There is something magical to me about riding backroads and discovering old structures that time seems to have forgotten. Each time I find an old abandoned barn, shed, house, or other dwelling, I always wonder about its history. Whose was it? How much it meant to them and/or their family. And what happened to it? […]
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The general theme for this documentary project is to photograph areas and subjects of interest along US state-named streets that correlate to the state. This could be directly or indirectly. Be sure and read the opening article in this series, The States of Ruston – Carolina Ave, to learn more. I know what comes to
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I’ve had an idea for a photography project centered around streets in Ruston, Louisiana, that are named after a state in the US, for a while now. The overall premise is to document and photograph areas and subjects of interest along that street that may directly (or indirectly) relate to that particular state. Today, I
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I recall buying high-protein dog food for my male Rottweiler from O’Neal’s feed store as a young adult in the mid-90s. As best as I can remember, those goods were sold one building over to the west (same lot, on the left) from the structure I am sharing pictures of in this article. At one
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Recently I went back to Keachi, Louisiana, for a second visit. This time, I brought one of my cameras with me to document some of the interesting, historical buildings and structures. Although I spent more time there this time around than in my previous pass-through visit, there is still a lot to see, learn about,
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Old bricks have some of the best textures. I also think that if those bricks could talk, man, the stories they could tell. This building in the old downtown Ruston, Louisiana area has some of those very bricks on the north-facing side. I have been meaning to create some images of this building’s bricks, and
At the corner of highways LA 146 and LA 148 in Jackson Parish, Louisiana, sits what remains of the Vernon Community Store. Nature is very much reclaiming the structure, and it has seen better days. I found very little information online about this general store and its history. In fact, this post from the Abandoned
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This old gymnasium at an abandoned school in Chatham, Louisiana caught my attention here recently while out Sunday riding. I shot these pictures in RAW and used Nikon NX Studio to adjust the exposure a bit and set the color profiles to Bleached. I like how they turned out. I don’t normally edit my images
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I have photographed this old country church before, but I was never really happy with the results. While driving nearby backroads today, I decided to try again. I’m not sure if it is active or when the last services were (they weren’t having any on this particular Sunday morning while I was there). It may
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Rural Louisiana: black-and-white photos in tight, documentary style.
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