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Shed, Ballarat, Victoria

Next time I drove through Ballarat, it was gone.

NIKON D700
60mm · f/5.6 · 1/500s · ISO 200
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I love this shot

Thanks, Jeremy! My own version of abstraction... :-)

Oh, I like this. I’m sure anybody who likes this kind of industrial grunge would like this printed big and hung on their wall!

Thanks very much, Phillip! I'd have liked a bit more footpath at the bottom. It got nibbled down in perspective correction. The capture was on a horribly hot day, shot from the middle of a road, using a prime lens. I lined it all up as best I could, but zooming out a little would have been good - except it would have risked getting splattered by a car.

Nice shot. I like it a lot, but I´ts hard to look at. Because off the horisontal lines and the contrast between the lines, its like my eyes is popping around and its like the wall is in constant movement.
And I like the big letters on the top of the picture.
Nicely done.

Thanks, Kjell! Yes, it is kind of hard to look at, now that you mention it. Puts some people off, I think. Simple and complex at the same time.

Great lines and then that solid door makes it a great composition for me. The color of the rust and the amount, with the silhouettes from the old advertising is telling me how it must have been in the glory days.

Thanks, Paul. Yes, the old shed certainly tells a story. I have an idea for a potential exhibition theme (think big, Chris!) and this would certainly be the banner image for Rust Never Sleeps.

Sounds good Chris. And you never can think big enough. Save a spot for me mate.......

Great textures, great composition! Well done.

Thanks, Sascha!

Love this!

I like this a lot.

Chris, excellent love the rust (I hear it never sleeps) it’s color and texture, and the little door. An it’s a “shed” I detecting at less another story if not two, I’m sorry even in Texas this goes well beyond shed standards and they’d call it a $#@* warehouse ;-).
We have one of these in the states now incorporated within Death Valley NP and rockhound friend of mine actually he has “the Fever” use to pronounce it Ball-a-rat than let out this maniacal laugh repeat get it, get it in-between his laughter made me question his sanity on more than one occasion, but in the same way it was kind of funny almost hilarious at times.
After that story I wouldn’t blame you if you told me it’s an ice factory (Mosquito Coast reference).