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Taken with a infrared converted camera at 48mm focal length.
This is the parking area around the Summit Sporting complex at Mt Barker , South Australia.
I just rotated the photo 90 degrees to give a different perspective and then cropped to suit
dirty old negative scanned on dirty old flatbed.
again more familiar themes that i have been obsessed with for many years!
to clarify the only processing on these is exposure, brightness and clarity. the grime is all for realsies!
Actually, just a local parking garage that used to be a retail store. The old "Metro" sign was installed to give a trendy touch to this downtown Abilene area.
Camera: Yashica Electro 35 GSN with 45mm f1.7 Yashinon lens. www.flickr.com/photos/194048042@N06/51827632888/in/album-...
Film: Fomapan 200, 35mm
Developing: Caffenol-C
Se acaba el tema amarillo en la vuelta al mundo, no he participado mucho, pero al ver este parking me he acordado.
Main parking at Lille train station & Westfield shopping mall. A desolated place now with all the covid-19 restrictions in place
High Contract BW mode
A class 1 local freight on an old school traditional branch line is one of my favorite subjects and this is one of the best so here's another wider take..
Having finished pulling empties at Win-Waste CSXT local L004 out of Framingham has moved up a half mile to Teknor-Apex just south of the Marguerite Ave crossing at about MP QBU 5.2 on CSXT's Fitchburg Secondary, a former New Haven (originally Old Colony Railroad) route. They left their train of 18 empty gons on the branchline main down by the big new trash customer and then gathered up 18 empties from the three track stub ended yard there. Having dropped their empties on the branch main they are now running thru the parking lot to switch out and pull an empty from Teknor before continuing on up to the runaround where they will drop their train then run back light to spot up the empties they left down by Win-Waste.
To learn some history of this old school meandering 30 mile long branchline check out the long caption with the earlier post in this series.
Leominster, Massachusetts
Friday May 10, 2024
Ok, so maybe not "Paradise", that's a different national park, but I am always fascinated to some degree about the interaction between human and natural infrastructure in such places. I am never really sure whether to think of such mixes as beachheads, toeholds, necessary incursions, unnecessary incursions, something to be thankful for, or something to be regretful of. It is always a weird mix. Without the roads and parking, there is a good chance I myself would never be able to see such views, nor would so many others. Then again the access granted to such places increases their popularity which just places more and more strain on them. Then again, without that protection and limits on access there is a good chance they would have been fully commercially developed for their perceived tourism value and it would look much worse than it does. The way that we humans treat (and consume) the natural world around us is a complicated mix. Being able to visit, and be exposed to, such beautiful vistas no doubt engenders a greater appreciation for the value of preserving such places. Then again each visiting person is an opportunity for pollution, littering, going off trail and damaging the landscape footfall by footfall. We can simultaneously learn to care about these places and not really care about them. Be in awe of them but also slowly erode them.
These thoughts, and this image, are neither in support of nor condemnation of how we visit and interact with these places. For my thoughts on the matter are far larger and more complicated than I have the time or inclination to type out here. But that is why I am sometimes drawn to making images such as this, it is an effort at some degree of self-awareness regarding what my presence here means, as well as that of all my fellow visitors. There is no easy answer but sometimes the best thing you can do is to just think on these things.
Horseman SW612
Kodak Ektar 100
Brutalist parking garages, especially at night, remind me of the set of "Blade Runner."
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