don’t they know they aren’t supposed to leave their shrimpin poles overnight?
great pics guys, I love the ones of the lighthouse before work started on the foundation…save those pics because you’ll never see the foundation like that again…
For years I’ve been stopping at old abandoned houses and taking some photos of them. I call them “Sad Houses.” I imagine the better times in the houses when they were filled with the smells of biscuits cooking, bacon on the stove, a percolator coffee pot. They protected mostly poor people working just to survive, but they were happy. Now the houses sit empty and the houses are left to slowly die…and they are sad.
Those are great! I have a few of that type, mostly barns and sheds.
Thanks. I think my first house I looked at was when I was a kid hoping to find hidden treasures inside a wall space. Later in college outside of Newberry, I found an old house and a cow had gotten inside, fell through the floor and broke her leg and she died in the house. She had been dead so long her hide had turned to rock hard leather. I didn’t have a camera in those days.
I always worry about finding something I don’t want to see. One had what looked like a hobo bed in a corner…that sorta freaked me out.
The saddest one was with the old hospital bed sitting in a room under a window. I walked in the unlocked door and there the bed was, sheets still on the bed, just as they had been when someone was taken out of the bed. On the table beside the bed was the old telephone, some plates, a phone book and some personal items. It was like the old person lived in the house until the day they died and they were simply removed from the house and the house was left untouched - frozen in time. I happened to drive by that house a few years later and I went back to try a few different photo angles, but the bed had been stolen and the room was turned upside down. That was almost even sadder.
“I am constantly amazed at the stupidity of the general public.”
~my dad
Equipment:
190cc Sea Pro w/130 Johnson
1- 17 year old
1 - 13 year old
1 - wife (The Warden)
Do you just walk in these places ?.. I’m in NC for the weekend and we passed a gazillion places like that.
Depends. If the place is boarded up and has no trespassing signs, I might just shot a picture through a broken window or hole in the door where someone else broke in. If the place is open, I’ll carefully go in, being careful of rotting floors – I don’t want to end up like that poor cow. If I pick something up, I put it back in the same spot. It’s an emotional journey, for me at least.
“I am constantly amazed at the stupidity of the general public.”
~my dad
Equipment:
190cc Sea Pro w/130 Johnson
1- 17 year old
1 - 13 year old
1 - wife (The Warden)
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