{"id":4494,"date":"2004-05-20T00:02:25","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T04:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2016-02-13T00:04:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T04:04:47","slug":"just-as-i-found-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=4494","title":{"rendered":"“JUST AS I FOUND IT”"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Originally posted on the website Continuum…)<\/p>\n

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MAY 20, 2004 – THEME: FRAME<\/strong><\/p>\n

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On recent photo hunts, I’ve been taking shots of abandoned structures. The house in this photo is on a country road near Changewater, New Jersey. The place looks like whoever lived there just up and left one day. There is a washer and dryer just inside that open window. There are rusty bikes leaning against the back of an old barn. There’s an old doghouse with a pile of logs and boards next to it. Even the dog took off. Places like these make me wonder what the heck happened here. I want to hear the story and know what happened to everyone and why the property was left to decay.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I fool myself into thinking that I can stop the decay with my camera. I can bring it all to a halt. It is my resistance to change, my reluctance to accept the fact that all material things wear out and fade away. Ultimately, the captured images are reminders that I too shall wear out and fade away one day. I will show my defiance by turning the decay into art.<\/p>\n

Below are a few other photos from this site, not part of the Theme Thursday project, just presented to satisfy the curious.<\/p>\n

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(Originally posted on the website Continuum…) MAY 20, 2004 – THEME: FRAME On recent photo hunts, I’ve been taking shots of abandoned structures. The house in this photo is on a country road near Changewater, New Jersey. The place looks like whoever lived there just up and left one day. There is a washer and … Continue reading ““JUST AS I FOUND IT””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,45,78,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continuum","category-new-jersey","category-photos","category-theme-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4495,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions\/4495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}