Abandoned church, Detroit, Michigan, wide-angle by Timothy Neesam (GumshoePhotos) on Flickr.

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Don’t forget to catch the DK lads in their new TV series PhotoXplorers. Thursday nights on Bravo!

Hugo’s key keeper … by ~lp1986soldier~ on Flickr.

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Today a trip to Zeche Hugo with Fotogravirus and Mr Yotsuba. Also the first location with my Lensbaby, those photos will follow soon.

Yesterday I’ve got my diaphragm rings in the mail, but not all rings where there. So I have to send them back on Monday, and they will send me a new set … fuckers

View On Black

Urban Decay by inzesky on Flickr.

Abandoned by 99baggett on Flickr.

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Abandoned house in Wrens, GA.

rustic recreation by bob merco on Flickr.

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eastern plains, Colorado

abandoned in Genoa by bob merco on Flickr.

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abandoned in the eastern plains of Colorado.

Abandoned Military Ammunitions Bunker by Ryan Eng on Flickr.

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Abandoned military bunker in Waikele. Used in World War 2 as an ammunition storage. This is a vertical panorama composed of 3 HDRs made from 3 exposures processed in Photomatix.

Abandoned - Watching the Sky - Rapa Nui by p_dude on Flickr.

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Abandoned - Rapa Nui / Easter Island 1991 - Scanned Ectachrome slide

Abandoned Paradise by Paulie M2010 on Flickr.

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An abandoned Hotel in Bothas Hill,South Africa.No cameras are allowed here so I pushed my camera through a break in the wooden railing which is about neck height,which got me a nice low angle of view.
That man just to the right of the building in white,spotted me and was briskly walking in my direction carrying a panga.I did not stick around to see if he meant business.

Sigma 10-20@10mm,Photomatix 4.1.2,Topaz Denoise,CS5 and Nik Software Color Efex Pro™ 3.0 filters.

Abandoned by Keoni Cabral on Flickr.

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Abandoned Six Flags amusement park in New Orleans wrecked by Hurricane Katrina in 2005; submerged at one point under 6-8 feet of water.

I spotted the haunted lines of its empty roller coaster from the Ninth Ward off Interstate 510 while playing tourist in 2009 and begged a friend to pull over to investigate. We found an open gate and proceeded to sneak around the eerie, ‘end of world’ Zombie like setting. An adrenaline enhanced experience I’ll never forget. It was like exploring a haunted, adult junkyard theme park on ecstasy, the sick criminal cousin of Disney World. In a good way.

I could have spent days, if not weeks taking pictures on the lonely grounds. Unfortunately I had a crappy point and shoot with me which sputtered out crappy washed out pictures, only a handful of which were salvageable via Photoshop color overcompensation/rejuvenation/reinterpretation.

We were there for about 45 minutes, the entire ruined site to ourselves … til we spotted movement across the way and nearly ran, thinking it police. Turned out to be 3 teenage friends wandering in amazement just as we were. When we approached them, they said they thought we were security and spooked, almost fled themselves. We all laughed at the revelation, shook hands, compared notes and moved on.

Soon after, with the reality of other breathing things called ‘human beings’ in proximity, the aloneness of the place had lost its luster and the fear of trespassing fresh on the brain, we left. Later, I read on the Internet of a few people who had been arrested on the property for trespassing; so our fears may have been justified. However, many more got away with the same as you can find a ton of online pictures of the site, including on Flickr.

I’ve read conflicting reports of the fate of the place but a few pieces said it was slated for demolition in 2011. For more info. …. Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Flags_New_Orleans