Since the beginning, Americans have raced toward the horizon: building, rebuilding and discarding. All across America we have left abandoned, like carcasses after the feast, that which only yesterday was state-of-the-art invention.
David Plowden said that
America and Europe have a different concept of old. I like this image Sherri, it works with the quote
Beautiful tones and wood grain patterns! I couldn’t agree more with that quote. Al you have to do is look across the pond and see the homes and churches that have stood since the dark ages and still radiate.
Yes! Photo and quote.
Success: “photo and qoute”.
oh my, what a beautiful picture!! and it goes soooo well with that quote!! xoxoxoxoxox
Nice light, shadows and textures. Fine quote as well.
Such a very nice image of decay. I echo other comments that it goes perfectly with the image.
There is something about broken glass that is tragically beautiful.
Beautiful paterns in this abandoned house
i love your soft image of the decaying abandoned house Sherri… i’m sure that it still holds the love that passed throughout it over the years….peter:)
I really love this photo Sherri and the intention of getting in good and close is a fine fit with the quote — which I completely agree with. And I might add that Canada fits right in with that as well. I’ve been abroad a few times in the past, mostly on business, and was amazed at how Europeans not only have much older buildings and homes, but they maintain them and keep them. In fact, they seem to treasure them.
De belles textures.
David Plowden is not wrong. But you’ve made a very nice, simple photo from this…
A beautiful old window and brilliant treatment. love it.
part of the issue is that we have room to move and to grow. in Europe, where they have been building and subdividing and squeezing more people into the same space, they rebuild and reuse. this looks like it still has life to be reused if some wants it
Sadly, we live in a throw-away culture, Sherri. It didn’t use to be like that in my youth, where with 8 kids in the family, we handed things down from one to the other. Houses, too. We moved into houses that had already been lived in. Now we want brand new houses, while others sit abandoned. In Europe you can’t do this because there’s no space! Most thought-provoking, especially with your image!
I have to say I found the tear down culture of the north American west rather shocking. Not just wasteful but an erasing of history in a part of the world that has very little tangible examples of it.
My home is over 100 years old. It is till in beautiful shape. It just takes love an caring. Too much has been left to decay. I like your close up.