Adventures while urbexing
I'm the first to say that i'm not that experienced yet since i only have been doing this for 1,5 years but still i can tell you that urbexing is an adventure.. dangerous, risky (stupid to some) but it teaches you also about who you are.
Me, i have been caught by the MP's (military police) on one location because it wasn't as abandoned as it looked. Still i have to sat they were nice chaps just doing their jobs. They followed the book, but that is as expected. What is worse, is encounters with the more unruly part of society..
Some people see these abandoned places as a place to either dump stuff or do stuff not exactly legal. These people often feel threatened when a stranger with a photo camera is on 'their' terrain. These are the people you need to watch out for. They sometimes do stupid things because they feel threatened. Having knifes pulled out at you has happened and will probably happen again. So sneaking around them is usually a better option than to risk visual contact. *Sigh*
Even in abandoned places peace can be a difficult thing to find.
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My husband has to work down in the 'hood' of st. Louis. I was in the car and carefully held the camera below the window so noone would think to mug us for it. but I seen this painting on the side of an old brick building. I raised the camera up and took a careful pic as we were stopped at a red light. Unknowingly, there was a gang of young black men glaring at me from broken windows on the second floor. My husband kept saying 'Now you done it, you photographed their crack house! They are going to chase us down now!' I was scared to death that they would.
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