BillsPics' photos with the keyword: black and white

Part of the Sailors and Soldiers Memorial in Princeton, IL.

Part of our cattle herd under a moody sky....

Along the trail to the top of Arizona's Pinnacle Peak.a popular amateur climbing mountain north of Phoenix...

A part of Arizona's National Memorial Cemetery near Phoenix. It is the state's largest Cemetery for veterans of all wars...

Winter in the Shawnee Forest in Southern Illinois in black and white.The snow was added in post processing however....

The majestic bow of the retired USS Wisconsin now permanently moored in Norfolk, VA. Built for use in WW II,the Wisconsin saw its final action in 1991 during the Gulf War....

A shot of the administration building at the former Joliet Correctional Center in Illinois. The prison's unique architecture was drawn up by WW Boyington,designer of Chicago's famed Water Tower.It was built by contractors using prison labor in 1858. It closed in 2002. Sadly this building cannot be entered anymore due to extreme interior collapse....

The chapel at the closed and formerly abandoned Old Joliet Prison. Joliet was the site of Illinois's first state prison, opened in 1858. It house female inmates till a separate women's prison was built next door in 1896. The prison was distinct for its exterior Gothic design elements. The cells didn't have separate plumbing till a 1950's remodel! The prison was closed in 2002,and basically abandoned by the state except for 2004-5 when the TV drama "Prison Break " filmed its first season there. The city finally took possession in 2017 and opened parts of the badly decayed and vandalized prison for public tours....

This old fence post and wire is a survivor, it dates to the 1960's most likely. It is also the last post left in this fence line, not basically a marker between fields...

Long forgotten farm in the middle of a southern Illinois cornfield...

A long,silent hallway in the abandoned Kewanee Boiler office building in Kewanee, IL.The company, synonymous for it's boilers that powered manufacturering, government, and school buildings, abandoned the office many years ago. The whole factory complex, including this building, is currently under demolition....

This old northern Illinois farmhouse has been abandoned so long that trees have actually grown up in some of the doorways making entry impossible!

The stunning St. John's Lutheran Church in St. Donatius, IL.