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UER Forum > Archived US: Mid-Atlantic > Cleaning Out my Closet (Viewed 390 times)
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Cleaning Out my Closet
< on 8/1/2013 11:45 AM >
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I'm going to attempt to be a bit more active here, when able, which will be intermittent. UER is a great site and though I've only been a member for a few months, it's been in my bookmarks for years. So I decided to dig into my archives and share my "pre-UER" stuff. It'll take about 10 posts sprinkled over the various regions and the quality of the images will vary as they've been taken over the period of a decade. Hopefully I can remember what most of this stuff is.

I grew up in Jersey, literally across the train tracks and have been wandering into abandoned structures since I was a little kid. However, I didn't pick up shooting pictures until moving to North Carolina for graduate school.

1. These are two of my first digital images ever, with a 4-megapixel point-and-shoot. #1 and #2 are of abandoned juvenile detention facility in Raleigh that's since been demolished. #3 and #4 were storage buildings (maybe part of the same detention facility) that had been taken over by graffiti artists.

They cleared away all these buildings for the expansion of the North Carolina Museum of Art.



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5. Downtown Raleigh in the warehouse district. Not sure if this is still there or not with all the new construction.



6. I received my degree in architecture and had the fortune to practice in North Carolina and several other states, traveling for work. As a result, I got to see my share of old buildings.

This was captured during a summer internship with a local architecture firm. One of their jobs was converting and old manufacturing facility. Another intern and I were tasked with the responsibility of taking measurements, taking pictures, and verifying what was there.



7. So I had fun with my camera.


8. Maybe too much fun. This is now the Polar Ice House in Wake Forest, NC.


After I graduated, I joined an architecture firm that afforded me the ability to travel nationally for work. They knew my interest in taking pictures, bought a state-of-the-art SLR at that time - a Canon 10D - and had me learn how to use it so I could document their built projects. I drove and flew to plenty of locations and took it everywhere with me, shooting anything interesting I saw.

9. Think anyone familiar with North Carolina's coast knows this building well as it's become further buried over the years. This was in 2004.



10. Next several posts are of a pretty famous water treatment facility that's been on lockdown the past few years.



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More random stuff from the Triangle area and beyond:

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26. Not sure what happened to these cabooses near downtown Raleigh, they used to sit there for years.



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30. old Dew Motors building, the last time I observed it, the glass with lettering was gone and there was just a wood board. A shame.

31. If you know where this is, then you know where this is. First came across it in 2011 and lucked out earlier this year.


32. Abandoned truck stop in South Carolina off the interstate. Traveled there for some architecture work and this was right across my hotel. Well, I had to check it out.



33. Located in Tennessee.


34. Nashville, TN. Not sure what this building was, looked like an office building of some sort. Thought the lettering and proportions were neat.


35. Mine country of West Virginia. What a depressed state.

So that's how part of how I began with digital photography in 2003, by way of architecture. Learning how to shoot pictures and getting to access old buildings - all while doing renovation or historic preservation - really just enabled me to be a kid all over again.


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Re: Cleaning Out my Closet
<Reply # 1 on 8/1/2013 11:57 AM >
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Well here is an Official welcome to the site if you haven't had one yet! You are like me, and have been around exploring for some time with out being on the site the entire time.

You must of made it to the old coast guard station right before the demo and restore. Now the 80's flattop building is gone and the station had an exterior restore and put on pilings for ocean protection. The Aquarium owns the land and is trying to preserve the original building.

If you ever make it out here again, shoot me a message. I head West as much as I can, what area are you?

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Re: Cleaning Out my Closet
<Reply # 2 on 8/1/2013 12:10 PM >
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So they DID do something with the coast guard station after all! Thanks for the info, I haven't been down that road in a few years. I really loved the flat top. Last time I was supposed to go, roads were closed off due to hurricane destruction. Hoping to make it back to OBX, maybe next year, will let you know.

I'm in Raleigh!

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Re: Cleaning Out my Closet
<Reply # 3 on 8/1/2013 12:30 PM >
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cool series of photos...thanks for sharing.

I have family that lives near Raleigh (actually got my most recent tattoo done there) and get down there from time to time. I may pick your brain for a few tips next time I get down that way.

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Re: Cleaning Out my Closet
<Reply # 4 on 8/1/2013 1:01 PM >
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Great stuff.

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Re: Cleaning Out my Closet
<Reply # 5 on 8/1/2013 1:10 PM >
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Great stuff, sir! Also good to see another NC explorer Keep the pictures coming!

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Re: Cleaning Out my Closet
<Reply # 6 on 8/1/2013 2:07 PM >
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Here is how it sits now, there isn't a deck floor where you would think there is one, it would require a ladder to get in if it wasn't very secure.

[last edit 8/1/2013 2:08 PM by xGROMx - edited 1 times]

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Re: Cleaning Out my Closet
<Reply # 7 on 8/1/2013 4:52 PM >
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Nice shots

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Re: Cleaning Out my Closet
<Reply # 8 on 8/1/2013 5:15 PM >
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Hey nice photos! And a belated welcome to the site. And yes, I'm properly jealous that you got into the water treatment plant - it looks gorgeous.

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Re: Cleaning Out my Closet
<Reply # 9 on 8/1/2013 5:23 PM >
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Wow, that's really different, I wouldn't have recognized it otherwise.

Posted by xGROMx
Here is how it sits now, there isn't a deck floor where you would think there is one, it would require a ladder to get in if it wasn't very secure.
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Re: Cleaning Out my Closet
<Reply # 10 on 8/1/2013 6:12 PM >
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One of my biggest regrets to date was not hitting #s 1 & 2.

#5 was still there, at least it was a couple of months ago?

#s 6,7 & 8 are locked tight now I think as they are redoing it.

#s 10 through 16 are on my ever growing to do list but that's a hard one to get inside.


Great shots,thanks for sharing!

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Re: Cleaning Out my Closet
<Reply # 11 on 8/1/2013 11:05 PM >
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love 12!!

it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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Re: Cleaning Out my Closet
<Reply # 12 on 8/3/2013 11:06 PM >
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#10-#16 I want in there!!!!!!

*wrote wrong picture numbers.
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Re: Cleaning Out my Closet
<Reply # 13 on 8/4/2013 3:10 AM >
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love them! they got better and better. I like the water station pics the best.

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