Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Technically Perfect

Photo From Here
Man what a beautiful automobile. Gorgeous metal work and those big drum brakes are just too much. Especially mated up to the wire wheels with the knock-offs.

And the photograph? Razor sharp focus with excellent depth of field. In fact, the depth of field seems to fade away at just about the same rate as the light does. Excellent shadow detail without blowing out the highlights on the nose of the car. For a fan of B&W photography and open wheel race cars such as myself, this is one great photograph.

Now down to a little business. My weekly e-mail from the American Welding Society had a  blurb about a charter school that opened up a manufacturing lab that includes welding machines.They also had an update on several other schools that are reopening or updating welding programs, an article on why jobs are hard to fill, and a story on Berkshire Community College offering a free course to those interested in manufacturing. All the things I've been addressing recently were hit in one e-mail. How 'bout that? Free college education, charter schools including the trades in their curriculum, the hard and soft skills required to be a good employee, and a good article about 3D printing for prototyping. If you had looked at all the articles in the AWS e-mail, you would have noticed a lot of business and industry cooperating with education in order to address the issues and work up the solutions. That's a good sign. If they can keep all of the government red tape out of the loop, might see some real progress in both education and manufacturing.

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