We are those who speak to ghosts.....

*First to note. None of these photos were taken by me, but all of them were enhanced by me using a process called HDR processing. The process is a means to enhances both light and shadows of an image and to show depth, as if the person viewing the image was actually there when the photo was taken. I feel that editing these photos shows more depth, and beauty that others see without the need for editing. If that makes sense, which it probably does not. *




 Urban Decay is defined as the process whereby a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude. It may feature deindustrialization, depopulation or changing population, economic restructuring, abandoned buildings, high local unemployment, fragmented families, political disenfranchisement, crime, and a desolate, inhospitable city landscape.


At first glance, these decrepit environments may seem hopeless, but at the same time they are also beautiful. I find the decay of an urban environment enlightening, you see what the world could be like when no one but nature is left, you see how people lived long before your time, and most of all you see the beauty in architecture and how the forces of nature have taken over.  It seems a never ending battle, between man and nature to take over the earth, but in the end, it's always nature that takes back what was it's own to begin with. No matter how strong a building stands, new growth will take it over. I enjoy sharing this beauty with others, which for me is a strange grunge fascination with the world we leave behind and the ghosts that echo the halls of buildings long forgotten, tell stories within their walls. 

China

 Japan

New York

Detroit

That is it for now. Enjoy.