Abandoned Suburbia
This is a distrubing image because its intense contrasts lead me into to it. This is a typical suburbia landscape. Look at it long enough and you begin to notice a key element is missing; the people. This is late morning on a weekend, and a beautiful day yet no one is outside. I walked the streets for two hours and I did not see another person. It is as if this is a plague town, wiped clean of humanity, frozen into immobility. I have hiked into deep woods, but I only feel truly lonely when I walk the suburbs.
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beelerspace (87 months ago | reply)
Looks like my parents' neighborhood on the west side. =)
SuburbanPoetica (87 months ago | reply)
Southside, but it's amazing how similar all these suburbs are.
Tim Hardy [deleted] (87 months ago | reply)
There's an interesting tension between the banality of a suburb and the strangeness of the missing people. Good capture
Muffet (76 months ago | reply)
This is an interesting image. We also have neighborhoods like this, where you never see anyone. They're a bit creepy, and you've captured the quality well.
conrado4 (76 months ago | reply)
great shpt...is nobody in the car thats going backwards on the street and crooked?Looks like my park jobs haha.
SuburbanPoetica (76 months ago | reply)
Nope, just a lousy park job. Actually, they did better than usual.
purplewon2000 (76 months ago | reply)
I agree with you. Suburbia creeps me out, too.
Capital I (76 months ago | reply)
has a "edward scissorhands" sort of feel to it..
I live in a suburb of Phoenix... you would not believe how abandoned the suburbs look in July when it's 120 degrees outside....
SuburbanPoetica (76 months ago | reply)
120 degrees! It's a dry heat though, right. ;-)
Even on beautiful days with temps in the 70's I'll walk through these subdivisions and rarely see anyone. It's bizarre.
qui_qui (76 months ago | reply)
I like this simple but nice image :)
sunshinecity (76 months ago | reply)
and all the houses are the same too!
spoooooky lol
marcobillo (76 months ago | reply)
Nice, a bit disquieting
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mici_angora (76 months ago | reply)
I like suburbia a lot:)
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CraigMarston (76 months ago | reply)
Hmm, television... :•])
arwriterphotog (76 months ago | reply)
It is iand nteresting shot
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thankyou1981 (48 months ago | reply)
it looks like that everywere now
adventurerneil (48 months ago | reply)
I'm living there now, after years in a happening college town. :(
"I have hiked into deep woods, but I only feel truly lonely when I walk the suburbs. " Great line, so true...
Good but depressing capture.
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joshhikes (31 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called suburbanality - putting an edge on the edge of town, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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