Alviso Urban Decay - A photoshoot

28th February 2009

Signing up for Meetup is a great idea. I joined few photography meetups and now I have several photo-buddies. And so, I will always have options to pick ! I went to Alviso where one can find many abandaned houses and warehouses. To tell the truth, if not for this photoshoot I wouldn't go around these hounted(like) houses to take pictures of rusted locks and withering bricks. But, once I was there and saw how people find something interesting in everything. I too tried to photograph few interesting things ...

I found a metal plaque with an hounorable man who might have said these three words, beautiful when stringed together ...


There was this building standing alone secured in a high fence. The withering red bricks were contrasting with the lush of the grass around. This building, may be a warehouse ages ago, filled with things and people, noise and voices, now stood all alone, abandaned, trapped, ruined in a corner of a small old town beside a railroad. Chained locks, chained doors, chained walls conveyed how helpless that building was, how it might have given up and might have counted the numerous trains passing by. We were there for few minutes showing interest in every brick, every lock, broken windows like many other groups did and next we were looking for another haunted house, very eager to abandon this one.

Our journey went on in the streets of Alviso ... there were some abandoned houses with abandoned furniture too. May be for some tired ones who came to photograph ...


Then I saw something which looked like a boiler made of iron, a part of it surrounded by rosemary herb ... It reminded me of my Grandma's big bronze water container with a very artistic tap which is very well preserved by my Mom and is now an antique show piece at home back in Inida. Okay ... back to the iron structure in Alviso ... It had different looking valves ... may be to identify their different functions ... they were very artistic ... they still looked pretty even in the rust ...

With another train passed we crossed the railroad to reach our parked cars ... there ended our photoshoot ... the warehouse and the boiler will continue waiting for some more photographers ...