Antique tractor at an auction yard.

Polaroid Week Day Three

Polaroid Instant Lab

Reclaimed Blue film

soaked for awhile

This image was composed while hiking in the Big Morongo Canyon Preserve in Southern California. The typical hiker - new to the canyon - will be shocked to see this rusted-out car sitting there, in the middle of wild and forbidding terrain.

A local newspaper once profiled the sight, describing a poor post-war Ford lying in the canyon. "Unfortunately it has seen better days. Not only was it pushed off the cliff above, a huge rock fell on it, every piece of trim has been stripped off, and it was used for target practice."

An interesting human element on a walk in wild nature.

Rusting in Montreal, Qc

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

A downspout on a century-old building

Quadra Island, British Columbia

Nikon D90

Tamron 24-70 Asph.

Gitzo Series 2 Tripod

Heathfield House and Garden, Croydon.

rust like sunset, Marseille

Rusty car panel....

Drukkerijstraat, Antwerp

This is a B&W photo of rust stains on the side of a furnace oil tank that suggest strange marine lifeforms.

I loved the tones of this old barrel, found in a re-created ghost town at Three Valley Gap, BC.

Macro Mondays: Rust

Oops. I messed up the original image. Here it is again.

Crazy Tuesday

This is an iron decoration attached to a single flower vase.

The part shown in the photo is approximately 5 cm in total.

I took a photo of the rusted part at pedestal.

For Macro Mondays

Theme:Rust

Metal ring of diameter of 2,2cm.

Have a great week, my friends!

HMM!

Wedderburn, rural Victoria.

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This is a close-up photo of seaweed and patterns of rust on an iron panel on the wharf at Port Maitland Beach.

Thanks to all who stop to look and comment. I will be sure to look at your photostream and leave a comment

Fleetwood Walkabouts

This is a close-up photo of patterns of rust on an iron panel on the wharf at Port Maitland Beach. There is a suggestion in the bluish shape of a pareidolia portrait profile.

Rural letter boxes are my theme for today. You see, I have a firm belief that people living in rural areas have far too much time on their hands, and this leads to time-wasting and the construction of frivolous letter boxes like the ones posted here today. You will see them along the highways and country roads all over Australia. This rusted tractor is a fine example of a job half done; not a drop of paint to be seen as it rusts way beside a country road. Mind you, a bush fires swept through a week earlier, everything was burned but the letter box.

Collecting syrup the old-fashioned way.

Day 83 - Complimentary Colours

I thought this rusty owl was rather fun and it went very nicely with the lime colours of the foliage.

Taken during the beginning of our sea trip. The port has a beautiful view of both the ocean and the mountains far inland. The platform apparently is not being used anymore, but is left there to be exposed to the elements.

rusted

Hove seafront... HBM!

Details of the remains of a Dutch hoe returning to the earth.

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