This cute little face was so dirty, but still fun.

I had to laugh when one of my friends said she noticed that everyone else was watching the glass blower and my camera was pointed away from her at the wall.  There were cute little items made of glass here and there on the walls and most had been there for years and were dusty.  They made me smile.

dangling in the blowing studio

These little guys were on a utility box in the glass blowing studio

Another piece on the utility boxes in the blowing studio

I also enjoyed the age of the building,

an open window in the oldest part of the factory which made scissors. I loved the age of the building and the rusty view.

the equipment that had been in use for decades,

cullet barrels that hold the scraps that are saved and can be remelted and reused.  These are some barrels who have gotten many decades of use.

cullet in a barrel

bins for glass recipe ingredients

and tools.

texture rollers for the sheet glass equipment

I wondered at times which looked better: black and white or color (of which they didn’t have much anyway).

Color pic of carts to move around glass recipe ingredients.

Black and white pic

I hope if you are ever in the Kokomo area (central Indiana), you will make have time to get there and take the tour.

I have a nice camera that I upgraded to last Christmas, so I was anxious to see how I could do with it.  I tried lots of different settings and enjoyed seeing the variety of shots the camera got depending on the settings.  From huge haloing, to red, to fairly detailed when there was hardly anything I could see with the naked eye.

These three are the same photogaph.   The first (above) is pretty true to what I could see.  The second was adjusted for color.   The third was adjusted levels.  I thought it was interesting that it went to red white and blue.  I have decided to call it USA Supermoon Eclipse.

I think the next one is in 2018, so I’ll hope for better weather then.