Still on the hunt for interesting photo spots.  The other day I was riding in North Lawrence and saw what looked to be an old storefront on the far east edge of town by the traintracks.  It looks like it might be from the 30’s or possibly before, and has a bunch of junked out cars from the 50’s penned up next to it underneath a bramble of trees.  Probably be worth looking into the history behind the lot and what used to go on there because it is right next to the train tracks.  Might have been an important location back in the days. 

I also just tried my first attempt at low-light photography in a sealed-off basement of a downtown building.  The only point of access is through a small manhole, and I took the photos by very dimly lighting the area with small flashlights and doing 30 second exposures.  It worked out ok, but these digital cameras make everything so confusing that the shots all came out a little blurry.  I turned off the auto focus in the camera settings because the camera wouldn’t take a picture without being able to focus on anything, but I forgot to turn it off on the lens so I could manually crank the focus.   It was also challenging not being able to really see anything through the viewfinder.  But I at least got a few useable shots.  I was disappointed that the basement was so small.  I thought that it would run the whole length of the building, but it turned out to be only three small rooms towards the back of the building.  Still, it was a very interesting spot in a building that has to be over 100 years old.  Hopefully some research will turn up some interesting facts, such as what it may have been used for and how long these rooms have been more or less cut off from above ground access.  A small staircase leading up to the ceiling showed that it was at one time accessible before being floored over and forgotten in the subterranean lair of Lawrence.