Freeway project - detritus, and then some by goodoleboy
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Captured through a chain link fence 5/24/14, early on an overcast morning, adjacent to the Interstate 5 freeway widening project, currently in progress during the last several months.
They're digging and breaking up the old stuff from all along the extensive project and depositing it here. I've been watching this gigantic pile of rubble grow larger and larger ever since the construction began. In fact, I have fotos of it when it was in its early formative years, which I may post anon.
Totziens.
Comments (8)
I wonder where they'll put all these pieces? I'm sure they'll be used as support somewhere down the line for some other project. Or be smashed to smithereens and ground to powder to make more concrete. Excellent evidential capture, Harry; I'd be curious to find out how they do dispose of these remainders.
Does freeway work ever actually end? Great post !
it seems to me with this photo among others, services voieries are always trying to build roads, bridges, public works for cars ... and they sembelent increase from year to year, regardless of pollution from fuels!
Your photo makes a real statement about the way we do things. The other things that are never done are airports. Add a parallel runway, enlarge a terminal, build more parking garages,..and on and on...
Since the worker are paid by hour, not by job, it'll take a while til they'll be done... nice capture!
I meant workers, not worker
Very well taken scene !
Out with the old and in with the new....Interesting shot. Aloha
As I mentioned, my server and computer are being repaired (I'm on an old laptop that's puttering right now), but at least I wanted to do a shot or two now. And it's hard go from a Memorial Day photo---of genuine poignance---to this urban desolation; but it's a big sprawl of a waste-zone, and it makes a slap in the face of a photo. To find out that this is getting bigger each day makes this a formidable end-zone. What's so striking is the all-bleached beige hues; even the building in the background looks of the same hue. You made a strong unity out of it, where the hues fit how these sites feel. (They feel desolate and end of the world-ish, even if there's a real neighborhood just behind you.) Also, your low pov makes the heap the whole shot, as if nothing exists beyond it; and the expanse in front of it makes it feel even more desolate. Very well done. Most of us wouldn't bother with such a shot, because it's too much of a challenge, photographically. But you nabbed what these places feel like. Really well done.