Round 2

Aubrie

(19 points)

potential entrance to faerie??

slight trespassing was required for this one. right by my house is these old abandoned buildings where nature has literally reclaimed the space with trees growing up within the buildings and tons of foliage and ivy

Elijah Cole voted 1 points

Sean M voted 1 points

Taylor voted 2 points and said: "This is absolutely an entrance to faerie. Brb going to join the wild hunt "

Tyler Jeffrey Tilmus Hummel voted 2 points and said: "The framing this round is so cool. I love how it’s like a portal into the forest."

AJ voted 2 points

Em voted 2 points

Jacob voted 2 points

Jessie voted 2 points and said: "Yay for trespassing! The way you framed the shot makes it look like there is absolutely no reason for this concrete arch to be here, plant life has fully surrounded it to the point where if Mother Nature can’t destroy this structure, she has definitely reclaimed it as her own "

kristina voted 2 points

Flynn voted 2 points and said: "The colors are so bright and pretty"

Sammy voted 1 points

Jessie

(19 points)

I’ve been watching this tree slowly overtake what I think used to be some sort of street sign for the past several years. I don’t drive this way often, but every time I do, I look out for this tree to see if the sign is still there. It didn’t use to be this lodged in the tree, the tree just started growing around the sign little by little, making it a part of the trunk. I’m not sure why no one has removed it yet, but it might be because it is too much a part of the tree now to be removed without damaging the tree. So I believe this sign will continue to stick out, warped beyond recognition, until this tree completely slowly but surely encapsulates it.

Elijah Cole voted 1 points

Sean M voted 1 points

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "This was cool! I liked that it was different from the other shots that featured a lot of buildings and that this was on a smaller scale "

Tyler Jeffrey Tilmus Hummel voted 2 points and said: "Alright that’s so cool. Literally overgrown. Love the darker green colors too"

Aubrie voted 2 points

AJ voted 2 points and said: "Nice color grading on this one"

Em voted 2 points

Jacob voted 2 points and said: "Truly one of the most literally definitions of the prompt. I love it"

kristina voted 2 points

Flynn voted 2 points and said: "The angle of the tree and the way you framed this shot is GORGEOUS "

Sammy voted 2 points

Elijah

(17 points)

Someone left this couch in the woods a long time ago! The trees have since cocooned it in branches, which would be almost cozy if it wasn't so creepy-looking.

Elijah Cole voted 1 points

Sean M voted 2 points

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "I know this looks unsafe and hazardous but it really does look like a great place to take a nap and wake up far in future like Rip Van Winkle "

Tyler Jeffrey Tilmus Hummel voted 2 points and said: "So cool how the branches framed the couch. Again feels like a little portal. I appreciate this series of darker colored pictures here too"

Aubrie voted 2 points

AJ voted 1 points

Em voted 1 points

Jacob voted 1 points

Jessie voted 2 points and said: "I love this one, it looks like nature is consuming this couch and literally reclaiming it for itself"

kristina voted 1 points

Flynn voted 2 points and said: "I love how the branches have created a perfect shelter for the couch. "

Sammy voted 1 points

Kristina

(16 points)

I came across a lot of trees and rose bushes climbing their way through gates and things, but I knew that this existed at one of my favorite parks. I took my best friends engagement photos here. This always reminded me of a little overgrown hobbit house 🥹 Its so lush and green this time of year.

Elijah Cole voted 1 points

Sean M voted 1 points

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "I also love how verdant this is! You can almost lose the structure which is neat "

Tyler Jeffrey Tilmus Hummel voted 1 points and said: "Such a cute little building"

Aubrie voted 2 points

AJ voted 1 points

Em voted 1 points

Jacob voted 2 points and said: "Sinking house!"

Jessie voted 2 points and said: "HOBBIT HOUSE!!!"

Flynn voted 2 points and said: "Oh there is a fantasy story begging to be written about this house "

Sammy voted 2 points

Em

(14 points)

South Central Pennsylvania has so much hidden history tucked away in places you would never think to look. One such place, in the Michaux State Forest, is camp Michaux. In the 1940s, this area housed a German POW that was later converted into a youth church camp after the war. Now, all that stands are the crumbling remains of stone and cement buildings. 

I chose this shot specifically because its hard to tell what you're looking at at first. It isn't until you see the crumbled wall that you realize how much people's footprint lasts on the land. No matter what grows around it.

Sean M voted 1 points

Taylor voted 2 points and said: "Very cool! I love seeing this stuff where you can’t really tell what the object is. "

Tyler Jeffrey Tilmus Hummel voted 1 points and said: "Hi em"

Aubrie voted 2 points

AJ voted 1 points

Em voted 1 points

Jacob voted 2 points and said: "This feels so much older. If you hadn't told me it was from the 40s, I easily could've believed it was from the 1700s."

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "Yay for more history! I love the shadows towards the center of the shot, feels both pretty and eerie"

kristina voted 1 points

Flynn voted 1 points

Sammy voted 1 points

T. Hummel

(14 points)

Taken on a hike over the weekend. The near by sign/historical marker showed old pictures of the structure as a once proud and tall barn and farm house. A larger portion of the structure stood until 2016 when most of it collapsed. The already crumbling structure getting more and more swallowed up by nature, which I think is poetic.

Still, standing here at the ruins was still incredibly beautiful and peaceful. The wild flowers and greenery blooming, and the old stone work still still standing as proudly and intricately as it can. But even it will disappear someday, maybe soon, as it stands as a reminder that when it comes to the structures we make it is a battle not a coexistence with Mother Nature, and she usually wins in the end.

Sean M voted 2 points

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "Something about abandoned and crumbling homes makes me so sad. Like just imagine how proud the people who built this probably were of their new home in a new place where they were in uncharted territory. "

Aubrie voted 1 points

AJ voted 2 points

Em voted 1 points

Jacob voted 2 points and said: "Beautiful stone structure. Makes you wonder what life used to be like when it was new"

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "Thank you for the poetic existential crisis that you gave me at the end there, Mother Nature will damn near always win in the end "earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust""

kristina voted 1 points

Flynn voted 2 points and said: "I like how the rock structure AND the fence are being taken over "

Sammy voted 1 points

Jacob

(12 points)

Prepare for a history lesson. Sorry. The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard as it stands today was built on League Island in 1871 after the advent of ironclad warships made the original Shipyard obsolete. Over 120 of service saw so much change such as an aircraft factory (1926-1963) and the (at the time) world's largest crane. During WWII, the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard employeed 40,000 people who built 53 warships including the famous New Jersey. The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard also is where the liquid thermal diffusion was developed for the Manhatten Project. League Island, at this point, was no longer an island. The basin dredged for larger ships and the island built into a peninsula. I say all this to give you an idea of the great historic loss it was in 1991 when the Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommended to close the yard. Over the next 4 years, as the base officially closed, 7,000 people lost their jobs or we transferred out of the area they've spent their lives building. This closure also marked the end of the last American blacksmith (a government position until 1995. He's now an employee at the foundry. Nice guy).

Over the last 30 years this building pictured has been decaying into neglected rot. From what I can find this building was originally constructed in 1916 and primarily acted as a logistics and manufacturing building of some kind. You can see the tree growing from the now defunct roll-up door. The duct work leads to a dispersion stack implying an involvement with hazardous materials.

Enjoy this overgrown structure from a forgotten age.

Elijah Cole voted 1 points

Sean M voted 2 points

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "This is a cool shot and I loved the history lesson!! I love a fun little local fact. The angles of the nature vs the straight lines of the buildings is very evocative!"

Tyler Jeffrey Tilmus Hummel voted 1 points and said: "I appreciate the history lesson🫡. I feel like I’m looking at a CoD map which is fitting haha"

Aubrie voted 1 points

AJ voted 1 points and said: "I like the industrial angle of this one compared to a lot of the more foliage centered ones"

Em voted -1 points and said: "Only downvoting cause it was the least green but I really didnt want to 🫣"

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "I love the ivy (?) growing up inside the beams on the right, and thank you for the history lesson!"

kristina voted 2 points

Flynn voted 2 points and said: "I love the contrasting colors. The bright white of the building and the light green of the plants."

Sammy voted 1 points

Sammy

(10 points)

I have always felt surrounded by small bridges and tunnels where I’ve grown up in! This is one of my favs (honorable mention to the PING4PROM? graffiti bridge before they repainted - deep cut LOL).  I never would have imagined trees being able to grow on top of old rail road tack but here they are thriving. Everytime I drive through it feels so magical, like a moment where you blur the lines between built structure and nature.

Sean M voted 1 points

Taylor voted 2 points and said: "This was my favorite shot! I love love love the way the sun is shining behind the bridge. It makes it look like a portal to a happy place. As someone else that grew up in this area those bridges always feel like home to me. "

Tyler Jeffrey Tilmus Hummel voted 1 points and said: "That’s so cool, like a nature bridge, again with the framing and everything, very good"

Aubrie voted 1 points

AJ voted 1 points

Em voted 1 points

Jacob voted 1 points and said: "I love all the old stone bridges around here"

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "Absolutely looks like a portal to narnia "

kristina voted 1 points

AJ

(10 points)

There’s this super invasive bamboo patch growing in an area I know. There used to be a lot more around here like an actual fence, but now the bamboo is the unofficial marker for the property line. I loved the dichotomy of this strange man-made spiraling structure surrounded by the very straight and protruding bamboo. I have no idea what this thing was used for, but it has long been abandoned

Elijah Cole voted 1 points

Sean M voted 2 points

Taylor voted 1 points and said: "Spiral thing is super cool and I love the way you kept it in the fore ground"

Tyler Jeffrey Tilmus Hummel voted 1 points and said: "I like the angle and colors of this shot. Could use more overgrownness of man made things but it works"

Aubrie voted 1 points

Em voted 1 points

Jacob voted -1 points and said: "I love this picture. Great composition. But in my opinion, it doesn't meet the overgrown portion of the prompt, because the bamboo was planted, and there isn't enough human structure here for it to be overgrown. I'm literally making excuses because the downvote had to go somewhere, and I'm trying to justify to myself"

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "The spring years to be bamboo"

kristina voted 1 points

Flynn voted 1 points

Sammy voted 1 points

Sean

(7 points)

Wandering Waters

What I'm guessing was a water treatment or intake by the river. This is on my hiking trail and I always found it interesting. Clearly for a smaller town that what it is now, nature always wins.

Taylor voted -1 points and said: "This was so hard to choose but this one just didn’t resonate with me the same way "

Tyler Jeffrey Tilmus Hummel voted 2 points and said: "I love the literal framing of this, such a cool photo. "

Aubrie voted -1 points

AJ voted 1 points

Em voted 1 points

Jacob voted 1 points and said: "I love how the equipment was just left there"

Jessie voted 1 points and said: "I love that you can see a tree growing inside towards the top"

kristina voted 1 points

Sammy voted 2 points

Taylor

(6 points)

This is my neighbor’s car. There is a house on the end of our block that I am 99% sure is abandoned. I’ve never seen anyone there and I walk by almost every day. It looks like life just stopped. There’s still lacey curtains and knick knacks in the windows and the flowers still come up in the front beds between the weeds. There are two cars in the driveway that haven’t been inspected since 2014. The driveway has all sorts of plant life coming up and growing into the cars. My headcannon is that an older couple lived there and passed on and everything in their house has just paused ever since. Occasionally someone will come mow the grass but other than that there are no signs of life. You can tell that someone loved this house once upon a time, but nature is slowly taking over. I went with this close up shot of the plants growing around the tires of one of the cars because I liked the way the sun shone down like the people who lived there were stopping in to say hi

Sean M voted 1 points

Tyler Jeffrey Tilmus Hummel voted -1 points and said: "I love the colors and sunlight, but this just feels more like car parked on tall grass than overgrown to me, I’m sorry"

Aubrie voted 1 points

Em voted 2 points

Jessie voted 2 points and said: "Two things: 1) this looks like it could be an album cover 2) the last line of your description really got me and it reminded me of when I was a kid driving with my parents, I saw beams of sunlight breaking through the clouds and I asked my parents what they were and they told me they are called “god rays” and that that’s how souls get to heaven, so maybe they are actually saying hi"

kristina voted 1 points

Flynn voted -1 points and said: "Your description sounds so cool! I just wish we saw more of the car "

Sammy voted 1 points

Flynn

(1 points)

An overgrown fence is such a common occurrence but they’re so often over looked. This plant extends growths of itself to wrap around the small metal wire to grow higher. I love how curly it gets when it cannot find the next peice to grab onto.

Elijah Cole voted -1 points

Sean M voted -1 points

Tyler Jeffrey Tilmus Hummel voted 1 points

Aubrie voted 1 points

AJ voted 1 points

Em voted 1 points

Jessie voted -1 points and said: "Unfortunately, this does remind me of a trellis"

kristina voted -1 points

Sammy voted 1 points