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 barefootpoetry
Location: PA
Gender: Female
 |  |  | Married to Decay
< on 4/18/2011 3:57 PM >
|  | | | This is one of my favorite rurex houses...probably because I can't get inside, and wanting what I can't have makes me want it even more. Like a beautiful married woman, she's untouchable. All I can do is dream about her and admire her from afar.
I visited this house in April 2010 and again in July 2010. These photos are a combination of those two visits.
Up on the back porch.
Awesome little retro kitchen.
It was very difficult to stick my camera through the porch window to get this photo without touching the house. It creaked and swayed in the breeze, and I felt like if I even brushed up against it, it would topple over.
Comparison shots of April vs. July (sorry, the purple flare is really bad in the first one, the lens I used is awful when it comes to that)
I summoned up all my UE nerves and stepped in through this opening to rescue some canning jars a few days after my first visit in April. They were half-buried in a huge pile of broken glass and trash. I managed to extract about a dozen intact ones, holding my breath the whole time, terrified the house would come crashing down on my head if I exhaled. Two steps to the right, and I was back out again. I took the jars home and dated some of them to 1915 according to their logos. Most dated to the 60s. Now some of them are holding blackberry jam and habanero salsa in my kitchen. I'm glad I rescued them when I did, because as you can see above, a large portion of the roof fell in shortly after that. This photo was from July.
She who hesitates, sees bulldozers. |
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Senseriffic
      
Location: Elizabeth, NJ
I am drowning in a digital sea
| | | Re: Married to Decay
<Reply # 1 on 4/18/2011 4:39 PM >
| | | | Awesome! I hate it when ya find places like that... you can see that at one time it was a really interesting explore but its beyond remotely safe to enter. At least you did get some good photos from the little you could do!
The blind lead the blind into bottomless pits,
Still we smile and deny that we're cursed.
But of all our iniquities ignorance may be the worst. |
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D-rockpend
| | Re: Married to Decay
<Reply # 2 on 4/19/2011 7:19 PM >
| | | | I know how you feel about not being able to go inside the house. There is a house I really want to go in but I can't because there is way to many windows and it is right on the side of the road.
This is my signature. Your jealous. |
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Eschaton
Location: Western NC
Gender: Male
Entry: Eschaton (es-kuh-tawn) noun | end of time, climax of history | Etymology: Greek for 'last'
| | | Re: Married to Decay
<Reply # 3 on 4/19/2011 7:29 PM >
| | | | Posted by barefootpoetry
...probably because I can't get inside,
Like a beautiful married woman
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teehee :V
Well, at first glance, you could have omitted the not being able to get inside part and I wouldn't have been the wiser. That's how good these shots look.
Your 9th photo is the best. Excellent capture, and a good example of how blown highlights enhance a photo. They evoke a sort of ethereal or heavenly presence above/among all the decay. It's rather inspiring. Bravo!
Ars Gratia Adventuris |
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barefootpoetry
Location: PA
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Married to Decay
<Reply # 4 on 4/19/2011 9:06 PM >
| | | | Posted by D-rockpend
I know how you feel about not being able to go inside the house. There is a house I really want to go in but I can't because there is way to many windows and it is right on the side of the road.
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Pssh! Never stopped me. ;) Many places I have explored are right on busy highways. I just walk in, get the shots, and leave. I tend not to linger in ones that are really obvious, though.
teehee :V
Well, at first glance, you could have omitted the not being able to get inside part and I wouldn't have been the wiser. That's how good these shots look.
Your 9th photo is the best. Excellent capture, and a good example of how blown highlights enhance a photo. They evoke a sort of ethereal or heavenly presence above/among all the decay. It's rather inspiring. Bravo! |
Oh, you funny, huh. ;)
Thank you! I guess you are right, the ruined highlights do kind of add their own quality to the photo even if they are "wrong."
She who hesitates, sees bulldozers. |
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NotLost
Location: PA
Gender: Male
No sir, I'm not lost.
| | | Re: Married to Decay
<Reply # 5 on 4/19/2011 11:25 PM >
| | | | Tread lightly!
Yes, I like 9 as well, & 3. And while I’ve never deviated from “take only pictures”, in this case – you gotta go back and save those boots!
In the mean time, I’m stopping by your place for some of that habanero salsa!!! YUM!
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barefootpoetry
Location: PA
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Married to Decay
<Reply # 6 on 4/20/2011 12:00 AM >
| | | | Posted by NotLost
Tread lightly!
Yes, I like 9 as well, & 3. And while I’ve never deviated from “take only pictures”, in this case – you gotta go back and save those boots!
In the mean time, I’m stopping by your place for some of that habanero salsa!!! YUM!
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Nah, I'm not a boot person, you can have 'em! ;)
She who hesitates, sees bulldozers. |
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Once-ler
| | Re: Married to Decay
<Reply # 7 on 4/20/2011 2:14 AM >
| | | | I think its great that you are using some of the jars. We rescued some from my brother in law family homestead root cellar in Blairsville GA before being bulldozed and were also able to date them to around 1930 or so. Feels kind of cool that we can still use them. Good before and after shots, amazing to see how fast these places come down. I think in a few years you will be the last to have seen it standing.
SP.E.C.T.R.E. |
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barefootpoetry
Location: PA
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Married to Decay
<Reply # 8 on 4/20/2011 2:47 AM >
| | | | Posted by Once-ler
I think its great that you are using some of the jars. We rescued some from my brother in law family homestead root cellar in Blairsville GA before being bulldozed and were also able to date them to around 1930 or so. Feels kind of cool that we can still use them. Good before and after shots, amazing to see how fast these places come down. I think in a few years you will be the last to have seen it standing.
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I agree, I'm pretty sure it won't last much longer. I drove past it again last month just because, and it's falling down even more now.
I know taking things from abandonments is taboo, but it made me so sad to see those awesome vintage jars just crumbling away in a pile of junk. It'd be one thing if they were lined up neatly on a shelf and this was a house that other explorers might visit, and I'd be depriving them of a neat discovery if I took them...nope, they were pretty much done for. I also use some of the wide-mouth ones for drinking glasses. 
I think "take only pictures" is a good general rule, but the occasional small trinket, or things that would otherwise be destroyed and deserve to be given a new life, I think are different. That's just my personal slant on scruples though.
She who hesitates, sees bulldozers. |
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OwlsFlight
Location: Ehn Jay
One foot in the grave, the other on a banana peel
| | | Re: Married to Decay
<Reply # 9 on 4/20/2011 2:52 AM >
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Pssh! Never stopped me. ;) Many places I have explored are right on busy highways. I just walk in, get the shots, and leave. I tend not to linger in ones that are really obvious, though.
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Haha, unless it has a no trespassing sign on the front gate right?! Lol
Old buildings like that are neat. It's almost like their patterns and structure that made them stand out from the environment eventually fall apart and make things random & unique again.
Exploring the distance between points A & B. |
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barefootpoetry
Location: PA
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Married to Decay
<Reply # 10 on 4/20/2011 3:00 AM >
| | | | Posted by OwlsFlight
Haha, unless it has a no trespassing sign on the front gate right?! Lol
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Hey, that was only one time, and I didn't see it till I was on my way out. ;)
She who hesitates, sees bulldozers. |
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Once-ler
| | Re: Married to Decay
<Reply # 11 on 4/20/2011 4:53 AM >
| | | | | I know taking things from abandonments is taboo, |
small sins forgiven
SP.E.C.T.R.E. |
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Twisted Orchid
Gender: Female
My inner child is a mean little fuck
| | Re: Married to Decay
<Reply # 12 on 4/26/2011 9:00 PM >
| | | | Green with envy! Nice shots
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