I took Mom to the dentist, then walked around taking pictures. These are one set. The Frontier communications company has a nice little office building and, next to it, this industrial-looking big box. I loved the perspective, looking through it to the back lot, with the doors rolled up.
For some reason, peeling paint just knocks me out. Here are a couple of shots that I love.
For some real doors, go to Norm Frampton’s Thursday Doors link-up. Norm’ll have some stellar doors for you. Then you can click on the blue frog link at the end of his post and find links to doors all over the world!
A WRITING PROMPT FOR YOU: Write about peeling paint.
MA
Jane
December 15, 2016 at 10:52amHi. That brick wall with the white paint looks like a great piece of cover art!
Imagine the book it would go with!
Marian Allen
December 16, 2016 at 7:52amOoo! I’ll have to offer it to Leslie R. Lee for his next PACKAGED book! You HAVE read PACKAGED, haven’t you? Hmmm…. Maybe you’d better not. It’s disorienting. But fun! Brilliant!
Dan Antion
December 15, 2016 at 11:11amI like these pictures a lot. I like the peelinmg paint ones too.
Joey
December 15, 2016 at 12:55pmNice find, Marian 🙂 I enjoy the peeling paint, too.
Jan
December 15, 2016 at 5:00pmAn interesting perspective indeed. Nothing like patterns in peeling paint to inspire the imagination, hey?
Marian Allen
December 16, 2016 at 7:58amI think it stems from my growing up in the oldest part of town. If you wanted to put up new wallpaper (this was when wallpaper was cheaper than paint) and decided to do it right and strip the old paper off, sometimes you’d end up with two inches of extra room all around and layers of different paper back to when the house was built. A form of Urban Archaeology.
Norm 2.0
December 15, 2016 at 7:36pmPeeling paint does it for me too. Textures, patterns, funky shadows depending on the light.
Nice ones 🙂
Marian Allen
December 16, 2016 at 7:59amThanks, Norm. I like the aesthetics and, as Jan said, the narrative.
Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt
December 15, 2016 at 7:40pmI got stuck after a first person thought:
The only thing more slow and boring than watching paint dry is watching paint peel.
And then my brain said I need a nap.
Marian Allen
December 16, 2016 at 8:00amHeh! 😀
janet
December 15, 2016 at 10:12pmI like the peeling paint, but I like the perspective in the first shot.
janet
Marian Allen
December 16, 2016 at 8:00amI like that perspective, too, and the transition from bright light to shadow to bright.
Gordon
December 20, 2016 at 2:12amWow, lots of people watching peeling paint! When do you find the time to find Thursday Doors to shoot? 😉
Marian, don’t know why you had a 409 error in your reply to me last time but I hope it doesn’t happen again cause I don’t know how to fix it.
Marian Allen
December 20, 2016 at 7:51amNow I’m getting a 404 error. Ah! I searched for undiscoveredimages Gordon and came up with http://undiscoveredimagesamongstus.wordpress.com. You’re leaving out the wordpress bit. As my kids discovered long ago, you can run but you can’t hide. 😉