barrel door

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a matching door for the fence blinds shown yesterday, this door is one of the rare cases where the recycling/upgrading path left the original structure well visible and self-contingent, not mixing in or adding other components.

the fence, too, is a case of recycling: the net was beyond repair and unsuitable to catch fishes any more. it still is, however, fit to keep the hen in the garden. together with the pine twigs and the cones optically it makes up for a fine structure.

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hard ride

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probably something for andreas manessinger, who is quite often posting bicycle pictures. i started to travel regularly to sri lanka in 2003, and since then a lot has changed regarding bikes. while you still find a lot of bikes like this - they are just means of transport, and when income is lacking, nobody bothers with repairing - recently leisure biking has started: on sunday morning you find young people on the road on modern bikes, seemingly unaffected of sri lanka motorized traffic endangerment: suicide can be painless here, roadrunning is only for the really tough ones.

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no diamonds, just rust

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one of the rare occasions i could break out of that usual mission cycle of visiting one rainwater harvesting tank or well or toilet after the other, and just take 7 minutes on the road, for a moment concentrating only on shape, graphics structure. not that i would take this monitoring not seriously, it is just that my attention is suddenly grabbed by some details.

and i had to learn the hard way that procrastinating means loss. i cannot come back there for reasons of time and transport - i do have the position thanks to a small gps logger i always have in my pocket - so i try to snap whatever is interesting immediately and without too much fiddling.

the harvest then only begins after returning home, and fighting the jet lag through staying up until late gives the opportunity to go through the collections. diamonds i rarely find, but even rust can be rewarding.

what you see here are fence blinds, attached to the fence posts to give a little privacy on the 250m² plots, where a big part of the life happens in the garden.

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color and rust

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maybe it's only a sort of necrophilia, but i do have to admit that i usually enjoy broken down machinery much more than the new, chrome fineshed, ultra polished specimen.

having half an hour to wander around next to the kid's skiing area, i noticed an old tractor left under some elder bushes for further decay. the sun was still high and the shadows harsh and no uniform background available for a shot of the whole carcass, so i resorted to some detail shots. during postprocessing i desaturated a bit, it makes the turquoise painting less presumptuous.

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