Dear Friends:

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! A few more shots from the same location as in the original Fall-ing Structure post. I took these today. I had to go back and explore the site a bit more. The basketball goal is cemented (had a cement base, which makes this location truly odd). Under the thick layer of leaves and brambles there seems to be a small raised area made of cement (the goal is on that), and around that old boards. I hope you like the different perspective offered on these shots from today. I used a Sigma 10-20mm as I wanted a more expansive feeling. Guess where the lines are from?

Great series. It must have been interesting from the free throw line.

Cheers Ray

Thanks Ray, it still remains a puzzler to me the why's and wherefore of this basketball goal, but it has been a neat find and everytime I go I see something new to me.

Thanks,

N

Is it (the basketball goal) fixed or is it portable?

-Jim

Jim, I tried to move it, and while there was flex, it was definitely stuck. I moved the leaves covering the base and found that it has a cement base (crumbling a bit with time and water), and seems stuck on that spot!

Thanks!,

N

Glad to know I'm not crazy for asking about hoop in your first post! Truly bizarre! These are a great second set of shots, by the way. You've caught the moss nicely. Looks like a furry tree and cement walls.

Nice capture and use of dof, particularly in #2. The gloom makes me shudder. And the great lines are from Eliot's "The Hollow Men."

I really like image #2. All of the nested rectangles are cool. Then throw in the BB goal for a bizarre twist. Nicely weird. Thanks for sharing these. -Tom

Tom, Sjkk, T-bone, thanks for the kind words. Sjkk, yes indeed, from The Hollow Men. It seemed very appropriate for this hollow structure. I'lll collect all the images, including those from the first group, and put them together as a series (and standardize the post-processing for them). Thanks again,

N

Another interesting installment in your series. My favorite is the 2nd, frames inside frames, a classical theme, revisited here with originality (cement, moss and wood).
The angles in the other images are a bit on the far side for my taste.

santiago

Excellent tones with mysterious feeling

Thanks Santiago, and Thanks Lazlo. I do like number 2 also the best probably. Interesting to me that a few folks have felt a mysterious, gloomy, or somber quality to it. I sense a more somber rather than gloomy character, but the processing is purposefully directed at low-keyish look. The lines from the Hollow Men do evoke more of a sense of emotional heavyness.

Thanks again!

N

Super series. I really like the third for its perspective. Like rust, apparently moss never sleeps.