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Goods Way, just behind St Pancras Station, Central London
Within living memory this area was full of the rust that comes with neglect, and it seems that now the area has smartened up and become desirable so has the rust...
"You say these days are made of rust
Counted out
Counted out in loss
I've got plans to prove them wrong"
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In de haven van Helgoland zijn prachtige structuren door roest op de havenpalen door getijdewisselingen en metalen ontstaan.
In the port vanHelgoland its magnificent structures rust harbor piles caused by tidal fluctuations and metals.
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The rails of the former Monon just south of Campbellsburg, Indiana sit rusting away in the warm sun.
This is a close-up photo of seaweed and patterns of rust on an iron panel on the wharf at Port Maitland Beach.
"And the rest is rust and stardust."
Vladimir Nabokov
There is much to appreciate what time wears away. We should also remember to apply that thought to our fellow human beings.
What remains of a 1937 Chevy coupe at Bodie State Historical Park, Bridgeport, California.
Texture Grunge Ipiccy
Rust is the common name for a very common compound, iron oxide. Iron oxide, the chemical Fe2O3, is common because iron combines very readily with oxygen -- so readily, in fact, that pure iron is only rarely found in nature. Iron (or steel) rusting is an example of corrosion.
When a drop of water hits an iron object, two things begin to happen almost immediately. First, the water, a good electrolyte, combines with carbon dioxide in the air to form a weak carbonic acid, an even better electrolyte. As the acid is formed and the iron dissolved, some of the water will begin to break down into its component pieces -- hydrogen and oxygen. The free oxygen and dissolved iron bond into iron oxide, in the process freeing electrons.
The chemical compounds found in liquids like acid rain, seawater and the salt-loaded spray from snow-belt roads make them better electrolytes than pure water, allowing their presence to speed the process of rusting on iron and other forms of corrosion on other metals.
This is a photo of iron rust stains that have seeped out of a coastal rock in a pattern that remarkably resembles a sketch of the human figure.
Another shot from Dungeness. Initially I posted around 5 of 100 or so shots taken at that time and promptly forgot about them. My personal challenge is to go through all those 'awkward' photographs from my visit and post them.
In this connection, I have been overwhelmed by the interest and encouragement from Flickr friends old and new.
To date, two of my Dungeness shots have been invited into the Flickr Group, "Ugly Places all over the world” and I'm wondering whether this rusty container wagon will get an invite?
"Dungeness is quite unique, the power station dominates the skyline, but the area is strangely fascinating with its quirky buildings and converted railway carriages. It is shingle beach and debris from the fishing boats is evident. The bleakness has its own attraction. The otherwise flat and exposed landscape is punctuated by two lighthouses."
“and in the end it all just turns to rust and dust”
I wandered up over the brow of a gravelly track, not realising it was a front drive. The white haired woman (Fiona McTaggerty Taggert, without beards) met me as she stepped out of her elderly Hyundai. She explained the rusty old truck was her son's. He's now 50 if she remembers rightly and he bought it to do up one day. Somehow that day seems to have slipped by and his dreams of a restored old truck lie rotting away in an out of sight quarry behind the Tioram cafe. She explained some vandals got to it and smashed it up. I imagine it was pristine before that