The beauty of lost places

[Skybird]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,774636,00.html

The pictures it is about, zoom them!

I've always got a soft spot for the melancholy of industrial ruins and rusty railtracks thgat get reconqured by nature. The pictures above show the same way.

[danasan]

There are a lot of really brilliant shots in there. Especially the HDR photography gives a lot of possibilities to the artist. :yeah:

[joea]

Fantastic shots-Nature always reclaims what's hers in the end.

[Growler]

Fantastic shots-Nature always reclaims what's hers in the end.

Sort of along the lines of what an old roommate of mine once said in regard to recycling: "Be patient. Everything's biodegradable in the end."

[jumpy]

I'd almost call cgi on some of those. However that whole abandoned building thing has a certain allure to be sure.

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/index.php you might be interested in some of the places visited in that site Sky :up:

[Schroeder]

I would have preferred them without the digital alterations....I like to see the real thing. (I'm a party poopper I know:O:)