Decay

We visited Bodie National Park. It's a bit of a photographers mecca in these parts. It's an old gold mining town in the Sierra Nevada near the Nevada State Line. It's been the subject of a number of books on photography. When in full swing, it had 10k inhabitants and boasted 700 Chinese restaurants. Today, it's in arrested decay and what's left is much smaller in scale.

Some buildings are in better condition than others. The last inhabitants departed in the late 30's. I spent 4 hours in Bodie as it was a fascinating place, not just from a photographic standpoint but even more interesting as a window on how people used to live. The shops still have dusty goods on display and the saloon has an unfinished game of pool.

Dungeness just doesn't seem as interesting anymore.


Posted by John