Sanctuary
by wbanning

Comment:
This is obviously a fascinating site. I believe that if you chose some aspect of it in particular you would have produced a stronger image. The walls are interesting and the church buildings have great character. Nevertheless, I rated it fairly well because I enjoyed touring the grounds.

Once loved, now forgotten...
by eniko

Comment:
Kind of a cliche, but affecting nonetheless.

Long Gone
by GolferDDS

Comment:
Here's a ghostly presence of tilted planes and jumbled angles under the onslaught of eager vegetation. It's so overgrown that the building itself is as much inference as actuality. I very much like this curious hybrid under a busy sky, filling the frame and enjoyable.

A coat of paint won't fix this...
by Ja-9

Comment:
This reminds me of Dorothy's house in Kansas. That the grounds about it are tended indicates a human presence somewhere. I like the many shades of gray in the roof and outer sheathing. The roiling sky is nicely ominous. It's very sharpened. The sofa is welcoming. The antenna was probably put up at a later point in time to keep in touch with Oz.

Relic from the past
by Neat

Comment:
After looking at this a bit I felt some dissonance lurking -- namely, it looks like an old photograph of an old plane, but that plane would have been new-ish, probably, when the shot was taken, in order for it to look old now. Or maybe my logic is faulty, so then please disregard and accept my apologies.
In any case, I like the directness and the processing. And I can also enjoy that sense of dislocation. If it's really there.

The Well Driller's Truck
by NikonJeb

Comment:
Terrific, intimate study of this very old car - look at the headlamp - lost, sort of, in the depths of a thick forest. Or at least it feels like a deep, thick forest. Raiders of the Lost Ark-ish. Swaddled in time. I love how the spreading rays of sunlight seem like a spiderweb. I don't know if this is real or obtained through processing - just curious. First prize for the most abandoned looking object in the challenge. Really fine image.

Inside the old factory
by skewsme

Comment:
A wide angle lens is used to great effect here, exaggerating the perspective and establishing the inside/outside feeling, even though it's all outside. There's a mood of quiet and magic. The composition is complex and satisfying. The sky is pretty. Enchanting.

Pasture Parking Lot
by patches

Comment:
Classic cars and trucks never die, they simply rust away. These look handsome and proud, poised to hit the road. The edenic setting is likewise lush and and promising, cows and all. A latter day John Constable painting. Fine, fun image.

Olf factory
by Sisto

Comment:
Looks like an old postcard with its faded coloration and its centered, declarative composition. I like how the generous foreground is taken up by the field gone wild, establishing the extent of abandonment. The sky is cunningly festooned with dark clouds in the gray background, as if the smokestack has mysteriously returned to life. I very much like the overall feel.

hope
by HUETH

Comment:
Without the boat's name this would still be an admirable image, but what charm it adds. There's something stoically noble about this attenuated craft. The spindly angled supports are echoed by the pilings, if that's what they are, by the shore and the barely visible line of telephone or electric poles on the flat, slender horizon. Overcast and still.