Your Peek Inside

A peek inside my life, and the lives of the abandoned locations I visit. From Graffiti, and Broken Windows, to my Selfies and Current Reads here is your Peek Inside!

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Always find a little nugget of good advice. I need to paste this to my chest so I never forget to forgive myself while focusing on forgiving others. #imamormon #lds #honesty #forgiveness #grateful #freshstart #immyownworstenemy #forgive_others_for_not _being_who_you_needed_Them_tobe #forgive_even_when_they're_not_sorry

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Four lounge chairs in the 1872 Maples Building at Willard State Hospital - formerly the New York State Asylum for the Chronic Insane.  This building was built on a miniature-scale implementation of Thomas Story Kirkbride’s linear plan; three others soon followed.  The campus already had one full-scale Kirkbride Plan building - Chapin Hall - which was sadly demolished in the 1980s.

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Chair Porn! **drool**

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This little beauty will be a large and essential part to the concept shoot I am doing! I am super thankful for my access to it! Only thing I am now waiting for is my A7 to arrive back and to coordinate car with Hair and Makeup! I am super excited! 

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My sweet baby girl, started out with a love for cars, that then evolved into dinosaurs. So much so, that her 5th birthday was Dinosaur themed and had cars and dinos in the goodie bags. 

I longed for a girly girl I could relate to. I had NO idea what I was doing in my attempts to play cars. But play, I did. 

Imagine my relief when she finally decided to play with barbies! She even got into Tinkerbell! Then - she asked to get them the dream car (I think it's a muscle car of some sort). 

The last few years, she is more interested in the big kid things a.k.a. "Electronics" Heaven help me, we watched a show, with a Dino monster truck and suddenly it's started AGAIN! 

She wants to go see some in real life - anyone know a place in the Houston area that has a gather like this? I know there are classic car get togethers (I used to always go to those because they were free and typically had some particularly cute boys hanging around drooling over the cars - I found that just the presence of a girl walking around there, made them wanna buy me dinner ;) 

But, I digress - Monster Trucks - do they do little gatherings as well? 

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This is a home I've driven by a few times and wanted to go inside - however, due to how exposed it is to a lot of traffic, I've always chosen not to go and end up with a ticket or arrested. 

Finally got the nerve and went in and was impressed by the decay, post-burn. I shot a TON of film in there and plan later to scan it in for y'all!

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Back in August 2013, a friend gave me my first film SLR, a Canon AE-1. I shot one roll of film with it, and it turned out alright. But was pretty much afraid of it since. In November, I bought my own darkroom supplies and again, sat back and away.

Finally, after having to send my Sony A7 to the camera surgeon, I was left with no other option than film. It hasn't ALL turned out perfect, but I was super proud of my first roll I developed! I've developed 2 times since, and will be Cross-Processing (Fuji 400 in B&W chemistry) this evening!