This one isn’t really much of a photography post per se. I love my neighborhood in Chicago for so many reasons, and one reason is that there is an actual goddamn blacksmith just a couple of blocks away from my apartment, and every so often he offers a class, on something of an If You Know, You Know basis. The class I took involved making that bottle opener that’s on top of the anvil, which was the first anvil I ever saw outside of a cartoon.

March 15, 2024. Samsung S20+ cell phone, 5.9mm focal length (35mm equivalent: 28mm), f/2, 1/60, ISO 200.