Funny how things often get missed on a quick edit.
In this job, time is often a luxury which means that perfectly good photos get missed and sit languishing on the back up storage drives. My photo of a steel mill worker is one such photo. The shoot was about one of the workers in particular, not this chap. But I shot it on the hoof anyway because he had an interesting face and like most of them in the mill, an interesting story.

Working in a steel rolling mill is hot, noisy and dangerous work. The chap on my photo is the safety man-it's his job to shut down the furnace if anything goes badly wrong. He has survived a close encounter with molten strip steel himself and lived to tell the tale. While I was there with my assistant Bob there was a problem with red hot steel wrapping itself around the rollers and halting production for several hours. If you can imagine a strip of incandescent metal whipping around, it will give you some idea of the danger. I even experienced it myself when I stood next to what looked like a pile of metal rods. They were not red hot, but the heat coming through the side of my safety boots made me realise they were still capable of burning a hole in the unwary!