I've taken old abandoed house pics in black and white before. As an entry shot for my portfolio. It did ok.

Then the other time I wanted to take a picture of this farmers run down place, but he was rolling around in his mower so I asked his permission. He thought I asked to take pics of him, so he sat there in my shot the entire time. I decided to work with it and that won me a silver award at a show. Good luck I guess.