The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: dilapidated

Fujifilm X-E1 & Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF R lens.

This fingerpost on the road between Devizes and Derry Hill is in a poor state of repair. It probably dates from before 1933 when a change in regulations resulted in the supporting posts being striped black and white. That being the case, this road sign might well have been lifted and stored in 1940 when a German invasion of Britain was imminent. No point telling the Wehrmacht the way to Naish Hill.

Lens: Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI. Camera: Fujifilm X-E1.

Camera: Fujifilm X-E1. Lens: Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF R.

The seemingly inexorable decline of these gates is a subject of morbid fascination. People pass by hundreds of times daily noticing to varying degrees the ineffable beauty of their final days, wondering if some human intervention will change the scene for better or worse. Meanwhile, I am compelled by forces I do not understand to record the changes, tiny though they be. Canon EOS 30D + 18-55mm kit lens. ISO 200; 45mm (72mm equivalent). 1/250th at f/13.

Photographed using a lens made c1971 - a Nikkor-H 50mm f/2. It has been modified to AI standard so that it mounts safely on modern digital SLRs from Nikon, in this case an elderly D2Xs. 400 ISO; f/5.6; 1/180th.

Nikon D2Xs and AF-S DX Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VRII lens. Focal length 112mm (full frame equivalent 168mm).

Nikon D2Xs and AF-S DX Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VRII lens. Focal length 95mm (full frame equivalent 142mm).

East Somerset Railway, Cranmore. Nikon D40 and AF-S Nikkor 28-200mm VR lens. Shot at a focal length of 75mm (multiply that by 1.5 for the equivalent field of view for a full-frame camera).

I never saw hinges like those anywhere else.

Just don't.

I photographed this detail of a dilapidated fence destroyed by the Spring storms using an early version of a Helios-44 lens. It has a focal length of 58mm and a maximum aperture of f/2. This was about as close as it would focus. Many Zenit cameras were supplied with this lens. It is a Soviet copy of the Carl Zeiss Biotar lens and has distinctive bokeh characteristics.

Nikon D700 + AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens.

After the morning rain, a damp afternoon in a cemetery during autumn, the season of sleep and death. Photographed with a Nikon D2Xs and an AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 lens.

'Feather', by Ruby M. Ayres. 1937. Nikon D700 + AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D with a supplementary close-up lens no. 4T.