Delicate Decay

I have always been fascinated by the small details around me, from the natural colours formed in the sky to the textures of the earth beneath my feet. I particularly like images that portray truth and reality; things as they are to the natural eye. These images were provoked by this underlying perception. I wanted to shoot a variety of images that were truthful; as they were in their natural state of life. This selection of images were taken just outside of a property that i used to live in. I noticed lot of small areas of decay that had been mixed in with half melting snow due to the downpour we had endured previously that day. I was in awe of all the little details surrounding me, from the way the rain hit the puddles and created small bubbles in it's aftermath, the gritty dirt that ran alongside the top of the bins, to the trail of footsteps that were firmly imprinted in the snow by the builders that had been working that day. I decided to grab my camera and head out there and see what images i could capture. I chose to use my 50mm prime lens as i wanted to get close to the decay and portray it all in it's delicacy. I shot all of these images on manual mode using a very shallow depth of field throughout, my aim was to create close up images and have the background out of focus, so to perfectly off set the most relevant parts of the subject - the 'Delicate Decay'. 

All of the following images were shot using my Canon 5D and a canon 50mm 1.8 Prime lens.