Panoramic 3

I showed you the other 2 panoramic images that I have done so I might as well show you the last one that I have done. This is the one that I did while I was a student at OIP&T. It is also my favorite of the 3 panoramic images that I have made. This one is made of 12-13 images stitched together. I'll finish this post later, I am going to go watch 3:10 to Yuma with my wife. I'm back, the movie was pretty good, I didn't really like the ending but it was still a good movie. So, I was going to tell you more about this image but I am tired so I am not going to say much. This image was shot with a Canon Digital Rebel, this building was my favorite place to shoot. I say was, as the building is no longer standing. About 70% of the building was lost in a fire and the rest was demolished shortly after the fire. The last images I took of this building were of the fire and demo of the remaining part of the barn. It was a sad day. Well I hope you have enjoyed my panoramic images. I am going to try and do another one soon, I promise, as soon as I get it done, I will make a blog post about it.

Photoman

Dilapidated Revisited

I went back to the same old building where I took the image from yesterdays blog. My whole blog was about missed opportunities, so I thought I should try and get back into the building before it was gone or renovated. As soon as I got out of my vehicle I noticed that the windows had all been boarded up with plywood. Worse than that, I also noticed a bunch of construction vehicles parked around one end of the building. I had missed yet another opportunity, at least I had been in the building once and was able to get some very good images. I was hoping to get some more but I waited to long to go back. I really wanted to shoot in an abandoned building but I couldn't think of where any were that were close by. I decide to go to a nearby covered bridge and shoot it, while in route to the bridge I remembered an old factory that wasn't to far away. I have wanted to shoot it for a long time. Long story short I decided that I need to go and take some photographs of the factory before it was to late. Part of the factory burned a couple of years ago and another one of the buildings is decayed to the point that it is falling down. I knew that if I didn't get in there soon it would be to late. I had a short amount of time but I was able to get a some shots. It was very cold today, so the fact that I didn't have a lot of time didn't bother me to much. When I left the house it was -15 degrees with the wind chill. I dressed quite warm and I had fun. I haven't had a chance to download the images yet but as soon as I do I will upload something to share with you.



This image is the first image I took today, as you can see this building is in very bad shape. There is no way to save this building when the ceiling caved in it pushed the wall to the left side of the image over. The entire left side of the building has collapsed. I was nervous that the roof could collapse at any moment while we were in the building. It was very windy today and much of the wood is rotten, but as you can see from the image and the fact that I am writing this blog I survived. Believe it or not I only took about 8 or 9 images inside this building and the rest of the time I was shooting macro shots of water and ice on the ground and plants outside of the buildings. I was only in the property for about 30 minutes and have decided that I will return once it is warmer. There are many buildings and not all in as bad a condition as this one. If I get another opportunity to shoot at this property I will be sure to post some images for you to view and tell you about my experience.

Photoman

Dilapidated

I love old abandoned buildings, they are my favorite place to shoot. I know I say that about a lot of different things or places, but I really mean it about old buildings. I love to go into a building that hasn't been occupied in years and see what was left behind. It is like a history lesson in a way. I guess it could be considered rudimentary archeology, well not quite but it is the closet I'll ever come to archeology in my lifetime. This all seems so dejavu to me, I think if you look in my archives you will probably find another post where I talked about abandoned or dilapidated buildings. Yesterday was my 50th post so I can't remember exactly what I have and have not written about in the past posts. The image that I am showing you in this post is one that I have on my stock photography website. It happens to be the one image that has received the most comments of all of my stock images, so I thought I would share it with my loyal readers.



This image was taken in a building not too far from where I live, no it isn't one from the campus where I live. This building is a part of a local University not far from where I live. I noticed it many years ago and I had often wondered what they were going to do with it. I knew that I would eventually get into the building and have a look. One day a few years later I drove by the building again, I had forgotten about it. I was surprised to see that it was still sitting empty, I knew that I needed to get in and shoot it before they demolished it. I have missed many opportunities to shoot in old buildings by procrastinating and when I decided to finally do it, the buildings were gone or being renovated. For example, the town that I grew up in had an orphanage that sat on about 250 acres of land. On the edge of their property sat an old water tank, it was very cool and would have made a great photographic subject. I had wanted to photograph it for years but I never felt like there was any hurry, I mean where was it going to go? It was always there and I thought it would always be there, I was wrong. In 2004 I decided it was time for me to go and shoot the water tank, when I got there it was gone. The orphanage had been closed for a number of years and the property had been sold. The new property owners tore the water tank down to make way for a retirement village. That is just one of too many missed opportunities that I could tell you about. I have many success stories that I can share as well, but a missed opportunity like that can never be had again. Well I need to get this post finished I still have to get a message to my good friend Todd Kuhns in South Carolina. Hey Todd there's your link.

Photoman