My friend Karen D’Amico, a London artist, sent me the link to Photology. It has wonderful photos of old cars, trucks, boats, other vintage stuff, along with flowers. The photos of vintage stuff remind me a bit of Walker Evans. The flowers seem like Man Ray doing a better job on Georgia O’Keefe images. Anyway they are enjoyable in their own right.
Karen also sent me a link to Abandoned Places by Henk van Rensbergen. It takes theme of abandoned images found in Photology and goes a lot further. The site says, “Old buildings, abandoned hospitals, industrial palaces overgrown with plants and trees, the remaining walls decorated with graffiti, smashed windows, rain dripping through the roof... These places have become hard to find, difficult (or illegal) to access, dangerous to explore ... great to spend the day !” He updates the site with new images. The most recent was of Château de Noisy, “a sort of Disneyland castle after 30 years of abandonment.”
Enjoy. You should also check out Karen's web site for her latest projects. I will be writing about them soon.
Thanks for the tip--sounds interesting! Have you had any time for painting or photography lately? I recently took on a website design job myself, so my time's been pressed like never before recently. The money will be good, but I miss the free time.
Posted by: Lana | January 09, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Lana- Thanks. I have been working full time on my blog consulting work for over a year and have not done any painting in this time. The only photos I take are from trips or around my neighborhood. I really miss the painting but I am glad to have the work in today's economy. Companies still see the need to make use of blogs to gain better awareness, perhaps even more so now. Bill
Posted by: Bill Ives | January 10, 2009 at 10:17 AM