Algorithms for the Masses by Julian M Bucknall

I’d skipped a couple of assignments because I was travelling to England (plus a couple that really didn’t inspire me at all), so it wasn’t until Wednesday, March 3 (#ds108) that the Daily Shoot came up with something I could sink my teeth into: “Weathered objects have a lot of character: cracked, rusted, bleached, etc. Give us your best weathered shot today.”

I was staying at Mum’s: she’s decided to sell the house after Dad’s death and I was there to arrange for someone to quote for packing the remainder of my stuff that my parents had been looking after for me and shipping it over to Colorado. It was also an opportunity to say goodbye to the house: by the time Mum leaves after the sale goes through they will have had it 27 years. Although the house was never a “family home” per se — they moved there after I’d left home and was married and living in London — it still felt like one after all that time. So the trip was filled with a certain amount of tristesse.

Anyways, there was, to put it mildly, a lot of weathered things around the house outside, but all I’d bought with me was my Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom. It was also bloody cold, so there wasn’t much hanging around for the perfect shot. This was taken at the 28mm end of the zoom, 1/30 second, f/4.0: right at the limit of me not trembling with the cold.

It’s a downpipe to the left of the front door, next to the trunk of the creeper that covers the left side of the house. I suppose there’s several ‘weatherings’ going on here: the downpipe, the trunk, the stone trough, the cement veneer on the left.

Here’s the house itself, showing the creeper on the left.

(This photo was taken the next day, all bright sunshine and blue skies. Still cold. I left to return to the States the next day.)

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