i was not planning on posting this photograph this early (and out of order) but i needed to process it for something we were doing at church, so here it is.

it is pretty difficult to explain what being in this particular building stirred up in me but i will try. i just kept imagining the people that were involved in building it. not so much the builders or crew themselves, but the people representing the church. i kept imagining them walking around the same rooms i was standing in as walls were going up and how their hearts were most likely filled with excitement as they expected great things to happen within these walls. there i stood on the other end of that spectrum. it felt like hope crushed. awful.

i really want to go back to this particular location with more proper equipment, but for now this will have to do.

listening to: death cab for cutie - i'll follow you into the dark

• powerful stuff.
  
  the note made the shot that much more impacting. keep it up.
  Jonah Van Tuyl @ June 29, 2009 @ 11:23 AM
• WOW.
  james madson @ June 29, 2009 @ 2:22 PM
• james took my comment...wow is all I could think of...Great shot.
  jonw @ June 29, 2009 @ 2:29 PM
• Really nice detailed work, it feels a lot like middle earth and a place in the lord of the rings :-)
  Claus Petersen @ June 30, 2009 @ 1:44 AM
• thanks all.
  mikeb @ June 30, 2009 @ 12:19 PM
• very nice contrast!
  kallopeter @ July 2, 2009 @ 1:32 AM
• So very sad! You have captured th desolation of the abandoned steel towns!
  GrannyJ @ July 6, 2009 @ 12:38 AM
• whoa -- where?
  bob @ July 18, 2009 @ 8:49 PM
• This is a magnificent shot!
  kevin @ October 19, 2009 @ 7:10 AM
• To me... this shot is perfect. Great subject and composition. Excellent light and processing. Perfect!!!
  Mike @ October 23, 2009 @ 10:27 PM