Creativity Boot Camp: Heavy Metal

My first thought when I read the prompt was the heavy metal rock bands, but since I know nothing whatsoever about them, that was out. I’m a day behind getting this posted because it rained all day yesterday, but late in the day I ran out to Home Depot since I thought I might find some heavy metal there. I did, but it took until today to get the photos organized for the post.

On my way home, it stopped raining and I had to drive by an ongoing construction project near our house. All the workers had gone home, so I parked the car in a nearby medical center parking lot and hopped out to see what I might find. I took a lot of photos, but ended up deciding on these three, all taken of the same piece of equipment.

I used the Colorize action on the last of the photos.

But my favorite photos are of this little red wagon that was “parked” alongside the road. It’s obviously being used by the crews to haul cement or some such substance. Not exactly heavy metal, but I like it anyway.

The first photo was simply sharpened, the middle photo is the Seventies action (again), and the last one is the Pioneer Woman’s Heartland action. I increased the contrast on the last one after I ran the action.

Got to say, I’d never have taken any of these without the prompt!