Jail
Really need to view this one <a href="http://www.bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=3441519059&amp;size=large" rel="noreferrer nofollow">large on black</a> to see the shadow detail.

OK, so before my photography hard drive died, I had posted a picture of a cool neon sign along highway 290 east of Austin, Texas, stating that I had noticed it on my way to a &quot;ghost town&quot;.  Several abandonment-savvy Austinites contacted me wondering what ghost town I could have been going to, out that direction?  Of course, the key was I didn't say I was going to a ghost town; I said I was going to a &quot;ghost town&quot;...specifically, the J Lorraine &quot;Ghost Town&quot;, an unusual little creation of a fella whom I now know simply as &quot;George&quot;, as he came out and introduced himself to me as I was photographing there.

The faux-ghost town is set back off the road a bit, on a few acres of open, flat land.  George has created all the stereotypical establishments you'd expect to find in an old west town, places like a hotel, an undertaker, a bank, a chapel, and this little jailhouse 
you see here.

So no...not a real ghost town...but a really fun place to poke around and shoot in the moonlight.  More pictures to come from here...

Night, full moon, slight ambient sodium vapor, red-gelled strobe, a hint of natural Maglite on the chair and sign, and, a wash of natural flashlight on the underside of the awning to the right.
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