Very intriguing metalwork tools, a great idea and collage. Very creative!

Oh yes, very beautiful collage of tools and excellent composition !!! :)

Excelent istill life shoots.

this is very creative.....I like it a lot..well done

Very creative and wonderful pic. excellent adn so interesting this tool. Hugs

Having done a short stint as a machinist many years ago, I certainly can appreciate these photos. Very nice job.

Nice individual Shots! I'm not sure (and that's just my taste) about the grayish background. I can imagine it would have been even more authentic presented on some sort of metal plate with some metal shavings on it - maybe those even reaching over some images as 3D effect!

Awesome compo... superbly done !

Fantastic work Maria! Very clear and the depth is wonderful! I personally wished I knew how to use some of them! Wonderful job indeed!

Great Study. Excellent capture.

Excellent and very creative collage. Fantastic idea and work!!

All the shapes and smooth surfaces covered in waste has an artistic feel to it.

I love the collage and the dedication. I doubt many proud craftsmen are left nowadays but they deserve all the recognition and tribute they can get. The composition is simple and yet powerful, the different tool shapes create a strange, interesting rhythm. Beautiful work, Maria.

Lovely work, I've hardly touched a lathe since I was an apprentice, certainly brings back some memories!

Excelelnt photo series my friend....!!!!

I can just about smell the coolant :)

Fantastic photo collage..Beautifully done.

Wonderful poem and a very evocative and moving image. It is evident that you strive for perfection in every single thing you do. Thanks for sharing!

Wonderful poem, and collage!

great photo he's a messy worker all that swarf laying about. lol would not get away with that in my workshop :-)

Wonderful collage, Maria! Nice artistic touch with the one purple pic. And I especially love the prose you wrote - more even than the image because it's from the heart and so well written. Is there anything you don't do well??? :-) I was a machinist for a time in Alabama back in - or before! lol - the day and so I'm familiar with the machines you've shown. That was b4 I decided I needed to go back to school.......sometimes I wonder if it was a more "honest" living if I'd stayed with it.....

Very nice verse and well as the collage. I could almost smell the steel and oil as this downloaded. I know the smell well. My Dad would come home from work and hug me when I was a little girl. He always smelled like this. Thanks for the memory.

What a wonderful collage...never would have thought of shooting tools. They have a special strength and elegance all their own.