Summary: I am a big fan of abandoned places and 'urban decay' [in the more abandoned sense of the word]. Here is a link with some pretty pictures of it.
Some neat pictures of abandoned places...
BLOT: (17 Apr 2013 - 11:16:35 AM)
Some neat pictures of abandoned places...
My friend, Becca, sent me a link this morning: 30 Abandoned Places That Look Truly Beautiful. And there are some pretty snaps, there. A few lean to the Instagram'd or at least touched up side of things*, but nearly all deliver quite nicely on the old romantic adage that dead things are beautiful things. I'm paraphrasing.
Seriously, though, I am in love with urban abandonment. Not sure why. I think I like the idea that all our best efforts are only transient interlopers, or maybe I just like to see life finding a way to take back over where once the artifice stood. And old ghosts. We cannot forget the glory of old ghosts, from different times, windows to a now-gone, joined all the other now-gones sitting in the dark, waiting for everything vibrant around us now to join them, the final cry of the will-be-gones.
My favorite image from the group is the El Hotel Del Salto in Colombia, aka The Haunted Hotel at Tequendama Falls:
* which makes me realize that there are kids out there taking Instagram'd photos of famous works of art...
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