Hey! It’s time for a bit of an exploration, sound good? What we’ve got here is photographer Mike Hows (aka “TakenPictures”) moving his way through a U.S. Navy Nuclear Fallout Shelter that was created during the threat of radiation that came with the Cold War. Serious business. This shelter sits in the San Francisco Bay Area in sort of disarray but also untouched – it’s sort of being preserved by being allowed to rot. See it now as soon by Hows through his fabulous set of lenses and filters.

Photographer Mike Hows is known for his exploration of dark places, lighting up the places where only bugs and squirrels and mice go. It’s always been a passtime of Americans to explore, but just recently is become really fascinating to the wider world. When I say wider world, I don’t just mean the rest of the world outside the Americas, I mean people who’d never find themselves setting foot in these places love still to look at them.

There’s a show on the History channel right now that’s basically about this same thing, it’s called American Pickers, and it’s about a few people who own an antique store that like to go to old farmhouses and broken down places, places that are dark, dingy, or otherwise decrepit, just to peek and see. Peek, see, and find and take! And if it’s someone’s junk, they pay for it.

Mike Hows takes only the reflection of the light. Very lovely images and a noble cause.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies environment category.