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Not so much abandoned as preserved, the Chew Kee Store is located in Fiddletown, California. It was a Chinese herb store in it's day, serving the local miners during the gold rush. It fell into disrepair but was eventually preserved as a museum.
The building is quite small and only contains a few rooms but there is a wealth of material to photograph. I spent several hours one morning and relied mostly on the light coming through the windows.
This particular photograph was taken using a 60mm Olympus macro lens with an Olympus OMD-EM1. Two exposures were taken and later combined in Photomatix.
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Chew Kee Store - Cobwebs and Kitchen Items
Photographer: Richard Vanderlippe
Vanlippe | Nov 29, 2017
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Filed Under: Picture This: Abandoned and Discarded
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