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Lexington Decayed
Riddle me this; when is a building abandoned yet in use? There’s a fine line between a site at the perceived end of its useful life, and the point where it’s been given up for dead. Homes tend to fade into the surroundings. Businesses tend to be pulled down or redeveloped. Civic locations tend to be forgotten. Such is the case with the two locations I photographed in Lexington, Ky. I hooked up with local explorer Irina and she showed me two sites – both I’m told are now gone.


Wasting away in Wildcat land [21 Behind the cut] )
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Residential beauty

During the course of my visit back home and this wander across the back country of Kentucky, I was reminded just how much I missed seeing the stately old Victorian homes and public buildings. These are from Georgetown and Lexington, Ky.


Georgetown, Ky

Life of excess and grandeur [9 Behind the cut] )
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Abandoned farm


There are some places you look at and your head says, “yeah, that’s definitely abandoned” but your intuition says “hey not so fast there..” This little farmstead at the split of two country roads was just such a place. The decaying walls and the worn window coverings screamed “empty”, but the mowed yard, clean nature of the site led me to choose discretion. Call me crazy (and many do) but I do have a problem with looking in a window and finding a shotgun pointing back at me. :)

Take a trip and never leave the farm [14 Behind the cut] )
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During my trip back home to the Louisville area, I had the opportunity to climb into the car and wander the open roads between Louisville and Lexington. Lexington was the eventual goal, but with an entire day to myself, time slowed down to comfortable slices based on whim not a deadline. In part, it was pleasant exercise in photographing the beauty of the region I grew up in, and documenting any abandoned sites I happened to see along the way. In this same manner is how I’ve chosen to present those images, one post will be the lost and abandoned; while the next will be the normal and natural. The abandoned locations will appear in the photo blog [livejournal.com profile] abandonedplaces

Bridges old and older


The Singing Bridge of Frankfort

Crossing over [12 behind the cut] )

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