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During my drive through some back roads of Iowa, I came across a collection of rusted farm equipment.
It was interesting to walk among them.
This is part of what it looks like a steam boiler. It must have been use as portable mechanical power used in logging back in the day.
July 24, 2016
The rusted remains of a beach chair, lost or left long ago. The iron is oxidizing and waves have rolled its skeleton along the pebbly shoreline for months. Embedded in the frame are rocks and shells and sand that have become part of it.
It was a beautiful piece of natural decay, but an overall eyesore on the pristine beach... so after shooting it, I collected it and disposed of it when we got home.
Nauset Outer Beach
Orleans, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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Week 10: Abandoned
I went for a photo walk around work this week and found some really cool old warehouses and deteriorating studio spaces/buildings. This rusted out AC unit really caught my eye. The building it lives on is real a mish mash of random pipes, cables and things like this AC unit. It's super interesting to look at. Just make sure your tetanus shots are up to date before handling that thing! Yikes!
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Who knows what the original device was but it seems to have been converted to a cart to haul irrigation pipe around the property. It stands out by the bails of piled hay. Days of duty may be bygone. The field beyond don't look too stinkin' good neither. I was told the field needs some serious work. The first crop was usually to grow alfalfa to invest it with nitrogen. The first farm crop ought to be growing champeen soil. It's a can of cake after that. Everything goes into a chipper-shredder, including cottonseed meal, alfalfa, shredded tree limbs, autumn leaves, grass clippings and kitchen leftovers. Pretty soon the soil is primo and will grow anything.
The series slipped over to the horse-drawn implements, as long as I have a long way to go on the genealogy, scanning, retouching and documenting journey that has cost me a couple of months so far, sheesh. My eclipse shots are still languishing on my disc. I suppose that if McIntosh worked his soil, he probably set a field to grass hay or alfalfa that could be baled or stored in the silo for winter feed for his dairy cattle.
The Ag Museum is still open for weekends, including Fridays for a while into fall. It's probably time for a leisurely stroll down to Mac Lake. I loaded up with autumn captures this year in general and accessed the only snow Saturday last winter. As always, it's a great spot for exercise and access to Mac Lake. There is always something more at McIntosh but I won't search today. I apparently can't find everything in a single pass. I like the natural patina of the rusting tones as they were. There is great diversity in those tones.
You could wait for your dreams to come true
But time has no mercy
Time won't stand still for you
Bryan Adams ~ Into The Fire
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Feb. 16, 2025: Photography in Los Alamos, California, emphasizing rust. The community of about 900 is located in the Santa Ynez Valley.
My last rusted amanita this year. I really like the fly agaric mushroom. But most of all, when it dries out and ＂rusts＂ in the forest, and its cap turns a coppery-orange color and deforms in a whimsical way. That’s when it’s at its most beautiful and blends perfectly with the autumn colors. I have a few photos from this year. I＇ll share them this week. Poland, Karkonosze Mountains
I guess an old rusty car is like a cancer victim. Unattended the body is OK but the rust keeps eating it away until it is no longer its former self and not able able to hit the road and get out and enjoy life again.Then one day somebody says "what a waste...that can be restored, all you gotta do is kill the rust and start over again"
Cut to the chase.....my Big C is in remission, hopefully a stem cell transplant will be the restoration....and the road never looked so good again.
thanks everybody for listening and CARING....merc
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This old grain elevator sits near the intersection of IL. routes 34 and 40 between Buda and Manlius,IL.I remember driving by this all my life,my dad bought some feed from this place probably 30 years ago.Things were much simpler then which can be witnessed by its modern counterpart,built just a short distance away along the highway.This has so much more character though!