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I've taken photos of this abandoned barn before, but i'm fascinated with the way it looks. It seems to change color with the weather.
On the road near Yamhill, Or.
Over decades of rainfall, the calcium is being leeched from the old crumbling concrete, creating these little abstractions.
Second floor of abandoned and decayed City Trust and Savings Bank (est. 1918)
Campbell, OH
The bank that occupied the first floor was frequented by steel workers at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company.
Around 1977, almost all the steel mills in the area (at one time steel mills lined 60 miles of the Mahoning River) closed down. More than 5,000 workers lost their jobs and the bank eventually closed. A dry cleaning company then occupied the first floor. Now, it is possible to visit the second floor of the bank which had been occupied by dentists, an X-ray company, the steel workers' union, and other businesses. (See below for info about tours.)
This bank building is close to the Sheet and Tube Company Homes in Campbell, Ohio, which were constructed from pre-fab concrete from 1918 to 1920. The community is now designated as an historic site. A few of the homes are still occupied, but most are abandoned and in ruins. I will be posting photos of tis site in my Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company Homes albums. (My albums are mostly in alphabetical order so that album will be on the last page of my albums.)
The site is open for tours on Sunday afternoons. You need to make reservations. For 4 hours, the cost is $20 which goes to the preservation of the site. You must sign a waiver of liability because some of the site is littered with trash, has steep steps, etc. You will be warned to look before each step and also that stairs or floors might be dangerous. (See ironsoup.com for more info on arranging a tour.)
See the album created by the Flickr member who conducts many of the tours: www.flickr.com/photos/148081906@N08/albums/72157694005721354
Sculpture at the entrance of Indochine, a restaurant near Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore.
Hopefully this can sit on their menu cover.
This photo somewho contrasts with the previous photo on my stream. I get sad when I see an old building neglected into ruins.
Carte de visite by an unidentified photographer. The phrase "blossom and decay" occurs frequently in English language writings. The earliest mention on Google Books is Lord Byron's poem "On Man," published in The Pocket Magazine of Classic and Polite Literature, Volume II, 1818. The relevant stanza:
And is life but a fleeting shade?
And man but like an autumn day?
Man, that's so fair, so wondrous made,
Born but to blossom and decay?
This circa 1860s albumen print of a lithograph visualizes "blossom and decay" as a bit of Victorian popular culture in the form of an optical illusion. You may visualize a young man and woman courting against the backdrop of an archway—or a skull.
I encourage you to use this image for educational purposes only. However, please ask for permission.
On a bright overcast day, I ran across this old vintage steam tractor sitting on the edge of a wheat field.
It was miles from the the nearest farm, so a farmer probably left it here as a reminder of the old days.
Near Friend, in Central Oregon
Lit by a Yongnuo 560lll speedlight in a Rogu Flashbender at camera right fired by a YN-560TX Controller
Detail of decaying leaves and needles. J. C. Raulston Arboretum, Raleigh, North Carolina. (Another left-over image from 2013.)
On the edge of Langley Park, this old oak tree is also on the edge of life - in its later stages of decay.