| Drive-In House, near Maquoteka, IA |
[15 Jul 2009|11:18am] |
I have to go to Dubuque, IA a lot as one of my employees works in our office there. On the way back down to Illinois I pass through the village of Maquoketa, IA. This house is a little past the village going South. It sits right beside an apparently still-active drive-in theater. I first saw it last Winter but it was way too cold and windy to explore it then. Turns out that may have been a better time. In March I was able to finally stop and shoot it. The first thing I noticed was the grass was all matted down in the front yard. At first I thought maybe it was due to high winds as the area around is unprotected prairie. As soon as I stepped one foot in the yard, I found out it was from water....lots of water. I sank up to my knee in cold and slimy mud and water. I quickly extracted myself and sought higher ground to shoot the house. It's been abandoned for several years and the elements have really taken their toll. A medium sized tree has grown up in the back doorway. Had I been any heavier I wouldn't have been able to squeeze through. Much of the floor has given way so I couldn't make it to the stairs. The basement has about 8 feet of standing and stagnant water in it. Luckily I wasn't there for mosquito and gnat season. Every place I stepped inside, my foot went though the floor and twice I almost ended up in the basement. So I had to balance on floor joists and be very careful. Buildings out back seem to indicate a cattle or milking operation at some point but nothing is stirring now.
( Lots more to see )
Enjoy,
Wander
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| Abandoned Places – Madison Wander (Apr 09) |
[09 Jul 2009|06:17am] |
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In late April, between the many storms that hit the region, we went out on several wanders to see what we could. Along a major thoroughfare were several sites points out to us by friends so off we went.
The Farm
After wandering through the overgrown and virtual gardens that was the yard of the farm, we wandered into the open and almost welcome interior of the farmhouse. Though recessed and barely visible from the road, the house had major signs of wear and tear. In addition the house showed signed of nearly haphazard expansion over the years.
The front porch area
( Nature reclaimed [19 images behind the cut] )
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| Near Lenoir, NC |
[08 Jul 2009|10:49am] |
I actually found this place by mistake. I was lost. I know that's hard to believe that a guy admits he was lost. But I was. I'd spent the night sleeping in my car in a rest area near Asheville, NC back in March and was the next morning enroute to a bit of land outside of Lenoir for my Nation's Spring tribal council meeting. I was tooling along I-40 apparently not paying attention because I missed my exit and was almost to Statesville before I realized it. So I had to take the next exit and find some back roads to get me back. This place is on one of those back roads that dips into a steep valley just off US Route 64 West of Lenoir. The daffodils were just starting to bloom. The next nearest house is about 1/4 of a mile away. Several people passed by on the road as I was shooting this place but no one stopped to bother me. It's not in that bad a shape. Someone who was good at restoration could fix it up pretty easily. The one porch has been used for straw storage but other than that, it's in good shape. I loved the old clothes hanging in the one bedroom. I could see an old guy sitting in a rocking chair on the porch with a squirrel rifle across his knees.
( Come see the rest )
Enjoy,
Wander
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| The Final Curtain |
[05 Jul 2009|05:12pm] |
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Photographed in an abandoned mining tower in the upper peninsula of Michigan, USA.
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| The House on the Hill |
[05 Jul 2009|02:25pm] |
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Photographed in Woodlawn, KY, USA.
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[05 Jul 2009|11:50am] |
The shit I find just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Freakness is Alabama's #1 natural resource.
The rest of the set.
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[04 Jul 2009|07:28pm] |
Spotted this lovely in a field off the side of I-40 in New Mexico on my drive back to Missouri from California. Pretty much in the middle of nowhere, about 30 miles or so from the Texas/New Mexico border.
Canon 40D, 10-22mm
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[04 Jul 2009|04:14pm] |
AMERICAAAAA!
Happy Independence Day!
If you're wondering, this is the Sedman House in Nevada City, Montana. It is a well preserved historical ghost town with around one hundred buildings. I'll have more pictures to upload as a set at some point!
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| Roney's Point Hospital |
[27 Jun 2009|04:57pm] |
You might remember I posted these back in 2006. A few days ago I was googling and found my photos posted on WVParanormalSociety.com. The director of the WV Paranormal Society, Dave Bieniek, posted some of my photos and claimed he took them. I know the photos are mine because one of them even shows my boyfriend in the photo.
His post with my photos: http://www.wvparanormalsociety.com/board/thread50.html
EDIT: I posted a new thread on his forum that their administrator was using my photos and were claiming they were his. I just checked and my post has been deleted..
Has anybody else ever come across somebody stealing their photos?
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The post with my photos returned and this was posted on his forum...
On several popular Internet websites, our pictures have been appearing. Several of the posters have even had the audacity to claim that these pictures were stolen by our membership. My reply is simple: the West Virginia Paranormal Society upholds a very high standard of professional conduct, and would never engage in any such activity.
Unfortunately, reasoning with these individuals is an impossible task. The anonymity of these posters not withstanding, trying to defend our intellectual property online is a fruitless task.
With that said, I give you all my personal guarantee that we will continue to uphold the absolute highest standards.
Dave Bieniek
W.V.P.S. Director
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WOW.....
Sorry for the repeat post, but ( here's the rest for those who haven't seen them yet. )
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