I just love the character and the beauty that is so easy to miss when it comes to buildings that are abandoned, dilapidated, in terrible state of disrepair and decay... Here's one I took yesterday:
Would love to see your favorite shot from your project!
@jsw0109 Thanks, Jeff. I love that place...it is an old grocery/gas place that has been abadonened for at least 20 years... up near our lakehouse. I would love to go in...I noticed the other day as we drove by that the screen door was was standing a lot more open.. prob. just the wind, but wondered if someone dared jump the fence and go in
@espyetta I think my love for abandoned places goes back to my childhood. The hospital where I was born wound up closed and abandoned for years, and in sixth grade my best friend and I would explore the inside until we got chased out... I tried to get my dad (he was a professional photographer) to take some pictures of us in there but he thought I was crazy... he just didn't see the beauty and called it an eyesore. Then the drive in theatre closed and my cousin and I would play in the building with the concession stand and restrooms and go into the projector booth. There were reels and reels of film in there.
Cool! @jsw0109 You got to actually explore some cool places. When I was young, my mom showed me her tiny school house in the country and that got me hooked on old schoolhouses.....I teach school now....when I see old schools esp. I think of all the life that was lived in those walls that are now crumbling and peeling.
i would love to show you mine but i can't post in the thread for some reason....getting an "invalid data" error message. BOOOO!! http://365project.org/sdpace/tags/abandoned
@jsw0109 Oh yes I am sure they did! =) It was not doing too to begin with, but after Hurricane Katrina came through that side roof to the right had no chance!=)
Well, they say Bodie is haunted...but I didn't see/hear/feel anything unusual on my visit. If you ever find yourself in Eastern CA, GO THERE! It's WELL worth the drive and a bargain at $9 for entry...I spent 8 hours there, and could easily have gone back for a second day!
@michaelelliott I guess I didn't realize when I had seen this when you posted it that the structure was abandoned.....I wouldn't have thought there'd be anything abandoned in the shadow of the Brooklyn bridge
@tabbycat one of these days I intend to hit up CA and Bodie sounds like its right up my alley. I was in PA in October and spent an afternoon in the Eastern State Penitentiary. It was one of my highlights of my trip
@jsw0109 - the City built a beautiful waterfront around the Brooklyn Bridge and there are many really nice restaurants and pubs. But they left this abandoned and gutted building and a bunch of others too. Not sure what will happen with them but make cool pics.
@jaboney I still love that shot Mike. and actually looking at it now, I don't understand why I didn't fav it from the get go. ?? Maybe I was on crack (not really). I'm going to go fav it now. It deserves it.
This dilapidated old farm building is just down the road from where I work and it changes from month to month depending on what crop the farmer has planted around it! I love photographing it.
@jsw0109 We live in the subtropics, so anything and everything is crawling over that building; mostly weedy creepers and vines. I'm certainly not going into that snake trap to ID the vegetation, though, sorry!
this the old atlas tack building here in town where I live.
here is a little insight on the building
http://henryhrogers.blogspot.com/2009/03/atlas-tack-factory-1902.html
love this thread! old buildings are one of my fav things to photograph! it won't let me attach too many, so I have to make a couple entries... sorry!!!
Nice thread! This is something I don't have, but I think will work nicely for the mono theme I've got going on at the moment. Thanks for the inspiration!
@jsw0109 at the moment it is. It is the winter gardens in Morecambe. It is currently under restoration, but only by a group of volunteers, so it's a very long process with very little funding. It is a total shame, it's a beautiful building.
@yentlski if you go to your album page with the photo you want to share, kinda next to the share button is a box with code in it. If you copy that, you can paste it in the reply box here and it will show up as your photo.
@jsw0109 yes, this building has a long history behind it, and it's even saddier when you know that the current state partly results from voluntary destructions!
I love old buildings, as well. They make me wonder who lived there and I am sure there are great stories to tell. Here is an old Mosque being refurbished in my neighborhood.
What a great thread! Loved looking at all these wonderful photos. Mine was shot with film and a manual Pentax K1000 camera as part of the February film challenge.
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@pennymilner LOVE the sign of life in the upper left window! Great find!
http://365project.org/sdpace/tags/abandoned
A different view of the same building
One of my favs here:
@chrissieh wow, you know there's a story there
@sanera I love the stones
@pwallis beautifully processed
@revjoel the processing works really well for that
@tabbycat I can almost sense a spirit in the 2nd shot, which is probably just the processing, but ya never know
@autumnseden gorgeous! fav!
@tabbycat one of these days I intend to hit up CA and Bodie sounds like its right up my alley. I was in PA in October and spent an afternoon in the Eastern State Penitentiary. It was one of my highlights of my trip
@girlie I really like that shot... what is growing on it?
An old Pub in Preston that has stood slowly decaying inside its own prison.
here is a little insight on the building
http://henryhrogers.blogspot.com/2009/03/atlas-tack-factory-1902.html
I took its good side. The dome is half missing and the back side is full of junk and debris. It is a shell of its former self...
This is my favorite, no photoshop involved
I just did a whole series in an abandoned house with a really awesome model!
Some old barns
the victim of the growing city
Took this one last May.... love old buildings!!
Someone used to live here!!