“Farm houses, barns, ghost towns, abandoned and derelict places and things in rural areas. ”
Curated by
Laura Brown
Ireland is a magical land of rolling hills, spectacular vistas and high cliffs. 
Chances are you already know the first place you want to explore. There's something that catches your eye on the way home from work every day, each time you drive to visit your Mother, when you go on the backroad into the next town. 
An old one room school house can store a lot of history for even a small town. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the one one school house was common in rural farming communities where kids could walk to school. Abandoned Rails, a website dedicated to abandoned railroads and the railroad companies that operated them. US only. 
Centralia was once a bustling coal mining community. 
Ruined castle with subterranean vaulted Goblin Ha' or "Goblin Hall"... 
A virtual city's worth of theatre buildings have been abandoned around the world - once centers of the arts, these now have other unique ghost stories to tell. 
Forests cover approximately 9.4% of the Earth's surface. However, they once covered over 50%. 
What happens when you get bored of your new toys? You just toss them out in the middle of a field somewhere. Who cares that they're worth a billion dollars and took dozens of years of intricate design and revision. 
Some of the craziest abandoned places in the world are here in the cities we live in, in some cases literally right beneath your feet at this very moment. 
Researchers have pieced together what is believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field in the North Atlantic. 
Man's vision constantly exceeds his reach. It is our curse to dream bigger than our meager hands can build. So for every Hoover Dam or Empire State Building that gets built, there are 10 projects that were simply too unfeasible to see to completion. |
During October I took a workshop in Prairie Photography at Shaw Nature Reserve in Gray Summit, Missouri. This was my second class with photographer, Scott Avetta. 
Many people have asked me why do I like to photograph cemeteries. I have no solid answer for this, other than, 'I just do. ' I am not a goth and don't walk around dressed like a vampire or anything like that. 
Old buildings have intrigued me artistically. They inspire me to 'make art' by photographing them from different angles, composing and cropping and framing them with nature. A damn interesting article written by Alan Bellows on 29 March 2006. 
The Exploration Project documents my explorations of places I feel drawn to - where I feel the calm of nature, the creepiness of abandonment, the untold stories of history, or the mystery of an urban legend. 
Putting my 365 on hold for a minute don't feel like dealing with it right now, but I am still taking photos everyday (obviously). 
High in the mountains of Bulgaria we discovered an abandoned flying saucer in the snow. 
It's no secret: We love abandoned places. But while some are terrifying, and some are simply sad, others are just begging to have a laser mounted on top of them. 
The New South China Mall, which opened in 2005, stands empty with 99 per cent of its shops having remained unleased and attractions including a 553-metre indoor and outdoor roller coaster standing idle. |
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