Went over to the Joliet Iron & Steel works with a good buddy and excellent photogapher – Mark Baldwin. Lately we’ve been hitting the road to go further afield at 4.30am, so this local jaunt felt quite relaxed, even got to lay in a bit and we still made it there for 7am. As we had suspected, the park was open at 7am even though it states that it doesn’t open till 8am, there was a chain across the parking lot entrance, but it wasn’t in use. Had this not been the first time we’d visited this site, we probably wouldn’t have bothered, the light was terrible, nothing in the sky at all, but it was close, not cold and dry, so we checked it out anyway. There are some shots in this place, just not sure I got them today, I think once the snow has gone and perhaps with a little more colour in the sky the shots would be better, as it is I think more intimate detail shots were the way to go on this occasion, basically anything that didn’t include the sky. I did manage a few shots worthy of processing, the colours in the bricks are amazing, but the remnants of snow made framing difficult.

Across the road was a different story, some really colourful old disused factories which would make for some amazing photographs, unfortunately one end of the factory was still in use, and thus the whole place was fenced and gaurded off with security; shame, especially as in trying to see if there was an easy way in I managed to add a nice shiny bolt to my front right car tyre. It looked to be lodged in the tyre very well, so we drove on it home rather than attempt to pull it out, we made it home and the car is in the shop as we speak .