It had been about a month since I had found the abandoned Minneapolis port authority. I'm pretty sure that's what it's called anyway. This is a big area to shoot so I have been exploring a little bit at a time. On this trip we started at this door that looks like it's just going into a storage warehouse.

Pretty cool right? I like the creepy orange industrial lighting. Upon entering this warehouse, I started snapping photos off to left of the entrance.

I was taking photos of this sand pile and graffiti. I climbed up on top of it to take a picture from an elevated view. For future reference tripods, long exposures and sand piles don't like each other very much.

I really like industrial ruins. I like the old buildings and the graffiti. I also like the element of it that you are probably trespassing. It kind of adds a little excitement to the whole experience. So I look over to the right at my friend Joe who is snapping photos of the snow pile across the alley from a door off to the right I hadn't paid attention to.

Then it hit me. Holy shit. That's not snow and its inside the dome!

What we found inside that done was one of the cooler things I have discovered in Minneapolis. It was a dome with a 50-60 foot ceiling with a conveyor belt system going to a hole in the top. It's currently being used to store road salt.

There was graffiti all around the walls. This crazy bright light.

It almost felt like a moon landing or something.

So as cool as this place was it was kind of scary because every time you would speak or take a step it would echo like crazy around the whole dome and a tiny salt landslide would happen. I got to thinking that if this huge 30 foot tall pile of salt decided to go. I would not have time to get out of there. So as I seem to say a lot in this blog. I got my photographs and got the hell out of there.

There's more pictures in my gallery if you are interested.