ABANDONED NEW YORK

Published by Fonthill Media’s America Through Time and Arcadia Publishing

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Author and Photographer:  Cindy Vasko

Take a journey through some of New York’s abandoned sites and see the soul of what once was.  The elegant architecture of Roosevelt’s Island’s Smallpox Memorial Hospital accepts the beautiful embrace of wild vines, while the desolation and debris of Dead Horse Bay reveals a cautionary statement about our environment.  Exploring the Catskill Old Game Farm allows one to envision the menagerie of wild animals and the glee of children running through its rolling hills. The halls of the Ellis Island Hospital still hold the spirits of optimistic immigrants in search of the American dream. The majesty of Bannerman’s Castle still stands guard on the Hudson River.  Discover the strategic importance of the secret M42 site three hundred feet below Grand Central Terminal.  The few remnants of the 1954 World’s Fair in Corona Park still reflect the optimism of this exhibition.  Forgotten sites stir the imagination and put forth the realization that although everything is finite, history is not.

ABANDONED MARYLAND – LOST LEGACIES 

Published by Fonthill Media’s America Through Time and Arcadia Publishing

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Author and Photographer:  Cindy Vasko

Throughout Maryland, one finds abandoned curiosities in forests and meadows, as well as many hiding in plain sight in urban centers. This collection of Maryland abandonments includes more than a dozen stories. The Lonaconing Silk Mill is a preserved 1957 time capsule, while the National Park Seminary at Forest Glen seems plucked from Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Once the lifeblood of a Baltimore neighborhood, the Old Town Mall resembles a set from the Walking Dead, and a few miles away, the shuttered Pemco ceramics plant is a reminder of a time when manufacturing was king. Mallows Bay’s largest shipwreck in the Western Hemisphere is now a haven for nature, and Baltimore’s N.S. Savannah continues to be a billboard for the late Atoms for Peace program. Additional stories about a seminary, the Maryland House of Correction, Fort Washington, Henryton Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Seneca Quarry, a plastics manufacturer, a sanitarium, and a historic coastal cemetery in the Chesapeake Bay region complete the Maryland tale. Discover these forlorn Maryland sites and weave together the threads of history left behind. Step into another world and view images out of the ordinary, and far removed from daily life experiences.

ABANDONED WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA – SEPARATION FROM A PROUD HERITAGE

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Author and Photographer:  Cindy Vasko

The exploration of abandonments connects us to history and cultural remembrance. Discover the forgotten record behind some of western Pennsylvania’s stunning abandoned sites with this collection of fifteen tales. The rusty industrial giants, silent mills, ghostly steel towns, transportation graveyards, empty schools, shuttered churches, and other relics of a proud regional heritage embrace the western Pennsylvania landscape. Explore the once-dynamic economic drivers such as U.S. Steel’s Carrie Furnaces and Cambria Steel Company, and witness some colorful trolley and railroad graveyards. One can still sense the ache of the European immigrants with the loss of their beloved churches, while a raw community wound remains with the closing of a fellowship charity club. Commodities producers such as a ceramics manufacturer, W.A. Young & Sons Foundry and Machine Shop, and the Waterside Woolen Mill were once revered craft masters. Delve into additional forsaken spaces such as a distillery, county jail, quiet steel towns, two forlorn schools, a covered bridge, and a gristmill. The structural skeletons of the past continue to hold the spirits of its former inhabitants and cry out to the world to feel its ethereal historical presence.

ABANDONED CATSKILLS – DESERTED PLAYGROUNDS 

Published by Fonthill Media’s America Through Time and Arcadia Publishing

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Author and Photographer:  Cindy Vasko

 For decades, the New York Catskills and its resplendent mountains was one of the most favored vacation destinations in America. Once a bustling playground, the Catskills boasted mega-resorts, over 500 hotels, and 50,000 cottages. The luster of the Catskills’ Golden Era started to fade in the late 1960s. So many regional residents were tethered to the mantle of tourism, and consequently, all suffered negative consequences when the Catskills hospitality sector crashed. 

The force of abandonment, however, seems to have seized the Catskills environment at the speed of light. One observes so many deserted edifices that were once proud markers defining this part of New York. Scattered throughout the territory are former majestic resorts suffering vandalism and endless graffiti, along with furniture strewn about, broken glass, tall weeds, and swimming pools filled with junk. Amusement parks once echoing the laughter of children are silent. Medical facilities, previously important to the community, are forlorn caverns of neglect. The remains of peoples’ lives are still where they left them when they abandoned their homes. As destruction and nature claim so many of these structures, be a silent witness to a bygone era. 

 ABANDONED SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY – A BOUNTY OF ODDITIES

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Author and Photographer: Cindy Vasko

Even the New Jersey state government admits to New Jersey’s unfiltered individuality by way of a “Weird and Wacky New Jersey” video on the government’s official tourism website.  New Jersey also lays claims to a magazine, Weird New Jersey, now in its twenty-fifth year of publication.  Sometimes the quirky things in life promote the most memorable experiences.  Southern New Jersey has a plethora of odd abandonments, as well as a few serious industrial cast-offs.  Discover the ruins of a historical machining facility, a once-majestic bank, and a centuries-old-glass-making factory-plus, become absorbed with the odd.  The derelict 1960s flying saucer-like Futuro homes and the wild treasures found in two astonishing junkyards are, after all, abandonments on steroids, but are more like museums than salvage sites.  Rounding out the collection of Southern New Jersey is an assortment of unusual forlorn train cars, a forsaken greenhouse willfully succumbing to its green past by letting nature wrap its proud skeleton, and a colorful hotel that attempted to echo the spirit of mid-century Pocono honeymoon hotels.  Enjoy some proud history, but smile while examining Southern New Jersey’s bounty of oddities.

ABANDONED NORTHERN NEW JERSEY – HOMAGE TO LOST DREAMS 

Published by Fonthill Media’s America Through Time and Arcadia Publishing

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Author and Photographer: Cindy Vasko

Abandonments have the command to shock and engage us.  While adventuring through forsaken rooms, rusted collections, and dark hallways, one views the vestiges of what once was.  Decay is alluring, and it represents unlimited time and nature, but also provides a sense of where we have been and how that made us who we are. The abandoned jewel of our heritage, the Ellis Island Hospital complex in Northern New Jersey still carries the spirits of Ellis Island immigrants in search of the American dream. Considered a part of the historical trilogy of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal and its massive rain shed was not only the conduit to a new home for many Ellis Island immigrants but also an essential artery for travel within the United States. Discover how nature’s green hands beautify the verandas of a vacant New Jersey hospital and see a marvel of technology housed within a derelict pump house along with its collections of oddball artifacts.  See how a massive deserted river and harbor defense Fort was once a vital cog in the country’s national security arsenal.  Travel with me to an honored past and view the remarkable history of Northern New Jersey.

ABANDONED WEST VIRGINIA – CRUMBLING VIGNETTES

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Author and Photographer:  Cindy Vasko

Explore the haunting imagery of Abandoned West Virginia and see a world most will never realize. West Virginia grips serious history, and its former life will leave an imprint on one’s soul, as well as force meditations about discontented spirits lurking inside some of its forsaken palaces of misfortune. Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum and West Virginia State Penitentiary hold tales of too many tragic scenes played out behind bolted doors and removed from public view. Lake Shawnee Amusement Park still retains silent rusted rides as monuments to its raw past. Harpers Ferry bellows civil war chronicles with every step on its cobblestone streets. Peek at the pages of derelict homes and wonder about the abandoned memories of its former occupants. We live in a hyper-structured world and faithfully adhere to repetitive patterns of life. Our inner explorer, however, constricts with excessive order, and we often view our environment but do not see what is around us. Step into the unfamiliar and discover the legends and lore of West Virginia, and perhaps fathom that some restless spirits might still prowl within their forlorn domains.

ABANDONED WASHINGTON, D.C.  – EVANESCENT CHRONICLES

Published by Fonthill Media’s America Through Time and Arcadia Publishing

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Author and Photographer:  Cindy Vasko

Photographs of empty spaces provide us with an alternative view of the world without us.  The images of empty spaces that were once lively capture a departure from our norms and instead project alternative realities emptied of our presence.  In Washington, D.C., a province rich with our nation’s history, anything abandoned is either hastily torn down, tagged, or senselessly vandalized.  Still, some forlorn structures remain and hold timeless beauty, or better yet, have a second chance at life along with the preservation of history.  The author’s collection of abandonments, forgotten or repurposed, includes several historic schools, a famous psychiatric hospital, a veteran’s home, some industrial sites, and a few artful public statements about our society. Additionally, she includes the surreal deserted representation of Washington, D.C., in the time of COVID-19.  With streets devoid of its usual grid-locked traffic and pedestrians, haunting images of familiar places become unfamiliar.  Like a collection of abandoned photos, Washington, D.C.’s surroundings, only recently integral to daily habits, now seem fragile and tenuous.  Washington, D.C.’s deserted public spaces expose the new and sudden solitary human condition amplified beyond the silence of the environment.

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Book Trailer: Abandoned Washington, D.C. – Evanescent Chronicles

ABANDONED EASTERN OHIO – TRACES OF FADING HISTORY

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Author and Photographer:  Cindy Vasko

Eastern Ohio holds a vast collection of forlorn structures that continue to fade away. Some sites were gifted an additional shot at life, while others are disintegrating at the hand of nature or will see the wrecking ball’s force. The once-mighty industrial belt of Eastern Ohio is a silent landscape of rusting hulks. Ruins touch the imagination at fundamental levels and hold a sense of the past and the present. See the Ohio State Reformatory where spirits of the past must surely reside; the quiet, abandoned, but historic, company village of Iron Soup that once joined with a formidable steel mill; the large rail gate yard with its skyscraper-like communications tower surrendering to natural elements; the glorious Victory Theater, fortunate to have a new lease of existence; and, a church, school, and rectory that once served as a spiritual center for a community now confronts imminent demolition. This collection of abandonments reveals how we surrender our history for traces of dissolving stories.

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Book Trailer:  Abandoned Eastern Ohio – Traces of Fading History 

ABANDONED EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA – REMNANTS OF HISTORY 

Published by Fonthill Media’s America Through Time and Arcadia Publishing

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Author and Photographer:  Cindy Vasko

Have you ever peered through a crack in a shuttered window or door and wondered what is hidden from view and what happened to this place? Take a journey through some of Eastern Pennsylvania’s ruins and discover an evocative new way to look at history and long-neglected sites.  A crumbling asylum, silent prisons, opulent theaters deserving reclamation, quiet fabric and garment mills, a rusty steel giant that once roared 24/7, an eclectic castle, a cemetery that once catered to Philadelphia’s elite, a still school that was once the pride of the region, and remnants of agrarian districts, are found among Eastern Pennsylvania’s diverse collection of abandonments succumbing to economic and cultural shocks. Throughout this book, pictures on top of pictures emerge with stories about loss. Discover a surreal world that development has left behind, where industry collapses, or culture changes and decay rules.

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Book Trailer:  Abandoned Eastern Pennsylvania – Remnants of History  

ABANDONED SOUTHERN VIRGINIA – RECKLESS SURRENDER

Published by Fonthill Media’s America Through Time and Arcadia Publishing

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Author and Photographer:  Cindy Vasko

Have a glimpse of the ruined – the doomed. Visiting abandonments is seductive and boosts the adrenaline for the urban explorer. A new form of art emerges from the forces of nature once structures shutter. Mother Nature claims its prey and wraps an abandoned site with vines and commands the acceleration of rust. From the once-mighty regional industrial giant, Dan River Mills, to a haven secreting the amusement park cast-offs of twenty-foot tall concrete busts of presidents, to St. Alban’s Sanatorium perched on its mountaintop like a looming sentry, see the forgotten – often hiding in plain sight. Other forsaken southern Virginia chapters include schools, churches, an isle merging southern Virginia’s earliest history with natural beauty, industrial cast-offs, vintage trucks, opulent manor homes, quaint general stores, old-time diners, and several homes. Even though these sites are shuttered, they are not forgotten with this photographic record for posterity. Embrace the essences of once-loved and revered places before nature mandates its final claim or the wrecking ball forwards the last kiss.

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Book Trailer: Abandoned Southern Virginia – Reckless Surrender 

ABANDONED SALTON SEA – DYSTOPIAN PANORAMAS 

Published by Fonthill Media’s America Through Time and Arcadia Publishing

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Author and Photographer:  Cindy Vasko

Abandoned Salton Sea – Dystopian Panoramas presents a journey into this unique southern California region. An initial glimpse of the Salton Sea and its environs is a surreal experience – the landscape is at once unfamiliar, deserted, dramatic, silent, dystopian. All of us are fascinated by hidden stories, and there are thousands of veiled tales of loss tucked within the Salton Sea footprint. The Salton Sea panorama shrieks for a mitigation lifeline to halt the escalating ecological damage cloaking this region. Mother Nature, nevertheless, still manifests technicolor displays of spectacular sunrises and sunsets – as if she must open her paint box and decorate the sky with a riot of color as overcompensation for environmental folly. Ghost-like towns, some unconventional artistic and off-the-grid enclaves, the dramatic morning and evening atmospheric canvases, nature’s last gasps, and beaches blanketed with pulverized fish bones and the detritus of once vibrant communities are some of the cautionary and curious tales presented within this Salton Sea collection.

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Book Trailer: Abandoned Salton Sea – Dystopian Panoramas

ABANDONED NORTHERN VIRGINIA – DESOLATE BEAUTY

Published by Fonthill Media’s America Through Time and Arcadia Publishing

Available for Pre-Order. Release – February 21, 2022
Author and Photographer:  Cindy Vasko

Northern Virginia’s forlorn footprints are close to the din of our nation’s capital, yet some still cling to their old southern roots, especially those from areas steeped with Civil War imprints. While a few derelict places are fortunate to have their legacies preserved, too many abandonments vanish at the direction of Mother Nature or the wrecking ball. This Northern Virginia collection of forsaken structures includes several Civil War-era vestiges – indispensable markers in America’s most decisive era. Other chapters illuminate a strategic bastion formerly immersed in Cold War tensions, a coastal defense fort secreting clandestine activity for decades, a once lively dinner theater-nightspot recently eradicated from the landscape, a shuttered business cloaked in eccentric lore, an infamous prison, a penal work camp succumbing to nature’s green hand, the bygone remembrances of grist mills, a rural chapel, the remains of a bucolic gentleman’s farm, and even a Northern Virginian ghost town. Observing these Northern Virginia images’ desolate beauty and grasping the weight of their life chronicles allows one to appreciate how history is the best way to greet the future.

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Book Trailer: Abandoned Northern Virginia – Desolate Beauty

Feature in Imperial Valley Press, California – December 24, 2021

East Coast photographer ‘discovers’ the Salton Sea, by Kaitlyn Myers

Feature in Excuse Me Magazine, Issue no. 5, Summer 2021

Chapter – Abandoned General Store/Photography by Cindy Vasko

Literary Hill Bookfest 2021 

For the second year in a row, the vibrant literary culture of Capitol Hill was a virtual event.  On Sunday, May 2, 2021, a program of panel discussions, writing workshops, poetry readings, and even a surprise or two from some of your favorite authors of fiction, fantasy, children’s literature, politics, mystery, and more.  Missed it?  No worries: You can watch the full event video below. 

Literary Hill Bookfest 2021 Virtual Event Video 

My panel discussion with the Literary Hill Bookfest 2021 featured my book, Abandoned Washington, D.C. – Evanescent Chronicles.  My author video on the Literary Hill Bookfest website is featured here, too.

Cindy Vasko – Author Video for Literary Hill Bookfest 

Dead Hand Radio Podcasts

Andrew Hall Presents Dead Hand Radio  – Halloween Edition #3

Asylums & Prisons of West Virginia with Cindy Vasko
Air Date: October 27, 2020, by Dead Hand Radio

Andrew Hall Presents Dead Hand Radio  – Cold War Episode # 6

Urban Exploration, Abandoned Photography & the Cold War with Cindy Vasko
Air Date: May 24, 2020, by Dead Hand Radio

The Sense of Place Podcast

The Life and Adventures of an Urban Explorer Featuring Cindy Vasko,

Episode 6 

Air Date: July 2019 by The Sense of Place Podcast, and published on October 26, 2019

Exposed DC Crystal City Fotowalk Underground Exhibition 

 U.S. Road Trip 

2100 Crystal Drive in the Crystal City Shops, Arlington, VA
Exhibitor
Image selection by Exposed DC in partnership with Crystal City Business Improvement District, JBG Smith, and Fotowalk Exhibitions in the Crystal City Underground
Gallery Exhibition: October 4, 2019 – April 2021
Gallery Reception:  October 4, 2019, 5:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m.
Link: Exposed DC – Crystal City Fotowalk Underground Exhibitions 
Exhibition Images: First Image – Hobbit Fantasy, Early Spring Oak Trees in Charleston, South Carolina, and
Second Image – Military Boneyard, Abandoned Air Force Jet Fuselages in New Jersey.

NBC WBRE PA Live!

Cindy Vasko Talks Urban Exploration Photography with WBRE Host Bryan Scofield –  September 16, 2019

Anthony Almeida Photography Award

Salmagundi Annual Juried Photography & Graphics Exhibition for Non-Members

Salmagundi Art Gallery, 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York
Recipient of Anthony Almeida Photography Award
Exhibitor
Image selection by Salmagundi Art Club
Juror: Builder Levy
Gallery Exhibition: July 31 – August 11, 2017
Gallery Reception: August 11, 2017
Image: Cuban Peddler, Havana Cuba

Urbex Photography Exhibition by the Organizers of the DC Urban Explorers

Vulcan Gallery at Workhouse Arts Center, 9518 Workhouse Way, Lorton, Virginia
Exhibitor
Gallery Exhibition: July 19 – August 5, 2017
Gallery Reception: August 5, 2017

Exhibition Images – First Row, Left to Right:  No Longer Going Up, Lonaconing Silk Mill, Lonaconing, Maryland;  Climb to Redemption, Stairway to Prison Chapel, Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio; Nature’s Claim, National Vulcanized Fibre Facility, Yorklyn, Delaware; Abandoned Despair, Holmesburg Prison, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Second Row, Left to Right: Holding Life Still, Lonaconing Silk Mill, Lonaconing, Maryland; Rooms to Let, Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Neptune’s Chair, Salton Sea, California.

Animalia Exhibition 

PhotoPlace Gallery, 3 Park Street, Middlebury, Vermont
Exhibitor
Juror: Traier Scott
Gallery Exhibition: March 23 – April 22, 2016
Gallery Reception: March 23, 2016
Image: The Night Shift Is A Killer, Owl at National Zoo, Washington, D.C.

Abandoned Exhibition  

Brink Gallery, 1516 U Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Exhibitor
Gallery Exhibition: February 4 – March 16, 2016
Gallery Reception: February 4, 2016
Images: Climb to Redemption, Stairway to Prison Chapel in Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio; Nature’s Claim, National Vulcanized Fibre Facility, Yorklyn, Delaware.

First Place Award

Tamron Photo Contest 

Tamron Photo Contest for Tamron-Sponsored Lakota Wolf Preserve Photography Workshop, Columbia, New Jersey
First Place Winner
Event Date:  October 17, 2015
Award Issued:  November 25, 2015
Image:  Gray Wolf at Sunrise, Lakota Wolf Preserve, Columbia, New Jersey

Exposure Award

SeeMe Fifth Annual Exposure Exhibition 

The Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Exhibitor
Image selection by SeeMe
Photographic submissions from over 191 countries
Louvre Museum Reception: July 13, 2015
Image: Interior of abandoned Franklin School, Washington D.C.
Image published in Exposure Award Architecture Collection Book featured on page 17.

Salmagundi Annual Juried Photography & Graphics Exhibition For Non-Members

Salmagundi Art Gallery, 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York
Exhibitor
Image selection by Salmagundi Art Club
Gallery Exhibition: July 27 – August 7, 2017
Gallery Reception:  August 7, 2017
Image: Climb to Redemption, Stairway to Prison Chapel, Ohio State Reformatory, Mansfield, Ohio

Honorable Mention

Photomatix HDR Challenge Photography Contest

Honorable Mention – Creative HDR Category
Awarded June 30, 2015, by a panel of eleven photographers
Sponsored by Photomatix HDR software
Image:  Long Gone, Abandoned National Vulcanized Fibre Facility, Yorklyn, Delaware

First Place Award

PhotoArt 2015 Exhibition and Juried Contest

Jo Ann Rose Art Gallery, Lake Anne, Reston, Virginia
First Place Winner
Exhibitor
Juror: Carla Steckley
Gallery Exhibition: June 1 – June 29, 2015
Sponsored by the Reston Photographic Society
Image:  Nature’s Claim, Abandoned Vulcanized Fibre Facility, Yorklyn, Delaware

The Golden Hour at Dawn and Dusk Exhibition 

PhotoPlace Gallery, 3 Park Street, Middlebury, Vermont
Exhibitor
Juror: Eddie Solloway
Gallery Exhibition: June 2 – June 25, 2015
Image: Silent Sunset, Salton Sea, California

Windows, Mirrors and Doors Exhibition

PhotoPlace Gallery, 3 Park Street, Middlebury, Vermont
Exhibitor
Juror: Seth Curcio
Gallery Exhibition: May 5 – May 29, 2015
Image:  Nature’s Claim, Abandoned Vulcanized Fibre Facility, Yorklyn, Delaware

First Place Award

For the Record, Artfully Historic D.C.

Carnegie Library, 801 K St NW, Washington, D.C.
First Place Award
Awarded by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., in partnership with the Capitol Hill Art League, National Building Museum, and, D.C. Preservation League
Gallery Exhibition: April 22 – June 19, 2015
Image:  Abandoned Franklin School, Washington, D.C.
This image is accessioned into the Historical Society of D.C.’s permanent collection
Link:  On the Record With For the Record
Video:  Endangered Buildings Exhibit at Carnegie Library, Washington, D.C. NBC4 News

Judge’s Honorable Mention

Fine Art Photography Exhibition and Juried Contest

Art Space Herndon Gallery, 750 Center St, Herndon, Virginia
Judge’s Honorable Mention
Exhibitor
Juror:  Carla Steckley
Gallery Exhibition: February 24 – March 22, 2015
Image:  Abandoned Despair: Holmesburg Prison, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Link:  Loudoun Photographers Earn Honors, Work on Display in Herndon

Judge’s Favorite

FOTO DC Exhibition

Fotowalk Underground Gallery, 2100 Crystal Drive, Crystal City/Arlington, Virginia
Judge’s Favorite
Exhibitor
Judge’s Favorite awarded by Foto DC
Gallery Exhibition: April – November 2014
Image:  Light Painted Cherry Blossoms at Midnight on the Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C
.Link: 2014 Cherry Blossoms – Judge’s Favorite, slide #13

Third Place Award

World Photography Network

Third Place Contest Winner;
Awarded by World Photography Network
May 2014
Image: Light Painted Mural in the basement of the abandoned Pennhurst Asylum Devon Building, Spring City, Pennsylvania
Link:  Abandoned Photography Contest 2014  

Contest Selection

National Vulcanized Fibre Facility Photography Contest

National Vulcanized Fibre Facility, Yorklyn, Delaware
Image selected by Horizon Photography, Chesapeake, Maryland
Juror: Steve Gotlieb
Photograph on permanent display at National Vulcanized Fibre Facility
Image: National Vulcanized Fibre Facility

DC Urban Explorers Photography Exhibition 

Marlboro Gallery, 301 Largo Road, Largo, Maryland
Exhibitor
Selection by Thomas Berault, Marlboro Gallery Director and Curator
Gallery Exhibition: January 21 – February 27, 2014
Image:  Rooms to Let, Abandoned Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Video Links:  DC Urban Explorers – Marlboro Gallery, and Arts & Entertainment with Gailyn Gwin at Marlboro Gallery, January 31, 2014

Abandoned America Exhibition 

Impact Hub Philly Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Exhibitor
Juror:  Stephen Perloff
Gallery Exhibition: October 4 – October 31, 2013
Images:  Abandoned Lansdowne Theatre, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, and Abandoned Scotland School for Veteran’s Children Bowling Alley, Scotland, Pennsylvania

Finalist

Africa Answers Photo Contest – Kenya 

Finalist
October 2013
Images:  Male Lion, Massai Mara, Kenya; Mother and Baby Baboon, Massai Mara, Kenya 

First Place Award

Eastern State Penitentiary Photography Contest

First Place Winner
Eastern State Penitentiary, 2027 Fairmount Ave, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Judge’s Pick awarded by Juror: Jennie Shanker
October 2012
Image:  A Dark and Stormy Nightmare, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Finalist

Piedmont Environmental Council Photo Contest

Finalist
Piedmont Environmental Council Photo Contest, Loudoun County, Virginia
October 2010
Image featured in Piedmont Environmental Council 2011 Calendar; Piedmont Environmental Council 2010 Annual Report (page 18); Better Comprehensive Planning (header photo); The Piedmont View-Winter 2013 Newsletter (page 5), and Outer Beltway Presentation February 11, 2013 (slide #48)
Image:  King Street Summer Stroll, Leesburg, Virginia