Profligate Waste, Umbrella, Umbrella Carcass

A photograph is, simply, an opportunity to record something before it changes.
I am attracted to discarded umbrellas as a subject for photography because of the opportunity for uniqueness.
These mantis-like objects lie defeated in the roads and on the sidewalks,
sometimes dancing, other times stuffed like needless paperwork into garbage cans and crevices of public space.
-mt