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• This topic was chosen by Jim D, who won our last Challenge.
  
  
  What a wonderful variety of subjects this offers!  Thank you Jim D for suggesting this new topic!
  
  Please read carefully the "Details" about what is expected, and the rules for posting your photos.
  
  Details as described by Jim D:
  "I'm a big fan of images of weathered wood on vintage/old structures, but almost anything else that could be titled "weathered" (like metal or cloth objects, outdoors people's faces - you name it) will fit this theme nicely. Let's use our imaginations and most of all, have fun taking pictures."
  
  
  Let's encourage folks by letting them know we're enjoying their entries.  
  

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• Please upload up to 4 entries per member for this challenge.  

• The challenge is open now and will be closed to uploads on September 10, 2011  and then we'll vote on them.  

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• Of course, we're going to see who is posting the photos so this is not an anonymous challenge.  So start posting.  Click on the "Reply" button below and start this challenge!
  
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  Remember, this is a fun project!  

Rock Island Line



Taken with a Canon S5IS somewhere near Stillwater, Oklahoma. I was driving down a main road, saw this, and my sweet husband was kind enough to slam on the brakes and pull over, then try to avoid having a heart attack as I tried not to get run over getting the photo as it was on the opposite side of the road and down a ways and it wouldn't have been legal (or wise) to put the car in reverse. Lucky for me he's more like   than   when he sees me go into "must get that shot" mode.  

Wagon Wheel

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Plow

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Barn

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Old Wagon

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The Old Passes Away



After watching this old barn deteriorate for years, it finally hit me...this barn is like my old, mortal self.  I was Spirit inspired to write a short blog post about it (http://bigskyken.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/the-old-passes-away/) last April.  Now, every time I pass that old barn, I see it as a reminder that "For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain" (Phil 1:21).

Lothair (MT) Elevator



It seems that every old abandoned elevator marks the end of another rural town.  In the quest for bigger, better and more efficient, families migrate to the cities and our culture loses one more tie with the industries that feed and clothe them.  Perhaps I was just born two generations too late!
(Canon 5D MkII @ 70mm f/13 1/800 ISO 800)

The Old Outhouse

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I'm sure a few of us can remember the days when  we had to go outside just to use the bathroom. All I can say is "Thank God for Indoor Plumbing."

Steve

Oh Buoy

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A channel marker buoy washed up on the beach. lots of textures here.

Driftwood

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Weathered old piece of a tree.

Lincoln NM

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This is an old house on the main street of Lincoln, New Mexico. This is the town where Billy The Kid became famous.

King Of Pop

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The king is the one with the "Royal Crown", right?
Old store front and cold drink box.

Miles Of Memories

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Nikon D80
This old Rusty car probably holds a lot of memories for someone.

Old Kentucky Store 
And Post Office

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Nikon 6006

Times have passed when a Country store is the center of Town and also has the Post Office inside.

Old Georgia Mill

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This old Mill has seen it's days but is still a Popular place for Tourists.

Nikon D70

Old Ruin 1

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Photo taken in Santa Fe...just in back of a Mission church there
Canon Sure Shot

Old Ruin 2

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in back of a Church Mission in Santa Fe

Old Barn

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....Richmond, Utah

Athenry Priory



This Domincan friary was built between 1241 and 1252 AD, near Athenry Town, County Galway, Ireland.  The ravages of time, assisted by Cromwell's soldiers in 1652, have taken their toll on structure.
(Canon 5D Mk II, 43mm, 1/80, f/22, ISO 400)

After the Storm

The Balcony

Suicide Bridge-Outback Australia

Got Paint?

Abandoned

Waterlogged

Old Sugar Mill Florida

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Neither Snow, Rain, nor Heat...



Canon S90

Horse Drawn Trolley




Canon PowerShot S90

Weathered By Irene