I've been doing a bit of "urban decay" photography lately. Here's an email I sent on Monday to some friends:
Subject: Just Another Day in D-Town!
Desert Hot Springs photos:
http://geocities.com/cactus2clouds/photos/dhs/
Yesterday was a slow day, when nobody's getting shot
at the grocery store parking lots, and the meth labs
aren't burning down houses. It looks like somebody
tapped into the water supply with an old muffler and a
vaccum hose. The intersection at Palm and Pierson is
really fucked up! The ambulance was not intentional
in the photo, but it's a typical site. That and
police cars. I'm the only runner in town. If you see
anybody else running the streets it's cuz they did
something. And then there's the "runners" who work
for the drug dealers and monitor the police cars. For
awhile there was a junky car sitting on top of a boat
inside the wash. Every time it rained the car-boat
contraption moved a little bit. I haven't seen it
since the last rain, so eventually it may end up in
that golf course in Palm Springs... (the car-boat
photo is on film. coming to a computer screen near you...)
[i'll get that film developed and scanned, it's quite interesting.]