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Week 10: Abandoned
I went for a photo walk around work this week and found some really cool old warehouses and deteriorating studio spaces/buildings. This rusted out AC unit really caught my eye. The building it lives on is real a mish mash of random pipes, cables and things like this AC unit. It's super interesting to look at. Just make sure your tetanus shots are up to date before handling that thing! Yikes!
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A old DeSoto from the 40's blends with the fall foliage along a Door County road. HDR processed in Photomatix Pro
Who knows what the original device was but it seems to have been converted to a cart to haul irrigation pipe around the property. It stands out by the bails of piled hay. Days of duty may be bygone. The field beyond don't look too stinkin' good neither. I was told the field needs some serious work. The first crop was usually to grow alfalfa to invest it with nitrogen. The first farm crop ought to be growing champeen soil. It's a can of cake after that. Everything goes into a chipper-shredder, including cottonseed meal, alfalfa, shredded tree limbs, autumn leaves, grass clippings and kitchen leftovers. Pretty soon the soil is primo and will grow anything.
The series slipped over to the horse-drawn implements, as long as I have a long way to go on the genealogy, scanning, retouching and documenting journey that has cost me a couple of months so far, sheesh. My eclipse shots are still languishing on my disc. I suppose that if McIntosh worked his soil, he probably set a field to grass hay or alfalfa that could be baled or stored in the silo for winter feed for his dairy cattle.
The Ag Museum is still open for weekends, including Fridays for a while into fall. It's probably time for a leisurely stroll down to Mac Lake. I loaded up with autumn captures this year in general and accessed the only snow Saturday last winter. As always, it's a great spot for exercise and access to Mac Lake. There is always something more at McIntosh but I won't search today. I apparently can't find everything in a single pass. I like the natural patina of the rusting tones as they were. There is great diversity in those tones.
Rusted tractor at Jordan Mill Pond in Washington County, GA.
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A wee bit of rural urban exploration this morning (is that an oxymoron?). There's a wee cottage near my house which has been abandoned, so I had a poke around to see what I could see. Was quite taken with this pale blue paintwork and doorknob, peeling and rusting together.
You could wait for your dreams to come true
But time has no mercy
Time won't stand still for you
Bryan Adams ~ Into The Fire
Explore: Highest position: 299 on Thursday, April 10, 2008
Feb. 16, 2025: Photography in Los Alamos, California, emphasizing rust. The community of about 900 is located in the Santa Ynez Valley.
During my drive through some back roads of Iowa, I came across a collection of rusted farm equipment.
It was interesting to walk among them.
I guess an old rusty car is like a cancer victim. Unattended the body is OK but the rust keeps eating it away until it is no longer its former self and not able able to hit the road and get out and enjoy life again.Then one day somebody says "what a waste...that can be restored, all you gotta do is kill the rust and start over again"
Cut to the chase.....my Big C is in remission, hopefully a stem cell transplant will be the restoration....and the road never looked so good again.
thanks everybody for listening and CARING....merc
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A couple of years ago, I was passing through Smithville, and stopped to check up on the status of the then long-closed, and increasingly derelict, feed mill. The two big silos have continued to corrode and the scabrous rust as well as the lichens continue to expand their presence on the well-faded blue-green (teal?) paint job. The ladder on one of the silos remained, albeit in a very rusted state. The colours still appeal to me and I intend to continue my periodic visits in anticipation of their likely ultimate replacement with more housing. - JW
Date Taken: 2020-02-03
(c) Copyright 2022 JW Vraets
Tech Details:
Taken using a tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with an AF Nikkor 70-210mm 1:4-5.6 lense set to 125mm, ISO100, Daylight WB, Matrix metering, Aperture priority, f/8.0, 1/30. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source file: set final image size to 9000 px high, use the Graduated Neutral Density/GND tool rotated to cover brighter right silo and darken that area to make it less of an attraction to the eye as well as better balancing its tonality with the right silo, increase contrast and Chromaticity (slightly) in L-A-B mode, recover shadow detail by using the Shadows/Highlights tool, slightly boost black level, further boost contrast and reduce saturation, slightly, sharpen edges only, save. PP in free Open Source GIMP: increase the contrast and slightly darken the frame using the contrast/brightness tool, add a transparent layer above the image layer and use it as a non-destructive dodge/burn layer, darken/burn the right edge to reduce its brightness, sharpen and save, scale image to 6000px high, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3000 px high for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.
Earth, Sand, Rusty fence, Blue sky and Perfect clouds, Oxidized metal
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Left over from a set of hay mow pulleys I photographed several years ago. I took another shot at it because I love the casting detail as well as the rusty texture. This is another 50mm prime lens exercise. It provides a great quality shot. The EF Myers Company was known for its efficient water pumps but they also manufactured other products for agriculture. www.farmcollector.com/equipment/history-f-e-myers-and-bro/