January and its sunless days are taking their toll on me, so after cemeteries I now offer you ruins and abandonment. Picturesque, of course! Cheerful? Well, you decide…
Sic transit gloria mundi, as Mary Beard might say.
Friday Fun: Abandoned Places
January and its sunless days are taking their toll on me, so after cemeteries I now offer you ruins and abandonment. Picturesque, of course! Cheerful? Well, you decide…
Sic transit gloria mundi, as Mary Beard might say.
findingtimetowrite 
Really beautiful. The one from Namibia is eerie – feels like a Dali painting!
It does have a very painterly quality – there are other pictures of the houses half-buried in sand from the outside, but this one really captured my artistic spirit.
Lovely photography. So beautiful!
Can’t claim any such talent myself, but I do like looking at pictures…
I know what you mean about the sunless days. My lightbox has arrived and I’m using it daily. Do you have one? I like the second chateau. I’d love a place like that to roam about it. Only if I had a cleaner of course. And it wasn’t a ruin!
I do have a lightbox too, hurrah for that! And the romanticism of ruins can’t be denied – I keep dreaming of renovating such a pile, but of course have neither the money nor the DIY skills to undertake such an adventure!
I love that gorgeous Namibian light so it has to be the last one for me. We had two brief days of sunshine this week which I think I may have to live off for the next few months. Now back to gloom.
As it happens, today we have sunshine, as if to prove me wrong! But I’m sure it won’t last long. The contrast between the yellow and blue is so gorgeous, isn’t it, reminds me of a Van Gogh painting!
Namibia one is lovely. Also v keen on Beelitz Hospital near Berlin–all those gorgeous balconies!
I can just imagine patients lying in deckchairs on those balconies, very Thomas Mann and Magic Mountain. (Probably wrong, though)
I’d happily do up the hospital in Berlin!
I found a whole archive of pictures dedicated to that hospital and it is stunning. Such a shame it probably costs more to renovate or tear down than to just let it quietly rot away…
I love abandoned buildings; imagining what went on there and how it came to be abandoned, and of course wishing I could restore one and live in it (better yet, all of them!).
There are a number of buildings falling into ruins all over Romania and Greece at present, usually because of some inheritance dispute, and my heart aches when I see them…
Oh, that Chateau de Carnelle looks delightfully creepy. I can imagine all sorts of things going on there, Marina Sofia. Niiiiice setting for a murder mystery!
Ah, that’s why I must like ruins so much – they do form beautifully sinister backdrops for murder mysteries, don’t they?
The one from Russia looks as though it might fall down any second but those French Chateaus … you’d think that someone would want them..
And as for your last comment…
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-owner-keeps-murder-mansion-intact-3250794.php
(an ad will pop but then you can continue to the story)
I just love looking at pictures of ruins…so sad, yet mysterious. I like to imagine what went before their fall. That one with sand inside…amazing!
That first one is extraordinary.
The top one calls for a writer to write a great ghost story…
Those are glorious photos, the first one like Escher, the last one, as Madame Bibi said like Dali, and the hospital with all that foliage is beautiful
Ruins always fascinate me – I would love to see this in person and experience their atmosphere. The first one is so dramatic. I take it that it is a model looking out of the window and not a real person?
I would hope so! Probably put there to give a sense of the amazing scale of the place…
Incredible photography with such good contrast. And how well the Latin quote fits, makes one think.
Poets see things in different ways. Abandoned buildings have that certain beauty which many others see as nothing. Great pics Marina!
Hank
Abandoned buildings have a certain beauty, very true! Great pics Marina!
Hank
The abandoned buildings have a certain beauty, very true! Great pics Marina!
Hank
Wow! Lots of writing inspiration here!