October Photography Forum Challenge - Graceful Dilapidation

auntietk ( ) posted Sun, 05 October 2008 at 8:57 PM

This house and garage are right across the street from Providence Hospital in Seattle.

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

auntietk ( ) posted Sun, 05 October 2008 at 9:00 PM

Old pilings at Useless Bay on Whidbey Island in Washington State.

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

PD154 ( ) posted Sun, 05 October 2008 at 10:08 PM

David
I enjoyed these shots in your gallery and they absolutely fit here.

Denise, three on the bounce again :)

Tara, love those pillings.

It takes one tree to make a billion matchsticks, but one match to burn a billion trees

tizjezzme ( ) posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 7:07 AM

Omgoodness gracious you guys... this is going wonderfully!!

Ronnie, glad I got your approval. :-)

bill, yours cracks me up!!! What a great laugh, and what a perfect entry for the challenge!!! :)

Shadows, yours is excellent .. love it and perfect!

jeff - AWESOME HDR work!! I love it! It's something i have yet to master... perfect for the challenge as well ... excellent entries.! :)

David, great shots from an old cemetary ... great!

Denise - Awesome entries as well, with the dilapidated mailbox and textures. I think new is boring too :P

Newpy - GREAT find!!

Tara ... moss on the roof - wow, that's actually quite beautiful!!! I have never seen moss on a roof before ... so, nice shot & great entries :)

"The only thing coming straight out of MY camera is the cable!"
P. Vermeulen

tizjezzme ( ) posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 7:09 AM

This is a house not far from where I live ... I drive by it somewhat often, and wonder why they don't just tear it down. maybe they left it up just for me :)

"The only thing coming straight out of MY camera is the cable!"
P. Vermeulen

busi2ness ( ) posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 7:41 AM

Wat op deeske aarde! (That better not be translated) It means "this is awesome!", trust me.

I never cease to be amazed by the creativity and ability to execute a them in photography. Well done everybody.

Piet Vermeulen, South Africa

auntietk ( ) posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 8:49 AM

Shari ... never seen moss on a roof? Wow.

Wow.

Talk about locally exotic. I never would have thought of this image for that challenge, but I guess it is!

We have moss EVERYWHERE! On roofs, in lawns, even along the edges of shady driveways and roads. If people here didn't clean and treat their roofs, ALL our roofs would look like this eventually! I admit this is a very bad case, but it's really everywhere. You know how they say moss grows on the North side of trees? Out here, moss grows on the North side of EVERYTHING!

Look at Denise's mailbox pic.

Moss!

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

gunsan ( ) posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 10:09 AM

One of my absolute favourite places in my little village. Equally beautiful each season. Wintertime the icicles hang everywhere. I just wonder when it was alive and working.

gunsan ( ) posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 10:11 AM · edited Mon, 06 October 2008 at 10:11 AM

I need three shots to show the whole of it. Here nr 2

gunsan ( ) posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 10:12 AM

The last view of it.

tizjezzme ( ) posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 12:13 PM

I love moss ... I see it all over in our woods... and on my rock walls out back .. where its moist and stuff. :) but on a roof? NEVER! It's so pretty! lol

great entries Gun :) Great to see you participate in all the fun :)

Piet ... sorry, but i'm heading to bablefish now ... to my fav translator. :) lol

"The only thing coming straight out of MY camera is the cable!"
P. Vermeulen

tizjezzme ( ) posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 12:15 PM

"This is awesome" Pfft !!!!! It means VAT DE HECK IS DEES!!!! LOL nice try bucko :-*

"The only thing coming straight out of MY camera is the cable!"
P. Vermeulen

JeffG7BRJ ( ) posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 12:48 PM

An old cotton mill now divided into different units, this side just left to rot.

Keep em coming folks theres some great pics on here and still out there.

tizjezzme ( ) posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 1:46 PM

Good one Jeff ... !! :)

"The only thing coming straight out of MY camera is the cable!"
P. Vermeulen

ShadowsNTime ( ) posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 1:59 PM

Gosh what a great bunch of pictures! Thanks to Shari and Ronnie! Heres another...this is an old drinking fountain in the basement of the house that I like in, there is no pipe attached at the bowl but the fountain still works and the water is ice cold! Btw, my name is Lynn:-)

busi2ness ( ) posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 2:57 PM

One could easily put together a gallery consisting of all the entries being submitted in here, it would make a most interesting an entertaining collection.

I am going to stretch things a bit submitting a tree I photographed on Saturday in a game reserve.

Oh and btw, am I busted Shari? :rolleyes:

Piet Vermeulen, South Africa

tizjezzme ( ) posted Mon, 06 October 2008 at 9:40 PM

Love the TREE! I saw an awesome dilapidated tree at the park on Saturday; I saw it and KNEW it would be perfect for this challenge; but some dork was tailgating me; and I couldn't stop :-( maybe I'll go back this weekend .. and get it.

yeah .. you're busted alright. lol

"The only thing coming straight out of MY camera is the cable!"
P. Vermeulen

helanker ( ) posted Tue, 07 October 2008 at 7:18 AM

This is from my garden.

auntietk ( ) posted Tue, 07 October 2008 at 8:31 AM

What a great challenge! I'm really enjoying everyone's submissions!

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

bentchick ( ) posted Tue, 07 October 2008 at 9:09 PM

Wow! Everything is so green up there! I have to break it up with a little of our dry forest area okay? This is an old cabin up at the old gold mine in Mammoth Lakes, CA.

Kim Hawkins

Kim Hawkins Eastern Sierra Gallery

bentchick ( ) posted Tue, 07 October 2008 at 9:11 PM

Wow! Everything is so green up there! I have to break it up with a little of our dry forest area okay?
This is an old cabin up at the old gold mine in Mammoth Lakes, CA.

Kim Hawkins

Kim Hawkins Eastern Sierra Gallery

gunsan ( ) posted Tue, 07 October 2008 at 10:06 PM

Sorry we could just post three. othervice I could have given you a self portrait >LOL

PD154 ( ) posted Wed, 08 October 2008 at 6:28 AM

I see some excellent shots coming in here again, another great exciting challenge Shari :)..And I see that my early lunchbreak is coming to a close :(((

It takes one tree to make a billion matchsticks, but one match to burn a billion trees

LovelyPoetess ( ) posted Wed, 08 October 2008 at 10:00 PM

Now I have to 'fess up, when I stumbled across this month's forum tonight I didn't have one that I'd just shot. Soooooooooo here is one taken early this spring.

But I do have a couple places in mind that I'd been meaning to get to, and now I've really got the extra incentive to get out and get those shots. : )

In the words of the Terminator ... "I'll be back!"

They say a picture is worth a thousand words...

So where do they go when a photograph leaves you speechless?

gunsan ( ) posted Wed, 08 October 2008 at 10:33 PM

What a great theme this is. I enjoy every piece, wonderful textures and places. Mother Earth takes back everything man made, like we processing food.

mbz2662 ( ) posted Wed, 08 October 2008 at 10:41 PM

Wonderful photos here.. I am enjoying all the different things entered :)

I have some related to the theme, I have just uploaded in my gallery... but I took them before the challenge was issued (in August)... So I'll let you look at them in my gallery if you care to.

I am on the look out for something .....

PD154 ( ) posted Thu, 09 October 2008 at 5:17 AM

Lovely Poetess

So it was taken a while back..pfft, your defence is to say that it was delapidating on your hard drive lol, nice shot :)

It takes one tree to make a billion matchsticks, but one match to burn a billion trees

Alz2008 ( ) posted Thu, 09 October 2008 at 6:56 AM

Heres another...

Alz2008 ( ) posted Thu, 09 October 2008 at 6:58 AM

Some great photos on here, excellent..

auntietk ( ) posted Thu, 09 October 2008 at 8:50 AM

I like Ronnie's argument! :)

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

PD154 ( ) posted Thu, 09 October 2008 at 9:54 AM

LOL thanks for the backup Tara :)...Nice one Alz!

It takes one tree to make a billion matchsticks, but one match to burn a billion trees

auntietk ( ) posted Thu, 09 October 2008 at 7:46 PM

Don't worry Ronnie, I've got your back, I'm in your corner ... whatever phrase translates well into British English! :) * blows kiss *

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

PD154 ( ) posted Thu, 09 October 2008 at 10:10 PM

OMG, I am so jazzed at the fact that I am off this weekend from work, I can have a whole weekend of fun in the forums,
Tara, I will accept the phrase in my corner, as you would not want my back, it's agony at the mo :)....must get out this w/wnd, and see if I can find some more delap subjects for this most excellent challenge :)

It takes one tree to make a billion matchsticks, but one match to burn a billion trees

tizjezzme ( ) posted Fri, 10 October 2008 at 7:33 PM

Wooooo Hoooooo !!! TGIF !!! I can play tooo! well .. sleep in past 5:30am anyway

What GREAT entries I'm seeing here! I will be uploading another very soon :)

Ronnie, Gun Tara, PJ .. Jeff, Lynn, Pieter, helanker, BentChick and the Terminator!! lol ... Melinda and Alz.. just to name a few ... thanks for keeping this going so nicely while I've been kind of away.
You're the BEST. :)

"The only thing coming straight out of MY camera is the cable!"
P. Vermeulen

PD154 ( ) posted Fri, 10 October 2008 at 8:18 PM

we keep it going coz it's the bomb :))

It takes one tree to make a billion matchsticks, but one match to burn a billion trees

ShadowsNTime ( ) posted Fri, 10 October 2008 at 10:01 PM · edited Fri, 10 October 2008 at 10:01 PM

One more from me...actually my Alex took this one but he makes me post, lol! This 'window' is on a Civil War Ironworks Factory, bricks are handmade...circa probably 1865. Great stuff everyone, I really enjoyed them all! Off to bed for me, nite all!

bclaytonphoto ( ) posted Fri, 10 October 2008 at 11:05 PM

I've really wanted to play but life and work have gotten in the way...

Great work so far..

here's one from me..

Found this old house out a a back road was not too keen on going inside it, as it looked kinda dangerous..

So, I settled for this shot

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Liam. ( ) posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 4:57 AM

Here's mine:

Liam

LovelyPoetess ( ) posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 11:46 AM

The weekend has arrived! So I got up early to catch the morning sun on a few shots.

I'm sure this boat is delapidating under all that bush. Perhaps with it next to the barn like that they are descendants of Noah and are keeping up the family tradition?

They say a picture is worth a thousand words...

So where do they go when a photograph leaves you speechless?

LovelyPoetess ( ) posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 11:57 AM

I couldn't resist this rusty bunch of metal! I'm not positive but by the look of the wheels, this was built before they invented rubber.

: )

They say a picture is worth a thousand words...

So where do they go when a photograph leaves you speechless?

JeffG7BRJ ( ) posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 12:12 PM · edited Sat, 11 October 2008 at 12:14 PM

That boat is a real shame, it doesn't look that old but to let the bush grow around it like that, i cannot understand the mentality of some folks. It doesn't look a cheap one either.

Excellent shot though and ties in with the theme fully.

As for the tractor, they put them wheels on for traction in muddy fields especially when harvesting such as potato's.

Another great shot.

PD154 ( ) posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 12:37 PM

Poetess, Can't be descendents of Noah, the lawn would be covered in pairs of animals lol, nice capture.

Faders, this is a great image, I can hear the past voices of children that played there

Marka, I love those beautiful greens.

Lynn, great textures in this one, well shot Alex.

It takes one tree to make a billion matchsticks, but one match to burn a billion trees

PD154 ( ) posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 12:38 PM

Oooh! I missed this tractor, great one!

It takes one tree to make a billion matchsticks, but one match to burn a billion trees

tizjezzme ( ) posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 1:30 PM

AWesome shots here; Marka, :) great to see u and your photo! And bruce, Lynn... Excellent photos!.... and Poetess, I love that barn! Hubby goes around shooting old barns all the time; they just dont make 'em like they used to - now they are all tin.

"The only thing coming straight out of MY camera is the cable!"
P. Vermeulen

tizjezzme ( ) posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 7:35 PM

Saw this thing while driving around the countryside ... I thought I'd add a sepia tone to it; giving it more drama :)

"The only thing coming straight out of MY camera is the cable!"
P. Vermeulen

LovelyPoetess ( ) posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 8:06 PM

Cool effect adding the sepia and the framing, makes it look like an old photo.

I've really been enjoying seeing what everyone comes across, and agree old and worn is usually much more interesting.

: )

They say a picture is worth a thousand words...

So where do they go when a photograph leaves you speechless?

auntietk ( ) posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 8:32 PM

Good stuff here! It would take to long to say what I liked about each one ... it's all wonderful! I went to the cemetary today, so I'm hoping I got some good graceful dilapidation shots!

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

gunsan ( ) posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 8:40 PM

What boat? I don't even see it among all those bushes, Great shot anyway! Noah....you have a lot to do here!!!

auntietk ( ) posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 9:25 PM · edited Sat, 11 October 2008 at 9:27 PM

Here you have Evelyn Merton, gracefully dilapidating.

And for those of you who are interested in moss, that's the north side of the headstone. :)

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." ... Robert Capa

LovelyPoetess ( ) posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 10:06 PM

Neat headstone! Now does moss ever grow in east, west or southerly sides?

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So where do they go when a photograph leaves you speechless?

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