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Capturing the abandoned & forgotten in WA State These once upon a time homes and derelict buildings contain several years of history inside.

The creaking, crumbling floorboards, the peeling paint, as well as the curiosity of what lies ahead are all part of the thrill in the photography of abandoned places. They hide many secrets and hold onto long lost memories in their decaying walls. Each location has it’s own personal story to tell… and I am listening. Paying attention to details and seeing beauty where most wouldn’t even take a sec

ond look. Semblance Photography is Jamie Gragg of Olympia, Washington; a photographer and photo editor sharing a passion for the hidden, forbidden and raw. The focus of this page is to showcase the beauty I find in the abandoned, discarded and forgotten.

*All photos are taken in the state of Washington unless otherwise noted. Under no circumstances will I give out location information, this is to preserve the integrity of each place I visit.

09/25/2023

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Liv Tyler

11/29/2022

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

Andrew Wyeth

11/19/2022

It's driven me before and it seems to be the way
That everyone else gets around
But lately I'm beginning to find that when
I drive myself my light is found.

11/14/2022

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.
Richard Dawkins

11/06/2022

She was like the sun,
She knew her place in the world -
She would shine again regardless
of all the storms and changeable weather
She wouldn't adjust her purpose
for things that pass.
Nikki Rowe

11/03/2022

“The most beautiful and profound way to change yourself is to accept yourself completely, as imperfect as you are.” —Maxime Lagacé

10/11/2022

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Robert Green Ingersoll

10/05/2022

“Modern life is a fiction; it feels like nothing ever changes, but when you examine its fabric, its zeros and ones, it's falling apart. We've just collectively decided to believe that it's not.”
― Catherine Prasifka

09/07/2022

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Conrad Hall

07/12/2022

Growth is the only evidence of life.

John Henry Newman

06/26/2022

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Anatole France

05/31/2022

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Benjamin Britten

03/08/2022

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Khalil Gibran

03/03/2022

"You were born to be real, not to be perfect." -Unknown

11/17/2021

🎶 Keep your motors running…head on down the highway 🎶

11/16/2021

The year is 1964, for whatever reason it will be the last year a calendar hangs from the wall. Imagine 3 strangers being in your bedroom nearly 4 decades later taking photos of your house in literal decay...it blows my mind when I think of it this way. I hope the people who slept here loved it as much as I do.

11/15/2021

“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.” —Angelita Lim

11/15/2021

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

Henry Ford

10/03/2021

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

[Indian Summer]”
― John Howard Bryant

09/30/2021

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Angelina Jolie

09/28/2021

I encourage people to take the road less travelled, explore the abundant off-beat locations. Take road trips, soak in some breathtaking experiences, and enjoy the scenic landscapes that our country has to offer.

Shenaz Treasury

09/17/2021

I’ll never grow tired of coming home to you.

09/12/2021

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

Don Miguel Ruiz

09/09/2021

“Even the most horrible of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.” —Unknown

09/05/2021

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Douglas Adams

08/18/2021

There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.
Ed Gorman

07/25/2021

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill

07/02/2021

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Jean-Paul Sartre

06/06/2021

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Claude Bernard

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