Main Street

After we finished up at the old service station, we continued on our way.  Some time later we found ourselves in another small town.  This one had a row of old stores on Main Street.  The stores are all boarded up, and are not long for this world.  The floors in all of them are collapsed, and the few contents, mostly just old garbage, have fallen into the basements.  The roofs are also at various stages of collapse and there is a lot of water entry into the buildings.  This is never good for a structure.  Even the walls are badly shifted and deteriorated, and many of the windows are long gone.  We spent some time here and photographed the old buildings.  A few other visitors stopped by while we were there.  A family was out for a day trip and stopped to check things out.  And, another photographer was out shooting with both an iPhone, and a medium format film camera.  Although film cameras are becoming more common, its not all that often that we run into other medium and large format shooters.
I ended up doing a couple of setups with my view camera, while Hailey was reacquainting herself with medium format, and attempting to relearn the intricacies of the Hasselblad.  Just another little snippet of the great day that we spent together.