Main Street

Petespost challenged me to social documentary this week. This is the main street of the small rural town I grew up in. The town is dying. This street, once filled with thriving businesses, is now made up of mostly old, empty buildings. There are a patch work of businesses in town, scattered here and there, but not enough to build a thriving community.

[April]

Petespost @mirroroflife One image for my social documentary challenge. Posted late ..

[Milanie]

Happening to so many small towns now

[Diana]

So sad to see but it is happening here too. Great chouce of b/w.

[Paula Fontanini]

Your black & white editing is stark as is the reality of failing small town America.

[Rosie Kind]

What a shame

[Dawn]

A nice image but such a shame

[haskar]

Great b&w capture. The world is changing so fast, but I'm not sure it's better.

[Christine Sztukowski]

Wonderful composition

[gloria jones]

Great, gritty shot...Small towns and big cities are both dying. America is going backwards not forwards.

[Walks @ 7]

You nailed the sad documentary feel. It most unsettling to see the slow death of a community.

[*lynn]

This is a great shot of small-town-America. It looks like many towns in Iowa ...actually much better than many in Iowa. I like the grain bins at the end of the street. I started noticing the last few years how many towns have huge bins in the middle of town around here.