lots of good shots here. nice use of depth of feild and compisition. very good all. love the Black and white nice contrast.

If only I could post a pic of my mother-in-law...

I'm in no way making any political statements here, I just thought it was amusing.

CaptainJim
I've never seen such an old looking lathe, looks almost like it dates pre-WWII from the straps behind it
These things won't die as long as you take care of 'em
Great pic

Way late, just got home from work. Still-operational fire department, Arthur, Nebraska.

Real picture of a toilet in a gas station in NYC. I used the urinal (honestly, i had to go).

You know what gang, I think I may switch this contest to Wednesday nights instead of Thursday nights, especially if these are going to start appearing on Fark and not just Totalfark. Reason being, everything other weekend I pick up my daughter and usually my Thurs night before my weekend with her I need some time getting things ready for her visit. I'm just finding myself spending alot of time on here tonight.

Everyone ok with that? I'll make sure to post major notices ahead of time.

Thanks.

very late to this thread but whats another picture ya know.

dont know if thats gunna work, first time ive tried this

I'll need to go out and get better pictures of defunct scenery, mine look plain and boring compared to the amazing work here.

And Cuddlebutt, if you are ever in the Philadelphia area let me know, however I am just an almost graduated student who just likes to carry a camera around everywhere.

Photo taken with the Lomo in Northern Japan.

still dont know if this will work

hatechall

I thought I was the only one. I have to have my camera and/or camcorder everywhere I go. My friends give me hell about it. Thought getting a camera phone would solve my problem. Nope....Those camera phones don't take pics for shiat!

Wow, am I ever late to the contest...

MrJ, your picture reminded me of this:

Tractor - Ted Hughes

The tractor stands frozen - an agony
To think of. All night
Snow packed its open entrails. Now a head-pincering gale,
A spill of molten ice, smoking snow,
Pours into its steel.
At white heat of numbness it stands
In the aimed hosing of ground-level fieriness.

It defied flesh and won't start.
Hands are like wounds already
Inside armour gloves, and feet are unbelievable
As if the toe-nails were all just torn off.
I stare at it in hatred. Beyond it
The copse hisses - capitulates miserably
In the fleeing, failing light. Starlings,
A dirtier sleetier snow, blow smokily, unendingly, over
Towards plantations Eastward.
All the time the tractor is sinking
Through the degrees, deepening
Into its hell of ice.

The starting lever
Cracks its action, like a snapping knuckle.
The battery is alive - but like a lamb
Trying to nudge its solid-frozen mother -
While the seat claims my buttock-bones, bites
With the space-cold of earth, which it has joined
In one solid lump.

I squirt commercial sure-fire
Down the black throat - it just coughs.
It ridicules me - a trap of iron stupidity
I've stepped into. I drive the battery
As if I were hammering and hammering
The frozen arrangement to pieces with a hammer
And it jabbers laughing pain-crying mockingly
Into happy life.

And stands
Shuddering itself full of heat, seeming to enlarge slowly
Like a demon demonstrating
A more-than-usually-complete materialization -
Suddenly it jerks from its solidarity
With the concrete, and lurches towards a stanchion
Bursting with superhuman well-being and abandon
Shouting Where Where?

Worse iron is waiting. Power-lift kneels
Levers awake imprisoned deadweight,
Shackle-pins bedded in cast-iron cow-shiat.
The blind and vibrating condemned obedience
Of iron to the cruelty of iron,
Wheels screeched out of their night-locks -

Fingers
Among the tormented
Tonnage and burning of iron

Eyes
Weeping in the wind of chloroform

And the tractor, streaming with sweat,
Raging and trembling and rejoicing.

/apologies to hatechall

/School's out

Oops, and in my haste, I misunderstood the contest...
I wish I had the picture of my rusted out pc case. I took it a week ago.

Machtyn Wow, am I ever late to the contest...

Actually..you are early for next weeks contest! ;-)

I guess I should read more, post less. My pic is clearly in violation.

/ducks head and shamefully leaves thread

C'mon all you Asbury Park, NJ Farkers... you've got lots to work with...

Lieutenant Monkey
Definately no need to apologise for that!

third times a charm...i have no clue what im doing

o2sk8:
My copy of 1984 looks exactly like that, except where I colored it with a purple crayon when I was 3.

These were all amazing! I'll have to pick up a camera and try to get the next one.

hatechall
Definately no need to apologise for that!

Cheers mate ;)

asbury park NJ as requested. I couldn't find any more but i took lots of pictures there

This is the 2nd DC-9 ever built. Flew regularly scheduled service for nearly 40 years and was retired just prior to this photo under the tail #700ME (Midwest Express). It was originally destined for a museum, but had to be scrapped after it was damaged beyond economical repair by a careless tug driver the week after it was ferried to the desert. A true shame if you ask me.

Wow, EvilToni, did you steal that from my iPhoto library? Just kidding, it just reminded me of this one I took in Missouri.

Contest begun at night so as to preclude me from running out and snapping pics of my house?

Amazing thread all. Kudos to everyone! Great stuff!

I'll be updating the Farktography site sometime tomorrow night, so there is still plenty of time for submissions and voting.

Thanks all, and goodnight!!

Dang I got here late...well, here goes anyway:

Seem better days

I give you, C2PO...