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The rust foreshadows the inevitable future of the rails in St. Thomas. Once the incredibly busy, productive hub of rail commerce in Southern Ontario, there is little here to connect us any longer, and, I feel, the situation will grow bleaker, faster.
Windows and rusted security screens in a neglected storefront in the Old City section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Tenuous Link: went belly-up.
quietly rusting away, steel is but a temporary state, it comes from the earth and to the earth it will return
Rust
Unexplained,
the old shed stands
in the middle of nowhere,
surrounded by bog and marsh,
with swooping, twittering swallows,
and a snipe drumming in the distance.
The collapsing walls
present an array of earth tones,
a masterpiece of rust and corrosion.
Textured by decay,
the corrugations stripe their canvas
with colour and form,
composition perfected
by the exact positioning of nut and bolt,
and the irregular piercings
of ultimate decrepitude.
Within,
the wooden joists
are a man-trap for the unwary,
damply dissolving into green rot,
lit fleetingly by glimmerings of sky.
Take any piece, cut the metal free
from its surroundings,
a few inches square perhaps,
or a foot or two,
or three metres by four,
find fractal-fashioned patterns:
abstract art fit for a trendy gallery:
a far cry from snagged sheep’s wool,
the calling curlew
and the blowing rush.
Runner-up in Quantum Leap’s 5x5 Competition 2010
December 29, 2019
Rockport, Massachusetts
Cape Ann - USA
Photo by brucetopher
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Jetty on the Noosa River, Queensland.
11/30 Rust/burnt orange November, 365 Colours
2015/06 "7 Days of Shooting" "Week #50" "Weathered" "Shoot Anything Saturday" ... one of my favourite weathered photos :-)
Camera: Canon AE-1
Film: Fuji Velvia 50
Lens: Canon FD 50mm f/1.4 SSC
1/60 sec @ f/4
An old, abandoned motorcycle rusting in the humid Hawaiian climate. It was pouring rain, but I had to get this shot. I rushed out and set my aperture, focused and composed the shot, hoping it would turn out. Thankfully, it did. I knew the bright sky would throw off the light meter, so I made a quick estimate and set the appropriate aperture. Gotta love the sunny 16 rule.
Chains & rust.
This stainless steel chain creates an interesting contrast against the rust covered metallic structure on this fishing vessel.
Port Macquarie.
New South Wales.
Australia.
On a walk around the city to see what I may find March 29, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand.
All about our Earthquakes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake
This enormous fishing vessel has been abandoned to the elements at a jetty in Letterfrack, Connemara. The hull is rusted through in places and full of water; it will never sail again. The story is repeated at piers up and down the region, but few of the boats which have been abandoned are quite so large (or so dramatically coloured).
Stopped off at a historical site called Britannia Mines on the way back to Vancouver from Whistler Mountain. The weather cooperated and the late afternoon sunshine brought out the redness in the various rusted machinery on the site. My only regret was I had my Panasonic FZ1000 with me instead of my Canon 5D MK II kit.