This one's colors and textures and rust sucked me in and had me zooming in and out and moving around trying to figure out what I was looking at it. Bits and pieces are recognizable and yet not. I think I see a transmission but I'm not sure. It looks like the hood of a car to the left but again I'm not sure. I like this.

Love this capture!! The colors peeking through the shadows are great!!

I have this urge to search for Inverterbrates and maybe reptiles in there! Those shadows require investigation.

Yeah, I sometimes forget what day it is as well. Isn't it wonderful? I do like this, especially the fender shyly peeking out from the vegetation. Looks like an engine block of a very old car.

Rust, decay, light & shadow - all skillfully combined in one well-composed package...

A great 'find' and most interesting, it makes you wonder what it once was !

very interesting discovery! great photograph Happy anniversary

What a find! Once again a shining example of shadow and light play... :-)

belle photo!

Congratulations Tara. Superb capture. God bless.

Great one auntie. I agree with Andrea, I bet there was a wealth of macros in those shadows, but that doesn't detract from your great image or eye.

And awesome rusty stuff. Lovely capture with the deep shadows and the rusty color fading into green.

Wow, superb rusty "car".

Wonderful use of light and shadows!! I can make out a transmission and a fender, not sure about the rest!! Great capture!

Wow, this could be a crashed starship on some distant world...amazing collection of shapes and colours, light and shadows, and textures to die for! Well done!

Awesome capture and literature on your finding, and Happy Anniversary. The first time I joined Renderosity was around about that time, but I quit completely for about 5 maybe six years and then a year or so ago rejoined again. Wish, I'd never quit, should have just put my account on hold at that time in my life, instead I deleted all those old photos I had from here and everything. I will not do that again, lol.

And may you have at least 8 more!! Cool shot, all your "parts and pieces" are always so complex!!

I'm with you on losing track of time. I rarely know what day, or month it is.

You know... There was a time that.... well, whatever it was........ was all shiny and new, and someone was really proud of it. It's kind of sad in its own beautiful way. Your photo captures the sad end of a story untold. Very lovely, Tara!

hard light and shadow and historical pieces.. love it 👍

An interesting capture Tara. I like the low angle pov. Happy anniversary and a Happy New Year to you and Bill!

...or maybe a truck, Ford maybe? Excellent detailing here. Rob

Again, one image again today, and the promise that I'll do a multi-session very soon. But I want you to know how closely I've looked and absorbed your work. And I'm sorry I didn't comment on this when it went up---I saw it, and noted that this was your 8th anniversary; I just didn't get around to writing about it. (I couldn't get out words very well until this weekend...somehow Nov and Dec emptied me out.) This is a real piece of object art, found-object sculpture...I don't mean the objects in the photo, i mean your treatment of them. It's clearly some leftover auto stuff, auto skeletons for the archaeologists of the future...but with your extreme shadow, and the way you've highlighted the surfaces, and the bleached "white" light you display and its contrasts against total dark, you've made a photo-etching or painting. The stark black---a large area---behind the grasses on the left (over that metal that looks like a beached whale) is terrific contrast. And your cropping gives a kind of "halo" around the image (the lighter area circling the darker). And fine choice to cut-off the truck/car chassis on one end. And, to Rob's (debbielove) comment, on another Bodie shot, that this place is a testament to the terrible misuse of human habitat and the act of letting it decay, etc: I understand his feelings entirely. But since I'm not there in person, I can't attest to how powerful it might feel to just see this. I can say that, as artists, we are moved by the very sights that may bother us deeply, as non-artists. And a shot like this demonstrates that beautifully. A wonderful, detailed visual poem, about light, dark, and old decayed textures, history, lost time, and present mystery. You coaxed out the inner song---fitting for your 8 year anniversary.

What a mysterious photo, you made out of this old stuff, not to forget that white (also old) plant. Thank you for the link to Bodie, what a lot of wooden buildings they still have there, as it seems to show old cars everywhere. It would be 'my place to be', of course with my camera. You did a great job by the show you show us, haha! It really need a closer look, to guess what we see.