There are some really talented photographers out there! I aspire to do more of my own photography someday, but for now, I am content with discovering folks who are out there doing it as their full-time job (and rightly so, because they have a unique way of portraying their subjects!) Viewing their wonderful galleries of photos, trying to tuck away (in the back of my brain) their useful techniques and ways of "seeing" through the camera lens... being a willing student.

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre, and Scott Haefner are such talents. They have this incredible way of finding the beauty in places long forgotten and dreadfully weathered by time. Stunning photographs that will tease you into imagining the time and era that these places were thriving, full of life and progress. It's nearly jaw-dropping.