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Taken by Robin.Messer
Was getting a bit desperate so I just nipped out this evening and took this! It's the park near our house in Bathampton. Certainly deserted but maybe not desolate.
In a world abandoned and scarred by the Great Catastrophe, the few remaining analogue humans and robots traverse a landscape of lost glory and silent stories. This image captures a moment in their journey, a snapshot of resilience and unspoken bonds in the aftermath of the Great Exodus.
Poem
In the hush of a forsaken world,
Where echoes of laughter have long unfurled,
Lies the husk of a planet, once so bright,
Now a canvas of shadows, devoid of light.
Through the ruins, they walk - the steel and the flesh,
In a ballet of survival, their stories mesh.
Ghosts of a past, where hope once dwelled,
In the hearts of the lost, silently swelled.
Amidst the rubble of dreams, they seek,
A new dawn, a whisper, a future to speak.
For in this world of despair and sorrow,
Lies the seed of a new 'morrow.
Haiku
Whispers in ruins,
Hope glints in steel and flesh paths -
New dawn in old world.
Knowledge wasn't on the list of major necessities on this trip. I planned on dropping by Lake Tahoe, waking up and hiking to Lake Aloha one morning. The reality of it was that mid May is not the month to plan a hiking trip in the Desolation Wilderness at Lake Tahoe. Snow is everywhere. I might have made it a mile through the snow and realized there was no trail to follow and I wasn't going to reach any of the lakes I had planned on achieving. The consolation prize was the waterfalls in this wilderness that were created from the heavier snow fall melt off.
I was particularly mesmerized by this waterfall and tryed to capture its beauty as it flowed off of the rocks. By the time I shot it the sun was a bit to intense but I salvaged what I could of the scene and spent some extra time soaking in its beauty with my eyes.
Mangroves sticking up out of the beach at Tanjung Sepat, Malaysia, offer a quiet calm and desolate feeling when rendered in B&W.
Desolation Sound Aug 2008
Desolation Sound Aug 2008
desolation sound aug 2008
desolation sound aug 2008
rain melting the last snow of spring beside the highway. this shot reminds me of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album, partly because it looks like the cover art, but mostly because it evokes the same feeling of desolation. I find it interesting how desolation sometimes makes us realize who we are and what we need.
For you glam rock fans, it's near Desolation Boulevard. Actually I shot this for the latest Utata Weekend Project, "Depopulated Landscapes". I figured only a fool would be up at the crack of dawn on a Sunday and I was right.
Yashica Mat EM, loaded with Fomapan 200, developed in Fomadon Excel for 6 minutes, with 30 seconds initial agitation followed by 10 agitations every minute after.
Press "L" to activate teleportation device.
From Wikipedia:
The Salton Sea is a saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault in California's Border Region. The lake occupies the lowest elevations of the Salton Sink in the Colorado Desert of Imperial and Riverside Counties in Southern California. Like Death Valley, it is below sea level; currently, its surface is 226 ft (69 m) below sea level. The deepest area of the sea is 5 ft (1.5 m) higher than the lowest point of Death Valley. The sea is fed by the New, Whitewater, and Alamo rivers, as well as agricultural runoff drainage systems and creeks. More. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_sea )