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Ghost Slide
The difference between this abandoned school and all the other ones I’ve shot is that the Patient Spouse attended two years of elementary school here, which made the desolation a little more depressing.
But those two slides, barely holding their own against the onslaughts of time and weeds, turn a sad place into a creepy one…
Danbury, Nebraska
photographed 8.26.2018
The user, typically a child
On an overcast morning, a well-used and well-polished slide caught my photographer’s eye. I won’t tell you how many kids I had to chase away so I could get this shot.
Oh, you know what? Yes, I will tell you: none. There were only two kids at the park, and they were someplace else.
Ruddick Park
Colorado City, Texas
photographed 3.17.2018
February 18
Say you are on a trip. In Missouri. With no real destination other than generally getting from St. Louis to Kansas City. And say you happen to notice on the map (because you are like that, preferring actual, paper maps over a GPS) a town called Frankenstein.
Of course you have to go!
And say, on your way through Frankenstein, you notice a big church (Our Lady, Help of Christians, as it turns out) with a playground and a graveyard beside it. You have to stop.
And, because you saw the town on the map and the church in the town, you also saw this: a caretaker’s hut, built of brick to match the church, with a white door held closed by a board.
It was a great trip.
Frankenstein, Missouri
photographed 6.2006
One Day | One Image 