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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: RSL on July 10, 2014, 12:37:31 pm

Title: For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone. . .
Post by: RSL on July 10, 2014, 12:37:31 pm

Abandoned church at Morley, Colorado, in Raton pass. On a trip to Albuquerque around 1968, I pulled off, snuck into the abandoned and demolished town and shot this. The church is completely gone now. Morley was a coal mining town built in 1906 and abandoned in 1956, when the mining company destroyed the town's buildings to avoid liability for curious drifters -- like me.

Title: Re: For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone. . .
Post by: seamus finn on July 10, 2014, 03:20:03 pm

Russ, pardon me for saying so, but this is a tourist shot - it's the kind of thing you would shoot down in flames if somebody else submitted it.

Title: Re: For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone. . .
Post by: RSL on July 10, 2014, 03:45:57 pm

You're right, Seamus. My defense is that it's historical. The whole thing is gone now. But, what the hey. It's still a tourist shot. Mea culpa.