PHOTO ESSAY  -  PLACES OUT OF TIME
An Old Barn
                            ​Photo by Daniel Raskin                        

Time Takes Its Toll
by  Daniel Raskin

I like collapsed and deteriorating buildings because they are examples of entropy: the dissipation of energy over time. I have been photographing examples of energy and entropy for some time. 
This barn has collapsed. Gravity and time have changed it.
An Old Barn in Sonoma County, CA
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Sun and salt water have bleached these walls, once freshly painted.  
​Decayed government buildings, Hunters Point, San Francisco
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This apparatus once lifted ocean going ships out of the water for repair.
​It is no longer used, probably because San Francisco is no longer the port it once was.
​Hunters Point Ship Yard, San Francisco
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Daniel Raskin is a retired preschool teacher. He lives in Bernal Heights. Daniel writes with The Older Writers Laboratory at the Bernal library, The MERI Center at UCSF and Laguna Writers.​​
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