RAILROAD DEPOT--KEELER, CA.

Keeler, a thriving town on the Owens Lake. Then the Los Angeles

Department of Power and Water took all the water from the Owens River,

and that was it for the Owens Lake and any town near it. Just a dried

up town now next to a dried up lake.

This building has a huge amount of old time charm. Could you not try to crop out the van.

Would improve the shot immeasurably.

Well done!

Thanks for the view and leaving a comment.

i don't think the van is going anywhere... soon it too will have its share of weeds and shrub sneaking into its rusting innards...

I really like the scenario you created here: the old building seems normal in size, and the trailer seems like for tiny hobbits. Unfortunately, the stop sign on the right spoils it a bit, as it gives the photo a sense of scale - I would crop the pic closer to the building. Nice find. And look...the trailer has balls, too - should it wear some underwear? Cars have bras, so why couldn't trailers have underwear? This should be in the Nudes section. (BTW, I juice vegetables now - not buying V8 any more.) Cheers, Micheal

The little trailer is in danger. Either the weeds will consume it or the building will fall and crush it. But for the moment it's the bright spot in an otherwise grim scene.

I understand what you are saying, and it would work that way. My thought in leaving the street signs was to show that this was a "normal" town and was even big enough to have stop signs and street markers.

I too like the patina of the house, it is so beautiful, The van is a bit of a distraction as it takes too much attention imo because of its shinning colors. I tried to crop it and change it to a sqaure, and I liked it even better. What do you think? It fits beautifuly with the blue sky.

My original thought was to have this modern little trailer next to the old decaying building, as a sort of ode to what becomes of all things living and not. Twenty years from now the trailer will be decaying and falling apart too, as well as covered by vegetation. I can see what you are saying, and it would still be just as valid to do it that way, but I think it is a different picture when done that way. That's the fun of Pnet. Everyone has their own view of the same subject matter.

So anachronistic, this little station weathering in the middle of nowhere with its hiked up porch revealing bare railings. The neon green shutters on the back of the camper van also works, resulting in head-scratching conjectures about where, when, and why.

And how loudly "we" ridiculed the Russians for destroying par of the Lake Bajkal, when "we" did a same thing, or worst, in our backyard. I like the building. I would take a shoot from the window or part of the building, window and the ventilation window.

 

Cheers; Bela

Thanks to both of you for the view and comments.

Very nice composition here, David, and effective juxtaposition of objects. A good one.