Rural Exploration

The original estate house on the 110 acre property called Clairmont, so named by Issac Buchannon who built his estate here in the 1830's. The actual 10 acre estate he named Auchmar after his home in Scotland.

I drove by this old building almost daily while living in Tavistock and always meant to take a photo of it. Just before we moved away I finally got a shot.

An old farm house & barn

Abandoned little yellow house with broken barrel out front.

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Dillon Marsh is a professional photographer currently living in Cape Town, South Africa. Since graduating in 2003 with a BFA from the University of Stellenbosch, Dillon has focused on landscape photography. He chooses objects that can be found in multitude within their environment. He then depicts a family of objects in a series of photographs. By displaying each project as such, he is able to show both the character of the individual members, and the characteristics that make the objects a family.

  THE GHOST TOWN OF KOLMANSKOP   Photograph by Chris Gray   In this fantastic shot by Chris Gray, we see insides of an abandoned house in Kolmanskop, Namibia overtaken by sand. Kolma...

Boating Georgian Bay offers cruising sail boats and powerboats a complete directory covering Tobermory thru the 30,000 Islands and up into the North Channel.

In this reflective beauty by Bruce Hood, we see the shipwrecked SS Ayrfield in Homebush Bay, Sydney, Australia. The photograph was taken from Wentworth point, and what I find truly remarkable are all of the trees growing on the abandoned ship! Nature always finds a way :)

I loved the old trim work around the windows and the interior shutters at Auchmar Estate.

New York photographer Ra di Martino was using Google Earth when she accidentally discovered these amazing photos of Luke’s Skywalkers home on the planet of Tatooine. The Lars Homestead has been aging in the deserts of Tozeur, Tunisia for 35 years, but fans will instantly recognizing the sets, which also include some abandoned ruins of Mos Espa (where the annual Boonta Eve Classic podrace was held). 

The Southern Pacific Depot at Sanderson

Built in 1882 and expanded in 1910, the old depot at Sanderson is still a landmark in this tiny west Texan town. The station was in use until 1996 when the Southern Pacific (now part of the Union Pacific) abandoned its roundhouse and operations in Sanderson. While the train still stops here, the station is not in use and efforts at preservation have not received enough funding to make a real difference. This could be the centerpiece of a revitalized downtown, particularly as Sanderson is very close to the Big Bend National Park nearby.

I snapped this picture as the Texas Eagle/Sunset Limited shuffled its way through the town in the mid-afternoon.

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The building was demolished in October, 2012.

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The Villa di Pratolino was a Renaissance patrician villa in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy. It was mostly demolished in 1820 and its remains are now part of Villa Demidoff, 12 km north of Florence, reached from the main road to Bologna.
The villa was built by Francesco I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. The designer of the villa and gardens was his court architect/designer/mechanic/engineer Bernardo Buontalenti, who completed it in a single campaign from 1569 to 1581. In 1579 it was complete enough to serve as the the setting for Francesco’s wedding to Bianca Cappello. In its time it was a splendid example of the Mannerist garden.
Though the villa and its fountains were kept in repair, after Francesco’s death it was deserted and the place was left to fall into decay. Later, the Grand Duke Ferdinand III decided to demolish the villa and the garden was then re-designed in the English landscape manner.

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Across the USA you will find dozens of these strange markings painted on rectangular slabs of concrete and asphalt. They are known as aerial photo calibration targets, relics from the past that dot the landscape. They were made mostly in the 1950s and 60s, their form established by the US Air Force and NASA.

  Nature Overtakes the Great Wall   Photograph by Trey Ratlcliff @ StuckInCustoms.com   Travel photographer Trey Ratcliff took this incredible photograph that shows nature slowly ove...

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Breathtaking series of photos by Alvaro Sanchez-Montanes features sand covered interiors of the abandoned houses in the Namib desert.