I love abandoned buildings. My brother does too. Last night we went to a warehouse near Winchester that I thought was abandoned. I had seen it from the interstate many times–the overgrown grass, the rusting shipping crates in the back, the unkempt fence lining the facility. I had been wanting to go in it for a couple years, but tonight we found out it wasn’t really abandoned. From what we could tell from windows and holes in the metal doors, whoever owns the place still uses it as storage for shipping companies. The back lot is full of old rotting wooden palettes and basically just lots of trash.
I left that place disappointed and went to an abandoned building on Manchester Street. Elliott and I had been there before, but I hadn’t shot it. The thing about running around in abandoned buildings is that there is no light. Everything either needs to be strobed or light-painted, and you can forget about hand-holding. It’s a real drag, so I didn’t shoot as much as I may have wanted. Abandoned buildings have some really interesting textures and objects and colors, and I can see many of them being excellent places to shoot at sunset when the light is shooting in through the broken windows.
So here are some pictures.
This is what we saw when we walked in. Mud everywhere, pipes hanging from the ceiling, rusted industrial equipment. It was awesome.
This is a big furnace. They probably used it to burn things.
I light painted everything wit a small LED headlamp. It was a pain.
This is the first place we tried to go. Those doors were very unlocked.
Jack likes his iPod.
