Melancholy

Maybe it's the lack of sunshine and the life sustaining Vitamin D, but this time of year I always get a sense of melancholy. Couple that with this urban decay fascination I've been developing and you get where I'm at in this space and time. It's not all bad, I've gained an appreciation for the run down, the rusty, the grim and the abandoned in life. I recently found on Flickr that there are others like me who love the decaying storefronts and the dilapidated buildings of our decaying inner cities and mill towns, while it's sad, it is also inspiring in the way in that people are going out there and photographing every rusty nuance and turning it into photographic art and giving the decay new life. We are recording a life well lived and making art out of the "Patina of Life". It's all good.

Reporting live from the heart of the rusty triangle...
-YD

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