The Old Building Project – Silk Mill
This is the start of an ongoing project in which I am on the hunt for old decrepit looking buildings in the North Bay area and this is the first one I came across (I pass it every day on my morning commute).
These photos are of an old Silk Mill and for the most part, it seems to be in good shape. I would love to know what it looks like on the inside but could only imagine the animals I may encounter. Fist-a-cuffs with a raccoon does not rank high on my list of life experiences.
I had intended to take photos of condemned buildings while we were in downtown San Francisco, but during the day they lacked character. Sadly, at night, the condemned buildings became very interesting, but I didn’t feel like taking the camera out of the bag in that neighborhood. More-so after the cab driver warned us in broken English something to the effect of “don’t go here alone”. More on that in next weeks post.
4 Responses to “The Old Building Project – Silk Mill”
Hi. I really like this series!! I looked over your thumb nails and the close up of the biuldings are really good but I could not bring up to be bigger to leave comments there. I don’t think I know how to navigate you blog so well:) Anyway, keep it up and am lookingforward to seeing more of your findings and creative ways to capture them!!
If you click on the thumb nail, it will (should) open the larger file. The thumb nails are part of a gallery and it doesn’t allow comments on the individual photos in the gallery, a problem I hadn’t thought of.
I love the idea of shooting decaying
properties – there is something distinctly bittersweet about the concept. This should be a very fun and interesting project.
So far I have found many old barns that are in a state of dispare. I will be adding them in the next few weeks.