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Mother Nature does her work year round. She has been at this log since the 1980's. I know since I worked at the district and had to cut this tree up. We left it for nature to do as she does.
We we go on an urban exploration adventure, we love to take photographs of all the old rusty & decayed things we find. Like this thing...
Number 54 for 120 Pictures in 2020:I Forgot Day
I have been watching the fungi develop on a big tree stump near me, and forgot to get some more photos before this one started to decompose. I think something small is eating it!
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I had a little time to spare this morning before work so i quickly took some shots in the hope to capture a good shot. Finally just got home and after playing with the layers thought id try to do a old effect with the photograph. Not a great picture but i like the effect. Now im off to bed. :(
Night guys.
America's Third World
By Scott Beveridge,
MONESSEN – A row of boarded-up houses sits among weeds on a hilltop street overlooking what used to be a thriving steel mill in this hardscrabble city.
The white-frame houses mirror many other run-down, pre-World War II dwellings that dot the streets in Monessen, abandoned in the rush to leave town after the steel industry collapsed two decades ago.
“The town’s a disaster,” said resident Cassandra Vivian, who runs a local museum dedicated to its industrial heritage.
“We’ve just been beaten to death here. We just can’t rise above the mire,” said Vivian, a former professor of English research at the American University at Cairo, Egypt.
Monessen’s problems are not unique in Southwestern Pennsylvania’s rust belt, which stretches for more than 130 miles along the Monongahela and Ohio river valleys.
Whether it be Monessen, Donora, Homewood, Hazelwood or as far down the rivers as Aliquippa in Beaver County, all of the old steel towns now are littered with musty-smelling, decaying buildings and plagued by poverty, dwindling populations and unemployment, Vivian said.
“It’s like we’re living in another world,” she said. “This is the Third World of America. It really breaks your heart, and I don’t have an answer.”
“It’s depressing,” added Mary Leitao of Timonium, Md., while showing a reporter around her hometown of Aliquippa, built around a sprawling Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. operation.
During college, she worked on summer breaks at what was the largest steel mill in the region, having stretched for four miles and at its height employed 17,000 steelworkers. When she was a girl, children road their bicycles to a beautiful and bustling downtown. They looked forward to pony rides each summer at the annual merchant festival named Rodeo Days, she said.
“It was an idyllic life. Really, it was,” Leitao said.
Locals, as well as historians and economists, have offered many theories behind the demise of the mills, which produced war machines to help win World Wars I and II, as well beams to brace nearly every bridge in the United States.
Some say the industry met its death because the corporations didn’t reinvest in the furnaces, many of which dated to the early 1900s. Others have said union labor costs grew too high for the companies to compete with foreign labor.
The industry has shed blame on federal environmental laws that were enacted following the infamous 1948 Donora smog that was attributed to stagnant weather and a dirty U.S. Steel Corp. zinc mill. The event made world headlines as more than 20 people died, gasping for their breath in what became the nation’s worst air pollution disaster.
Donora has been “more fortunate” than some of the municipalities because its mill site was retooled into an industrial park, said the borough’s mayor, John Lignelli. While the park has earned the borough tax income, it employs a small fraction of the workforce that produced steel.
Donora’s mills began closing in the late 1950s, making history as the first major mill shutdown in the nation. The legacy could be found in this summer’s judicial tax sale that saw more than 50 vacant, abandoned Donora lots being sold at auction for $250 apiece to out-of-state land speculators.
Also missing from these towns are industrial giants and take-charge mill supervisors who were elected to government positions to guide municipal development.
“The mills controlled everything,” said Augie Carlino, president and chief executive officer of Rivers of Steel Heritage Corp. in Homestead. The organization was created in a 1990 act of Congress to provide grant money to preserve the history of steel-making.
“You had that paternalistic approach to running things,” Carlino said. “The capacity of these small towns to take on the challenges, to face these challenges, is just not there.”
Decay theory states that when something new is learned, a neurochemical, physical "memory trace" is formed in the brain and over time this trace tends to disintegrate, unless it is occasionally used.
An abandoned International farm truck is at rest in the front of Dufer's grain elevators.. It's age is about 1937-38. Central Oregon
Architectural Salvage
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Different wreck at Pin Mill in Suffolk, Fascinating place with loads to look at I've only been here twice once tide in once tide out and took 3 different cameras over the course of two trips.
Looking at the 16 mega pixel Pentax K5 llS, a 24 mega pixel Nikon D7100 and the full frame Nikon D800E.
If anyone knows of any similar places to this in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk please leave a comment I would love to visit all of them.