Wood in a Shallow Puddle by auntietk
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This is for those of you who live in places where wood is a fairly exotic commodity.
Up here we build an astonishing number of things out of wood. It grows everywhere, we've figured out how to make timber a renewable resource, so we live in wooden houses with wooden fences. There are lumber stores and logging trucks in abundance. A chainsaw in every garage.
Here's a piece of wood for you, as an example. It's just part of a tree trunk with the bark off. Somebody took a log and cut it into lengths and used the pieces as a barrier across a parking lot where they didn't want anyone to drive.
I suppose this bit of log is being used as a bollard of sorts, along with its many companions.
What material do they use for this sort of thing in YOUR part of the world?
Comments (28)
Faemike55
Great shot of the piece of wood and chain! Since I'm from the great Pacific NorthWet as well, you know my answer
wysiwig
Very generous of you. I'll have to send you a picture of some stucco which is the principle house covering here in southern California.
lyron
Great image!!
whaleman
We use a lot of wood in Canada but in parking lots concrete seems to be preferred now. By the way, your log looks like it has been used before as there are some serious marks indicating a prior life doing some other work. Nice photo too!
beachzz
If I didn't know you lived near Seattle, I'd think you were talking about this area. It's the same thing here, trees and wood, and the most amazing thing made out of that wood. I remember these posts, they were everywhere, some of them with holes in the middle for the rope and chain that made barriers.
faroutsider
Great shot, perfectly composed. Makes me want to sneak around the side, because I can...
bazza
Nice shot we use wood down under in New Zealand for all sorts we grow it in abundance here too.. As I work in a packaging company e use it everyday for making pallets and boxes lol!
marybelgium
superbe !
Myel
Very nice picture! I like the b&w choice.
durleybeachbum
We use it too!
jmb007
superbe photo!!
helanker
Same here Tare, but I still love wood and stuff of wood and this shot is so beautiful with chain and reflections and all. Well done :-)
debbielove
They use metal or concrete posts.. Because they have chopped down all the trees now.. Wood is not something you can just ..'get hold of'.. It's very expensive here.. So, much as you think you have an abundance of trees, so did we.. The whole of the southern half of the UK, was covered in thick forest once.. Now, nearly all gone.. Whats left is protected.. And very small... So beware.. Still, always makes a great picture.. Wood (and water) always do.. well taken Tara.. Rob
MrsRatbag
A fantastic composition, and I love the B&W!
bmac62
Clean and neat image with a crisp reflection and just a hint of background...resembling sand at a beach. Reference your narrative above, Gee, until a couple of weeks ago, I wasn't even familiar with the term bollard. Now, I bump into the term everywhere:-) "Legend has it that street bollards began life in the 1600’s, and were designed to represent upended canons - utilized as boundary posts and other town markers. They have since evolved into an everyday sight around our supermarkets, restaurants, hotels, shops and stadiums. Many bollard designs do resemble cannons, especially many UK Bollard designs." A-1 postwork as always :*
moochagoo
Perfect composition !
RodS
Wonderful photo, Tara. This is perfect in black & white! It always irritates me when I see where they have bulldozed a stand of trees to make a new road, or shopping center, or some other highly important thing, then just shove them into a pile and set them on fire. what a waste. At least cut up the trunks and make something useful with them.... But I guess that's not 'cost effective' is it? Anyway, this is another wonderful example of taking something commonplace and making art with it. The eye of an artist.... Way to go, Tara!
FriedaFelicia
Love the simple beauty and powerfulness of this shot.
Meisiekind
Very striking image Dierbaar! Works perfectly in B&W!
fairyfreak
Wonderful image! I live on an island where there are very few trees but plenty of rock...so they would use a big bolder or concrete.
lucindawind
excellent composition !
goodoleboy
They use particle board, plastic and composites in my part of the world.
Chipka
Wood! I've seen that stuff before. In Chicago we have lots of wood (most of which is imported) but no actual logging as we don't really have enough for that. We have forest preserves (but not actual forests) and we get those wee-trees growing everywhere, but their wood stinks to high heaven if you cut it and it's not really dense enough for much. Anyway, enough of that! This is superb work. I think the black and white really draws out the details in this, particularly the more contrasty details. I love the textures and the reflection. As for bollards and those sorts of things, we use concrete, but in winter when we've gone through the trouble to shovel out a parking space, we'll use lawn chairs, card tables, sawhorse legs (with brooms placed across them) or other creative objects to occupy the parking space until we're able to park in it. Funny thing is if there's a lawn chair sitting in a shoveled parking space, the Chicago rule of thumb is if you didn't put it there don't you dare move it! No one does. But that only works in winter. This is a marvelous picture. I love the simple elegance of it.
anmes
Love the composition, strong and simple...great result
DananJaya_Chef
Wonderful B&W.
danapommet
In South Florida: In parking lots, it is concrete posts and for extra security - plastic yellow chains. Cinderblock walls covered with stucco for homes. B&W works well for this capture. Dana
Merrylee
Nice shot...
cfulton
Wonderful B&W - chained in case it floats away. There it would be metal or concrete - the demand for scrap metal means that those do not last too long... Clive