Weekly Photography Challenge #697 Decay and Resilience: The Abandoned Structure!

[Tersha]

Starting a set of ‘The Passage of Time’ with Decay and Resilience : The Abandoned Structure!
Think about … derelicts, urbex, foreground, storytelling, lighting, permission and safety.

urbex

[Michael]

Abandoned house in rural Southern Ohio.

[Tersha]

Great start Michael!

[Pat Garrett]

Rural Ohio

[Tersha]

Cool shot Pat, the window looks like a painting with a dark frame!

[Pat Garrett]

Yes it does. I wonder who used to sit in that chair….

[Michael]

I love this, Pat!

[Pat Garrett]

@michael thank you. It was so odd being inside (a relative of the former inhabitants took me in)

[Richard Flapper]

Oh wow! Love this shot! The atmosphere!!

[Pat Garrett]

@richard-flapper Thank you so much for your comment, Richard.

[Rose Marie]

Great shot, Pat. Love it.

[Pat Garrett]

Thanks, Rose Marie

[Astaroth]

Wow! Very powerful image! Framing, composition… I love it!

[Patrick]

Old gangway for workers of the Mill to cross the water

[Tersha]

Great shot Patrick.

[Patrick]

Thanks very much Tersha 🙂

[Pat Garrett]

Another goodie, Patrick

[Patrick]

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.

[Rose Marie]

Great image, Patrick,  of what I might call a covered bridge.

[Pat Garrett]

[beth]

love this.  perfect dof.

[Pat Garrett]

Thank you Beth

[Tersha]

Before mobile phones …

[Patrick]

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

[Pat Garrett]

Amazing find – well, for me here it would be…Looks as if one could easily miss this one – is so overgrown.

[Patrick]

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 🙁

[Pat Garrett]

You 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.

[Wendy P]

Some fabulous examples above! Well done everyone.

[Wendy P]

[Pat Garrett]

I wonder where the door leads.

[Click]

[Wendy P]

This look almost steampunk!

[Pat Garrett]

@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”?

[Click]

This is one of the ruins of the fish-canning plant at Taku Harbor, Alaska. It was abandoned in 1947.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2018/07/27/a-marine-state-park-in-southeast-alaska-features-historic-cannery-ruins/

[Pat Garrett]

Thank you, Click. Interesting.

[Tersha]

Great shot Click, amazing find ….. do you know what it is?

[Click]

This is one of the ruins of the fish-canning plant at Taku Harbor, Alaska. It was abandoned in 1947.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2018/07/27/a-marine-state-park-in-southeast-alaska-features-historic-cannery-ruins/

[Pat Garrett]

Somebody ran this GMC right into the ground…

[Click]

That will buff out

[Pat Garrett]

Probably wear a hole in the thin metal trying to buff – LOL. But there are folks who grab these vehicles and use them in restorations.

[Patrick]

haha@Click

Nice shot and find Pat

[Tersha]

Great find Pat, cool shot!

[Wendy P]

[Pat Garrett]

Looks very European

[Frogdaily]

[Pat Garrett]

Wonder what it looked like “new”.

[Wendy P]

The Red Fort, St. Lucia

[Tersha]

[Holly K]

These buildings are fascinating.  Nice shot!

[Pat Garrett]

I agree, Holly

[Tersha]

Thanks Holly.

[Tersha]

[Pat Garrett]

As 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)

[Patrick]

I would love to see what’s behind that door , old furniture and the likes of a time long past , nice find Tersha

[Tersha]

Hi 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!

[Pat Garrett]

@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.

[Pat Garrett]

[Patrick]

Awesome colours and detail

[Pat Garrett]

Thanks, patrick

[beth]

nice!

[Pat Garrett]

Same chair, different angle, different light

[beth]

iceland

https://flic.kr/p/2kqZRca

[beth]

idaho.  the structure was still there 2 years ago, but it’s in a state of quick decline.

https://flic.kr/p/2kqZRjQ

[Pat Garrett]

Looks to have no neighbors for miles around

[beth]

wyoming.  this had some crackhead craziness going on inside.

https://flic.kr/p/2kqZnd3

[beth]

montana.  this one is gone.  it had a nasty lean to it when i was out there.  i don’t think it lasted another year.

https://flic.kr/p/2kqZKWL

[Wendy P]

A great find, Beth.

[Pat Garrett]

Wonderfully composed and the sky foreboding

[Patrick]

[Patrick]

Another 1 bites the dust

[Kenneth Wong]

@patrickw-2 Maybe it will appear later.

[Patrick]

Thank you once again for the heads up , still missing on my side .. never mind i have a few others on show 🙂

[Patrick]

[Pat Garrett]

@patrickw-2 so, you were just about to sit there , a few decades ago, and write me a letter??!!

[Patrick]

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.

[Pat Garrett]

Are there efforts there as there are here, to re-purpose the mills?

[Patrick]

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.

[Pat Garrett]

😥

[Patrick]

[Pat Garrett]

Wonder what is on the other side of the window.

[Patrick]

This was another door on this place , must have been a house of love 🙂

[Pat Garrett]

Very unique

[Tersha]

[Wendy P]

[Tersha]

Sad window Wendy.

[Kenneth Wong]

 

[Pat Garrett]

March of the turbines – nice patterns

[Rose Marie]

[Pat Garrett]

Quite a find, Rose Marie

[Rose Marie]

Thanks, Pat. I took this in an abandoned dwelling somewhere in India.

[Heather S]

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.

[Patrick]

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 🙂

[Patrick]

I see it now , lovely work on your edit 🙂

[Rose Marie]

This is a fabulous image, Heather. Great frame and creativity.

[Tersha]

Window in an old, unused school

[Pat Garrett]

You can even see little memories of what “used to be” on the window sills….

[Pat Garrett]

Ghosts 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.

[Pat Garrett]

Local 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)

[Patrick]

I shot this when i was only about 3 months into my photography journey 2019 , go easy haha.

[Richard Flapper]

Great shot Patrick. It makes you wonder, what happened there?

[Patrick]

Hi thanks very much Richard , much appreciated mate 🙂

[Pat Garrett]

Really like this @patrickw-2. The lighting, mystery, and all the unanswered questions.

[Patrick]

Thank you very much Pat 🙂

[beth]

nd.  a bit different from my usual style

https://flic.kr/p/2kqZni3

[Pat Garrett]

@loki  It looks so lonely and makes me wonder how far the parishioners would have to travel to get there. Seems so isolated…

[beth]

it 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.

[beth]

virginia

https://flic.kr/p/2kqZmKV

[Holly K]

Photos can certainly bring forth emotions!

[beth]

north dakota.  this is another church that’s gone.

https://flic.kr/p/2kqVwBi

[beth]

and 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.

https://flic.kr/p/2kqZgoH

[beth]

and yet another find in north dakota.  i have a lot of photos of the place for there being nothing up there.

https://flic.kr/p/2kqZKSN

[Pat Garrett]

@loki Beth, this was a wonderful series of images.

[beth]

@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.

[Patrick]

This is a beautiful composition

[beth]

thanks @patrickw-2

[Pat Garrett]

Last one from me…a repost of an abandoned home in rural New Hampshire

[Tersha]

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