I’ve always felt that when it comes to unique and memorable photographs, the location is one of the key aspects that either is overlooked, underplayed, or outright skirted around by post processing in most photographs today. When you begin to involve a model, while he or she may be now a key subject of the photograph, typically the background or location is blurred to narrow your focus on the subject while I’ve always felt it has more of a role to play then that.

Ranting and raving aside, I really like to share a place that was demolished last year and say these abandoned locations are like delicate flowers (with very sharp thorns to the uneducated) that deserve our respect and reverence.

This is one such location that I happened upon during the tail end of 2008. Throughout most of 2009, I was able to host a number of shoots there and all of which resulted in some pretty spectacular shots. Here’s a small gallery for you to review if you’d care to see. (Two of my shoots at the location were nude and those images have been censored to keep this article in a relatively PG – 13.)

You may access the articles for the first two shoots shown in the gallery above by heading over to those specific articles linked below:

• Sandy
• Julie

But, heading back to the real showpiece of this article. I have to say, the loss of this location during 2009 was a bit of a shock. I was lucky, or not (depending upon how you view the situation) to learn of it being demolished on a day I intended to shoot there. I literally drove up as I watched a backhoe tear down the last remaining wall and drag it off to the side. It may be lost, but ultimately, it won’t be forgotten. Here’s a closer look into this truly extraordinary place that is now lost.

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