Groggster

By Groggster

Leafing An Impression

Today was unrelentingly grey so it was quite difficult getting an image. We only popped out for a quick food shop and on the way back home stopped off at the Springfield area of Maidstone which used to house the town's sixteen storey public library, originally built in 1966, which was allowed to fall into disrepair and become a victim of extensive vandalism before eventually being demolished in 2022 to make way for yet more expensive new housing (although it must be said a new library was built a few hundred yards away). It has now been replaced by a much larger residential block which lacks any architectural merit whatsoever.
Large areas of the site appear to still stand empty shrouded by graffiti'd wooden hoardings years after development was supposed to have been completed so it doesn't exactly give the best impression - it feels like the local residents are gradually being swamped by much larger and more unaffordable dwellings whilst other areas are being left empty but closed off with high fences and the aforementioned hoardings.
I couldn't quite capture an image that I was happy with until I saw this leaf stuck to the roof of a lonely looking nearby bus shelter and I just liked how one half of the leaf was sharply in focus whilst the other was blurred by the patterns of condensation and weathering on the polycarbonate surface left by the recent rain.

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