Barbed Comment

[thronobulax]

Yet another from my ongoing trip down memory lane.

[Aug. 1998] Barbed Comment

19" f/11 APO Artar, 4x5 Bergger BPF 200@EI125, PMK Pyro



[Aug. 1998] Barbed Comment

Wisner Technical Field, 19" f/11 APO Artar, 4x5 Bergger BPF 200@EI125, PMK Pyro, scan of silver print

 

[Marley's Ghost]

I have a bit of a thing about photographing barbed wire - as well as being texturally interesting It can be used in context to put all sorts of emotions into an image.

 

[thronobulax]

I have a bit of a thing about photographing barbed wire - as well as being texturally interesting It can be used in context to put all sorts of emotions into an image.

We all have what I'd suggest are photographic "fetishes"

Mine involve finding beauty in industrial detritus, decay, dilapidation, general evidence of entropy and patterns in apparent randomness.

In this case, the imperfect wind of the barbed wire juxtaposed against the relative symmetry of the fence caught my eye.

 

[Marley's Ghost]

We all have what I'd suggest are photographic "fetishes"

Mine involve finding beauty in industrial detritus, decay, dilapidation, general evidence of entropy and patterns in apparent randomness.

In this case, the imperfect wind of the barbed wire juxtaposed against the relative symmetry of the fence, caught my eye.

I think we both share that fascination with dilapidation and decay: I produced a book a while back called 'Abandoned' which charted the decay of all sorts of human built structures around my part of the UK. We have quite a few Napoleonic forts, abandoned Norman Churches and hulks of abandoned Thames barges dotted around that are rich pickings.
I popped up one of my images of Cash's Well from my book in a separate thread.

 

[thronobulax]

I think we both share that fascination with dilapidation and decay: I produced a book a while back called 'Abandoned' which charted the decay of all sorts of human built structures around my part of the UK. We have quite a few Napoleonic forts, abandoned Norman Churches and hulks of abandoned Thames barges dotted around that are rich pickings.
I popped up one of my images of Cash's Well from my book in a separate thread.

You, of course, have the "advantage" of living in a place with a much longer history of civilisation(s) than we Colonists, and hence have a lot more decay at your disposal for photographic exploration. I once had to stoop whilst entering a pub somewhere in the UK because the lintel was quite low. The proprietor remarked to the effect that "chaps were not tall like you are back in the 16th century when this building was first erected"

 

[Marley's Ghost]

You, of course, have the "advantage" of living in a place with a much longer history of civilisation(s) than we Colonists, and hence have a lot more decay at your disposal for photographic exploration. I once had to stoop whilst entering a pub somewhere in the UK because the lintel was quite low. The proprietor remarked to the effect that "chaps were not tall like you are back in the 16th century when this building was first erected"

There is a tiny abandoned church I have photographed several times out in Essex that is completely intact, and simply hasn't got a congregation living around it any more. It's been sitting in the landscape for close on 1000 years! The door was locked ... and now it's just inhabited by a barn owl - and bees live in it's walls. The real age is when you find yourself in a stone circle or by a barrow or chalk carving that can be 5000 years old.
But then we are all colonists ... when I took an ancestral DNA test I'm mostly Anglo Saxon with a splash of Norse ... all settling races who came and made the UK their home nearly a millennia ago.
Maybe it's the Norse in me that finds the hulks of abandoned boats and ships the most sad and emotive subjects to photograph

 

[thronobulax]

We share a similar sensibility in this regard.

I don't know what things are like in the UK as I've not been there in some years, but here in the US the zeitgeist seems to be that something is "old" if it was in TikTok more than a day ago ...