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A Pin For Getting Hitched

 I participate in a couple of weekly themed Photo challenges on Flickr.   Once in a while I have a hard time making a picture to follow the theme for Flickr Friday or Macro Monday. The Flickr Friday theme for April 30, 2021 was "Pins".  Two ideas popped into my mind. Dowel pin and Hitch Pin.  Below is hitch pin.  I have a wagon I can haul behind my riding lawn mower.  This is the pin that is used to make the connection between tractor and wagon.  I walked out to where I keep the wagon and took the picture with the back yard as background.  It's one of the top viewed pictures I've posted to Flickr.  Go figure.

ISO 800 1/500 sec. f/4.5 Sigma 70mm DG  DN A Macro

Here is Dowel Pin just as reference.  The table the objects are setting on is a broken TV.  I use this whenever I feel like a low key reflection photo.

0.3750 Dowel Pin

My submission for Macro Mondays only required a change of props.

Exposure 3 sec. f/16 ISO 100  Sigma 70mm Macro DG DN Art. Four image pixl shift.

 

The narrative I placed in the description box: 

In this image is a 5/16-18 T-nut, stud and wingnut, assembled. The item in the background is a 5/8-18 impeller nut. An impeller is a compressor part. This nut was designed to hold the impeller in place. I have this one because there is probably something wrong with it and I kept it as a souvenir. The impeller nut is the ”Payer” because being able to make a whole pile of them well and quickly, as well as many similar things, I was able to feed my kids and pay for a house and indulge myself with an expensive hobby.


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