Painted Desert Project

Painted Desert Project

Painted Desert Project

Painted Desert Project
(2026.02.19 | Gray Mountain AZ | Leica M Monochrom (M9) LLL 28mm f/2.8 9E)
#painteddesertproject #graymountainaz #photography #scape #roadtrip #roadside #urbandecay #graffiti #streetart #leica #lightlenslab #monochrome #blackandwhite #classicmono #blackandwhitephotography #bnw

Painted Desert Project (Monochome)

Painted Desert Project (Mono)
(2026.02.19 | Gray Mountain, AZ | Sigma BF & 24mm f/2 Contemporary)
#painteddesertproject #graymountainaz #arizona #photography #scape #roadtrip #roadside #urbandecay #graffiti #streetart #sigmabf #monochrome #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #classicmono #bnw

Painted Desert Project

Painted Desert Project
(2026.02.17 | Gray Mountain, AZ | 907x II 50c & XCD28p)
#painteddesertproject #graymountainaz #arizona #photography #landscapes #scape #landscapephotography #roadtrip #roadside #hasselblad #urbandecay #graffiti #streetart

Esprit en Skyline Ardente. Un visage levé laisse éclater une ville en flammes au-dessus d’un horizon urbain sombre. An upturned face unleashes a burning city above a dark urban skyline.

Burning Skyline Mind.
#SurrealArt #DarkArt #UrbanDecay #AiArt #Midjourney

Artwork of the chaos of wrinkle-lipped bats flying out of their cave roost. There are over 20 dark bats with long narrow wings flying close together diagonally upwards from left to right. The image is created from a macro photograph of the weathered detail of the paintwork on an old car. The background is blue and white with a lot of intricate detail while the bats are blue and black with the same patterning. These fast bats live in very large colonies in caves and I visit a local one in Thailand every week!

Bat Flyout - the frantic chaos of wrinkle-lipped bats (Mops plicata) leaving their cave with fear in their wings, within the chaos of an old car's weathered paintwork. 🦇
#bats #flyingbats #batart #weathered #urbandecay #wildlife #wildlifeart #animalart

Artwork of a starling taking off in an abstract scene created from a macro photo of the weathered detail of an old sign. A cat is looking up from the background at the departing bird and there are vertical scratches down the image as though made by the cat. The image is high contrast with dark paint flaking away from creamy white with some flecks of blue and rust showing through parts of the scratches.

Cat scratched starling - leaving a weathered old sign board just in time
#huntingcat #bird #birdart #weathered #urbandecay #wildlife #wildlifeart #animalart

Éclipse Urbaine. Une tête de pierre porte un arbre solitaire face à une ville noyée d’ombre. A stone head bears a lone tree before a city drowned in shadow.

Urban Eclipse.
#SurrealArt #DarkArt #UrbanDecay #AiArt #Midjourney

Abandoned passenger rail station. Such a shame.

#Cincinnati #Railroad #trains #Nikon #Photography #UrbanDecay #Abandoned

Artwork of a large flock of fieldfares within a photo of flaking paintwork on an old sign. The background is dark paint flaking away from a cream and yellow base colour with some of the birds light coloured but most dark. A few birds are flying but the majority are perched with some feeding. The image feels like a winter scene.

Fieldfares - 23 of them in this weathered old road-sign
#fieldfare #birds #birdart #weathered #urbandecay #wildlife #wildlifeart #animalart

A high-contrast, black and white street photograph. In the foreground, a heavily worn bicycle is partially wrapped in bright yellow "CAUTION" tape, leaning against a dark metal pole. The bike appears weathered and abandoned. The background features a modern city street with a glass-fronted building and a "Tech Square" sign, creating a sharp juxtaposition between the gritty, taped-off bicycle and the clean, organized urban environment.

​There’s something about the way the city tries to "caution" us against its own history. Found this in the heart of Tech Square—solitude wrapped in caution tape.
​Part of my ongoing exploration of urban solitude. 📸
​#StreetPhotography #AtlantaArtist #BlackAndWhite #VisualStoryteller #UrbanDecay

Artwork of an ibex with long curved horns standing on a snowy mountainside created using a macro photograph of an old sign with dark brown paint flaking away from the cream-coloured underlying base and in places edged with blue. The dark ibex is partially hidden and looking to the right.

Rocky Ibex - there's a whole mountainside in a weathered road-sign. It just needed an ibex to help show it.
#ibex #mountainlandscape #weathered #urbandecay #wildlife #wildlifeart #animalart

This weeks theme was #urbanDecay

Decline never looked so divine.

Amazing entries by:

@leonheart515.bsky.social
@dubniumgames.bsky.social
@pixelshorts.com

#pixelart #digitalart #collaboration #tempyshouseofcubes

Artwork of various animals walking through an abstract winter scene created using a macro photograph of an old sign with very dark brown paint flaking away from the cream-coloured underlying base and some flecks of blue. Each animal is in a pair, namely, fallow deer, hares, rabbits, pheasants, crows and starlings.

Winter Pairs - created from a macro photo of a weathered old roadside sign
#winter #weathered #urbandecay #wildlife #wildlifeart #animalart #deer

The building doesn’t ask to be remembered. It simply refuses to disappear — brick by stubborn brick, rising against a sky that has long since moved on. Windows open to nothing. A ghost sign bleeds through the mortar, half a word, half a memory. Whatever commerce once hummed behind these walls has been swallowed whole, leaving only the architecture of absence.

What Remains (downtown Fort Dodge, MAR 2026)

Ricoh GR IV Monochrone

Join the #BlueSkyArtShow
Saturday April 4, 2026
The theme is #Openings

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekMforMovies
Rear Window

#UrbanGaze #UrbanDecay #ClassicMono #ghostsign #SilentSunday #streetlife #photography #Ricoh #RicohGR

Mui nobre e sempre leal cidade de Lisboa, No. 39
#lisboa #lisbon #portugal #streetphotography #urbandecay #wildflowers

Artwork of a clan of 7 hyenas walking through an abstract scene that could be a cave created using a macro photograph of an old public bench showing its concrete base and patches of orange and blue paint. The dark blue hyena silhouettes stand out against the orange behind them but have flakes of blue paint in front of them.

Clan - created from a macro photo of a weathered old outdoor bench
#hyenas #weathered #urbandecay #wildlife #wildlifeart #animalart

Shopping trolley lying on its side next to a tree stump. On the road to the left is a 30 mph speed limit

Tough town…

When you’re drunk and going over 30

#UrbanDecay
#Photography 📷

Graffiti sprawls across a weathered brick facade in Fort Dodge, Iowa — a mural of civic pride rendered in street art’s grammar: bold lettering, stylized faces, city skylines, and the area code claimed like a flag. The building above is indifferent, its ghost signs long faded, windows broken or dark. Below, the wall speaks in a louder, younger voice.

Where the city signs its own name (Fort Dodge, MAR 2026)

Ricoh GR IV Monochrome

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMovies

American Graffiti

#TagTuesday #graffiti #ClassicMono #b&w #photography #streetlife #streetart #FortDodge #Iowa #Midwest #UrbanDecay

Artwork of a curlew standing in an abstract wetland created using a macro photograph of an old corrugated metal fence with textured layers of weathered flaking paint. In portrait format the dark bird is standing upright near the bottom of the image in what looks like a small pool with lighter colours behind and vague horizontal bands of fine detail above.

Curlew Wetland - created from a macro photo of a weathered fence of painted corrugated metal
#curlew #birds #wetland #wildlife #wildlifeart #animalart #birdart #weathered #urbandecay

This 10-minute commercial gives a preview of Lower East Side NYC in the Fall of October 1978, before gentrification occurred...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ciV...

#NYC #1970s #UrbanDecay #Urbex #Film #Manhattan #NewYork

Artwork of a flock of small wading birds flying and foraging in an abstract coastal scene created using a macro photograph of an old public bench showing its concrete base and some patches of orange paint. There are 9 birds feeding or standing on the ground and 7 flying. Against the darkest areas of the background the birds are light coloured and vice-versa. The effect is of a wave splashing over the foreground.

Foraging Flock - created from a macro photo of a weathered old outdoor bench
#waders #shorebirds #flock #wildlife #wildlifeart #animalart #weathered #urbandecay

Graffiti at abandoned, now razed Nelson Road Water Treatment Plant, Columbus, OH. It was a popular site to photograph.

©2008 WickedLizzie

#StreetArt #Graffiti #UrbanDecay #UrbanExploration
#UrbanArt #SprayPaint #NelsonRoad #AbandonedOhio #StreetPhotography #Photography #WickedLizzie

Sometimes for me, a photo is less about the subject (the parking meter) and more about the fact that I just like taking fucking pictures. I do like the colors in that picture though.
#houstonphotographer
#downtownhouston
#houstonphotography
#urbandecay
#beaumonttexas
#rough

There's always been something unsettling to me about shoes just out in the wild. Makes me wonder what happened to the person wearing them. Given my history, my mind usually goes to dark places. I hope the owners of these shoes are doing fine.

#houstonphotography #houstonphotographers #urbandecay

State Of Abandon

A quiet human presence within what time has left behind. Structure fades, but something remains.

#ArtfulExposure #FineArtPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #ConceptualPhotography
#ArtisticNude #HumanForm #ShadowAndLight
#AbandonedPlaces #UrbanDecay #StateOfAbandon #beautiful

A Kanban architecture (signboard-style building) in Takinogawa, Kita-ku. The first character has fallen off, and the facade is weathered with rust, but it still commands a massive presence in the local shopping street.
#Tokyo #UrbanExploration #urbandecay #VintageVibes #ClosedShop #看板建築 #レトロ建築

Silos on highway 90

#urbandecay #Photography #ruralphotography

I don't actually know what this store sells. Besides "oil burners" and gambling machines it's pretty empty. The guys outside seemed really nice. I've never been asked if I was good by so many strangers before. 🫶🏼
#houstonphotographer
#nwhouston
#houstonphotography
#urbandecay

Dark greens of river, fence, and foliage contrasting against the red bricks of the wharf. Leading to a collapsing balcony of a decaying bar

Last Hours 📸 Sony Mavica FD-7 🧭 Grimsby Town #photography #vintageDigital #CCD #Lofi #fishingTown #contrast #urbanDecay

Decided to post a couple more from the other day. Excited for the weekend...

#photography #streetphotography #bnw #b&w #blackandwhite #urbanphotography #urbandecay