Pits
544 creative works found
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an old mining pit wheel in a village near where i live, these are dotted about all over this part of the country, left to celebrate the past glory days of the coal mining industry, the sun was just going down, there was frost on the ground and i was frozen !!!!!
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something was wrong with him. every time he looked in the / mirror he became more certain of it. every passing day / widened a chasm, a certain kind of emptiness within him. it / was something he could see in his eyes, a hollowness where / some fundamental building block of humanity was supposed to / be but was not. he could still talk and smile, and seemed to / function well around people, but he knew it must be because / they hadn’t sensed yet that he had a labyrinth of knowledge in / which he had somehow become lost. in his dreams he was / always wandering in the forlorn husks of things that had once / been magnificent but now only echoed his seething discontent / at his own imperfection. the way that he had entered was / sealed and these places in which he had once sought refuge / from the capriciousness of the world were now his prison. each / corridor he tried to exit by only led to more empty rooms, / more places where people had once been but no longer were. / even when he was externally surrounded by others the world / had become a wasteland; the very dimensions had shifted so / that all welcoming things before him were shadows and smoke. / the vaulted ceilings of his most precious hopes were slowly / crumbling and the machinery that drove his will to continue / had ground to a halt. though it was hard to define the outline of it, there was a / certain kind of emptiness about his features. he wondered why / no one else noticed. / —-—-—-——- / picture taken at portside power plant. all rights reserved. / more of my work is available at abandonedamerica.org
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“That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.” / ~Paracelsus / —-—-—-—-—— / photo taken at tedford power plant / more photos online at www.abandonedamerica.org
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A brief candle; both ends burning / An endless mile; a bus wheel turning / A friend to share the lonesome times / A handshake and a sip of wine / So say it loud and let it ring / We are all a part of everything / The future, present and the past / Fly on proud bird / You’re free at last. - written by Charlie Daniels, en route to the funeral for his friend, Ronnie Van Zant of the band, Lynyrd Skynyrd. / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / all rights reserved. photo taken at teton state hospital. / more of my work is available at www.abandonedamerica.org
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Freckles a 6 month young Pit Bull at the SPCA here in Las Vegas, his foster parents dropped him off last week after recovering from a leg amputation and Freckles is also deff. Well his Foster parents came back today to adopt him since they miss him so much…oh wow what a happy ending. / He is a beautiful and loveable dog and so much fun to be around with, all he wants to do is give away kisses. CanonXTi Featured on Redbubble Home Page, July 2009 / Thank you so much Redbubble Featured in: Cats & Dogs Group, March 2009 / Thank you Angie Featured in: Canon DSLR Group, March 2009 / Thank you Cora Featured in: Playful Photogenic Pets, March 2009 / Thank you Thoughtful Featured in: The Feature Fraternity , March 2009 / Thank you Pip Featured in: You’re Accepted, May 2009 / Thanks to all Hosts Featured in: Live, Love, Dream, May 2009 / Thank you Isa Featured in: Photography 101, May 2009 / Thank you Taylor Featured in: Selective Coloring, May 2009 / Thanks to all Hosts Voted # 1 out of 91 in the Dogs Only – Close-Ups Challenge / in the Cats and Dogs Group, March 2009 All proceeds will got to the NSPCA The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
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I love Freckles so much I had to download another one of his Image. / Sorry everybody for seeing Freckles again. Freckles is Deaf and has 1 leg amputated after abuse. He was at the NSPCA but got adopted by his Foster Parents. My Magic Place is at the NSPCA Canon XTi / Aperture: 5.0 / Shutterspeed: 1/200 / Lens: 70-300 Featured in: Canon DSLR, May 2009 / Thanks to all Hosts Featured in: That One Great Shot, May 2009 / Thanks to all Hosts Featured in: Image Writing, May 2009 / Thanks to all Hosts Featured in: Canon Vs Nikon, May 2009 / Thanks to all Hosts Featured in the Shoshin Group, May 2009 / Thanks to all Hosts All proceeds will got to the NSPCA The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
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easily one of the grandest and most ornate asylums ever built, / algonquin river state hospital was a cause of great local controversy during construction / due to running far over budget. the extravagance is evident in the beautiful masonry, / the ornamental woodwork, the stained glass windows with their decorative yet functional iron grating. / olmsted, the man who designed central park, laid out the grounds and the span of the wings / is half a mile, if you walked end to end. / to do so now is impossible. / in an ironic twist, the much-contested (and extremely expensive) yellow pine floors / fared far less impressively over time than those made of other, cheaper materials. / the epic scale of the structural collapse, combined with a devastating fire last summer, / make algonquin river state hospital quite possibly the most deadly building in existence. / floors like the one shown here / give way into gaping abysses, punji pits full of sharp, splintered boards / fanning out from the basement like jagged teeth in the ever-hungry mouth of death itself. / to take this photo i had to make it from the crumbling doorway on the left / onto the sagging mess in the extreme foreground. the floor shifted beneath my feet / and my added weight sent dust and debris cascading ominously into oblivion below. / it was quite possibly the most frightening moment of my life, second only to the one / where i had to get back into the doorway with no real solid ground to support me as i inched closer. / i may not be terribly afraid of death. i may even frequently wish for it. / i am, however, afraid of being paralyzed, of falling onto a rotted shard of floorboard and / laying impaled and broken for hours, with no real help available. i am not too proud / to admit that i wanted nothing more than to stay in the relative safety of the door frame, / or that i am glad that i will never again have to make the nerve-wracking leap of faith / back to the only exit. / that being said, i would do it again if i had to. there is no better example than algonquin / that all things fall apart, and i feel a certain kinship with it. we are both collapsing inside, / and it is an odd thing to see before your very eyes what you imagine / your own heart looks like. / very odd indeed. / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- photo taken at algonquin river state hospital. all rights reserved. / more of my work is available on abandonedamerica.org
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if one cares at all for the truth, it is important / to periodically step back and look at what defines / the world around us, and by extension, ourselves. / in algonquin river state hospital’s case, it is defined by / its grand ambitions and idealistic foundation / and now, by the collapse of these noble ambitions. / it is a place haunted by the scores of tragedies that litter its past, / by its inability to integrate into the world around it, / and its inevitable decline into obsolescence and disrepair - / much like me. / if i were to be honest, i don’t want to see it demolished, / but i don’t want to see it restored either. / it is what it is because of these things, / and its status as some behemoth / enshrouded in its own obscurity and decay makes it / larger than life, legendary even. / to tear it down to make some development or store / seems so pedestrian, insultingly dull, in much the same way as / trying to undo all of the damage wrought upon it, / cleaning it and sterilizing it and packaging it for the masses / ultimately belittles what it truly is. you may look at it / and wince at the sheer scale of the calamity it has become, / but no matter what you think it has finally revealed its true nature, / and has become something far more intricate and ornate / than our ordinary world, / with its gray cubicles and prefabricated sentiments, allows. / to see algonquin river state hospital, you have to actively seek it, / much like you are making a pilgrimage to some hallowed site / that is a shrine to all that fails, all hopes that are smashed by time. / to change it, to ‘save’ it, ultimately destroys it anyway. / and so too, i suppose there is something necessary about / my own longing to leave this world. if i were not consumed by my / relentless desire for my own destruction, why would i seek such things? / sometimes it is the very things that eat us apart, / that ultimately kill us, even, that are our own defining characteristics. / i have no delusions about my own greatness, or lack thereof, but nevertheless / if edgar allen poe wouldn’t have followed a trajectory that left him / dead in some back street’s gutter, if van gogh hadn’t followed a path / of loneliness so severe that it drove him mad - / would we ever know of their works? would they even have accomplished any? / i postulate that dissatisfaction is the mother of creation. / without it we have no incentive to create or to change, as / contentment is suspicious of change, lest it throw off comfortable equilibrium. / and so i suppose my own defining characteristics are a necessary evil. / were i to be happy, were i not to suffer, / this work that i do that defines me, that is paradoxically one of my only joys / would likely cease to be as well. / i don’t want to be a walmart, a business park, a playground. / when i am gone, let it be left to those few who care / to wonder at what drove me to do what i do, and / what frightening and magnificent things i saw in places like this. / i have chosen this path and where it will lead me, all in the hope that / it will entertain, edify, and maybe even enlighten / those of you gracious enough to join me and peer into my life through / the small window of my camera’s lens. / this is my downward spiral in all its splendor, friends. / enjoy. / -—-—-—-—-—-——- / photo taken at algonquin river state hospital. / more of my work is online at www.abandonedamerica.org
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there is something eerie about staring down through / the remains of rooms where the flooring has collapsed. / it goes beyond the mortal fear of falling and death, / beyond the realization that there but for the grace of god go i. / maybe there is some inate sense that this is not something that is or should be possible. / it is like staring through holes torn in the fabric of different dimensions / and it throws off your balance and perspective, leaving everything askew. / splintered shards of boards jut off at illogical angles, / heavy radiators dangle from pipes like rusted fruit on steel vines, / and doorways swing outward into cavernous voids. / people once walked, talked, worked, and slept / along these planes now almost entirely inaccessable to man. / distant portals open to rooms and wards whose secrets will remain hidden / until they are erased by decay, by fire, by the wrecking ball. / there is always this pervasive sense that these are the areas where the answers lie, / that if one only pushes a little harder, takes a few more risks / this search for who knows what will produce some tangible results / and this consuming drive well somehow be rewarded with / reprieve, release, redemption. / this is the nature of my obsession. when you look at me, / you should see not what lies before you / my physical shell, a fragmented collection of skin and bones and blood. / you should see the conspicuous absence of what i was, what i could be, / of my very spirit, which has divorced itself from my corporeal form. / i once walked and talked, worked and slept along planes / now almost entirely inaccessable to man. / even now as we speak i am drifting somewhere, restless / stuck in limbo, in the space between floors. / -—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— more available at my (recently updated) site, www.abandonedamerica.org / photo taken at algonquin state hospital / all rights reserved. may not be reproduced without permission.
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Freckles a 6 month young Pit Bull at the SPCA here in Las Vegas, his foster parents dropped him off last week after recovering from a leg amputation and Freckles is also deff. Well his Foster parents came back today to adopt him since they miss him so much…oh wow what a happy ending. / He is a beautiful and loveable dog and so much fun to be around with, all he wants to do is give away kisses. I can’t help it but I just love his photos, so here is part 3 Top Ten in Mood & Ambience CanonXTi Dogs / Freckles the Pit / Cats / Dog Paintings / Pear Paintings / People / Misc / Flowers / Las Vegas /
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the same cold fate awaits them all; / every empire must eventually fall. / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—— photo taken at atlantic avenue electric company / more work is on my site, www.abandonedamerica.org
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photo taken at algonquin river state hospital. / more of my work is available at www.abandonedamerica.org
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/ thousands die at noon / sometimes the bodies / can not bee seen / consumed by the first sin / slithering in / casting stones at others / is always the first / the rest / lay waiting for the zenith / of sunspots to burn Frivolity and Passion / / Frivolity and Passion / fused even / Dancing queen in pink / frivolious to the end / passion sings in pure wink / a steay flow of romance / lending each other hand in hand, / a way to fly to the story / that ends in a union fit for life / unseen and unheard of / but created none the less / the roots are deeper than you think
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A fractal sphere covered in ovaloid shapes generated by fractal geometry. Created with Xenodream
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photo taken at algonquin state hospital. / more of my work is viewable at www.abandonedamerica.org
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photo taken at atlantic avenue power company. more of my work is viewable on abandonedamerica.org
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photo taken at algonquin river state hospital. / more of my work is on www.abandonedamerica.org
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I was puppy sitting for a friend for a few days & I couldn’t help but take a few pics of her ~ she’s so dang cute!!!! My cats, however did not think so at all! =) FEATURED in the group Cats and Dogs
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You know him. You love him. Here he is. Another 1 hour portrait. Hope you dig it. Oils on 8” x 10” canvas panel.
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all that remains of this once thriving outdoor movie theater is the sign…located along historic route 66 in southern illinois near edwardsville…
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photo taken at cambria gas and electric. all rights reserved. / more of my work is viewable at www.abandonedamerica.org
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“Better to light a candle for one lost dog than to curse the darkness of man’s indifference. Saving just one dog won’t change the world, but it surely will change the world for that one dog.” – Richard C. Call — ...save a life… adopt a dog from a shelter or rescue…
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The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. / Psalm9:17 / Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. / Psalm55:15 / ......................... / There are so many places in the Bible , That tell you there is a true Hell. / And that Jesus died on the cross for our sins so we never have to go there. / He went for us.But we have to desided if we Trust Jesus are not… / Know one can make you believe but no one pays the price but you. / All we can do is tell you that Jesus is real and that He truely loves you. / ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, / This was done in Corel x2 ..Shape , and free hand , useing grarnet to catch colors. / / ..........
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