Trash Cans So I’ve thought about this project, but it’s not an easy one. I think that during my travels, I will try to find interesting trash cans to photograph. The first photo is one of my favorites with the wonderful colors and circular symmetry. Most people don’t know what it is until they think a bit and some are disgusted. Some are interested. Some are…..well, just “It’s a trash can”. Yes, they’re right of course.
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In the dead of winter, a lovely rain with no leaves on the trees can be taken advantage of in an urban environment. This was on New Years Day morning, so the streets and parking lots were empty and had lots of water. The clouds were interesting and the black backgrounds really accentuated the reflections.
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Nothing Unique, but I do love to hunt around to find little geometric objects on the sides of buildings. This set of four is typical 1. Some sort of approval badges on a huge metal power pole.2. A telephone switch that someone decided needed to be the same color as the building, LOL3. A hidden light switch4. Number 20
. As lovely as the little village of Apalachicola, FL is, the edges continue to crumble and fail. There are glimmers of progress in this lovely little town, but the outskirts, and there aren’t many when you only have 2,000 people, are full of crumbling riverfront property. Yea, I know it’s the same old photogphers’ penchant for old stuff, but it’s still interesting.
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Not your normal sunrise photos. I’m not a real fan of most sunrise or sunset photos because they usually just don’t look near as good in an image as in real life. These photos were a couple of days apart in Apalachicola FL taken in the winter. The sky just lit up on both days and I just had to shoot them. The first one was a stich of two photos with a long lens and the glow was so perfect that there is no way to accurately depict it here. It was super nice. The second photo was a
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Memories and remnants of a local dry cleaning plant, now closed after more than 100 years in business. Nobody wanted to take it over, so not it sits ready for “redevelopment”, which means an apartment building with ground-floor retail probably. I wish I could get inside, but that isn’t happening, far too much liability. The frosted windows are lovely, with their pressed-in starburst patterns. Obviously this was done when the glass was hot, a long forgotten process, probably. The subtle greens of the window stanchions was a lovely contrast with the glass. I loved the undefined, orange shape behind the
Are icebergs pink? Well on this decaying wall, yet. Obviouslly this wall needs to be refurbished, as the skimmed concrete is coming off, but the colors really attracted me. I present them here as a series in order of increasing entropy. First it starts with a crack. Then the water obviously gets in. And during the winter, it freezes and calves large sections off. As the process continues, the bolts holding long-gone hardware is exposed, as the previous light-blue layer. The rust starts to take hold and the wall begins it’s start towards a long slow decline and a pile
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Miscellaneous still portraits of the town of Apalachicola, FL. This tin fish was hanging at a curiosity shop out front. It looks like a weather vane. It sold between visits, as there was another. The last time I go back this spring, I’ll have to spend time talking to the owner of this place A classic upside down photos of a house. Yes, It would have been nicer if the house had been more interesting, but you can choose your subjects sometimes. I like the image, especially how the house seems to be dissolving off the top. There are so
I had so many pictures from the boat dock in Post number 1 that I had to have a second post. The details can be subtle, but by walking around when the light is soft, many opportunities present themselves. I spend 5-10 minutes around this water supply to find a composition that was interesting, but also showed the lovely patina’d red ironwork I think this one worked and the subtle colors on the faucet were also interesting. Obviously these marine power supply plug wear out. Interesting to see both the degradation of the paint and the differences in color between
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Have spent time in the sleeply north Florida town of Apalachicola for many, many years as my family has been coming there since the 1960’s. Much of this fishing-village town has fallen into disrepair, but there is still a little industry, mostly surrounding shrimp, oysters, or fish. With the development of St. George Island, the community of 2,300 has seen a small influx of tourist dollars and had created a nice little downtown with restaurants, a couple of hotels, and some nice shops. Nearby is a fairly active commercial marina where shrimp boats tie up. The dock is fairly busy,
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More OPAQUE images to compare/contrast with the ones on THIS PAGE. The photos here were taken with my venerable Olympus XA which I purchased new around 1979 when they were introduced. One of the smallest 35mm film cameras ever produced along with the Rollei 35 and the Minox 35 series These photos were taken in Covington GA around the old Depot between Covington and Oxford. The film used, Rollei Retro 400S, lends a nice grittiness to the photos, in my opinion. This “building” no longer has a roof, so the slab floor and the brick walls are open to the
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A now-closed dry-cleaning plant in Plainfield, NJ, G.O. Keller is just standing there, waiting for demolition and development. They had operated for 130 years since 1894 in the same location. The plant is slated for redevelopment into a mixed-use facility, as it is only a block from the lovely Netherwood Train Station. There are such nice textures at this site. The photos were taken with a Voigtlander Bessa-R Rangefinder camera made in the 90’s with a similar vintage Norton f/1.5 Aspherical lens. The other set taken with the Olympus XA is Here Wonderful black and white subjects at this place
