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Well hello again! As some of you have known, I needed to take a much-needed hiatus from working on photography and this site. Finding a full time job again, having to move, renovating homes... the list goes on and on. I was never in a European prison - some people have nothing better to do and try to undermine others to feel important.
Now that things have settled a bit, I hope to clean the place up a bit and start posting again on a regular basis. I hope you've all had a good 2012!
-Tom
A few recent photos of the Lowe's Kings Theatre in Brooklyn NY, which closed in 1977. It is slated to become a performing arts center by 2014, and restored to its original 1929 appearance.
We passed by a small cemetery just south of Geneva NY (by chance) as the sun was setting, and spotted a small chapel-like structure that seemed a bit worse for wear. A quick peek inside revealed spaces packed full of junk; the tight crawl inside didn't seem worth it. We wandered into the cemetery, which was full of deer, darting back into the woods upon our presence. Some of the stones almost began to glow as the moon rose... so we grabbed our cameras.
We stood in an empty street among an expanse of empty apartments in New Orleans, listening to the stillness that surrounded us. The Desire neighborhood in the 9th Ward was almost completely obliterated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. From some vantage points it was possible to have a 360° view of absolute vacancy. A shiny barbed wire fence stretched along the blight, but the gates were left swinging in the cold January breeze.
