07-06-11 – Abandon All Hope 2: Life After People

Ah, the dangers of recycling!! (They don’t tell you that in the commercials!)

My thought on this contest is things that currently don’t have a use, and aren’t being tended to/for, as in the television series ‘Life After People’ (of which, if you have NetFlix, you can see episodes.) But being realistic, ask yourself “Is it currently being used?” and “Is it being cared for?” If no, then it’s probably good. Obviously some geographic areas will present more difficulties than others. Your abandoned Folsum powerhouse, for example, may not be abandoned per se, but can you capture a picture of it that lends to the impression that it is? (i.e., if they mow the grass around it–shoot above the grass for example).

And perhaps Elsinore or one of the newer mods could change the description to read “places and/or things”? An old doll, lying 1/2 infused in the soil for 1/2 a year where a little girl (or boy for that matter) dropped it, could make a photo that would fit the theme nicely.

As usual, I prefer to keep the theme somewhat liberal in scope, to make it easier to moderate and allow people to adapt to whats available–the voters usually sort such things out in the end.

But stuff that’s obviously been repurposed–like the mills turned into condos–would definitely *not* be what this theme is about.

Olav, I’m running into the same problem, any building that was abandoned downtown has been made into condos or repurposed for something else. Nothing sits empty any more, unless they are attempting demolition by neglect.

I’ve been looking at Urban exploration sites for ideas, you might want to try the same.

Rav, I figured the repurposed stuff was out – I just threw that in as an example of what’s around here. We may still try and make it down to Locke, just because there simply has to more buildings than people there these days. Otherwise we’re mostly stuck with recently shuttered stuff that’s not so interesting, generally. They’ve discovered ‘history’ around here the last ten or so years, so stuff gets gobbled up so fast your head will spin.

I’ve got three already, I think, especially including the non-building stuff. I just need to get out and shoot more. I’ve been in a slump lately, and I hate it.

(as far as the powerhouse goes, we’ll probably save that for another thing. I could make it look abandoned, but I don’t like fudging)

Pope there is a place we want to try and get into. I’d love to get into the railyards, but that shiat is monitored so heavily I’m pretty sure I’d get arrested as soon as the pics hit the net. Big signs, multiple fences… was a Superfund site for a while because they had 140 years of continuous operations fixing trains there. But there’s an old PG&E substation nearby that has been rediscovered. Fences are all holey and the door is busted. Just need an evening without the kids….

olavf, one word: Oakland.

Actually if you have time I can give you plenty of leads from Sacto to east of Reno. Auburn, CA would be a good place to start – even though a lot of their “abandoned” stuff isn’t really abandoned, it looks abandoned enough to photograph as abandoned.

We’ve got one car that needs to be registered and get a tune-up and the other one needs to get the A/C fixed and new front axles. We’re not driving anywhere far for a while =/

I’ve got plenty of stuff I took for this contest already, and some archive shots (thanks for the 9th Ward reminder Curious). I was just hoping to get a few more new ones. We’ll see what happens.

orionid: A ha ha ahahahahaha! You’re funny. Me win? It’d take a miracle. I just play for fun.

I’m partial to the first pickup, and the second-to-last Dart.