Rust never sleeps.

I just love the rust colours on this silo, on a nearby farm.

Bisbee, Arizona

Tall metal girder support part of a bridge. The peeling paint and rust bleeding through is quite pretty.

Rusted remains of a dragline excavator used for the creation of Flevoland.

Taken with a Konica Autoreflex T2 and 50mm f1.7 lens on Ilford Delta 100 film.

An old abandoned bridge, once part of the C&O Railway near Millard, Kentucky.

The remains of a dumped car on Blast Beach near Seaham. It has taken over ten years for a full vehicle to be reduced to this strangely beautiful rusting artifact.

A post rusts and the concrete is falling away on the stairs beside the Halifax Campus on NSCC.

Cor-Ten steel panels, Max Gluskin House, Department of Economics, St. George Campus, University of Toronto. Hariri Pontarini Architects. Completed: 2008. Monday 9 February. #3972sppmt

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Neil Young and Crazy Horse's Rust Never Sleeps for the Repackaged by Zero FM group.

Rusted gears controlling a small lock of an artificial pond.

Rusted detail on the front of an old tractor, in a field near Keo, Arkansas.

Rust-Oleum presented their kitchen cabinet and countertop transformation kits during a media event in New Orleans, LA.

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Rim and lid of an old paint can making its way from our basement to the dump.

Should I crop it to remove the bits on the bottom and right that aren't quite in focus? Can't decide...

Rust removal using a solution of oxalic acid.

Rust paintings (etch and paint on steel) by graffiti artist Teach.

close-up of rust

Rust in November

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A 1950s? Albion tanker, slowly rusting away, on a back road north of Ely.

It could, possibly, be an HD57, but there's all that grass in the way.

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Rusting lug on the old coal wagons alongside the river at Hokitika.

Oct. 23, 2012.

At the foot of the parking lot behind my husband's office is a very large steel shed. I've admired the contrast between the fresh young saplings that sprout up along the perimeter and the aging structure. Today the scene was more harmonious as the saplings themselves are turning to rust.

To lend a painterly feel to the scene I flattened the image, added a rust texture layer using luminosity as my blending mode, brought back some structure with a faint line drawing, added a border and finally brought back a bit of contrast. I certainly could have gone the grungy route, but I think a softer touch is more suitable here.

Rusted garden art metal rose at my Home in Seattle, WA. Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T6 on August 30, 2018

Rust on the Casco Bay Bridge walkway

We can measure, we can test it,

We can halt it or arrest it.

We can gather it and weigh it,

We can coat it, we can spray it.

We examine and dissect it,

We cathodically protect it

We can pick it up and drop it.

But heaven knows we'll never stop it!

So here's to rust, no doubt about it,

Most of us would starve without it.