The Past Is Lost

Since I hate writing about not writing, I will just admit that this site has been dead for a few months. I am sorry.

I have put my photography on hold for the last 4 months, just like this Blog I have been busy with work, a new house, Pirate Party business, and many other excuses. And it has also been freezing out there. I have driven by many places during the day and thought to myself, that would make a great picture! But as the full moons came and went, I just never made it out there. The last time I took pictures was right after Halloween, when I went to an old abandoned car wash just north of Edmond.

I had driven past that carwash for the last 4 years, it has always been there and I finally decided to spend some time there and photograph it. I think that this has been part of the reason why I have not had much urgency to go out and shoot, these places are old and abandoned. Nobody messes with them, they will be around forever. If I don't make it there this full moon, there will always be next month.

This week I drove by that car wash. The same car wash that I have driven by for the last 4 years, and where I finally spend a few nights five months ago. The car wash is gone. Torn down and burned down, with a "For Sale" sign for a commercial plot. Just like that a relict of the past is lost. No longer visible to the present, and forever lost to the future. A big part of the pictures is the sense of movement: the star trails in the sky, the cars driving past in the background, the trees and clouds moving. Time passes on, but the past stands still. Until the past gets torn down.

Seeing the empty lot makes me want to go out again and explore these places. It was a bit of a wake-up call, and a reminder that these old abandoned areas are not guaranteed to be around tomorrow. Now I have to make a list of places that I really need to visit...