A native to Newfoundland, growing up and experiencing the culture and changes from the past the Province is littered with old houses, fishing stages, abandoned buildings and more interestingly WWI & II structures and American military stations and outposts. Sadly most are now abandoned from even a historical/heritage perspective but make for great places to take pictures.

Therefore I would like to introduce!
Weekly Challenge #64: Ruins

It doesn't have to be war related I just find it interesting how you can visualize the conditions or places soldiers were then compared to what we see now.

Please submit entries till midnight GMT on Thursday, July 17th, 2008.


The rules are as always:

The rules:
1. Post ONE photo (max 1000x1000).
2. The photo must portray an interpretation of the theme. It can be colour or B&W, your choice.
3. You can offer as much or as little additional information as you wish, but I'd be interested to know the location/event/whatever being depicted.
4. The challenge is interactive. Any response is welcome.
5. The judge will pick the WINNERS and chose 1 of them to be the judge for the next week.
6. The challenge runs for 7 days plus a day for the judge to choose the winners.
7. Any Pentax camera will do or a Samsung DSLR.

Previous Challenge Subjects:
1-Statues, 2-Wheels, 3-Speed, 4-Peace, 5-Survival, 6-Macro, 7-Mountains, 8-Children, 9-Post Processing, 10- Windows & Doors, 11-Sport, 12-Urban Landscape, 13-Wisdom, 14-Power, 15-Music, 16-Pathways, 17-Lines, 18-Storm, 19-Boats, 20-Water, 21 - Golden Hour, 22 - Natural Lighting, Portraits, 23-Motion Blur, 24-Simplicity, 25-Color, 26-Cars, 27-Repetition, 28-Wildlife, 29-Epiphany, 30-Contrast, 31-Pets, 32-Landscapes, 33-Coastal, 34-Churches, 35-Bridges, 36-Creation, 37-Still Life: Food, 38-At the Zoo, 39-Wide Aperture, 40-Merry Christmas, 41- Sunsets, 42-Action, 43-Fireworks, 44-Manipulated Light Portraits, 45- Advertising/Product Shot, 46- B&W Street Shooting, people/buildings, 47-Vanishing Point, 48-Reflection, 49-Tranquility, 50-Expressions, 51-S Curve, 52-Hands, 53-Shadows, 54-Your Favorite Beverage, 55-Barriers, 56-Perspective, 57-Night Scenes, 58-Zen-like...Water and Stone， 59-Modern architecture, 60 - Sunrises, 61-Red, 62- Action on water, 63 - Bodies in Motion, 64 - Ruins

Example from a walk through of the CPS-6B radar station base in Red Cliff, NL. The complete structure and dome was around 100' in height built in the early 50's.




Best of Luck and Be SAFE if you're on the hunt for images!!

[Bramela]

I withdrew previous submission, got the wrong comp. Am I losing a few marbles or what
My entry. As I said before Aussie photographers dont have what I would class as ruins, only derelict buildings . UK shooters would have what you would really class as ruins, castles and the like.

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[F-Stop]

Bramela, would you be able to post a colored picture of that also?

[Arjay Bee]

What with the prolonged drought and all that image of Bramela's may well be the colour version... ;-).

Re ruins in Australia, lots of convict construction in Tasmania which are now over 200 years old -
I look forward to seeing more of these.

[russblack]

Great Subject: 3 weeks of touring Ireland and Scotland it becomes hard to select just one ruin.

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[dws1117]

Not a real good picture but it's all I have to fit the category.

This is an old drain pipe that is sticking out ogf the sea wall in Galveston, Texas.

[Bramela]

Greg (Fstop) here is t he coloured version of my photo as requested. This is a shot taken on film and scanned. It would have to be at least 7 to 8 years old. Pentax SF7 if I remember rightly. Actually it took me some time to find the original photo :-)

[J.Scott]

We came upon the ruins of an abandoned sugar cane mill on an old plantation while on St. Lucia. This is what's left of the huge water wheel.

[tpeace]

[axl]

great submissions so far, everybody well done...
I'll see if I can submit anything... but anyway, judge is going to have it really hard...
keep them coming

[Workingdog]

A steam era relic found at a West Virginia coal mine. This will be a tough week to judge; lots of great submissions.
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[davef]

Abandoned School House
Milton, Ontario

[gawan]

Hard to find ruins, but here is one:

[Bactman]

Taken in Cedar Rapids, IA following devestating flooding over a month ago. This is the first of set of photos taken following the flooding.

Pentax K100d with Tamron 28-75 mm f2.8

[NaClH2O]

The New York Pavilion of the 1964-1965 World's Fair. Phillip Johnson the architect, said of it, words to the effect that as a ruin, it is much more interesting now than it was during the Fair.
Shot thru a gap in a plywood security gate. For more shots go to my thread "Blimp orbits the globe" in the "Post your photos" forum


NaCl(thanks for the topic! I had a great time photographing this structure)H2O

[alohadave]

This is a doorway to the Erechtheion on the Parthenon in Athens.