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The kitchen at the style and decay house was found with this setup leading to the possibility that it's abandonment was pretty sudden. That this odd place has escaped vandalism for probably 10years or more is amazing. What it has not escaped-decay. About 10 feet behind this scene, the first floor has carved in....
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This place has been on my list to shoot for a very long time and yesterday I finally made the trek up to it.
When I finally got here the sky was not very great but the sun was coming up and lighting the house perfectly so I made the long walk up to it. I spent quite a bit of time here hoping for a few clouds to show and after almost 2 hours I got a few whipsy clouds! Good enough to add some texture to the sky.
I'm glad I stuck it out for as long as I did! This was one of the very first places that stood out to me that I had seen on a number of my flickr contacts pages when I first joined. This one was inspired by a few of my favourite contacts, unfortunately some aren't active anymore but for those who are go check them out:
Jim, Alison, Ray, Hugh, Nelson, Darren , Caroline and Andy
Thanks for the inspiration!
The Great Blue Heron when standing knee-deep in murky water hunting for careless fish can often appear almost like caricature of a pre-historic creature. It has curves where no bird should curve and long, bony knees that look like hollow straws with claws at one end.
But when they are airborne they take on another dimension, one of grace and if caught in good light, a surprising amount of color.
In our area, I have never seen a heron winter over but bird experts say some do in the far southern parts of our state or where there are open waters such as around power plants or on parts of the Mississippi River that are ice-free.
Herons are well-known for their ability to pause in place, sometimes for minutes, before striking with lightning speed to capture the object of their hunt.
Though best known as great fishers, they do add other things to their diet. During their summers here in Minnesota they can eat snakes, frog, insects, small mammals and even small ducklings. Gophers and voles also have to be very wary around herons.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
This beaver appeared to have Detective Peter Falk’s trademark phrase on the show Columbo down "Just one more thing" as he was about to bid my wife and I farewell earlier this week.
As we rounded a wooded area surrounding a hobby farm, we drove along the shoreline of a large wetland pond. As I slowly drove, I noticed this fellow about 15 yards away swimming parallel to our vehicle and keeping a steady, though beady, eye on us.
But his curiosity got the better of him and after about 30 yards of swimming next to the road, he climbed out of the water and sloshed up on the road where we had parked enabling me to take a few shots.
I might have heard an urgent cry from somewhere in our vehicle when I was exhorted to shut the window, bringing about a retort that I knew somebody who had watched too many Walt Disney programs years ago when animals like beavers could fly.
The beaver came within about 6-8 feet of our vehicle, probably the closest I will ever be to a beaver in my lifetime although that is not a stretch of the imagination anymore in view of my age.
It helps to be an old codger to remember the TV show Columbo as it surfaced way back in 1968 and for a time captured a healthy audience across our country.
Falk, who had lost an eye to cancer when he was three years old, starred in Columbo for over 7 years and recently the show reruns have been regaining popularity with a younger audience who weren’t alive when it was first on television.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
This picture was taken in downtown Yangon, Myanmar, my home city. My photo is titled Behind Colonial Walls because we see what is literally behind colonial walls. Many buildings in downtown Yangon, such as these, were buildings built by the British during colonial-era. The style and decay of these buildings make them easily identifiable as colonial structures (note the balcony style of the third building, whereas the other two have been renovated). Although these buildings are 200 years old, the Burmese continue to live in them. What is reflective of the issue of “development” in this picture is the blatant contrast between the satellite dishes and the state of the buildings. The satellite dishes belong to Skynet, a Burmese satellite television TV operator. The majority of denizens of these buildings come from lower middle to working class families. Yet the affordability of a satellite dish would typically reflect the opposite of their socioeconomic conditions. Many communities in Myanmar live this way – people prefer to have access to televisions and cellphones before they have access to basic services. The ability to secure these things reflect development, progress, modernization, and an exit from a military dictatorship to the Burmese people even if it meant they could procure these things at the cost of basic necessities. This image represents SDG 11 because it depicts how rapid urbanization and development bring a lot of challenges if they are not directed the right way. Even if people had satellite dishes and cellphones, the country still remains a LDC. Slums continue to persist and people still do not have access to food, water, education, medical care, and electricity (ironically despite the fact that they may own television satellites). This in fact increases socioeconomic disparities within communities because not only is development not occurring, it is occurring in the wrong direction. Credit: ESCAP/Winnie Thaw
This must be oldest warehouse I have ever been in. It must have been at least a thousand years old, judging from the style and decay from rain.
I was standing on the veranda of a spring distributor, who probably sold mostly to ship builders.