the texture is awesome. i like the grey vs blue and the story makes it very meaningful.

D, this is just fantastic. It's almost as though you took it from a child's p/o/v; everything seems so much bigger when you're a child and this gives you that feeling (especially after reading your story). :)

Very nice texture !!

This is wonderful, the blue of the curtains and the air ... it's just wonderful...

I like the blues and cyans in the curtain. Gives the whole rotten thing a toutch of peacefulness.

Beautifull indeed, also I got my memories of vacations in a caravan only in Holland, lol ;)

Wonderfully colored image! Don't you love grabbing the unexpected shot? Great job here.

wonderful picture! the detail in the texture is great, as is the contrast between the clean (?) curtains and the dirty externals of the caravan.

~the extreme contrast is a bit much at fiorst but really gives this frame some "punch" ater I look in/about the capture; I agree with fredrik, xlnt textures!~

... and I can see you´ll have more + 900 visitors per day this new week, for "morning" and "Neglect". ;-)

i agree with the last comment.

i'm partial to blue, and i love how it just pops out in this image.

i've learned quite a few things from your site and i'll be adding you to my foloblogs section and making a daily visit here. you're pictures show me how much further i need to come! although i am more a purist than i thought i was, you have shown me that it's okay to manipulate my images. keep up the good work!

Woohoo.. that's quite rusted, great photograph for the theme.

You too? My parents dragged my and my brothers around Scotland, Wales and the Southcoast with their caravan while we were groing up. Later we got all middle class and even toured France and the rest of Europe - our caravan was a tiny island of England in a sea of exotic foreigners - god forbid that we actually ate French food - we toured with 3 weeks supply of HP sauce and baked beans. Now I live in California no one but ex-pats know what I'm taking about.

I love this shot; the contrast between the homey curtains and the decaying fiberglass. I like the contrast, brightness and the sharpening too. I can see why you like this shot so much. Great eye!

Regards - Martin

Ok, I know that everyone and their grandmothers have commented on this photo, but I needed to add my two-cents as well. This image is insane (in a good way)!!!

great texture!

very good separation of blue and a mix of whashed out whites and spots of green (i would be careful about some of the whites. You have missed some details). Except for a couple of areas the increase in contrast has worked quite well. some interesting details like the broken window also help.

Wow this photo is freaking amazing and gross, but stunning! Makes me want to back away from my monitor, but I can't stop looking at it either.

A quick update: this is version two of this image that i) is cropped more evenly, and ii) (partially) addresses the colour problem identified by nariman. I'll respond to all the other comments tomorrow, but in the meanwhile ... thanks :-)

I really like this image - did the caravan just happened to be parked there? Just curious.

Thanks: it's always a bit worrying when you post something and say "personally, I really like this one" as there's always the chance that most everyone else will else will disagree ;-)

Martin: the furthest we ever got was Luxembourg. The rest of the time we ended up in Southern Scotland or Cornwall and, as you'll no doubt remember, one site was much the same as any other :-)

And Dane: yes, though "parked" isn't really the word I'd use to describe it - "abandoned" might be better. Both the tires were flat and it looks as though any attempt to move it would result in the whole thing disintegrating on the spot!

I'm glad you didn't lighten it up and go for less contrast. I think it would lose a lot of its depth if it were any lighter. It's a very striking photograph.

Congrats for your theme neglect having been picked by Photo Friday. I suggested decay some time ago but I like neglect far better, since it is more open to interpretation (which will hopefully lead to a broad visual range in submissions). Two thumbs up!

The picture itself is very strong in composition and colour. Very well done!

Great shot!

If it is not you, I will think that it is an impossible expression.

I'm impressed.

The contrast between the mildewed exterior and the beautiful blue of the curtains inside is very striking...it reminds me of appartment buildings in Kaharkov (Ukraine)--no matter what the inside looks like, the outside is always grey and often cracked, the buildings look like they must be abandoned...the stairwells are dark and forboding...but in some buildings if you open up any appartment door you will find well-lit rooms with beautiful parquet flooring, every modern convienience, and nothing out of place...it's impossible to tell from the exterior whether squalor or spendor awaits on the inside.

The beautiful blue of the curtains makes me feel somehow that if they were opened, perhaps we would see a couple enjoying tea in real teacups from a china teapot, like you'll often find in even the poorest dwelling in Russia, that maybe someone lives there, who, only having the resources to wash one side of their cup, chose to wash the inside, rather than the out.

I feel quite sad to imagine our happy sunshine days of Lytham left to decay into the past like this. I'm glad memories are less prone to mildew. Goodnight Jimbob.....

Nice shot David! Looking at the texture (& color) it makes me wonder how long has the caravan (trailer) been neglected!