Lodge No. 562

August 13, 2008

Early this morning I had an assignment for a local business magazine. They are doing a feature on a local locksmith, and I got to poke around the shop looking at all the keys and machines and things that go along with cracking safes and so on.

The owner took me into the “junk room” and showed me some old safes, including this pre-1930’s model which was used by the Elks Lodge here in town. The hand-painted lettering and flourishes were fascinating. You just don’t find workmanship like that in these days of machines and robots.

This shot was unusable for the assignment because it is out of focus, and blurry (I would up shooting it at 1/13th of a second, with only a bare bulb hanging in the bathroom to light up the near-dark junk room, and Image Stabilization is cool, but it can’t work miracles!), so I thought I would play around in Photoshop and see what I could get.

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