Abandoned Green Acres pt. deux

I would like to thank the models that came out to the shoot Sunday. I would also like to give a huge thanks to Alexis and Clarissa who humble me with their photography but spent the day lugging around lights and helping in set-up.


This young lady's name is Heidi Morrow, who I turned out to be someone I had met once before, but being the professional I am was not aware of that fact until she was leaving.

This woman's name is Tana and came well prepared and was very professional, as you can see below she came outfits including a wedding dress and an electrical taped together dress which was reminder of a Silent Hill character.

These final 3 girls were just as professional and fantastic to work with, but again due to my "professionalism" I was unable to get their names before they left, but will soon update the post once the names are learned.

Abandoned Green Acres

The next 2 posts are pictures made from my photo shoot at the Green Acres Retirement Home here in St. Joseph. This site was once the state welfare home about 10 years ago. Since then nature has taken a hold of it and ravished it. 
I have wanted to shoot here for a while, on account that my great grandmother spent some time here in between other retirement homes and I remember how creepy, small, and life-sucking the rooms were then, and they have only gotten worse. When I brought up the fact that I had always dreamed of breaking in for a day to my camera club one of the members informed me he knew the owner and was able to get us in (much easier than breaking in). 
This first post will be for the building, a testament of its current state of disrepair. The next post will be a showcase of my chance to put some lights up and shoot with some models. 

 Chutes and Ladders 

 Wash Up 

 This is a picture of a room filled with dirt. There were a couple of rooms like this in the basement. I applied an HDR effect to this just so you could see farther back, and below is the same room, and that white thing to the right of the chair is a cat... A very old and very dead cat.

 Sample of the decaying walls. 

 Life Pops Up

 Filed

 Killing Room

Red on Green Acres

Glore Psychiatric Museum

After an awful day at work yesterday I was invited to go shooting at the Glore Psychiatric Museum today with a friend from school. The Museum is housed inside the old, creepy, state psychiatric hospital so there are nice peeling walls and great yellow floors which made it interesting to shoot. I did not get very many shots though, due to the fact that I ended up playing tourist on account that I have never made it in there... until now. 

Bell On Yellow

Leading Yellow

Abandoned

 It has been kind of an internet trend for photographers to go and shoot ran down, abandoned buildings, so this is my first attempt at seeking a building out. I saw these people demolishing this building on the outer limits of downtown St. Joe. I have went back a couple of different times but no matter if it's Sunday morning or Friday nights there was always someone there working on it. I finally found the property alone on a Monday afternoon, so this must be their weekend project. 


I didn't go inside or anything since I was alone (with just my usual golf club) and there is a homeless camp just a couple of hundred feet away that had pillars of smokes coming from the multiple fires they had lit. While walking to my car a group of homeless people rode up behind the building where I was parked and dismounted from the bikes they had come on. Luckily they were just set on getting to their camp. 


I wish I had photography friends :( I would like to have someone with me on shoots like this so I could explore inside a little more. Yeah friends would help.... or a pistol. 

This Building Does Not Have A Van On It's Roof 

This Building Does Not Have A Van On It's Roof  part deux

Glass Tiles