Rambler: Terry Drink in Hand: Carmichael Pinot Grigio
I've been just now getting to editing, or rather, going through images I took when Beth and I went to the Eastern Sierras earlier this fall. Most of my images from this trip were of the mountains or Mono Lake. However, I did make my first visit to Bodie and loved the old buildings.
A couple weeks ago my cyclocross-racer-weatherman-photographer friend invited me out to shoot a few places in Ft Ord when I hadn't been before. He's been going out there for several years and has documented the changing landscape there. I'm always happy to go shoot some desserted and decaying buildings. First we went to the old stockade. I'd never been in a jail. Very interesting. Slightly depressing.
A mystery of the abandoned Ft Ord is all the chairs. Lone chairs were left all over the place.
From the stockade we headed over to the old Engineering building. We decided it would be a great place for a dance club. Plenty of space for a stage for live music, a space upstairs for a VIP room, sweet industrial feel...just need to replace a few windows. I found the graffiti fascinating (there are some talented artists out there, in spite of their choice of canvas).
I have a thing for electrical boxes I guess...
Broken view...
I'm supposed to be writing a resume right now. Someone should pay me to be unproductive because I'm really, really, really good at it. It seems like any time I'm supposed to be focused and productive with something I end up opening Aperture and tinkering with photos. Too bad playing with photos is the fast track to us living in a van down by the river...otherwise I'd make it my job. This photo essay is from a little wandering I did a few weeks back. Plain Dealing is a small town straight north of Bossier City, LA. It happens to be on my long-ride training loop, and each Saturday morning when I ride through these empty streets and by the old auto garage I wonder about what must have been. It seems there is a lot of this "what must have been" around rural LA. Sad, but it does make for great photo subjects.
Enjoy. Leave a comment if you like. Hopefully with things getting a little lighter at work there will be more photo essays...let us know what you think--good, bad, or otherwise.
