This is one of six images. You can view the others in the album on my Facebook page. When I went back home to Georgia over Christmas, I made sure to make time to shoot in my favorite old abandoned house. Upon returning, even in the company of several others, I felt a really sinister vibe, much stronger than I remembered, prompting me to wonder how I could have gone there so often by myself as a teenager. Maybe California has just made me soft. I took inspiration from this fear, as I often do, and imagined a story of a little girl left alone to live in a house falling into ruin around her. This was one of my favorite days of shooting in recent memory. It reminded me so much of my 365 days, because my parents came along to assist. They seemed to have so much fun falling back into their old roles, holding reflectors, lighting smoke bombs, playing dog wrangler. I’m so lucky to have a family that is so supportive of my art and career choice. Facebook page | Twitter | Instagram
There's something amazing about abandoned places. They're hauntingly beautiful, like their emptiness has somehow made them even more brilliant, or maybe a resting place for spirits, resigned, joyful, and vengeful alike. Most of us don't get to see them - they're abandoned for reasons after all - but photographers luckily have done much of the work for us, with beautiful results.
“If I can convince them to love me, maybe then I’m deserving of love.” That train of thought is a sign of a low self-worth. Perhaps an inner child wound with a fear of abandonment. If this...
Many places of interest around the world have been abandoned or destroyed for various reasons. Some of these places are picturesque or entertaining such as amusement parks where many people once took vacations to.
A once grand mansard roof mansion now in a state of utter neglect and decay. Built in the 1880s, the structure survives today only on account of its brick construction. I have driven by this place several times a week for over twenty years, and even now I still find it breathtaking. I imagine someone buying it and restoring it to its former glory, although realistically it is now probably too far gone for that. I found a 1900 photo of a nearly identical house situated a few miles from here, taken not long after it was built. It shows the proud owner, a local banker by the name of Crafts, standing in the front yard alongside his wife and children. The women are wearing long dresses. a young boy wearing a straw hat sits off to on side. An older couple sits on the front porch, probably the grandparents. There is a horse and buggy out back, perhaps standing by to take Mr. Crafts to his office at the bank. The grounds are immaculate. It reflects a simpler time when life appeared to be less complicated. All of that is lost and gone forever. Today it is desolate and foreboding. I took this series of photographs from a drainage ditch that runs along the front of building. The session was hurried; I felt uncomfortable and apprehensive. I had absolutely no desire to approach any closer than necessary to compose these images. In addition, it felt as if I was standing on the edge of a NASCAR track with cars and trucks hurtling past on the state highway that runs just a few yards from the front of the house. There was no sign of Mr. Crafts' horse and buggy, that's for sure. It's early spring now and I really needed to capture these images before the trees leaf out. I think bare branches really heighten the sense of abandonment. When I returned home later to process the images I noticed an anomaly to the left of the left hand window on the first floor. A ghost perhaps, the spirit of a former owner. Guess I'd like to think so. Nothing like this appeared on any of the other photos from this session. Ghost or no ghost, the image itself is haunting.
How would you feel if someone pointed out to you that you were an arrogant so and so? Would you completely ignore them or feel mortified and embarrassed? Maybe you’d be angry at them for sugg…
Emotional abandonment is leaving our emotional needs unattended, often without acknowledging or addressing it with a response. That can leave us feeling confused, unsettled and unloved for a long time.
There’s not a writer alive who doesn’t know what an Internal Editor is. He’s the guy in your head who sits back, half-loaded with gin, and snarks, “You’re not writing THAT are you?” and, “Wow…this character is your worst one yet!” In other words, the guy is a total jerk-turd. Left unchecked, an Internal Editor […]
I think Rick and Juliet will always see themselves as the lost kid, the one unworthy of love, the abandoned child... And then there are Thomas and T.C who will never give up on them. "Why are they like this?" "I don't know... But maybe we are not so bad after all..." #MagnumPI
How would you feel if someone pointed out to you that you were an arrogant so and so? Would you completely ignore them or feel mortified and embarrassed? Maybe you’d be angry at them for sugg…
Maybe I'm crazy, but I find these pictures beautiful and haunting. These are the cast off cars and trucks that once were someone's pride and joy. And now they sit in fields and in barns rusting away.... The people who took these photos saw the beauty in them.
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