Just taking a short break from scanning...these are my most recent images. Taken November 4th. I took my usual go for a ride with no direction and came upon this incredible place. An old mill built in the 1800's....last used in the 1930's and left to crumble. I wouldn't never have gone inside were it not for a guy named Randy who lived next door to this thing, He gave me the tour and showed me the safe places to walk without falling thru the floor. This taken with the Nikon N90S, a 50mm f/1.8, and Tri-X Pan film. Tripod mounted.... This here is the second floor....I was standing on a section that was about 2-3 feet wide...right up against the wall. There literally is no floor left except around the perimeter....

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First floor....a study of lines, shape and light....

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The other side of the second floor....that section is totally caved in, with no access....bummer....

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Taken on the first floor. This here glove struck as something special....just hanging there waiting to be worn...behind it the second floor cave in...... I have another view of this which I like better...that one I'm saving for the gallery.

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A side door from the outside......

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Some original wire stuff....whatever it's called....this was tough...these porcelain things were in a tiny little closet, no flash, used available light....glad I had my tripod or many of these images would have been blurry...

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Bored yet?......one more for now....this is a different outside wall....the piping caught my eye....

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these are really cool Michelle! I love wandering around buildings like this.

Some nice pictures here, what a fantastic subject there must be hundreds of pictures here. I agree with Alpha #2 is the strongest followed by #5 I just love old doors. :O)

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dali

These are wonderfull! That is a great place for a shoot. Very good images. I personally like the glove. It is like someone was expecting to come back. Great shots. Magick Michael aka zhounder

Beautiful, 'Chelle. Sharp, with deep image tones, (these use the new scanner?). My favorite is the #5 door.

Yep Misha, these are the low-res scans I was telling you about....not done yet...sigh Good news...I did get my digital back last week too....so I took some images here with the digital too...

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Michelle, fantastic shots!!...like Alpha & Snapz, I just love #2 (who woulda thought huh, with that rusty texture?...lol) But it is so well composed and exposed as well...btw That "wiring stuff" is an old fuse box, where the porcelain fuses used to go, if they blew you could remove them and just rewire them (with the appropriate gauge fuse wire) and pop em back in...you did well to capture that so well in the conditions you describe. The last one, the outside wall with the pipes has a strange kind of magic for me too. What a find! Thanks for sharing.
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Am I the onely one who liked the glove picture? The fifth picture. I dunno I agree the pipes is the best contrast ect. But it's not quite my type of thing. I think the repition is in too close an area to be effective ditto with the fuse boxes. Perhaps if one could change the fuses and make them appear to be wood or something it might catch my eye. However.... BTW any idea how one can do something like that? Change the fuses such that they look like wood I mean? Bsteph

#2 is my fave, but all of them are great! the glove is a great shot, the expectations of the moment kinda thing, I too love old buildings!

Really nice shooting Michelle!

Oooooh kewl Mich. I love the pipe shot! :-) Reminds me I still have a bunch of those vacant lot pics. kicks myself for being lazy with the scanner (*

I was reading Stars comment on the pips picture. Now I understand why everyone likes the pipes. It's some sort of subliminal message. 4 1 1/4 inch pipe all hard as steel pointing upwards. Yup it's like alphas flower pic above. Sigh when are you people going to stop thinking of re-creation or is that recreation? ;-) With that in mind i think I like the glove even MORE!!! Geee Michelle. Perhaps you should post more pictures of industrial gloves. How about some not previously worn. =:-0 Bsteph

No, Brian, sadly I wasn't thinking of that. LOL... I like the shot for what it is. WYSIWYG style. hehe :-) (*

Well, I hate to be brutal... OK, I won't. (well, kind of) Really, I like all of them except the 3rd one. Something seems overworked in it. Too busy, I think...my eye didn't know where to start or end up at. Like others, the "Pipes" was my favorite. The ones I didn't mention specifically are all liked about the same. The shadow detail in all of them seems perfect, and in most of the shots, the shadows seem so important. It only echoes what I said to you a few weeks ago...you can have the best equipment in the world but without the "eye", it's a waste. In closing...VERY nice work and THANKS for sharing!

i do like them all- door, pipes, glove, rest- in that order, if i had to whip it off the top of my head- what a wonderful find! Great shooting there Michelle ;)

While I usually am fixated on phallic symbolism, that wasn't what I saw when I looked at those pipes....heh! I'm glad everyone likes that shot....and Brian and zhounder thank you...I absolutely love the glove shot myself but there is a better one in my gallery if you care to peek there. Chuck, honesty is something I appreciate and so your brutality :~) is also appreciated, you were brutal in a nice way.... (lesson for the critiquer challenged). I do agree about #3 being hard to look at....hehe.....total chaos but that is the way it fell, and I suppose more of a record shot than anything having artistic merit. Thank you!

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Michelle A.: I think I read somewhere that you like Ansel Adams. I read three books of his. I remember discussion about exposing for the shadows and developing for the highlights (I think...it was lonnnggg ago). Anyway, that's what I saw in the pics above. Good shadow depth and detail with good range throughout (if that's how it's said...from the darkest dark to the lightest light). I think Ansel would have smiled.