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Weekly photo contest, Sep 2-9 2018: Decay

Donka

Donka

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Okay, photographs literally do one thing - capture a moment in time. People often try to capture that perfect moment when something is in its prime. I want to see photographs depicting things that have seen better days. It could be a rusting car, a crumbling building, an old wooden boat that is rotting away. No people pictures though - aged faces make great images but for me fall under portraiture instead of this theme.

Be creative and have fun with this one folks!
Cheers, Andy.

As per normal...
  • The photographs must be of your own creation.

  • Explore, get creative and have fun with it.

  • You may only submit one photo per weekly contest round.

  • Please do not comment on any photos until after the judging has taken place.

  • The contest runs for one week, starting NOW!

  • At the end of the week, The Judge (last week's Winner) will choose a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place photo, providing as much feedback as they possibly can.

  • If the Judge is unable to complete the selection within 48 hours of the deadline for close, then a vote will be carried out to select a winner. This will be based on the number of "likes" each image has. In the event of a draw, the second place winner from the previous week will choose the tiebreaker.

  • The 1st place Winner will start a new thread with the topic/theme of their choice, and act as the Judge for that contest. (Winner has 48 hours to create new theme, after that it defers to 2nd place).

  • Winners please update the Weekly Photo Contest Master thread

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/weekly-photo-contest-master-list-2015-tbd.1945331
 
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Donka said:
Okay, photographs literally do one thing - capture a moment in time. People often try to capture that perfect moment when something is in its prime. I want to see photographs depicting things that have seen better days. It could be a rusting car, a crumbling building, an old wooden boat that is rotting away. No people pictures though - aged faces make great images but for me fall under portraiture instead of this theme.

Be creative and have fun with this one folks!
Cheers, Andy.

As per normal...
  • The photographs must be of your own creation.

  • Explore, get creative and have fun with it.

  • You may only submit one photo per weekly contest round.

  • Please do not comment on any photos until after the judging has taken place.

  • The contest runs for one week, starting NOW!

  • At the end of the week, The Judge (last week's Winner) will choose a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place photo, providing as much feedback as they possibly can.

  • If the Judge is unable to complete the selection within 48 hours of the deadline for close, then a vote will be carried out to select a winner. This will be based on the number of "likes" each image has. In the event of a draw, the second place winner from the previous week will choose the tiebreaker.

  • The 1st place Winner will start a new thread with the topic/theme of their choice, and act as the Judge for that contest. (Winner has 48 hours to create new theme, after that it defers to 2nd place).

  • Winners please update the Weekly Photo Contest Master thread

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/weekly-photo-contest-master-list-2015-tbd.1945331
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I think you made yourself a tough one. I’m expecting some good work this round.
 
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Canon AE-1, Ektachrome around 1987. Sorry, don't have any photos when was originally built to show level of decay.
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How about a decaying town? This is Nanxun, China. The old historic centre is kept at a fragile balance between sturdy enough that it doesn’t collapse, but weathered enough that it can claim to have an authenticity which is hard to come by in such a rapidly growing and rapidly changing country.

Shot at sunrise. People work and live here still, and western tourists are quite rare (I’ve only seen one other all day).

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PS. You should go see China. It’s not like you imagine, and it’s not like you see on tv.
 
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I had nothing really good fitting the topic in my library, so I went out today and photographed so… much… rotting… wood.

Here's a detail of a large fallen tree in a public park, which had been left to show the natural process of wood decaying.

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