Have you ever been driving and noticed a old building off in the distance and said to yourself, "What the hell is that?". Well it happens to me all the time, and unfortunately most of the time all I can do is mark it on a map, look it up on Google Earth and hope for the best the next time I'm in the area.

Fortunately earlier this week, I was able to indulge my natural curiosity and go find out. What I saw initially was a large building looming in the distance of an otherwise flat desert plain. I managed to locate a road winding its way in the general direction of the place and found myself soon thereafter parked in front of an old abandoned power plant!

Even though all of the equipment had been removed, the building itself was beautiful in its own way. Now in the beginning stages of crumbling, I loved the shadows and the views the few remaining windows held. While the location itself wasn't full of old equipment, overgrowing plants into the building, the obligatory penis graffiti, or the "sexy art shots", the discovery of something completely unexpected and untouched as well as the joy of saying, "Screw it. I'm gonna' check this place out", reminded me why I started this strange hobby in the first place.

I hope you enjoy this place through my lens as much as I did through my eyes.


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11 is pretty cool

This seems like it'd be a great spot for a beginner to hit up, minus the questionable structural integrity (which seems, at the moment, not too bad).

Middle on nowhere, isolated, low chance of stumbling up on someone squatting or running a meth lab...quite a spot to spend some time in.

There's still a lot of cool stuff there to see, for sure. I particularly like the second floor doors that open to nothing but a drop.

It's a nice find and great chance encounter!

Good stuff!

Post by dundertits 11 is pretty cool

Thanks. That was pretty much the entire second floor less some offices off to the left. I wish the old generators were still in place but the entire complex had been completely stripped of any equipment.

Post by denton_robo This seems like it'd be a great spot for a beginner to hit up, minus the questionable structural integrity (which seems, at the moment, not too bad). Middle on nowhere, isolated, low chance of stumbling up on someone squatting or running a meth lab...quite a spot to spend some time in. There's still a lot of cool stuff there to see, for sure. I particularly like the second floor doors that open to nothing but a drop. It's a nice find and great chance encounter

Overall I would agree - good place for a beginner. Only concern would be that there is only one road in, no place to park that you cant be seen and there are some nearby occupied buildings. Since I went in the middle of the day during the week I suspect everyone was at lunch. There were signs posted about cameras but I never believe signs and didnt see any cameras or places they could have placed cameras. Next door to the building are also a bunch of power transformers so I'm not sure how people would feel about someone with cameras around those. Dont know if that falls under the "critical infrastructure" area of Homeland Security but given that abandoned buildings around the Houston Ship Channel do it wouldnt surprise me.

The door that opened up to nothing gave me a moment of terror. I'm deathly afraid of heights and it literally took my breath away. Glad it didnt open outwards or ole' Pep would have hit the pavement!