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Time Paints With Rust

Time Paints With Rust

May 20, 2016 //  by A. Cemal Ekin

Time Paints With Rust

This post is an anniversary gift from me to Jan, and from her to me, 45 years and going strong!

Time and nature working together give us growing plants, blossoms, growing trees. They also collaborate to decay things left in the arms of nature and cared for by time. This kind of work is visible on a grand scale in nature, canyons, river beds, rock formations and the like. It is also visible on less grand a scale on things left in the open over time, like old cars in a junkyard.

We visited the North Smithfield Auto Recycling, aka the junkyard! There are old relics from the times when they were powerful machines and status symbols. Now, the sit side by side telling each other memories from their storied past. The yard is full of vehicles where one can find parts for restoration or inexpensive replacement for newer cars. You can see famous marquees in various stages of decay and rust on the Memory Lane. I do not really know what attracts photographers to decay of various kinds. I find the experience interesting partly because of their ability to take me to earlier times, some kind of time travel; and in part due to the ability of time and nature to create unexpected abstractions using the vehicles’ metal, paint, rust, and other parts. On these materials, time seems to paint with rust!

Below are some of the photographs Jan and I took, they seem to complement one another!

Glass Abstract - Photo by Jan Ekin
Handle #1 - Photo by Jan Ekin
Handle #2 - Photo by Jan Ekin
Handle #3 - Photo by Jan Ekin
Handle #4 - Photo by Jan Ekin
Handle #5 - Photo by Jan Ekin
Rust Abstract - Photo by Jan Ekin
Handle #6
Handle #7
Handle #8
Handle #9
Handle #10
Handle #11
Handle #12
Handle #13
Hood ornaments were Ornaments!
Talk Rusty To Me!
Time Paints WIth Rust #1
Time Paints With Rust #2
Time Paints With Rust #3
Time Paints With Rust #4
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Once roared on the roads, this bird is for parts now
Used to be a desirable feature
Used to be a desirable feature
A-Peeling Abstract
A-Peeling Abstract
A-Peeling Abstract
Cemal and Jim among their peers! - Photo by Jan Ekin
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  1. Markus

    May 22, 2016 at 11:24 am

    Congratulations to the 45 years, Cemal – in our time this is quite an achievement!

    And I enjoyed the images. They certainly do what photographs can do best: Show (and keep) how things look(ed) like, And this way, they allow us to rediscover hidden beauty, hopefully even teach me how to open my eyes a bit wider.

    • A. Cemal Ekin

      May 22, 2016 at 2:51 pm

      Thank you Markus, for stopping by and for your kind words. We appreciate it.

      Cemal

  2. RAMAZAN KAMARI

    May 23, 2016 at 3:19 am

    Gerçekten çok güzel “contemplative” fotoğraflar. Ankara’daki hurdacılar sitesinde böyle güzel arabalar bulmak mümkün değil gibi. Ama ilk fırsatta orayı ziyaret edeceğim. Benim için ilham kaynağı olan yazılarınızı severek takip ediyorum.

    Esenlikler diliyorum.

    • A. Cemal Ekin

      May 23, 2016 at 9:28 am

      Cok tesekkur ederim Ramazan. Hani bir laf vardir “Misafir umdugunu degil buldugunu yer” diye; fotograf icin de gecerli galiba “Fotografci umdugunu degil buldugunu goruntuler.” Oralardaki pazar yerleri ve bir cok goruntu de buralar da yok! Bakalim neler ciakcak hurdacilardan.

      Selamlar,

      Cemal

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