Old-tyme grocery stores

invisible

One in Bents, Saskatchewan...


...and another one in Austin, Manitoba


Thanks for looking...

Jack'll do

Hi Federico

I really love the old buildings you have been posting lately. What a wonderful photographic environment to have access to.

rwells

Good job on these I'm really partial to the first one.

Dogdots

I'd love to come across a building like that. I had to google earth this place to see how far it was from me ... it's a drive :cry

Any photos from inside the building

invisible

Jack'll do wrote:

Hi Federico

I really love the old buildings you have been posting lately. What a wonderful photographic environment to have access to.

Hi Jack – thank you, I've been doing a lot of abandoned-building hunting these past few months, and some of the buildings I run into are really cool. Good variety of abandoned places here in Manitoba, but Saskatchewan is a real treasure for rural explorers!

invisible

rwells wrote:

Good job on these I'm really partial to the first one.

Thank you, Randy, I like the first one myself as well.

invisible

Dogdots wrote:

I'd love to come across a building like that. I had to google earth this place to see how far it was from me ... it's a drive :cry

Any photos from inside the building

Not many, because the place was a crazy mess and I struggle photographing messy scenes. So I tried to isolate objects, like here:




Or here:


(yes, the shoes were still on the shelves, as if the owner had fled the place leaving everything behind!)

But I am really not happy with these and the other interior shots...

Dogdots

Wow...I really like the shoe's photo.

I like the other one too....we had an old chair like that one Our's was covered in a green vinyl when we inherited it...yes I did recover it Worked perfect for me since I'm short.

I find it interesting that the stove and chair was sitting by the door. Kind of like they were going to take them with, but didn't.

You mention that you tried to isolate objects -- have you ever take a photo of the whole room?

I have to get up there and start driving around. Just need to get my passport. It's only a 8/10 hour drive for me to Saskatchewan -- depending on where I can enter Does Manitoba have a lot of abandoned buildings too? I'm much closer to there.

Thanks for posting some interior shots

Brett1000

interesting pics, where I live old buildings are torn down for shopping centers!

invisible

Dogdots wrote:

Wow...I really like the shoe's photo.

Thank you

Dogdots wrote:

I like the other one too....we had an old chair like that one Our's was covered in a green vinyl when we inherited it...yes I did recover it Worked perfect for me since I'm short.

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Dogdots wrote:

I find it interesting that the stove and chair was sitting by the door. Kind of like they were going to take them with, but didn't.

It was a strange scene, yes, and you may very well be right.

Dogdots wrote:

You mention that you tried to isolate objects -- have you ever take a photo of the whole room?

Not in this case. If the scene is clean enough, I pull out my wide angle lens and shoot whole rooms. But when it's a mess, I just focus on objects.

Dogdots wrote:

I have to get up there and start driving around. Just need to get my passport. It's only a 8/10 hour drive for me to Saskatchewan -- depending on where I can enter Does Manitoba have a lot of abandoned buildings too? I'm much closer to there.

This place is 8 hours from here as well. I think I mentioned this earlier somewhere, but Saskatchewan is a paradise if you are into rural exploration. The 8/10 hour drive will be worth it (as long as you spend a few days in the area, that is).

Dogdots wrote:

Thanks for posting some interior shots

My pleasure

invisible

Brett1000 wrote:

interesting pics, where I live old buildings are torn down for shopping centers!

If you really want to shoot abandoned architecture but there's nothing available downtown, head out of the city and I can almost guarantee that you'll find photo opportunities. Unless you live in Monaco, that is

lizzard_nyc

What an interesting series.
Really like #1 and the shoe shot--
Where were you last week for the "shoes" challenge!? You would have surely placed.

invisible

lizzard_nyc wrote:

What an interesting series.
Really like #1 and the shoe shot--
Where were you last week for the "shoes" challenge!? You would have surely placed.

Thank you, Liz! I rarely ever leave this "Other Cool Shots" sub-forum, so I didn't even know there were challenges and such. That being said, I don't think much of the shoe image myself, so chances are I wouldn't even have thought about submitting it