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Backroads

Posted by
Elaine Hancock (Olney, United States) on 8 January 2025 in Landscape & Rural.

The cabin was basically out in the middle of nowhere. The roads went from paved to gravel to dirt. The address didn't show up on GPS. Going down some of these roads, it was difficult to see how some people live in these very rural areas. This trailer was abandoned. It had a shack like structure built onto the back of it. There were homes like this that were inhabited.

"There are moments when time stands still. You hope it will wait for you."
Dorothea Lange

© Copyright 2025 Elaine Hancock, All Rights Reserved

Alan Creation© from Saint Nazaire. Pays de la Loire., France

Photographie digne d'un extrait de film.

8 Jan 2025 6:18am

jpla from Anjou, France

lui au moins ne bougera plus

8 Jan 2025 6:44am

PascalXLD from Lorient, France

Bien abandonné
Bonne journée

8 Jan 2025 7:19am

Daniel from Perpignan, France

ouf ! c'est pas neuf !!!!

8 Jan 2025 8:17am

Marie from Parc régional naturel de Chartreuse, France

I love rust Elaine, on bus, cars, trucks and objects. Have a nice day!
https://mesregards.fr/

8 Jan 2025 9:24am

Ana Lúcia from Leiria, Portugal

The beauty of age. I love the look of rusted metal.

8 Jan 2025 9:50am

Giulio from Turin, Italy

A lovely picture capturing a place that was once a home, perhaps for a family, but now is reduced to a desolate ruin.

8 Jan 2025 10:03am

ceteceva from Angers, France

Beautiful traces of humans living in nature but still polluting. Precarious housing may still be used during the wood-cutting season by loggers.

8 Jan 2025 11:35am

Marjolein from Voorne aan Zee, Netherlands

These traces of human use are photographically very beautiful, just like this photo

8 Jan 2025 12:10pm

Ruthiebear from Titusville, NJ, United States

I like the patina of the trailer. Beautifully composed.

8 Jan 2025 2:48pm

Steven from Chicagoland, United States

An intriguing find with rusty colors that are slowly revealing themselves. One wonders how they could live in areas like this. A great documentary shot.

8 Jan 2025 2:50pm

Mhelene from Région parisienne, France

Superb photo of the caravan with great tones of the time !

8 Jan 2025 4:57pm

Jean-Luc.M from Nancy et ailleurs, France

This abandoned trailer immediately reminded me of the one in Sean Penn's superb and sad film "Into the Wild".
Beautiful capture.

8 Jan 2025 5:03pm

Roger Dekert from Vauréal, France

It's a very photogenic caravan.
The passage of time has made it take on beautiful colors and tones.
It's a shame to know that in 2025, there are still people who are forced to live this way.
Even if it is abandoned, you specify that there are some in which humans live.
Sad world.

8 Jan 2025 5:33pm

@Roger Dekert: It really bothered me to see how people can still be living in this day and age. What was interesting was that this type of housing was then interspersed with beautiful houses. It was all quite an eye opener for me.

Willem from Noord-Scharwoude, Netherlands

Well found and photographed, the information is interesting to read.

8 Jan 2025 6:41pm

Ron from Fraser Valley, Canada

Amazing that people live here. I like the different colorful paint on this old trailer.

9 Jan 2025 1:05am

Harry from Apex, NC, United States

great rusty patina on this abandoned bus - or has it become an extension of that shed?

9 Jan 2025 2:07am

@Harry: The two seemed to be connected. The whole area was an eye opener for me.