"Urban" Exploration

I’ve always been fascinated with abandoned places. They’re haunting in a way that’s hard to describe. They’re a blank canvas and all that’s left to make them alive again is your imagination. Because I’m so enthralled by such things, I take any chance I can get to explore vacant buildings.

Online, they call this “Urban Exploration”, presumably because most such structures exist in cities. I don’t get the chance to do this kind of exploring often, but today I was lucky enough to visit an abandoned lodge. Being a photographer, I felt the need to shoot some photos as I traversed the floors, broken glass cracking and popping under my feet the entire time. A building like this one is already falling down and in a year or even a month, it might be gone completely. Being able to visit it and photograph it was a pleasure.

After that mission (which I admit, was a little creepy - next time I have to bring a flashlight), I had to run some errands and as I did I spotted three young servicemen outside the local post office. I asked their permission to take a quick photo and they obliged. It was midday and the sunlight was brutal and blew out the highlights in the photo, but I was still happy to have the chance to photograph three great, honorable men.