is. So much to see here. clap.gif

    Great find. I am a recovering rust junkie and, as such, I can resist the temptation to go find a thousand different pictures in that contraption. clap.gif
    Cristóbal


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