Padlock #21 by goodoleboy
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Eeeyewwww!
Captured 7/12/2013, early morning, in an alley somewhere in the general neighborhood.
Can't beat this beauty for neglect, terrible latch installation, and a lousy paint job. Apparently, the garage door hasn't been opened in eons.
I find some of my best corrosion, erosion, detritus, rubbish, deterioration and disintegration stuff in alleys, parking lots and along railroad tracks. I love it.
Cheerybye, and have a nice day.
Comments (5)
durleybeachbum
A spider house!
Cyve
cool and great close up !
MrsRatbag
Oh my, the cobwebs and leaf debris are wonderful. How thoughtful of the painters to do it all white so it makes such a great background for the signs of disuse! Well found, Harry, and very well captured! Wonder what's inside the garage?
magnus073
Great one Harry, they seem to have almost forgot about this one.
anahata.c
ok, one more padlock today: I do have to get some other categories. But this is another gloriously ugly beaut...This is a familiar-enough sight, which I assume many photographers would pass by because they wouldn't want to engage with the thing. (That's a mistake that they wouldn't, and maybe the reason you got only 4 comments? Why else would they pass this beauty by? I'm stunned by the showing, shame on the site...) Well, it looks like it's had more than one paint job, one of those pile-it-on-like-cream jobs, covering layers of decay and cracks and such. And, as you suggest, it hasn't been used much, having given way to spiders, dead leaves and anything/one else that happened by. And you got strong detail in the grime inside the indentations and cracks. It's a really repulsive sight, yes, but your capture is opulent---and yeah, I mean that word, and I imagine I'm one of the few who feel that way. It brings me back to your cigarette-butt shot, where most people were repulsed by the butts so didn't get excited by the textures, layout, composition, etc. But it really does have an opulent splashed-over look, with an intensification in the web and all that debris. More fine seeing, with good angle and pov. (I have to assume---unless you have lenses that cost 2 million a piece---that you're crouching, peering, pushing right up against these things: How in the world do you get these shots without people coming after you with shotguns??? When I go poking around with my camera, I get stares that could stop a truck; and questions like, "uh---can we HELP you????" I once spent 10 minutes explaining, to a house owner, why I found their front yard latch "beautiful". It's rough out there. You got guts, sir...)