Gallery-Abandonment – Wayne Stadler Photography

Rustic rural Abandonment

All Houses Barns & Shacks Stores & Buildings Churches Black & White

For Mothers and Daughters

The Sekhmet Temple near Indian Springs Nevada.

Another leaning derelict farmhouse in rural Alberta Canada

Open doors in an abandoned house.

Business As Usual

Retro shaped service station in small town Alberta.

Long Time Friends

An empty leaning farmhouse in the rural Alberta prairies.

Nothing That You Do

What's known as the Laing house in rural Alberta Canada

Omni Directional

Sign found in Whale Cove, Nova Scotia.

The Wind That Blows

A leaning shack/barn found in rural Texas outside of Port Lavaca.

Decline Of The Workhorse

Part of a Black and White series from Rowley Alberta, Canada.

Trying Too Hard

General store in the ghost town of Gleeson Arizona.

Abandoned ice cream stop in Mojave California.

Ruins of an old adobe house in the lost town of Harshaw Arizona.

An abandoned old farmhouse in Nova Scotia

Sacred Heart Catholic Church rural Alberta Canada

Blurring The Past

Interior of one of the houses in the ghost town of Bodie California.

Frozen old barn in the Canadian prairies.

A dusty old worn saddle sits on a wooden railing in the ghost town of Pioneer Town, California.

Abandoned buildings, possible remains of a motel, found in rural Arizona.

Welcome to the Saving Grace

Sacred Heart Catholic Church rural Alberta Canada

Waiting For The Wind

Ruins of Courtland Arizona along Ghost Town Trail.

Nlak’pamux Church, Spences Bridge, British Columbia

The Worth of Gold

Small abandoned rural farmhouse at sunset in Alberta, Canada.

That Look In Your Eyes

Found just outside of the struggling town of Sierra Blanca, Texas.

Everywhere is Crowded

A tiny shack found in the rural desert near Garlock California.

Abandoned barn found in rural Alberta, Canada

Karma Never Goes Away

Sacred Heart Catholic Church rural Alberta Canada

Abandoned goodness found in Bents, Saskatchewan. September 2013

Welcome to Del-Bonita

A few of the remaining buildings in the tiny ghost town of Del Bonita Alberta.

Looking out of the front room of the Laing house in rural Alberta.

Clocks Kicking Us Around

A vintage old barn among a new spring crop.

What Foolish People Do

Found in the almost ghost town of Sierra Blanca, Texas.

A majestic old grain elevator in White Bear Saskatchewan.

Another old abandoned service station in the California desert.

There Once Was A Bride

The rural California location used in Quentin Tarantino's 2 Kill Bill films.

Found in Old Towne Port Lavaca Texas.

The Corporation of Guilt

The long fenced pathway to the doors of the Morley Church in Morley Alberta Canada.

Freezing hoar frost and snow on an old abandoned barn in rural Alberta Canada.

The smaller Hotel in Bodie California.

The Morning After

Representing the hangover we'll feel when our need for fossil fuels is finally over.

An abandoned house in rural Southern Alberta Canada with a view of the Canadian Rockies.

Unwritten Pages

The "almost" ghost town of Chinese Camp California.

Doors and lines brought me into this shot.

Leaning derelict abandoned farmhouse in rural Alberta Canada.

The churched used in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" films.

Travel By night

Motel on the shores of the Salton Sea, California. Since been demolished.

Ghosts of Pride

Abandoned general store found in Bents, Saskatchewan.

The church in the restored ghost town of Grafton Utah.

Rural Alberta, Canada.

Changing Oathes

A leaning shack/barn found in rural Texas outside of Port Lavaca.

A derelict seaside shanty house that overlooks one of the ferries along Digby Neck Nova Scotia

Silver for a Song

Wheaton and Hollis Hotel in Bodie California

The historic Hart House in Canso Nova Scotia.

Found while exploring the quirky Route 66 town of Seligman Arizona.

Stop Whispering

Historic Morley church in Morley Alberta, Canada.

Empty abandoned square shaped farmhouse in rural Alberta Canada.

Hearing Clearly

Chairs inside an abandoned farmhouse.

Methodist Church

Church in the state park ghost town of Bodie California

Small derelict farmhouse in rural Alberta Canada.

Counting Seconds

A broken old barn in southern Alberta Canada.

The Lie Was Dead

Old dilapidated house in rural BC, Canada

Abandoned farmhouse in rural British Columbia, Canada.

Wringing of Hands

Found inside an abandoned garage outside of the struggling town of Sierra Blanca, Texas.

A little church found on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada.

Basketball Days

Old tin sided barn with a basketball court in Nova Scotia Canada.

An abandoned old restaurant clubhouse building on Magnolia Beach, Texas.

Abandoned church found in the almost ghost town of Sierra Blanca, Texas.

A church found along my travels in Nova Scotia.

Your Face Has Changed

Found in the almost ghost town of Sierra Blanca, Texas.

The train station (later a casino) found in the ghost town of Rhyolite Nevada.

The famous Bodie Hotel in the California ghost town. Also can be seen in promo photos for U2's Joshua Tree album artwork.

Red Roof Religions

A restored old church along a lake in rural BC, Canada.

Looking through the windows of a derelict mobile home found in the ghost town of Gleeson Arizona.

The Day You Feel Good

Found in a makeshift ghost town called Silver City, within the town of Bodfish California, which itself, is not very big.

Remains of a rusty vintage tractor and the famous grain elevator in the Saskatchewan ghost town of Bents.

A simple old chair on a simple wooden porch

Unrecorded History

Sunset behind a large old barn in rural Alberta Canada.

Old service station, rural desert of California.

A majestic faded red barn in the rural Canadian prairies.

The last resident in an abandoned church found in the almost ghost town of Sierra Blanca, Texas.

The grain elevator in Rouleau Saskatchewan, the town that was used as the town Dog River for the Canadian comedy series Corner Gas. Since burned down in 2021.

Witheld Promises

Sunset in the Canadian prairies from an abandoned old farmhouse

Only The Dust Remains

Looking through rooms of an abandoned rural farmhouse.

Lighting Tragedy

Abandoned church found in the almost ghost town of Sierra Blanca, Texas.

An abandoned old post office building in rural southern Alberta.

Abandoned church found on a aboriginal reservation in rural Southern BC, Canada.

A long old shack in a cropped field in the Canadian prairies.

Through The Door

The famous bank building found in the ghost town of Rhyolite Nevada.

Invention of Justice

Abandoned barn, implements and the moon watching over.

Long Distance Charges Apply

A church or a school found in the wet and damp Pacific Northwest in Washington state.

After All The Plans

Worker shacks found in the semi abandoned town of Goldfield Nevada.

The abandoned schoolhouse is all that remains of Eldon Alberta.

Three doorless shacks in the winter Canadian prairies.

I Can Leave Anytime

Representing my escape from the drudgery of a 8-5 cubicle existence.

Morning Dorothy

Grain elevator in Dorothy Alberta, Canada.

Fishing shacks in Sandy Cove Beach Nova Scotia.

Can't Outrun A Ghost

The remains of a rural farmhouse from highway 5A outside of Kamloops BC.

Old barn in Southern Alberta, Canada

What's in My Hands

Abandoned shack in the middle of nowhere.

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