Photographing abandoned places often puts us in some incredibly difficult environments for capturing images. We’re often presented with scenes where there is a huge contrast between light and dark values, which can make a scene incredibly challenging to capture. This guide will hopefully help answer some burning questions you may have about the proper way to capture photos in abandoned

The Dayton Grand Hotel was originally opened as the Algonquin Hotel in 1898. The luxurious hotel featured 400 rooms, which at the time was such a big thing for Dayton, that it led to the city no longer being pointed to as a one-street city. Over the course of its life, this 124-year-old hotel underwent not only many name changes,

While it may not be the same James Brown most of us are more familiar with, papa did regularly have a brand new bag filled with thousands of dollars in counterfeit bills. Don’t worry, I’ll see myself out after I tell the story.  High atop a hill in the Cuyahoga Valley, just east of Ira and Akron-Peninsula Roads, sits a

The Richmond Town Square Mall opened on September 22, 1966, and was at its time the largest enclosed shopping mall in Ohio with over 90 different stores. This was of course 10 years prior to the opening of Randall Park Mall, which opened on August 11, 1976, and would become the largest mall in the United States before the Mall

Antelope is a ghost town in Oregon taken over by a cult during the 1980s.

This historic one-room schoolhouse located in Fallsbury Township, Ohio finally collapsed under its own weight recently after sitting vacant since the mid-1970s. The building was well-known to many photographers as well as locals. For decades, the building continued to bend in the middle, appearing as if it would collapse at any moment. The structure held up surprisingly well; a testament

The St. Joseph Riverside Hospital in Warren, Ohio has sat vacant since 1996. Over the course of 25 years of abandonment, the elements have surely taken a toll on the structural integrity of the building. Paint peels from walls, while mold and fungus grow throughout the flooded basement. Holes in the ceiling let in sunlight, allowing overgrowth to take place

The Lindsey Building – a structure dating back to the most prosperous years of Dayton, Ohio. The building was constructed in 1917, built with bricks on a stone foundation, similar to most commercial buildings constructed during the early twentieth century. The building’s facade is made up of three parts, and was modeled in the Neoclassical style. The twelve-story building was

In 1869 (nice), the Church of the United Brethren in Christ voted together for the funding and building of a seminary in Dayton, Ohio. With the denomination’s publishing house already located in the area, Milton Wright, who later became the school’s chairman, felt it was a perfect location. On October 11, 1871, the school was officially opened under the name

For more than 100 years, Acme-Cleveland Corp. led the industry in machine tools. These tools are used by manufacturers to shape metal into usable parts. In the 1980s, the industry saw a sharp decline in the demand for these tools, and the company transitioned to a high-tech firm, decreasing their overall size and focusing on telecommunications and industrial sensors. As