Yesterday on a corpoarte shoot to a precious metal refining company I got to meet some truely interesting people. We were there to photograph some new machinery, but couldn't resist asking Mark to pose infront of his 778 degree celcius furnace for an 'environmental' portrait! 
Keeper of the furnace...
by Richard Pardon Photography, on FlickrHas given me real inspiration to do a personal series on this in the future. Feel free to click the image to view large on my flickr, and read about the story behind it.
Hopefully once the company has given the go ahead for releasing the pictures, will be able to post some more up.
