I spent some time over the weekend looking for unique locations to shoot specific dogs and found myself at the abandoned Naval Base near where I live. The empty buildings and general trashiness of the place is in direct visual contradiction to the world of Disney, Universal Studios and Sea World.

I found some interesting areas that would make cool backdrops. I had Rowdy in the car with me but decided it was too dangerous to have him walk around with all the glass and other dangerous stuff on the ground. I'd have to clear the path to these locations if I ever wanted to use them.

Here is an overall shot of the facility itself.



And the "bombed out" interior of one of the buildings.



What I found most interesting visually however was some of the very creative graffiti. Like this.



And this.


And these two:




Obviously this type of location isn't for every dog or every portrait but with my ABs and a Vagabond, I could do some very cool lighting effects both inside and through the windows that would make for some "outside the box" dog portraits.

I like what I found. I'm going to keep scouting for more locations.

Jim