{"id":1821,"date":"2016-07-25T15:07:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardlewisphotography.com\/?page_id=1821"},"modified":"2023-09-25T16:55:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T20:55:30","slug":"the-abandonment-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/richardlewisphotography.com\/galleries\/the-abandonment-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandonscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>Old, Abandoned Buildings and Places<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1469473597303{margin-top: -25px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>Our History Artistically Remembered and Recorded<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Our American landscape is littered with old and abandoned buildings. These deserted places are a sign of change \u2013 how something that was once useful and even beautiful is no longer either. We tend to push these places aside and let nature have its way with them. Their decline and slow destruction has its own beauty as the evolution of our culture and landscape moves on. 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