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These buildings are wonderful and each tells its own story. To the citizens of the small outback town this building must have seemed like the height of style, the Taj Mahal reworked for less dreamily romantic and more cooly austere western tastes.

Thanks. I find that I mislead you and accidentally put "Idaho" as the state, but it was in fact Illinois. Sorry about that. Hey, they both start with "I."

Holy Cairo. I've driven through here. What a rainbow decay has wrought. Great shot.

Please don't tell me you just drove right on through. If so, we may have to ask you to turn in your camera. If I were the conspiratorial type, I would say they made the town look like this just to draw in people like me. It's a lot easier to maintain than virtually any other "tourist attraction." On the other hand, there aren't too many places to leave your money, unless you wanted to buy one of these charming edifices.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

If Juan had been along we'd have seen some shots from INSIDE this place. I love your view of the place and what a grand building it must have been in its time. But to me it is even more grand in its current state.

For someone like us, it would take a week to photograph this place and do it right. I had only a few hours, and moved very quickly. If someone else had been with me, and given enough time, I would more than likely have been inside these babies. But digging through abandoned buildings takes time, and I didn't have enough. I shot and ran. You wanna go back with me?

I'm not yet retired so I'd feel that I shorted myself if I attempted to do such a trip while I'm still working. Let's revisit the idea in the future.

Cairo, Illinois. Just one of at least 50 empty buildings.

A photographic gem, well photographed.

Thanks. Much appreciated.

I like the color here and the building architecture...very nice...what I said for signs also apply here for the old abandonned buildings...you're building up quite an impressive collection...wait a bit and you'll receive orders for those, if it's not already the case...:-)...you know I might play a bit with geometry and composition myself...but I still think the best photos have a social, historical and people context...pure geometrical/light/doF composition of whatever are cool no doubt...but it will never have an impact, reach people's mind and last at the level a simple social/historical image might do...that's why I like your work and dedication to this theme also...

You are so kind. My stuff is usually simple and uncomplicated. Sometimes I capture something that only a few see, but mostly I capture the obvious that any bozo with a camera could do. I do try to do it well, but there are thousands of great photographers on Pnet alone who could do an equally good job or a better one.

 

What I'm really grateful for though is that someone like you appreciates this sort of image. When I look at your images, I see another level of subtlety that I usually lack. There is a delicacy like a butterfly, whereas, I tend to be more like the grasshopper just hopping around and landing wherever. I'm also impressed with the way you can make an image by taking just a few visual elements that combine to provide a larger than life picture. My style is more along the line of throwing in all the details. If we were boxers, I would be a stolid puncher, and you would be lightly prancing around throwing a punch here and there with great selectivity.

 

All of this is by way of simply pointing out how grateful I am that you seem to have an appreciation of my images, knowing that they are so different from your own wonderful style. That takes a certain amount of grace my friend. And grace is the one of the rarest of human traits. Cheers

Great light and colors, like what you have done here

:)Gorm

Thanks. I've recently greatly enjoyed a number of your images.