WELDING PHOTOGRAPHY - FEATURING @MOBILE-JOAT

Curiosity killed the cat, so I am glad I am not a cat.

First off, welding can be dangerous. The heat and the light can do some serious damage if you are not careful. One of the big "DO NOT EVER" actions in welding is looking at the arc without serious eye protection. Of course, I'm curious about what I am missing, so I decided to try some photography of welding.

This is a most difficult task, since you cannot see your camera very well of exactly where it is pointed. (At least I couldn't.) I wound up with some photos that looked like these.

I think that they are pretty artsy and abstract. Perhaps they could even be worth a pretty penny if featured in a gallery somewhere.

This one looks like it could be of two space ships cruising through some space dust in a remote corner of the galaxy.

INSPIRATION!

A friend of mine helped me weld a piece to use the stump grinder on a tractor the other day, and now @mobile-joat did the same so that I could use an angle blade to scrape my driveway.

@Mobile-joat hard at work helping @papa-pepper

After thinking about it the other day, I figured that now was a good chance to try some photos. In the end, I had to sort through almost 200 clicks to cut it down to these, but I really like a lot of them. However the difficulty of taking photos without really seeing what you are looking at was certainly evident, as not every unintentional photo turned out "artsy" or interesting.

Ones like that were common in the photos.

As were some like that. Obviously not every photo taken was a gem, or even worth the look really.

Others, though, turned out amazing, and I am impressed with quite a few. They seem so raw, industrial, maybe even masculine in a way. Many are very nice combinations of several elements too.

The setting was very cool too. A pile of junk and scrap metal for the background, the spark of the welder, the dirty and oily arms of hard working @mobile-joat, the rust of the machine, the smoke rising from the weld. I really enjoyed it!