Welcome to Friday Foto Flogging, a place to share your photos and photography news. We were inspired by the folks at European Tribune who post a regular Friday Photoblog series to try the same on this side of the virtual Atlantic. We also thought foto folks would enjoy seeing some other websites so each week we’ll introduce a different photo website.
Website of the Week: Digital Camera Photographer of the Year: Entries in the (UK) Telegraph’s photo competition.
This Week’s Theme: Disrepair. Dilapidation, decrepitude, shabbiness, collapse, ruin; abandonment, neglect, disuse.
AndiF: The Disrepair Equations
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prey + predator = ruin
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lightning + steel cables = collapse
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kids + short attention spans = abandonment
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olivia’s disrepair etc.
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Next Week’s Theme: Random. Show us whatever you want to show us.
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Previous Friday Foto Flogs
Some things in disrepair.
I love that first one, Bob. Can you tell us a little more about it?
Sure, this is the mooring at Viscaya, James Deering’s estate on Biscane Bay after the last hurricane came through. Damage to the mooring was extensive, the estate was flooded. The entire basement of the structure, despite having waterproof doors and windows, had more than 8 feet of water intrusion. Repairs were ongoing as of the last time we were there a couple of years ago.
This is a scan of a 4×6 done well before the damage. I looked a some of the other images and most of the damage is on the bay side which couldn’t really be photographed. Exceeds the 500 but kept it small.
That top photo is wonderfully eerie. Thanks for the explanation and the “before” picture.
Thanks and your welcome, I really hadn’t noticed when I picked it that it is the type of shot that makes one go, ‘huh?’. It’s one of those things that just draw me to it with no explanation.
Love the fountain w/ the green and the roots on the tree in the third photo. Nice set Bob.
Thanks.
Your shot of the bears is a strong image, as soon as I realized it was a headstone my heart sank. Sometimes subtle is a hammer.
OMG! Viscaya!
I’ve lurked in these FFF for awhile. Your pictures of Viscaya caused me to join the tribe.
It’s been, oh….35+ years since I’ve been to Viscaya & yet I knew instantly what & where your photo was from.
Thank YOU!!
♥~
Your very welcome, and welcome aboard, the more the merrier.
Hi there RiaD – echoing Bob, happy to have you join in! The flog theme this friday is Random if you feel like posting (we’d love it … :-).
thanks ever so much~
what a lovely warm welcome from everyone…so very nice!
my photos aren’t anywhere near the caliber of y’alls
i’d be embarrassed to post em.
Hey my friend, I didn`t even know I could meet you over here.
I do believe this is the first time.
If you`re “fresh” here, welcome big time.
hello ‘head
truth is….. i came over here months ago on a linked article, saw the FFF, found YOU were over here & have been ‘lurking’ off & on for awhile.
thank you for the warm welcome!
much appreciated
♥~
Always glad to see more people hanging around here. Welcome!
thanks very much~
everybody is sooo friendly!
(^.^)
Old Farm Equipment
Really nice — love the way the rust glows.
Agree w/ Andi, and love the rich colour too.
The angle of the framing really makes this work for me. Nice shot.
somewhere between neglect and abandonment
(lamp shade with dust streamers)
Love ’em! Such a great way to justify not cleaning the house. I think I’ll see what I can do with the mass of dog hair under the couch. 😉
LOL, that’s great!
And while Andi crafts together a new dog from all the hair she finds, I’ll be doing the same in cat form … 😉
Ha, they look like bubbles coming out of the lampshade especially the first.
Hey Andi and Olivia, are your first pictures the after and before?
Andi, that first picture is very Jackson Pollackish.
Tasmania generates almost all of it’s electricity with hydro-electric dams.
While the dams and generators were under construction whole towns were built to accommodate the workers and their families. Afterwards the towns were mostly abandoned.
This car was left behind when Waddamana was decommissioned.
That looks like a worthy subject for boran2;-)
Nifty shot — I see all the angles and colors well before I see the structure which gives a very abstract feel.
I like how degraded structures challenge our minds’ preconceptions of wholeness and form. It’s like we see the preconceived object first, and then go “hey, wait a minute.”
Part of the town of Waddamana has been turned into a park. The old generator is now a museum. There’s a park ranger who lives in one of the old houses and other are available to rent for overnight stays. It has this wonderful ghost town feel. And the surrounding high country is gorgeous.
The color and textures are fantastic. Kind of looks like a painting at a glance, the viewer must focus to see the true image.
That’s a great photo – full of colour and texture. I love the grass growing on the inside.
Aftermath of a fire
Remains of the old lock on the Wabash River at Mt. Comfort, IL Circa 1855
A tree falls in Brown County
Declining Ohio River vista
They’re all great theme shots but I don’t think you can get much more disrepair into a shot than the aftermath of the fire shot — makes me sad just to look at it. I do love the “a tree falls in Brown County” though — well, from a distance.
As a result, all our utility lines are now underground. The tree came down on a Friday evening in Jan. and we couldn’t get an electrician until Mon. We shivered all weekend.
The fire was an all-night affair in a commercial building awaiting renovations. It was eventually torn down instead and the land sold to a new owner.
Aftermath of the fire is a really strong image. :/
There’s normally so much black, its difficult to get much without a lot of extra lighting or enhancement.
No vacancy, Grants , New Mexico.
They just don’t make signs like that anymore.
Good capture. We’ve been through a lot of towns in the Southwest with signs like that — amazing how many of them are over places that are still open and look like the last thing they were used for was the set of a horror movie.
This motel was actually totally gone. The sign stood in front of a vacant lot that was overrun with weeds.
Nicely captured! I love the fresh, blue sky in the background.
In a Park in Damascus
Selling Cigarettes by the Pack, Outside Suq Al Hamidiyeh, Damascus
Selling on the Street, Aleppo, Syria Near an Upscale Shopping Area
Selling on the Street, Aleppo, Syria Just Inside Bab Antakia, Old Aleppo
On Bab Antakia Street, Aleppo
Those are wonderful and sad, all at the same time. The last picture is also hopeful — I think we all hope that when we get old there will be someone who will trudge along with us, caring that we can get where we want to go.
Great set Hurria. Agree w/ Andi re the last photo.
Hurria,
Very powerful.
Thank you.
Please be kind to me.
I love posting images here & the theme was great, but I`ve been extremely busy & had planned to post tonight.
Due to a long altercation, (thankfully, for the opposition, because, I can be mean, my gentle looks notwithstanding) no one was hurt.
I did though photograph my opponents after a “shaming session” & have posted a diary about this scene, on my own turf, (the nerve of some people) in a separate diary, on BooMan.
I also want to extend my apologies to Tampopo, & will hopefully post a singular diary for her tomorrow.
I had deadlines to meet work-wise, (And I did) before some of my clients depart for Peru, at 5 AM Sunday.
I had to order cameras & other related equipment, then charge batteries, program & instruct the users of this equipment by today, (again, I was on deadline)
Please go view my decrepit images & story so you`ll know I had at least the theme in mind though not my inclination.
I was not so nice today.
Thank you, & I do love all the submissions of ruin & devastation.
Hmmmn, I wonder who thought of that theme.
Hey!! Olivia, how the heck are ya??
Head, I’ll miss your photos but even with the great, gaping hole in my life, I would never want to be anything other than kind to you (well except when I’m being teasing).
AndiF,
You are too kind.
Thank you.
My goodness – just read your diary – what a great lesson in standing up and speaking out!
Tampopo,
Someone has to, when presented with the opportunity to this kind of vileness.
I`m sure you would not abide by it either.
I`ll have “your” diary up soon.
This was a really thought-provoking and emotive theme – thank you.
I found myself returning again and again to look at all the photos offered. In a way I like seeing nature at work on people-made things mosses and rust and grasses.
AndiF – the feather photo is beautiful! An abstract that isn’t abstract at all.
olivia – the bedraggled stuffed animals, at first seemed both comical and sad. Then , as BobX noted, I realized where they were – gut wrenching. A very powerful photo.
Thanks Tampopo.
And I agree with you and BobX about the teddy bear photo.
Thanks tampopo.