They look just like rusty nuts and bolts

Last December I was included among a group of photographers who were allowed to go and photograph inside the New Mills Pumping Station in Norwich. This was indeed a treat. For a number of years I had walked past the old Victorian pumping station and wondered what it was like inside.

The building one can see (and don’t get too excited about it because I’m not including a shot of the outside was built on the site of much earlier water pumping stations and played an integral part in ensuring a reliable source of water for the city.

That’s the scene setting chat. We went inside to look at the machinery. I noticed how my colleagues, once indoors, moved towards small pipes, nuts, bolts, wheels and other bits of tackle. It was very obvious from their camera positions and body angles that they were creating artistic images using the available light and shade. Great pictures from them I have not doubt.

For my part I wandered around as I always do on occasions like this and poked my camera generally in the direction of “bits and pieces” so as not to look out of place.

I found (as I always do ) that my pictures resembled – not so much artistic creations – but collections of rusty nuts and bolts. At one stage there had been great excitement over a number of cobwebs, which I never actually managed to find, but if I had I don’t think they would have enhanced my pictures at all.

So this week folks I thought I would share my dusty pics. I did try turning a couple upside down but they didn’t look any better. Maybe I should go on one of those still-life courses.

Don’t get me wrong it was a very enjoyable visit with fascinating things to see – but my shots really rather major on the rusty mundane, wheels and pipes and things.

By the way there are no prizes for guessing what these bits actually did.