Forgotten Highways
The highways were packed on this trip home due to holidays. So, I decided to try something different and drove the 100+ miles from my home north of Atlanta to my folks house south of Macon using surface roads. No interstate expressways. The Atlanta part was interesting. It’s not like old highways were straight, but I’m pretty sure the city of Atlanta and the interstates that runs straight through downtown had broken it up even worse. It was a maze of poorly marked streets. It began to get dark by the time I got out of the city proper, but I took “0ld 341” just because I wanted to see what Culloden looked like since it was apparently named for the Scottish battlefield I had visited months before.
In the twilight, I managed to take a long exposure of this lovely old gas station decaying along the side of a forgotten highway.
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Trace Lowe
Perfect! Not many of these relecs around now.
Jen Cannella
Amazing image…Great find!
Zigga
Wonderful image. The light & deep blue sky are fantastic!
Andrew Walker
wow, wow, wow. love the desperate feel to the place. amazing picture!
StacyLee
Very nice capture Mark!
revad david riley
Captured decay I like!
Shaley Abruzzo...
Great use of light and colour here interesting composition too !
willd
awesome shot – the red star with the rust love it
Deborah Parkin
great image – love the dark tones of the ground that contrast beautifully with the bright blues in the sky – nice work :0)
Deri Dority
This is a brilliant capture Mark. Such an incredible find, a perfect representation of rural America.
Nicholas Averre
I love these sort of photos and this ones a cracker. Nice work Mark!!
John De Bord P...
This is perfect, the color and light just shine in this
Andrew Hoisington
Fantastic shot Mark
Angela Stewart
It’s been a long held dream of mine to hire an RV and travel the old highways across the USA. Can’t see it happening anytime soon, but it’s lovely to enjoy your beautiful photos in the meantime!
Sally P Moore
This is brilliant, the colours really set the atmosphere and match the genre of the subject.