[Leica] Don's PAW

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

Very nice, Don. Esp. the bath room.
I can recommend this site if you're interested in this kind of photography.

http://abandoned-places.com/

And he shoots M6, too.

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> From: Don Dory <don.dory@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:57:50 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW
> 
> I have been fascinated with Atlanta's insensitivity to buildings of
> any age.  Not far from my house is a small neighborhood of homes built
> probably in the late forties that is scheduled to be demolished for a
> high rise condominium.  What used to be middle to upper middle class
> housing has had the valuable moldings, mantels, and bath fixtures
> removed and holes punched into the walls to discourage the homeless
> from moving in.
> 
> Below is the beginning of my record keeping of these homes.
> 
> First up is a wide view of a bedroom almost as if a storm warning had
> caused the owners to flee, leaving their possessions behind them:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Urban-Renewal/happybirthdayroom
> 
> This is a closer view, the web will probably not show the wrapping
> paper proclaiming "Happy Birthday"
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Urban-Renewal/happybirthdaycloser
> 
> For some reason, I find this image of ivy growing into the room very 
> engaging:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Urban-Renewal/windowintojungle
> 
> Likewise, a mostly normal room with the wild taking over almost like a
> doomsday SCIFI novel:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Urban-Renewal/triffidbathroom
> 
> Comments, brickbats, derision, or your poor tired unexposed film all
> cheerfully accepted.
> 
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
> 
> 
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