wednesday brought david coming into town – late, got detained by the canadians for an hour – just as chris and alex arrived. the plan was to try to hit up st mary’s manor, an old nursing home in niagara falls. someone had told me about “a nursing home” in the falls, but no name, and that is what i came across. unfortunately the building foiled us. it appeared as if it was just recently boarded up. we checked the perimeter 3 times, with nothing coming out of it. gah. i’m irritated haha. so driving around, we tried to find the abandoned church off main street jerry had mentioned to me awhile ago. we think we found it…but it was not abandoned. it was in bad disrepair, but your typical poor ghetto church. who knows though. so driving around more we come across mount st mary’s long term care nursing home…now i wonder exactly which nursing home this person was talking about haha. this one proved an easy target so we spent some time in there. not entirely exciting, but a new place none the less. i got to try out david’s old nikon d70 with my lens, and whatever cutting the digital did with the film lens it was quite tolerable. which is good for if i finally do decide to get one, i don’t need to buy a lens right away. afterwards i had the brilliant idea to head down to beth steel to photograph the coke plant at sunset.
headed down to beth, and started to approach the field when a big dump truck came up to go through the gate. i think they were all quite surprised that i didn’t care the guy could obviously see what we were doing. my philosophy is if you act like you’re supposed to be there, people won’t question you. so i went ahead through the field towards the buildings. no one bothered us. however once on site, i could hear some kind of construction equipment at the coke plant. as the others worked in the building i tried to find out what was going on at the coke plant and tried to decide whether i cared or not. in the end i cared, so i stuck around in the building with the others. in the end i think it was just one guy in a back hoe working on a building but i still didn’t want to risk it. i definitely want to get back at sunset though, i guess it’ll have to be on a sunday.
david and i cased the psych center, with instructions i had gotten on how to gain entry…they didn’t make any sense, and checking it out in person, i don’t know what they were talking about. oh well. spent the rest of the night at the apt watching tv.