Photography Forums › Weekly Photography Challenge › Weekly Photography Challenge #697 Decay and Resilience: The Abandoned Structure!
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May 25, 2024 at 10:56 am #525837
TershaKeymaster- https://www.flickr.com/photos/diane_rose/
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@tersha- Posts:19185
Allows Edits? YesStarting a set of ‘The Passage of Time’ with Decay and Resilience : The Abandoned Structure!
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May 25, 2024 at 11:09 am #525838
MichaelParticipant- https://www.flickr.com/photos/93366095@N08/
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@michael- Posts:560
Allows Edits? NoAbandoned house in rural Southern Ohio.

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May 25, 2024 at 2:14 pm #525849
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesRural Ohio

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May 25, 2024 at 4:05 pm #525856
TershaKeymaster- https://www.flickr.com/photos/diane_rose/
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@tersha- Posts:19185
Allows Edits? YesCool shot Pat, the window looks like a painting with a dark frame!
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May 25, 2024 at 9:24 pm #525866
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesYes it does. I wonder who used to sit in that chair….
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May 25, 2024 at 6:16 pm #525863
MichaelParticipant- https://www.flickr.com/photos/93366095@N08/
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@michael- Posts:560
Allows Edits? NoI love this, Pat!
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May 25, 2024 at 9:25 pm #525867
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? Yes@michael thank you. It was so odd being inside (a relative of the former inhabitants took me in)
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May 31, 2024 at 2:19 am #526067
Richard FlapperParticipant- Allows Edits: No
@richard-flapper- Posts:44
No Achievements Yet!
Allows Edits? NoOh wow! Love this shot! The atmosphere!!
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May 31, 2024 at 10:58 am #526082
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? Yes@richard-flapper Thank you so much for your comment, Richard.
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June 1, 2024 at 6:25 am #526107
Great shot, Pat. Love it.
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June 1, 2024 at 7:16 am #526111
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesThanks, Rose Marie
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June 1, 2024 at 9:33 am #526116
AstarothParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/astaroth667
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@astaroth- Posts:676
Allows Edits? NoWow! Very powerful image! Framing, composition… I love it!
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May 25, 2024 at 3:24 pm #525850
Old gangway for workers of the Mill to cross the water

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May 25, 2024 at 4:06 pm #525857
TershaKeymaster- https://www.flickr.com/photos/diane_rose/
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@tersha- Posts:19185
Allows Edits? YesGreat shot Patrick.
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May 25, 2024 at 5:12 pm #525860
Thanks very much Tersha 🙂
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May 25, 2024 at 9:26 pm #525868
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesAnother goodie, Patrick
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May 26, 2024 at 3:18 pm #525890
Thank you Pat 🙂 , i had this shot for ages and tried to re edit it a touch , not sure if it is even still there the whole place was up for redevelopment of new homes.
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June 1, 2024 at 6:28 am #526108
Great image, Patrick, of what I might call a covered bridge.
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May 25, 2024 at 3:30 pm #525851
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? Yes
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May 27, 2024 at 9:30 am #525915
bethParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/naught.figs/
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@loki- Posts:3427
Allows Edits? Nolove this. perfect dof.
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May 27, 2024 at 12:51 pm #525922
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesThank you Beth
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May 25, 2024 at 4:13 pm #525858
TershaKeymaster- https://www.flickr.com/photos/diane_rose/
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@tersha- Posts:19185
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May 25, 2024 at 5:07 pm #525859
I remember ringing my dad many times from one of these to come pick me up from a fishing trip haha , was great you could find them even down quiet country lanes 🙂 Nice one Tersha
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May 25, 2024 at 9:28 pm #525869
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesAmazing find – well, for me here it would be…Looks as if one could easily miss this one – is so overgrown.
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May 26, 2024 at 3:15 pm #525889
These Red ones are mostly out of commission now Pat , most have been replaced or took away altogether , most people have a personal phone now so the need for them went down a great deal , one of the things about these very secluded phone boxes that always surprised me was the fact they never got robbed of the cash inside them ( it was good to know things like this down a quiet lane out of sight was left alone ) It was only years and years later someone robbed one and then lots of them got done.
How times have changed 🙁
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May 26, 2024 at 8:23 pm #525900
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesYou are so right about changing times. About 5 years ago we came across a pay phone in a rural part of Maine. It was such a shock to see! Thanks for the explanation and extra info, @patrickw-2 I really enjoy reading about the items.
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May 25, 2024 at 5:52 pm #525861
Some fabulous examples above! Well done everyone.
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May 25, 2024 at 5:53 pm #525862

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May 25, 2024 at 9:29 pm #525870
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesI wonder where the door leads.
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May 25, 2024 at 8:30 pm #525865

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May 26, 2024 at 12:41 am #525877
This look almost steampunk!
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May 30, 2024 at 3:22 pm #526041
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? Yes@rshattil I’ve been looking at this ever since you posted it, Click. I’ve never seen anything like it before. Looks like a wonderful catch, but what did you “catch”?
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May 31, 2024 at 2:22 pm #526094
This is one of the ruins of the fish-canning plant at Taku Harbor, Alaska. It was abandoned in 1947.
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June 1, 2024 at 7:18 am #526112
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesThank you, Click. Interesting.
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May 30, 2024 at 4:23 pm #526049
TershaKeymaster- https://www.flickr.com/photos/diane_rose/
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@tersha- Posts:19185
Allows Edits? YesGreat shot Click, amazing find ….. do you know what it is?
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May 31, 2024 at 2:21 pm #526093
This is one of the ruins of the fish-canning plant at Taku Harbor, Alaska. It was abandoned in 1947.
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May 25, 2024 at 9:33 pm #525871
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesSomebody ran this GMC right into the ground…

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May 25, 2024 at 10:00 pm #525873
That will buff out
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May 26, 2024 at 7:59 am #525882
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesProbably wear a hole in the thin metal trying to buff – LOL. But there are folks who grab these vehicles and use them in restorations.
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May 26, 2024 at 3:21 pm #525891
haha@Click
Nice shot and find Pat
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May 30, 2024 at 4:24 pm #526050
TershaKeymaster- https://www.flickr.com/photos/diane_rose/
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@tersha- Posts:19185
Allows Edits? YesGreat find Pat, cool shot!
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May 26, 2024 at 12:47 am #525878

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May 26, 2024 at 7:59 am #525883
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesLooks very European
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May 26, 2024 at 3:07 am #525881
FrogdailyParticipant- https://www.flickr.com/photos/77592844@N04/albums
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@frogdaily- Posts:3687
Allows Edits? No
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May 26, 2024 at 8:00 am #525884
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesWonder what it looked like “new”.
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May 26, 2024 at 8:46 am #525885
The Red Fort, St. Lucia

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May 26, 2024 at 4:20 pm #525893
TershaKeymaster- https://www.flickr.com/photos/diane_rose/
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@tersha- Posts:19185
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May 26, 2024 at 4:54 pm #525896
These buildings are fascinating. Nice shot!
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May 30, 2024 at 3:23 pm #526042
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesI agree, Holly
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May 30, 2024 at 4:25 pm #526051
TershaKeymaster- https://www.flickr.com/photos/diane_rose/
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@tersha- Posts:19185
Allows Edits? YesThanks Holly.
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May 26, 2024 at 4:21 pm #525894
TershaKeymaster- https://www.flickr.com/photos/diane_rose/
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@tersha- Posts:19185
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May 26, 2024 at 8:25 pm #525901
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesAs someone who has never spent more than a day or two anywhere in the UK, I will admit, this is the image that my mind imagines I’d see (or would have seen a few years ago)
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May 26, 2024 at 8:49 pm #525904
I would love to see what’s behind that door , old furniture and the likes of a time long past , nice find Tersha
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May 30, 2024 at 4:32 pm #526052
TershaKeymaster- https://www.flickr.com/photos/diane_rose/
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@tersha- Posts:19185
Allows Edits? YesHi Pat, a lot of years ago I lived in a house like this. In the middle nowhere, down a track, no electricity or running water. It had been derelict for years and had lost half the roof and part of the back wall. Its hard work doing up a derelict!
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May 30, 2024 at 6:07 pm #526053
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? Yes@tersha That’s something. Our house is young compared to yours, I am sure – a 250 year old farm house. Not derelict but needed sooo much work. And upkeep. I understand exactly what you mean.
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May 26, 2024 at 8:39 pm #525902
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? Yes
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May 26, 2024 at 8:49 pm #525905
Awesome colours and detail
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May 29, 2024 at 9:25 am #525980
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesThanks, patrick
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May 27, 2024 at 2:35 pm #525931
bethParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/naught.figs/
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@loki- Posts:3427
Allows Edits? Nonice!
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May 26, 2024 at 8:41 pm #525903
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesSame chair, different angle, different light

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May 27, 2024 at 9:31 am #525916
bethParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/naught.figs/
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@loki- Posts:3427
Allows Edits? Noiceland
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May 27, 2024 at 9:32 am #525917
bethParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/naught.figs/
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@loki- Posts:3427
Allows Edits? Noidaho. the structure was still there 2 years ago, but it’s in a state of quick decline.
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May 29, 2024 at 9:52 pm #526009
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesLooks to have no neighbors for miles around
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May 27, 2024 at 9:33 am #525918
bethParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/naught.figs/
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@loki- Posts:3427
Allows Edits? Nowyoming. this had some crackhead craziness going on inside.
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May 27, 2024 at 9:36 am #525919
bethParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/naught.figs/
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@loki- Posts:3427
Allows Edits? Nomontana. this one is gone. it had a nasty lean to it when i was out there. i don’t think it lasted another year.
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May 27, 2024 at 1:15 pm #525928
A great find, Beth.
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May 29, 2024 at 9:53 pm #526010
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesWonderfully composed and the sky foreboding
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May 27, 2024 at 5:12 pm #525933

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May 28, 2024 at 10:59 pm #525970
Another 1 bites the dust
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May 28, 2024 at 11:16 pm #525971
@patrickw-2 Maybe it will appear later.
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May 29, 2024 at 10:53 am #525983
Thank you once again for the heads up , still missing on my side .. never mind i have a few others on show 🙂
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May 27, 2024 at 5:37 pm #525934

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May 29, 2024 at 9:55 pm #526011
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? Yes@patrickw-2 so, you were just about to sit there , a few decades ago, and write me a letter??!!
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May 30, 2024 at 9:25 am #526021
Haha yes , this place was in the news two nights ago some vandals set fire to parts of this old mill and the fire service had to mobilise a fair few trucks to the scene.
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May 30, 2024 at 3:30 pm #526043
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesAre there efforts there as there are here, to re-purpose the mills?
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May 30, 2024 at 4:21 pm #526048
Yes indeed Pat , this work has been ongoing for a long time but the developers have recently been asked to start get things moving from local MP and others , this is not the first fire in this old mill it always happens this time of year ( Hot weather and young ones out of school ) Every summer the same thing happens on our hills and mountains destroying so much wildlife and landscape with deliberate fires and it is always when the wildlife have new young they are trying to raise.
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May 30, 2024 at 6:10 pm #526054
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? Yes😥
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May 27, 2024 at 5:40 pm #525935

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May 29, 2024 at 9:56 pm #526012
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesWonder what is on the other side of the window.
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May 30, 2024 at 9:38 am #526022
This was another door on this place , must have been a house of love 🙂

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May 30, 2024 at 3:31 pm #526044
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesVery unique
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May 28, 2024 at 4:33 pm #525961
TershaKeymaster- https://www.flickr.com/photos/diane_rose/
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@tersha- Posts:19185
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May 28, 2024 at 6:09 pm #525965

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May 28, 2024 at 9:02 pm #525966
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May 30, 2024 at 3:35 pm #526045
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesMarch of the turbines – nice patterns
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May 29, 2024 at 10:04 am #525982

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May 29, 2024 at 9:58 pm #526013
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesQuite a find, Rose Marie
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June 1, 2024 at 6:34 am #526109
Thanks, Pat. I took this in an abandoned dwelling somewhere in India.
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May 29, 2024 at 11:44 am #525984
I shot the decayed wall and flower growing in the verge but felt it needed something extra. As Banksy wasn’t available that day I created my own mural in Photoshop/Firefly and composited it in. Hope that’s OK. If not I’ll remove my post with apologies.

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May 29, 2024 at 2:14 pm #525985
Hi @heather-s-2 , just a heads up, on my side i cannot see your photo it looks like it never uploaded ? , look forward to seeing it 🙂
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May 31, 2024 at 4:35 pm #526101
I see it now , lovely work on your edit 🙂
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June 1, 2024 at 6:37 am #526110
This is a fabulous image, Heather. Great frame and creativity.
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May 29, 2024 at 4:42 pm #525992
TershaKeymaster- https://www.flickr.com/photos/diane_rose/
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@tersha- Posts:19185
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May 29, 2024 at 9:59 pm #526014
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesYou can even see little memories of what “used to be” on the window sills….
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May 29, 2024 at 10:05 pm #526015
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesGhosts of the past – the hospital at Ellis Island (an island between lower Manhattan and Jersey City, NJ), the first stop for many immigrants.

A photographic mural of some who passed through this hospital on their way to a place they often did not know to begin a new life.

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May 30, 2024 at 3:42 pm #526046
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesLocal barn, once part of a sprawling farm – now, gone. (Wires were purposefully left in. At one time the barn was “well connected” to the community)

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May 30, 2024 at 9:59 pm #526058
I shot this when i was only about 3 months into my photography journey 2019 , go easy haha.

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May 31, 2024 at 2:25 am #526068
Richard FlapperParticipant- Allows Edits: No
@richard-flapper- Posts:44
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Allows Edits? NoGreat shot Patrick. It makes you wonder, what happened there?
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May 31, 2024 at 9:54 am #526073
Hi thanks very much Richard , much appreciated mate 🙂
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May 31, 2024 at 11:03 am #526083
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesReally like this @patrickw-2. The lighting, mystery, and all the unanswered questions.
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May 31, 2024 at 12:00 pm #526091
Thank you very much Pat 🙂
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May 31, 2024 at 10:53 am #526077
bethParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/naught.figs/
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@loki- Posts:3427
Allows Edits? Nond. a bit different from my usual style
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May 31, 2024 at 11:05 am #526084
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? Yes@loki It looks so lonely and makes me wonder how far the parishioners would have to travel to get there. Seems so isolated…
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May 31, 2024 at 2:39 pm #526095
bethParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/naught.figs/
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@loki- Posts:3427
Allows Edits? Noit was in a small town. maybe a 3×3 grid of streets and houses. one or two looked like they were still lived in. outside of that town there were a few large farms that were still being farmed. and then nothing.
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May 31, 2024 at 10:54 am #526078
bethParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/naught.figs/
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@loki- Posts:3427
Allows Edits? Novirginia
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June 2, 2024 at 7:10 pm #526161
Photos can certainly bring forth emotions!
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May 31, 2024 at 10:55 am #526079
bethParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/naught.figs/
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@loki- Posts:3427
Allows Edits? Nonorth dakota. this is another church that’s gone.
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May 31, 2024 at 10:56 am #526080
bethParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/naught.figs/
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@loki- Posts:3427
Allows Edits? Noand another in north dakota. if this one isn’t gone, it will be soon. last time i was there, one side of the building was completely sunken in.
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May 31, 2024 at 10:57 am #526081
bethParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/naught.figs/
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@loki- Posts:3427
Allows Edits? Noand yet another find in north dakota. i have a lot of photos of the place for there being nothing up there.
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May 31, 2024 at 11:06 am #526085
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? Yes@loki Beth, this was a wonderful series of images.
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May 31, 2024 at 2:52 pm #526096
bethParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/naught.figs/
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@loki- Posts:3427
Allows Edits? No@patography thanks. i love exploring the old buildings in the western states. too bad that many of them are falling down. somehow i doubt that the buildings going up today will have the same decaying majesty when they’re abandoned.
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May 31, 2024 at 11:59 am #526090
This is a beautiful composition
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May 31, 2024 at 2:52 pm #526097
bethParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/naught.figs/
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@loki- Posts:3427
Allows Edits? Nothanks @patrickw-2
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May 31, 2024 at 11:09 am #526086
Pat GarrettParticipant- https://www.instagram.com/patriciaj.garrett/
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@patography- Posts:6059
Allows Edits? YesLast one from me…a repost of an abandoned home in rural New Hampshire

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May 31, 2024 at 4:10 pm #526098
TershaKeymaster- https://www.flickr.com/photos/diane_rose/
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May 31, 2024 at 4:11 pm #526099
TershaKeymaster- https://www.flickr.com/photos/diane_rose/
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@tersha- Posts:19185
Allows Edits? Yes
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