5 posts tagged “photography”

There is an old water tower in my town that is almost completely obscured by plants and trees.  I've never actually gone onto the property to check if there is a ladder, but judging from the state of it I probably wouldn't want to risk climbing it anyway.

 

On the island where I live there is a great deal of military detritus laying around in various states of decay.  There is a large Navy presence on the island, and there's all sorts of places to go exploring weird artifacts of past decades.  A lot of these areas are tied together by a largely defunct railroad that goes from the very top to the very bottom of the island.  The rails continue on the mainland, but the bridges are either long gone or hopelessly beyond repair.

The section of track that traverses the island has been converted into a tourist attraction, where you pay some amount of money to have a fancy dinner in the passenger cars while the train rumbles up the line and back.  This past weekend a friend and I decided to explore a small side-yard down in the marina district to see what we could find.  As an important sidenote, a lot of people take it upon themselves to vandalize these sites, but we're only interested in taking photos; we never damage any of the property we enter.

What we found was an old, abandoned school-bus that contained what looked like the entire set for a long-forgotten school play.  There were even boxes of stage-lights strewn about, not to mention the giant cardboard battle-axe.  We also found a train engine car inside a repair bay, fully unlocked and inviting us to play in the cockpit.  Here are some of the photos:

 

 

 

 

Brenton Point, Newport, RI this afternoon.  Holy McF**k was it blowing out.  We saw a woman walking her tiny dog along the roadside, and although it looked like it was desperately straining against it's leash it was really just being blown away; the leash was the only thing holding it from flying off over the ocean!  Here are some photos of the amazing waves:

 

 

 

 

It's nice to see that there are still a few reminders of summer still fluttering around despite the fact that the end of October is drawing near.  Found at Purgatory Chasm.

The lovely Josh is down from Maine all weekend, so yesterday we went to the Norman Bird Sanctuary to explore the woods, since it's now that perfect time of year when the leaves are starting to turn and it is not yet too cold to be outside for long.  We hiked about 75% of the trails there, and took a break to enjoy the view at hanging rock for a while before heading back to the car.  Here are some pictures!