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Flickr: Vanishing Beauty - http://www.flickr.com/groups/90554670@N00/
This group is for all of those beautiful, old things which are disappearing from our world: old buildings, wonderful old walls, old mechanical devices like typewriters and parking meters. If you can't preserve it physically, preserve it photographically. No sunsets. |
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99 Rooms - http://www.99rooms.com
A project of Kim Koester, Richard Schumann, Stephan Schulz and Johannes Buenemann. Walk through the sights and hear the sounds of a dilapidated structure. |
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Flickr: League of the Empty Chair - http://www.flickr.com/groups/theleague/
The key is the emptiness, uncanny lack of belonging that the chair represents. |
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Flickr: Rusty and Crusty - http://www.flickr.com/groups/rusty_and_crusty/
Rusting, crusting, rotting, decomposing and just plain falling apart. |
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Urban Nature - http://urbannaturegroup.blogspot.com/
Photoblog and Flickr group for images of nature in an urban context. |
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Flickr: Industry - http://www.flickr.com/groups/industry/
Urban exploration, industrial archeology and modern industry photography. |
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Flickr: Abandoned - http://www.flickr.com/groups/abandoned/
Places and things which have been abandoned. |
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Flickr: Urban Explorers - http://www.flickr.com/groups/urban_explorers/
Photos and stories about abandoned paper mills, condemned hospitals, decaying barns. |
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Flickr: Urban Fragments - http://flickr.com/groups/urban_fragments/
Photos of architectural details and ephemera: bits of carving and molding, doors and windows, peeling paint, rusty metal, old brickwork, decaying wood, graffiti, signs, murals, urban art, billboards. No photos with people in them. |
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Industrial Archaeology - http://www.acme.com/jef/photos/archaeology.html
Buildings and other man made creations from the start of the automobile age that have started to decay. |
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Flickr: Forsaken By Society - http://www.flickr.com/groups/forsaken/
People, places or things which have been abandoned, forgotten or ignored. |
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Flickr: Wonders of Oxidation - http://www.flickr.com/groups/52239914863@N01/
This group is dedicated to creative and artsy photos of oxidation and the wonders it creates. |
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Flickr: Industrial Decay - http://www.flickr.com/groups/indecay/
Abandoned industry, decaying machinery and vehicles, derelict industrial buildings and other facilities. The older the building, machine or structure, the better. Abandoned locations preferred but not required. |
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Flickr: Architecture of Old - http://www.flickr.com/groups/58615245@N00/
A particular style or fashion of a building, especially one that is typical of a period of history or of a particular place. |
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Flickr: Exploring Abandonments - http://www.flickr.com/groups/urbanexploration/
For those who explore inside abandoned and semi-abandoned buildings. Just taking pictures from outside isn't enough. |
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Flickr: Beautiful Decay - http://www.flickr.com/groups/94642640@N00/
This group is intended to contain images that show decay in an aesthetic way. |
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Flickr: Palaces, Castles, Towers, Pagodas, Fortresses And Ruins of Old - http://flickr.com/groups/castles/
Pictures of pre-Medieval, Medieval and post-Medieval towers, lighthouses, castles, fortresses, and especially remnants thereof. |
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Flickr: Abandoned Places and Things - http://www.flickr.com/groups/47799877@N00/
Sharing photos which show the interesting aspects of abandoned places, buildings and things. |
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Flickr: Houses and Homes - http://www.flickr.com/groups/92575895@N00/
Pictures (from as many parts of the world as possible) of exteriors of interesting houses/ homes. |
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Flickr: Old Churches - http://www.flickr.com/groups/61061536@N00/
Group to share photos of old churches. |
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Flickr: Ghost Signs - http://www.flickr.com/groups/10285999@N00/
Gallery of old, painted commercial signs faded with age. |
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Flickr: Any Derelict Building - http://www.flickr.com/groups/derelict-buildings/
Any kind of buildings (outside/ inside): abandoned, derelict, uninhabited, empty, unoccupied, tumbledown, broken-down, ramshackle, run-down, ruined. |
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Kim Koester - http://www.kimkoester.com/
Online galleries from Kim J. Köster. |
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Flickr: Military Decay - http://www.flickr.com/groups/militarydecay/
Abandoned, rotting or dismantled military objects and facilities. |
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Flickr: Ruins - http://www.flickr.com/groups/46001896@N00/
Photos of building and structures ruined by the passage of time. |
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Flickr: You Can't Take Pictures Here - http://www.flickr.com/groups/canttakepictureshere/
Places, situations where you have been told not to take pictures. Examples are military, government or scientific establishments of any kind, hospitals, churches. |
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Flickr: Weathered Wood - http://www.flickr.com/groups/90429795@N00/
Images of wood that's been weathered. Whether by wind, sun, water, or a combination. The grayer, the rougher, the better. Buildings, pier pilings, driftwood, you get the picture. |
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Sleepy City - http://sleepycity.net
Photographically deconstructing the urban environment. Underground tunnels, derelict industrial sites and urban ruins. |
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Flickr: Ghost Towns - http://www.flickr.com/groups/ghosttowns/
Lost places, once inhabited towns and forgotten futures of the American Old West. |
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Flickr: Historical Places - http://www.flickr.com/groups/historical-places/
Group to post photos of favourite historical places. |
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Flickr: The Unconscious Art Of Demolition - http://www.flickr.com/groups/demolitionart/
Pictures of the unconscious aesthetical creations resulting from the destruction of man-made structures. |
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Flickr: Church Ruins - http://www.flickr.com/groups/churchruins/
The group for church and chapel ruins. This can include ruined abbeys, priories, monasteries and friaries. |
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Flickr: Old & Forgotten - http://www.flickr.com/groups/old__forgotten/
Buildings and other things that are old, weathered and forgotten. |
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Flickr: Macro Decay - http://www.flickr.com/groups/macrodecay/
Photos of urban decay, does not include things that can be restored. |
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Modern Ruins - http://www.oboylephoto.com/ruins/index.htm
Photographic essays include explorations of a girls orphanage, insane asylum, hospital, crypt, and steel plant. |
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Flickr: Dams & Spillways - http://www.flickr.com/groups/damsdamsdams/
Collecting photographs of dams, spillways, and anything attached to them. |
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Flickr: If These Walls Could Talk... - http://www.flickr.com/groups/ifthesewallscouldtalk/
Photos of old buildings, structures that look like they have a story behind them. Please add details such as location and the kind of structure it is. |
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Flickr: Old And Beautiful - http://www.flickr.com/groups/oldandbeautiful/
A group for old buildings, barns, shacks, abandoned homes, and any other old falling down structures. |
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Flickr: Barns, Sheds and other Rustic Rural Buildings - http://www.flickr.com/groups/48088345@N00/
Barns, sheds, smoke houses, dilapidated farm houses and other rustic and rural buildings. |
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Flickr: Closed for Business - http://www.flickr.com/groups/59846932@N00/
Shops, stores, restaurants, cafes, retail and public buildings, that have ceased business and are falling into a state of decay and rot. |
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Flickr: Old Structures. - http://www.flickr.com/groups/old_structures/
Structures of all kinds. Mostly abandoned or still in limited use. |
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Flickr: Old Buildings and More - http://www.flickr.com/groups/old_buildings/
Old buildings, houses, streets, markets, national monuments, bridges or even a building in ruins. |
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Flickr: Urban Entropy - http://www.flickr.com/groups/urban_entropy/
All closed systems will eventually break down and chaos will ensue. |
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Flickr: Suburban Decay - http://www.flickr.com/groups/suburbandecay/
All about the little things in suburbia that are unexpectedly macabre, dying, decaying, or otherwise at odds with the peaceful suburban lifestyle. |
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Flickr: Museum of Dust - http://www.flickr.com/groups/museumofdust/
Dust storms and clouds, dust bunnies, drifts of dust and tornadoes for example. |
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Flickr: Urban Spelunkers - http://www.flickr.com/groups/urbanspelunkers/
Going into abandoned buildings, storm drains, tunnels, anywhere man made that is not meant for most people to see. |
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Flickr: Disused Railways - http://www.flickr.com/groups/disused_railways/
Disused railways, tracks, platforms, empty stations, viaducts, bridges, tunnels. But no trains. |
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Flickr: Industrial Archaeology - http://www.flickr.com/groups/archeoind/
All about abandoned factories, of every type, from every part of the world. |
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Flickr: Asylums for the Insane - http://www.flickr.com/groups/asylums/
An exploration of mental hospitals, asylums and housing for the insane. |
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Flickr: Old Stones - http://www.flickr.com/groups/old_stones/
By stone we mean rock shaped by humans. By old we mean at least 100 years, but something like 1000 years would be more appropriate. |
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Flickr: Junk - http://www.flickr.com/groups/deadmetal/
Pictures of scrap metal, junkyards, rubbish dumps, anyplace where stuff goes to die. Dead metal. |
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Flickr: Abandoned Farms - http://www.flickr.com/groups/abandoned_farms/
Photos of abandoned farms, ruins and other rural buildings decaying. |
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Flickr: Dilapidated Houses - http://www.flickr.com/groups/39993718@N00/
Old houses showing decay or breaking down. |
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Flickr: Forgotten Things - http://www.flickr.com/groups/72234203@N00/
Not just abandoned, this group is for things that seem to simply have been forgotten: old cemeteries, rusty cars, swingsets. Non-living things only. These are the things you know will still be there, unattended, if you drive by 10 years from now. |
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Flickr: Old Windows and Frames - http://www.flickr.com/groups/20023019@N00/
This is a group for pictures of old windows and window frames. |
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Flickr: Restricted Access - http://www.flickr.com/groups/72904831@N00/
Urban exploration: buildings and sites with posted signs telling you not to go there. (No Trespassing, Restricted Access.) |
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Flickr: Abandoned Furniture - http://www.flickr.com/groups/64267544@N00/
Take photos of furniture you've come across on the street and submit them here. |
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Flickr: Beyond Repair - http://www.flickr.com/groups/beyondrepair/
Anything so far beyond decay you know it isn't coming back. |
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Flickr: Strange Places - http://www.flickr.com/groups/pictures_are_strange/
Pictures taken in strange places, places pictures should not be taken. |
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Flickr: Overgrown - http://www.flickr.com/groups/13143666@N00/
This is a group for pictures where any object or item is being taken over by nature. Overgrown, plants, vines, weeds, obscuring some object. |
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Flickr: Entropy - http://www.flickr.com/groups/entropy/
About the pleasure to be found in decay, the inevitable passage of the pretentious and the grandiose. |
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Flickr: Trashy Houses - http://www.flickr.com/groups/trashyhouses/
Post your photos of (not abandoned) derelict homes that amaze you because of condition, yard art, or just plain decay. No abandoned or storm-damaged homes, only those that are occupied. |
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http://www.geocities.com/dammaschstatehospital/ - http://www.geocities.com/dammaschstatehospital/
This is a collection of paintings involving abandoned institutions. Includes photographs of sites visited. |
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Flickr: Abandoned to Time - http://www.flickr.com/groups/abandonedtotime/
Pictures of anything abandoned, mainly buildings. Rough, ransacked, dirty, torn-down, and messy. |
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Flickr: Not in Use - http://www.flickr.com/groups/not_in_use/
Things which are preferably old, not used anymore or used for a totally different purpose. |
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Flickr: Signless Signs - http://www.flickr.com/groups/signless/
Posts without signs, empty sign-frames, empty billboards and/or marquees. |
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Flickr: Rural Deterioration - http://www.flickr.com/groups/437898@N22/
Pictures of rural buildings deteriorating and decaying. Must be man made and must be rural ie: old or ruined houses, sheds, doors, windows, churches. |
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Flickr: Factory - http://www.flickr.com/groups/factory/
New, old and defunct factories in photos. |
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Flickr: HDR Decay - http://www.flickr.com/groups/74315845@N00/
This is a group exclusively for HDR photographs featuring decay. |
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Flickr: Battered Beauty - http://www.flickr.com/groups/beauty/
Beautiful things that are tattered, cracked, rusted, bruised, broken, burned, or busted in any way. |
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Flickr: Tunnels, Pipes, Holes. - http://www.flickr.com/groups/23216921@N00/
Exploring tunnels, pipes, holes, drains, the world underneath. |
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Decayed Machinery - http://community.livejournal.com/deadmachinery/
Photographs and drawings of derelict machinery. |
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Flickr: Faded Signage - http://www.flickr.com/groups/fadedsignage/
Signs past. Having lost their message, separated from the thing that they once advertised, or even those still trucking along, not yet replaced. |
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Flickr: Abandoned, Neglected, Weathered, or Rusty - http://www.flickr.com/groups/abandoned__neglected__weathered__rusty/
Anything old, neglected, abandoned, falling apart, or rusting. |
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Flickr: Decaying - http://www.flickr.com/groups/decaying/
Anything decaying: urban, rural, industrial, or natural. Photos from around the world. |
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Flickr: Photographing Prohibited - http://www.flickr.com/groups/photographing-prohibited/
Photos taken in prohibited locations. Infiltrating industrial plants, military installations, concerts, train and metro stations. |
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Flickr: Subterranean Areas - http://www.flickr.com/groups/under_the_ground/
Basements, underground stations, tunnels, underground parking decks, abandoned or still in use. |
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Flickr: All Things Rusty - http://www.flickr.com/groups/allthingsrusty/
Rusted objects and places. Anything derelict, with a good coat of rust. |
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Flickr: Forbidden - http://www.flickr.com/groups/35466061@N00/
A group for photographers who have found themselves being forbidden to take photos of some thing or place. |
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Flickr: Chairs at Abandonments - http://www.flickr.com/groups/chairsatabandonments/
It's an eerie phenomenon, but there always seem to be an odd chair or something of that genre in abandonments. Only post chairs, sofas, benches and the such found in abandoned, desolate locations. |
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Flickr: Art of Urbex - http://www.flickr.com/groups/artofurbex/
This group is more specifically aimed at urban exploration photography as an art form using light and or available elements in an artistic fashion. |
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Flickr: Death of the Service Station - http://www.flickr.com/groups/deathoftheservicestation/
Add your images to document the death of the service station, or to inject some optimism, add some hope with images demonstrating the restoration/ revival of it. |
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Flickr: Downtrodden Docks - http://www.flickr.com/groups/downtroddendocks/
This site is dedicated to images of abandoned docks and piers. |
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Flickr: Former Theaters - http://www.flickr.com/groups/28292781@N00/
Photos of theaters that are either no longer in use (abandoned, condemned) or have been transformed into something else but still structurally resemble theaters. |
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Flickr: Factories - http://www.flickr.com/groups/42945941@N00/
All kinds of factories: derelict or full of life, new or old, large or small. |
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Flickr: TOP UrbX - http://www.flickr.com/groups/topurbx/
Showcasing the best (top standards) urban exploration photos. |
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Flickr: This Old House - http://www.flickr.com/groups/this_old_house/
Not houses that are falling down, but old houses that can be remodeled and preserved. Old historic houses. |
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Flickr: Things that Moved - http://www.flickr.com/groups/moved/
Things that moved but don't anymore. Broken down and retired vehicles. Planes, trains, automobiles, riding mowers. Does not include buildings and things that never moved. |
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Flickr: Fixer-Uppers - http://www.flickr.com/groups/fixerupper/
Sharing photos of old, condemned homes and buildings. |
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Flickr: Forgotten - http://www.flickr.com/groups/theforgot/
Things forgotten, if only for a minute, or an endless period of time. |
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Flickr: The Old - http://www.flickr.com/groups/69042358@N00/
Old destroyed objects, abandoned places, houses, factories. |
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Flickr: The End of Industry - http://www.flickr.com/groups/endofindustry/
Factories, mills, mines, refineries, all left to rot, and worse. |
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Flickr: The Abandoned - http://www.flickr.com/groups/18521420@N00/
Post pictures of anything that has been abandoned. Buildings, junk on the side of the road, and the like. |
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Flickr: That Old Timey Feeling - http://www.flickr.com/groups/thatoldtimeyfeeling/
Anything old, that old rusted car in your back yard, the old abandoned house down the street, that rustic looking boat that has been sitting on blocks for years at your local marina, just about anything you find in your parents or grandparents attic. |
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Flickr: Tales of the Forgotten Lands and Places - http://www.flickr.com/groups/92177830@N00/
Photos of industrial waste land or old factories. |
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Flickr: Junk Beauties - http://www.flickr.com/groups/78554020@N00/
Photos of scrap, jetsom and flotsom, whatever you call piles of junk that can be recycled back into art. |
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Flickr: Machinescapes - http://www.flickr.com/groups/39714772@N00/
Artistic photographs of machines, metals, gears, engines, pulleys, industrial equipment, axles, miscellaneous mechanisms, grease, grime, grit, junk. The inner-workings of anything. Abstract or linear, anything goes. |
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Flickr: Stairs in Decay - http://www.flickr.com/groups/stairs_in_decay/
Stairs in decay, as part of old and abandoned buildings. |
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Flickr: Antiquity Abating - http://www.flickr.com/groups/87892781@N00/
Snap a picture of an old building, house, farm or other structure, tag it with the location, and post it to this group. We may not be able to rebuild them, but we can remember them. |
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Flickr: No Trespassing - http://www.flickr.com/groups/no_trespassing/
A group for those taking pictures in places that have Do Not Enter or No Trespassing signs. |