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Beautiful, rainy days

Following up from the last blog post, “Beautiful, sunny days,” I spent Sunday, March 28 wandering the back roads of Kentucky with a good friend photographing a well-visited tobacco processing plant, a historic residence and a tuberculosis hospital. The day, unlike my prior trip, was speckled with downpours and consistently low- and dark-hanging clouds, although there was interment sunshine mid-day.

A recap at Hayswood

It’s been a while since I paid a visit to Hayswood Hospital in Maysville, Kentucky. I headed down to the historic community of 4,000 a week ago to recapture many elements of the hospital, and to focus on the details that I overlooked previously. Along for the exploration was Ashley Duban [...]

Halloween Haunts

It’s almost Halloween. Here are my favorite haunts that you should check out (some legal, some not)!

A trip into West Virginia

I recently had to travel out to Charlottesville, Virginia for a conference and decided to swing by two large historical sites in West Virginia: Weston State Hospital and Sweet Springs Resort. I will be returning to these for more photographs in the future, so stay tuned.
Weston State Hospital
Weston State Hospital is now known as the [...]