2007-06-19 // 10:17:19
photomass
Hi blakbirdpye, Sorry if I gave the impression I was knocking you personally. I wasn't actually attempting to knock anyone (except maybe some of the more extreme rednecks and Republicans!) I know your gun pic was a spoof - it would have been truly worrying if it weren't. I guess I was just voicing my feelings for what I perceive as generally a very sad state of affairs in such a wonderful country - a country which incidentally, I will be living in at least some of the year from next year. I'm a great fan of the USA and have several friends in the Pacific NW and CA. The sadness is in the lost identity - a psychological isolation which seemed to be epitomised by this trailor. For some reason, I can't vote for it - it's not available! Take care and have fun! P.S. I have no images up in my gallery at the moment.

^ i did not take offense at all. i would just hate for someone to think i somehow advocate gun use. i very much see things as you do. this country is in a sad sate of affairs and has been for some time. i am proud of where i live and where i come from, but i am ashamed of what has hapened as of late and some of the history that has happened on these grounds. i believe very much as the native americans did, that there is not such thing as owning the earth or its inhibitants, and that everything has a soul. i wish more people saw things that way. it is a great tragedy in "american" history, when peoples are made to give up their way of life to assimilate to another. and as for the picture, i agree...to me it tells a story of a time lost, and dreams and lives unrealized. thank you for your comment and your appreciation and thoughts on this photograph. the u.s. is littered with these reminders of lives past. i think they are important to our history. take care. i hope you have a good move here. it is full of wonderful things

2007-06-19 // 09:51:17
photomass
Love this shot. Junk in America is so interesting. Signs riddled with bullet holes, wrecks of cars etc. It sits there for years giving an insite to past times and lives - hard and sometimes tragic lives evidenced by old cabins and homesteads abandoned through crop failure or other environmental hardship. So the trouble is, the real history is different from the nostalgic dream of a better bygone age of the free America (that really never was). The States used to be funky - the beatniks and hippies are no more, and the notion of unity with the land and environment while real to the Native Americans, was destroyed by the Europeans and Americans over many hundreds of years. The guns just aren't cool, and I fear America is losing it's soul! Hope you guys can rediscover something real. Some really interesting pictures here. V.F

^ i could not agree with you more...we as americans have destroyed all that was native to this land, and for that i am truly ashamed and saddened. i hope for a day that we can get back to what is true and peaceful. to appreciate this earth for what it is, and what it can provide, not just in sustenance, but in nourishment of the soul. for the record. i do not believe in guns. it was meerly a prop used in another photo. a kind of silly "wild west" spoof if you will. what is life if you cant laugh at it sometimes. it would be a serious of heartache and guilt