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 HeckKopf
  
Location: Birmingham!
Gender: Male
 |  |  | Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
< on 9/11/2009 12:58 AM >
|  | | | I should really post more often, but here is a collection of my explorations from the past two months.
First off is the church. This church is about 7 miles from my house, and it out in the middle of the woods. It's about as abandoned as abandoned can get. The back is collapsing and one room is riddled with holes in the floor.
I don't have a Flickr pro account, so I'll be using a mixture of my pictures from there and the gallery provided by this lovely site.
Let's start off with a picture of the front!
This is literally the only shot of the building that you can get without it being blocked out by trees. I apologize for the shakiness of the picture.
Anyways, you walk through a door frame covered in "666" "Church of the Colt" and pentagrams and you're greeted with this sight:
Yes, there are many pews stacked over to the left. The windows are all broken.
Let's go back to the first interior picture. Look closely in the middle. What's that? If you guessed a piano, you are correct!
How it has managed to stay in such a decent condition is beyond me. Everything else has been broken.
Speaking of which, here is the room with all the holes in the floor that nearly killed me.
Enough of that, though. Let's head upstairs!
There's not a lot to see up here. Apparently the two "sk8ters" in my rural Alabama town practice their art here.
Oh, and you remember how I said the back had collapsed? Well it doesn't look like the rest of the building is staying much longer.
Well, that's it for the church! I hope you enjoyed your little tour!
Here are a few more I snapped today:
Next on the list: the hospital! Fellow Birmingham-goers will surely recognize this building!
I'm 100% sure that my friend and I were the first to get into this building since it closed (with the exception of the patrol team).
Sadly, I didn't take too many pictures inside of here. I was too awed by the place. Looks like it'll be a while before I get back in, too (you know who you are, hahaha). But here are some operation room records, along with my friend's sexy hand:
Also, the stunning view of Birmingham from the roof:
Last on today's agenda is the burnt house!
I only have one picture of it on my Flickr, but it's a pretty decent view of the house from the outside.
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Naaman
    
Location: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 1 on 9/11/2009 4:08 AM >
| | | | awesome!
i want to go to the church!
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HeckKopf
Location: Birmingham!
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 3 on 9/11/2009 4:21 AM >
| | | | Posted by Naaman
awesome!
i want to go to the church!
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Just hit me up if you want to see the church! I'm up for it any day.
I never noticed that!
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kengandalf
 
Location: Seattle, WA
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 4 on 9/11/2009 5:14 PM >
| | | | nice...
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amy atomic
Location: Baltimore
Gender: Female
top banana of the baltimore bunch.
| | | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 5 on 9/11/2009 5:22 PM >
| | | | That church, I want it.
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washthat
Location: Birmingham, AL
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 6 on 9/11/2009 10:27 PM >
| | | | How about a field trip to the church? I want to go also.
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HeckKopf
Location: Birmingham!
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 7 on 9/12/2009 6:46 AM >
| | | | Posted by washthat
How about a field trip to the church? I want to go also.
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I'm down for going any time! It's literally 10 minutes from my house, so whenever you're free, send me a message!
I'd post some pictures from the inside of the burnt house, but the uploader seems to not want me to do so. Perhaps I'll put them on my Photobucket or something tomorrow..
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HeckKopf
Location: Birmingham!
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 8 on 9/13/2009 11:42 PM >
| | | | I finally did it!
Inside the burnt house:
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Navi23
Location: The Calculus Rock
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 10 on 9/16/2009 5:47 PM >
| | | | SK8T?
Sk-eight-tee?
Dumbasses.
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HeckKopf
Location: Birmingham!
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 11 on 9/16/2009 6:12 PM >
| | | | Posted by Navi23
SK8T?
Sk-eight-tee?
Dumbasses.
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You don't even know the half of it.
On the door frame on the outside it says "The Church of us Colt". Yes, 'Colt'. And yes, 'us Colt', to make it worse.
Then behind the piano, some literary genius wrote "Fuck cops is Margaret". What? And next to that is a failed attempt at an anarchy sign - it looks more like what a teacher would write on the top of a great paper rather than anarchy.
Oh well, you can't really be surprised by the intelligence of most backwoods Alabamians.
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Yankee Traveler
Location: Greenfield, MA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 12 on 9/16/2009 6:13 PM >
| | | | I've always wanted to find an old church like that!
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zero5four
Location: Southwest Florida
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 13 on 9/16/2009 6:58 PM >
| | | | love the piano at the church... I'm a sucker for beat up pianos
gotta get in, before its gone forever |
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HeckKopf
Location: Birmingham!
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 14 on 9/16/2009 7:29 PM >
| | | | Posted by cary054
love the piano at the church... I'm a sucker for beat up pianos
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I actually just did an HDR of the piano a few days ago.
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leafloving4x4gal
 
Location: Durham Region
Gender: Female
Someday is NOT a day of the week !
| | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 15 on 9/17/2009 1:20 AM >
| | | | That piano is beautiful, such ashame it's not having it's ivories tickled anymore. Very nice tour of where you have explored, thanks for sharing 
"if you are not selfish enough to make yourself happy, you have nothing of value to offer the world." |
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YoelT
Location: Viet Nam
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 16 on 9/30/2009 2:26 AM >
| | | | Looking at the skyline shot, your lens has a great flare on those lights.
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HeckKopf
Location: Birmingham!
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 17 on 9/30/2009 1:23 PM >
| | | | Posted by Exothermic
Looking at the skyline shot, your lens has a great flare on those lights.
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It really does. It's just an 18-55mm kit lens, but it has some killer lens flare. As you know, I almost never post process my pictures, so that's all organic.
I just really hate the fact that about a quarter of the skyline is blocked by the top of the other building. I used the ledge on the roof to stabilize the shot, but ever since I got a tripod, I've wanted to go back to get that out of the shot, but I'm not sure how easy that'll be.
Maybe I'll take the high road and actually ask for permission, hahaha.
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YoelT
Location: Viet Nam
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 18 on 10/2/2009 2:44 AM >
| | | | They told us that it would be easy. They said that someone already shot scenes from a movie in there. I asked if we could get permission posthumously...
No was the answer... essentially.
www.yoeltaom.as |
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HeckKopf
Location: Birmingham!
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Churches and Hospitals and Burnt Houses, Oh My!
<Reply # 19 on 10/2/2009 5:02 AM >
| | | | Posted by Exothermic
They told us that it would be easy. They said that someone already shot scenes from a movie in there. I asked if we could get permission posthumously...
No was the answer... essentially.
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Just wear fake mustaches and go in and ask again.
It's flawless!
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