Rust and degradation. Details from Old Mill in the Montreal Port.

Reflex-Nikkor 500mm f8

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.

abandoned power plant of a steel manufacturing company

Sunset Beach, Vancouver. November 1, 2020.

rust like sunset, Marseille

This Motorcycle Caught my eye at a shop front in Portugal. I think it needs a bit of oil.

Industrial thing.

flag with a bit post edited rust

Rust

MacroMondays

Bear candle

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

Parts of old agricultural machinery, found in the fields.

What remains of a 1937 Chevy coupe at Bodie State Historical Park, Bridgeport, California.

Texture Grunge Ipiccy

Macro Mondays: Rust

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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.

Raketenstation Hombroich

General Motors Holden FJ production years 1953-1956

Rust, more rust and even more rust, at Dungeness.

Seen better days. I love the crank-turn window handles.

Texture is my own, taken from another old vehicle exterior.

For Shock of the New's Challenge "Rusted"

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

abandoned power plant of a steel manufacturing company

Colourful patterns of rust on an iron panel on the wharf at Port Maitland Beach.

Antique tractor at an auction yard.

This is a photo of rust blisters and streaming rust stains on the side of a metal tank. I love their rather alien and marine quality.

Mamiya 120mm f4 macro on Fujifilm GFX100s with Kipon Focal Reducer

abandoned power plant of a steel manufacturing company

Rust.

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

Another one ticked off my bucket list: the wrecked Plassey on Inis Oirr. I'm sure I'll be coming back here later on with more gear to shoot it again.

A metal goods container in the car park of the local garage is very worn and weathered as the green paint peels back exposing the rusted metal beneath.

Hidden face