After a long break I returner back to the city where I lived for 10 years. My real reason was dance practise, but as I stayed with a couple of friends, with whom I had explored before, we used our day off to go and try to find new locations. The first one was –Continue reading “From Many To One”
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The World’s Slowest Demolition Operation
Time to go and have a look at another familiar location. This here is the former community college, I’ve visited many times before. Demolition started way back in 2020. It was now July 2023, and they still hadn’t managed to tear the three buildings down. In fact compared with these photos from the spring ofContinue reading “The World’s Slowest Demolition Operation”
Stuck Where Last Seen
Moving on deeper North, I next landed to a small town, where a lot of my friends are from. They had gathered there to do a dance performance for local celebrations, I was hired to take the promotional photos of their group and photograph their gig. Well, we did a promotional photo shoot, and theContinue reading “Stuck Where Last Seen”
The Rumors Turned Out To Be True
Another familiar location. This time it’s a building, which I visited back in 2022 after hearing of it from my Tinder match. She told me, that it was a mental asylum, but in my previous post I figured, that it was a municipal home with a ward for the mentally ill. Turns out we bothContinue reading “The Rumors Turned Out To Be True”
A Neverending Village Part III
I hadn’t even reached the center of the village, when I spotted another potential entry. Compared to the two previous cottages, this one looked like it could fulfill modern standards of living. The place was old. But it indeed was much more better preserved and comfortable. The kitchen. The baby crib puzzles me a bit.Continue reading “A Neverending Village Part III”
A Neverending Village Part II
I didn’t have to travel far from the previous location before finding the next one. This one was perhaps a bit newer and in better condition than the previous one, not that it was very spectacular, either. The porch. Plain wood was also very much present here. The other side of the porch featured aContinue reading “A Neverending Village Part II”
A Neverending Village Part I
A friend of mine told me about one of the strangest villages in Finland. It was an extremely long one located by the sides of an almost straight road and continued for dozens of kilometers. The center of the village was 30-40 kilometers from the nearest towns. It had been a rural village and likeContinue reading “A Neverending Village Part I”
Still Didn’t Feel Like Posing
Yet another familiar location. This is the small village store in the middle of nowhere featured earlier in 2022. As there is something looking like a camera next to the open door in the right corner of the building facing the road, I decided to approach from the back. I tried and tried to findContinue reading “Still Didn’t Feel Like Posing”
Missed It Again
Having again read the news, I heard of a new elementary school built in a village, which former was a center of a small municipality. The building of the new school in such small places almost always means the demolition of the old school. And again I felt sorry about the beautiful old 1950’s schoolContinue reading “Missed It Again”
Stores Come In Two Sizes Part II
Next to the other store was a smaller old business building, which already appears on aerial photos from 1948. According to Google Maps photos from 2011 its upstairs apartments still looked inhabited. The other side. It’s possible that even the downstairs business premises had been converted into apartments at some point. After business use ended,Continue reading “Stores Come In Two Sizes Part II”