Shooting photos at the scrap yard

I had loaded my trailer with some scrap metal from an old swimming pool we were replacing, and as I drove past the garage, I stopped, ran inside, and grabbed my Nikon F3HP camera loaded with Kodak TMAX-400 film and a 50mm F1.2 Nikkor lens. My wife Kay said “Why do you need your camera? I thought you were going to the scrap yard.”

I told Kay “Because I am going to the SCRAP YARD!!!”

I was like a little kid going to the toy store. I knew some good pictures lay ahead, and I felt they would be perfectly captured on Kodak film.

A giant crane with a claw grabs junk metal from a huge pile and places it into a large metal shredder for recycling.
A truck tire at Standard Steel and Metal is stuffed full of rags to hold its shape. The truck never leaves the scrap yard so this works.
A track loader with a magnetic attachment grabs shredded steel from a pile by turning on the magnet, then released the shredded steel into the train car by turning off the magnet. At Standard Steel and Metal scrapyard on Reno Avenue just east of downtown Oklahoma City.

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