Friends in abandoned places

There is nothing better then meeting up with with people that you have never actually met before just to share the same passion of documenting abandonment.

All 3 of our recent discoveries were located in New York State. The first location required my alarm to be set for a 11:30pm wake up call, for a 5am meet up. We met up with 2 cool dudes from Detroit and an excellent guide from the NY state. Aside from the 1 mile hike in the woods at pre-dawn and the fact that I am pretty sure we all crawled in some sort of animal feces, we made it safely inside. The first 3 photos were taken at this location.





The second location is what made my weekend. Met up with 3 more guys from NY, to make the total 9 guys, in which 6 of them I had never met prior to this weekend. The next 4 photos are from that location. The last photo was taken by UrbanDecay.






The last location consisted of a old projection room and a bowling alley, not to mention about 1 hour sent wondering tunnels and hallways just to find ourselves lost.

Stop Motion

Train




This is my first attempt at a long stop motion. (every 5 seconds, 734 photos, 25 minutes)

Fredrick Hospital

It's kinda ironic that we made a visit to a Veteran's Hospital 8 days prior to Memorial Day.

Detroit Rot City - Day 3

I am glad we saved this last location for the last day. Rain was moving in and we were exhausted. Cass Tech has some famous alum such as:Jack White, Diana Ross and John DeLorean.

Detroit Rot City - Day 2

The 2nd day consisted of A LOT less stairs to climb. Locations include: Breitmeyer School, Sherrard School and Woodward Church.

Detroit Rot City - Day 1

9 hours, 6 locations, 5 guys, 3 days and 1 car. That pretty much sums up the trip to Detroit. We only covered 1% of the abandonment in that town. Day 1 consisted of Lee Michigan Central Station and Lee Plaza.

Old Man Winter

30+ inches of snow in 6 days and a chance of more snow just a day away, I decided to post some shots from this past week.