This Schwinn Breeze is part of the sidewalk sale I photographed on Sunday. I couldn’t resist the multicolored rust against the bright blue Breeze. And the curves of this thing is amazing. Bikes just aren’t this beautiful anymore. My first big kid bike was a Schwinn. First I had a rainbow banana seat bike, then …
This fine ruby red foot stool has obviously been used to its maximum. And left outside to rot, which doesn’t help its condition. Anything metal is rusted, anything red is scratched, partially rubbed off and dirty. I love photographing these types of things.
If you’re ever interested in finding some amazing old details, rusty in their rugged beauty, just take a walk down one of Butte’s many alley’s. Sure, they can be scary to walk down at first. And you may feel like you’re in the middle of the ghetto of a New York-size city. But the truth …
I’m not a morning person. SERIOUSLY. I’m not. However, it is now in my plan to get up every morning at eight to photograph Butte Daily Photo. It is a scheduling decision really, that and the light is awesome at that time of morning. Here was this mornings photo. This old rusty orange truck is …
This is a rusted barrel of some sort near the Bell Diamond Mine.
This rusty metal is from a door in an alley between Park and Broadway Streets. The closeup is of the bottom left corner. That dark slit on the first picture is the beginning of the long, skinny hole on the second photo.
This rusty nail sticks out on the edge of the Hennessy Building.
I headed to another alley tonight, this time the alley west of Main St., behind the Pekin. There was this great old green door with flaking and bubbling paint, an old doorknob and bars over the door. I was using my Nikon D70s thinking to myself how much I wish I had my little point-and-shoot …