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Macro Monday's Theme: Decay
This was a white lily ... now shriveled, and placed on a window sill with peeling paint.
A section of the Abandoned Church with a texture overlay to antiquate it.
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An abandoned hammer-dressed sandstone arts and crafts style church completed in 1926 on a local hillside.
In 1958 the building was reported to be suffering from severe subsidence and structural defects, which the substitution of a flat concrete roof failed to cure. It was closed in 1980, left exposed to the elements and local vandals.
The inside is a dark series of columns and soaring arches stretching the length of the building.
You can still climb the internal stone staircase of the bell tower and walk along the roof - if you dare!
Texture shortcut:
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The cells below the courthouse had a wonderful mix of old fashioned prison styling like you see in old movies with fantastic textures of decay. Throw in a bit of tasty lighting and season with a pose to create the perfect recipe for a shot in the cells. Yum.
© 2013 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott
I spotted fresh growth around an old, old barn while travelling. I had several great shots there, including this one. I love the combination of the elements and textures of decay combined contrasted with the bright green of the new growth in the vine. Something old, something new
Technical info: Canon EOS 6D, Canon EF 85mm f/1.8, Processed in Adobe Lightroom 4, Adobe Photoshop CS6, and OnOne Perfect Photo Suite. Texture layer courtesy of Kim Klassen
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It captured my attention while in the car on my way south. A short walk on the gravel road is all it took to reach the old house that parted with its best years sometime in the last millennium. That colour, the textures of decaying wood, rusting roof and the remains of the dead tree, fallen where it lived, still searching with its long fingers for the occupants, long gone.
I was mesmerised by the scene. There is something profoundly sad about the remains of buildings, any kind of ruins. Is it because they remind us of the inevitable and our disposability in this world. And all the usual questions: how old is it, who lived in it, and will it make it to the next autumn or even next week?
Time to go, I had better move. The sky of ‘I mean business’ colour has been gathering strength for a while. Its forward party already seized the strategic heights from the playful patches of the late afternoon sun. When it hits, it will hit hard.
On the way back, just one more look … enough time to take another breath of impressions, to treasure, and an image to share, with you.
A detail of the loading dock for a large furniture store that went out of business two years ago. Now the building sits empty and decay has set in.
-- image from the final 12 frames (i.e., one-half second) from a late night rural advertisement for a travelling Medicine Show and 'Head Shrinkifier'
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the geek behind the curtain: all shots and layers in this assemblage were taken and developed by myself.
playing around at the university sports center again this week, my fiance stumbled into the First Aid dispensing area near the basketball courts. normally she doesn't let me take her picture hardly ever, but when she pointed out the chair with the straps i couldn't resist ...
two shots of her here, superimposed on each other, and the one behind had a longish shutter speed so that she was delightfully blurry and doubled, making three of her in this collage -- though one is such a dark ghost its nearly just a memory now. there's some perspective skewing going on to make her head seem larger than it should, and her body just slightly doll-like in comparison. several layers of black gradient blending, layers of sharpening, layers of blurring, even desaturation blended into the edges. on top there's a texture of decaying metal screen and for a last touch another texture layer of crumpled craft paper covered in vintage keys.
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Our Daily Challenge: addiction (i admit it -- i'm addicted to processing and photomanipulation ... god help me, i probably need a program ... maybe several programs ... and filters ... textures ....)
NOTE: got to work this morning and discovered that on the new monitor i've got (which is "smart", meaning i can't adjust it myself) this was so dark i could only see the most brightly lit areas of this. all three other monitors i have at home were fine. so, i pumped up the brightness by 20 and the contrast by 10 and re-uploaded. hope its not to washed and bright for you now. i've heard designers talk about this kind of problem but i'm not really sure what to do about it myself.
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