Abandoned Theme Parks -10/23/14-

If I could go to one of the abandoned parks I would go to Koka Family Land in Shiga, Japan. I love how the park is overgrown, the trees and shrubs and vines are taking back the land. I think shows how, when humans are gone and gone, life will continue, take over, keep growing and evolving, and there's nothing we can do about it, eventually the earth will erase our foot print. The plants also give the park an almost spooky look, like the rides are trying to escape up the earth keeps pulling them down.

Here are five other unusual places I would love to go and document:

• A forest after a forest fire
• The internal works of a school, the ceiling, air vents, walls
• An old and abandoned school
• Old electric power plants
• Abandoned factories 

This photo, taken by Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America, is taken of the original Hershey's factory after it was closed down but before it was demolished.

I think it would be very interesting to takes photos of a place that was once busy and bustling and producing but now sits, still and silent, unnoticed. I think the photos take are eerie, like you could see where people have walked in the past and if you close your eyes you could imagine them, like ghosts.

In order to go and take photos of an abandoned factory, I would first have to find one, hopefully close to me. I would then need someone to drive me to the factory, though if I wait a few years I could drive myself, I would have to pay for gas a food and most likely a hotel depending on the distance. Lastly, I would need to be sure that I would be allowed to enter the factory without breaking any laws.



http://www.nileguide.com/blog/2010/08/28/8-abandoned-theme-parks-abroad-open-for-exploration/

http://www.nileguide.com/blog/2010/05/26/8-abandoned-american-theme-parks-open-for-exploration/