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Robert M Poole

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Maybe not the right place for this topic but I have a fascination with barbed wire. It is everywhere, blending nature and human interaction. Twisting, breaking, forming shapes and patterns. Some people like to photograph cats, I guess I'm a bit weird.

 

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This is a nice series. Barbed wire is fascinating stuff.   It's so ubiquitous that I don't think I've ever purposefully photographed it.  It was invented and manufactured here, not far from Chicago, in 1874 by Joseph Glidden. It evolved as a practical method that avoided fences to control cattle drives from the West through our prairies and farms to markets here. There are countless variations of the barb types and patterns and methods of stapling and splicing. I think I'll get out there and find some examples for your thread. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

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Hello Robert,

 

Nice photos.

 

You are not alone in you interest.

 

In the USofA, as well as possibly elsewhere, there are barbed wire collectors, as well as clubs, who/that collect & look for the numerous varieties that exist.

 

Best Regards,

 

Michael

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Hullo Robert, 

Nice photos! 

I too enjoy the random installations formed by barbed wire, or indeed any old wire with personality.   

Here in rural Australia we have access to a lot of inspiring wire (and interesting fence posts) so I am going

to accept your generous suggestion that this be an open thread and post one from my collection.

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I like barbed wire too.  And the posts here.

It's sort of, nature vs civilisation (?)...

 

nice images from all...

 

Nice photos everybody.

 

Hello David,

 

Nature lost.

 

I would say that barbed wire is more the Industrialized World's subjegation of Nature.

 

Removal of old barbed wire in no longer used places, like the removal of no longer useful dams & embankments, has become an important part of renewing the Environment. Among other things: Old, no longer used, barbed wire fencing retards, or sometimes entirely halts, the movement of various species which had previously lived in areas where wide spread movement or migration were important to their healthy living.

 

The Rewilding of no longer used Pastures, Lakes, Wet Lands & so on is an important step in terms of helping Nature restore some semblance of balance from the massive destruction of Habitat since the coming of Industrialization to the World.

 

Industrialization is not just the making of chairs in factories. It is also the Industrialization of many aspects of many people's lives. Including farming & ranching.

 

Industrialization from the Middle 18th Century to today has permeated many aspects of many people's lives. Similar to what computers are doing today. Including farming & ranching.

 

Just as there are groups of people all over the World who go out into what used to be Wilderness & pick up trash & the like:

 

There are groups of people all over the World who (With proper permission) go out to no longer used places & remove no longer used barbed wire, remove no longer useful dams, restore wetlands & so on. Passively leaving Nature to restore itself will not allow the Environment to get back in balance as quickly as it will if people actively restore the land & the water as much as is possible.

 

Best Regards,

 

Michael

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Pure barb.

 

I like this thread having been placed in "Nature & Wildlife"....it seems appropriate, my interest in photographing old fence lines and wire stems from liking the effect nature has

on stock fences over a very protracted period of time, fence posts rot and sink into the ground, lichen grows on them, the wire rusts and finally parts company with the posts.

The results are sculptural and sometimes abstract.

 

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