Recent Road Trip and Urban Imgages

I have just completed a road trip to Indian for some projects. I wasn't able to photograph much but was able to try out the new Nikon D4s. Here are the first batch of images. 

Engine 8201 and Helicopter 

Factory Closed 

Small Town House 

Classic Small Town House Detail 

Fish Scales in need of Paint

Propane and Cardinal 

Images from Rural Mequon Wisconsin

 On my many trips to visit Mequon Wisconsin I noticed this abandoned farm house and barn. Mequon appears to be on the verge of development so I would expect this farm to soon be converted into a suburban development or retail center. Part of it is already being reclaimed by nature. The house that had been most recently partially renovated has been damaged by vandalism. A failed attempt at a new life given up. The farm is from another time complete with out house and likely once was quite important to a family who worked the land. But now that land is mostly gone. Yet the farm likely still has emotional links and latent memories. All of this results in a sense of mystery which I think leaves a sense of the hidden and unsaid in these photos. 

Broken Pains

Wild Leaves 1

Wild Leaves 2

Strands of Insulation!

Tree beyond!

No Trespassing! 

Corner

Three Windows 

Shakes Color

Shakes Black and White 

Wild Leaves 3

Out In the Barn

Out in the Barn 2

Collection of Rural and Urban Images

I took these images a few weeks back over a coupe of days between Christmas and New Years. I had to drive to Columbia Missouri for a project and decided to take the back roads home and photograph. I found some really interesting architecture, some abandoned buildings, and some powerful landscapes. Please enjoy. If you like these images please leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

Thanks!

Christopher Wren In America

Fulton Cornice

American Neoclassical

 

 

American Neoclassical 2

Rural Classical

Red Barn Interrupted

At the end of the lane

Callaway

Abandoned

Modern Medicine

New Bridge

Abstract

Cotton Belt Depot

The Office is Closed

Cotton Belt Depot 2

North Side Mansion

North Side Mansion 2

At The Top of the Hill

JEAN-CLAUDE BERENS

Urban Visions Web Site



In my many searches for inspiration I came across this site. These are meticulously crafted HDR images of urban decay, architecture and landscapes. He is a self taught European photographer who lives in Luxembourg. Amazing stuff.


http://www.urbanvisions.lu/

Images from a rural road trip

Almost Gone!

Almost Gone 2



The green grass of home!

Abandoned

Very Tidy!

Big Tree and Old Building

Welcome To Earlville

Door in Green Wall

Why did they leave?

I guess we are not having dinner!

Up on the Porch!

Welcome Aboard!

Smallville!

Long trip home

Are we there yet?

So I love loading up the cameras and going to someplace in the car. No specific destination or subject matter, often with no idea of what the town our countryside will hold.  Images from a trip to northern Illinois back in December.