The things left behind
Yes, I do look in windows of abandoned buildings. How else will I know what’s inside? Like this place. Unless I’d looked inside (and made a photo while I was at it), how else could I have possibly known that there had apparently been some sort of an insect infestation there toward the end, when everything important was being packed up?
That’s important to know.
Loup City, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
Posted on September 10, 2014, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, abandoned buildings, black and white photography, downtown, Loup City Nebraska, melinda green harvey, monochrome, NIK Silver Efex Pro 2, one day one image, photo a day, photography. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
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Lots to look at here. I can see why the painting might not have got through the triage for what to take in the face of a plague of locusts/bugs. They should have taken the ceiling though with those nice circular marks – looks almost like someone ran a floor polisher over it. Rubber boots needed for the floor though.
I once lived in a summer cabin, hexagonal in shape, windows on most sides and about 15 feet in diameter. It was in the winter, on the Olympic Peninsula. It was cold and a dumb place to live. But better than a tent which was the other option, and the roof did not leak. When I moved into the cabin it had a zillion dead flies on all the surfaces, in a graduated density with more close to the windows. When swept up, they completely filled a large coffee can – you remember, the metal ones the size of gallon paint pails. They looked a bit like coffee all put together in one place. I kept them as a novelty for most of the winter – to show visitors. No one else seemed half as interested as I was. Your carpet picture brings back that experience. Thanks!
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A “graduated density of flies” is both very disturbing and oddly compelling. I don’t suppose there are any photos? (And, if I’d been among your visitors, I would have been interested in the can o’ flies.)
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No photos that I recall taking, or seeing since I took them if I did. The density scale was probably logarithmic when measured from the centre of the cabin to the windows. Mostly they died seeing the light.
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