Blast Furnace #1, Two tap holes. Tap hole drills and mud guns still installed. I did not want to leave.
Subject for scale. Dual-tap hole setup in a modernized blast furnace. The two hoods sit atop the tandem tap holes, just to the right of myself there is a tap hole drill, used to open the hole and allow slag/steel to drain. In the bottom-right corner is one of the mud guns, used to plug the tap hole.
I'm an engineer by trade, and a photographer by hobby. In the fall of 2007, I bought my first digital SLR, a Nikon D40x, and haven't looked back yet. The majority of my photographic expeditions involve abandoned structures in Western Pennsylvania, but I'm never without my camera while on the road or at a Pirates game, and I have been known to take the occasional photo of a plant.