Carolina BalloonFest 2

During the 2024 Carolina Balloonfest Competition, pilots launch approximately two miles from a designated target zone at the festival grounds and must navigate to the zone and drop a marker within the target zone without landing the balloon. Here a balloon pilot launches his marker over the target zone.

Industrial Decay

Black And White Photography, C.S. Young Jr., Photography

This substation was once used to bring local electricity into a now abandoned manufacturing facility in Burlington, North Carolina. See similar images from my Commercial and Industrial Decay Gallery.

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C. S.

Virginia Creeper Reclamation

Black And White Photography, C.S. Young Jr., Photography

A Virginia Creeper vine represents Mother Nature’s reclamation of this abandoned farm building in Alamance Country, North Carolina.

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C. S.

Antique Buckboard Wagon

Black And White Photography, C.S. Young Jr., Photography

The buckboard wagon is a distinctly American four-wheeled utility wagon of simple construction meant to be drawn by a horse or other large animal. The only suspension is provided by the flexible floorboards of the body and a leaf spring under the seat. Over uneven terrain the, floor can flex and “buck”, which contributed to its name. Some historians consider the buckboard wagon the precursor to the modern utility pick-up truck. This buckboard was captured at the Cedarock Historical Farm near Burlington, North Carolina.

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C. S.

Playground Abstract

Black And White Photography, C.S. Young Jr., Photography

Part sculpture, part playground attraction, this wood and rope globe structure, made by Barrs Recreation, is located on the Bell Tower Green in downtown Salisbury, North Carolina.