Old Fort Dallas Post Office – May 11, 2014
The second night of the Noel Kerns Night Photography workshop brought us to Old Fort Dallas, an abandoned small-scale theme park that hosted a Lollapalooza festival in 1996. It was rebranded Old Fort Dallas at Shadow Creek Ranch before closing for good around 2000. Time has taken its toll on this place over the years, along with vandals and copper thieves; six buildings were destroyed by fire in 2010. The post office is still standing, but its sign is half covered by creeping ivy. A red-gelled strobe provided lighting in the interior spaces while the near-full moon supplied most of the exterior lighting from above, as evidenced by the shadow of the pergola at bottom left of the photo.

Old Fort Dallas Post Office – May 11, 2014
The second night of the Noel Kerns Night Photography workshop brought us to Old Fort Dallas, an abandoned small-scale theme park that hosted a Lollapalooza festival in 1996. It was rebranded Old Fort Dallas at Shadow Creek Ranch before closing for good around 2000. Time has taken its toll on this place over the years, along with vandals and copper thieves; six buildings were destroyed by fire in 2010. The post office is still standing, but its sign is half covered by creeping ivy. A red-gelled strobe provided lighting in the interior spaces while the near-full moon supplied most of the exterior lighting from above, as evidenced by the shadow of the pergola at bottom left of the photo.