The "Women of Abandonment" II

More recently I told everyone of my "Women of Abandonment" project. This last saturday I got my all time wish. As I progressed further into photography, and became more experienced with photoshop and forums, I started to learn about "trash the dress". This is where a bride goes out after the wedding and, well trashes the dress. Now, I truly believe you can "trash the dress" with out actually trashing it, and you do this right before you go to the cleaner. Anyway, I wanted to photograph a "trash the dress" session so badly. Unable to find a bride willing, I thought well what if it was just a trash any dress? This is how "Women of Abandonment" came along. Well last weekend, I got my wish. Kris said she wanted to be involved in my project and she said I want to wear my wedding dress! OH MY, I couldn't wait for Saturday, and I had the perfect place:








The weather wasn't very cooperative, it was a beautiful day, 70 degrees and as I got to closer to the place the rain started pouring down, the temperature dropped down to 55, and it continued this way until we were ready to leave.

The place is an abandoned dairy farm that I had already photographed, but I haven't been able to share the photos yet. There are many more photos from this adventure, but I have been so excited I had to share what I had completed.

The "Women of Abaondonment"

Well, here are some of the photos from the photo shoot on Saturday. This was a total blast, and I really hope that I get to do this again soon.

Here they are:





I have to tell you that this photo makes me think that her head may spin around, and if you had been behind the scenes, you would have been laughing because Lori was having a hard time being serious!














When I get the rest finished, I will share.

The best hunt ever

We went toward some places I had seen on previous trips, and I have the photos from that, but the fourth place we went to was Totally Awesome and I don't have those ready yet because I had a photo shoot this most recent Saturday. I had two models in an abandoned building and it was GREAT! So I have been editing those photos since Saturday. If you happen to be reading this and your interested in being a model it's a pretty simple plan I run. No charge to you if you pose for me and don't mind being in abandoned buildings. Then I let you have low res copies for your pages on the Internet, and if you want to prints, you can purchase those from me as well.

Here are the shots from 3/20/10:















Here is a sneak peak of my photo shoot:

Two Saturday's ago

 I have been seemly putting it off, here are the houses we found two Saturday's ago. It really wasn't a great outing not to mention is was pouring rain. Of the three places we found we could get halfway into ONE of them! They were busted up houses and the fourth place I wanted to go to was gone! Well I don't know how busted up this one was:

Couldn't get into this one, there was a Winnebago parking right next to it. Guessing by the age of this one we wouldn't have been able to get far anyway.,

When we drove around to find the next place I had planned on going to, I couldn't find it. Then I was afraid I was in the wrong place, because there was another place I couldn't find as well. But what I really think happened, is they were finally tore down. So we went here:

We couldn't get in because the roof was caved in. So we took photos from outside:




We left here and went down the worst dirt road in the world, Burt road, that's right I said it. It would have been smoother to drive in the fields. Then we found this broken beauty:



We had to climb into this house, the door was locked in a sort of booby trapped way, but the funny thing about that was, there was no back wall at all, we had to climb up over the foundation around this enclosed porch area:

There was some good stuff though:


Pretty sure we entered the kitchen, to the right the bathroom, I think:


To the left:



From here the entry way into the living room the floor was gone, and this is where you could really see that a fire had emptied this house.


Not sure what this area was other than a storage area that was forgotten:


Now you can see that it really wasn't a great outing, I didn't get nearly as many pictures that I would normally get. We really made up for that last weekend! We hit the jackpot of abandoned houses last weekend, and now that I am done with two Saturdays ago, I can get started on those so be on the look out!