Sign of financial crisis and end of the Celtic Tiger economy, half-finished new housing at Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, Ireland

Sign of financial crisis and end of the Celtic Tiger economy, half-finished new housing at Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, Ireland

Panama hats, half-finished in factory, Cuenca, Ecuador, South America, America

Kathakali dancer with half-finished make up, Chuvanna Thaadi mask, Kerala, southern India, Asia

Skyoffice, high rise office building with construction crane, half finished glass facade, building site, Kennedydamm, Duesseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

SRL leather processing factory. Considered the best leather processing factory for quality and innovation in the world. Employs 2500 people. Processes untreated hides through to finished tanned and treated hides ready to be purchased by manufacturers of clothing, footwear, automative industry. The huge drums pictured in background of photo contain leather hides being processed and softed, in the foreground workers seen "splicing" or cutting in half the thickness of treated hide.