11,000 Acres

Looking toward the old power house, right below one of its arteries.

It’s not a good sign when you can see the chimney through the roof.

Another perfect Indianan sunset alights like a bird on the tops of the vent houses and tree-packed smokestacks.

ADM-Delmar #1- Maintainance Department. The stainless steel bits are part of the grain dryer added in the 1940s. The workhouse itself (the larger tower) was a dedicated Cleaning House, meaning that grain passed through both these buildings to be rid of dust, dirt and extra moisture before storage. In the foreground is the old ADM locker room and pipe department.

Somewhere there was a hoe left on the ground. Given that we had read articles about photographers being mugged around the abandoned projects, we felt it wouldn’t hurt to carry this around. I am glad we did; it made a great musical drumstick against the warped Wheeler Rec Center floor.

A shot of Longmont from the highway. Fuji 35mm.

Like a grave marker, a single post remembers where Dock 3 stood on the bay.

Power House, 2000s From the roof of the larger power plant’s Building A, Hastings, MN’s lights burn behind the smokestacks.

I like to think of this as a giant straw, through which the factory is slowly draining the earth, leaving nothing but reinforced concrete below…