The Barn.

The one thing I absolutely love about Kryss is the fact that whenever he's driving, he constantly keeps an eye out for a building or house that I would love to venture out to. He's constantly looking around to see if there's an abandoned building I can crawl into, or some on the side of the road attraction I'd love to photograph. We haven't really been around Syracuse much, mainly because I didn't think there was a lot to photograph around here abandoned wise. I was wrong. He found a few places.
Yesterday we both had the day off so he wanted to bring me to a barn he found on the side of the road one day. It was right next to a condemned house which was even cooler.
So, we took the drive out there around 4:00 P.M which couldn't of worked out better. I didn't want to go there too early when it was bright and sunny out, I wanted to shoot in an overcast day when the sun was slowly starting to go down, it would of made for better pictures. I messed around with the settings on my camera a bit, too.. something I never do. It helped me learn a lot already and it made the pictures come out cooler in my opinion.
I also edited these in Photoshop CS2 and used an action I created. It was the first time I've ever created one and I really didn't know what I was doing, but I think some of the pictures came out pretty awesome. I have a lot to learn about Actions so hopefully there's an improvement in pictures over the next few months when I experiment a bit more with it.


I am a huge fan of grain on photographs. I think it adds so much character to a picture and I couldn't be happier with the grain on these pictures. I think it adds a film look to it.
There are a few more places Kryss has found that he wants to bring me to. I love that we both enjoy exploring abandoned places and crawling into these spaces and taking pictures while talking about the possible history of the place we're at.

You can view more pictures from the barn on my Flickr.