Centrale Thermique – Take It Away
I’ve been doing a lot of panoramas recently and although I really like doing them I wanted to get back to something more my usual style. I wanted PIPES this evening. I was searching through my images from last summer and came across this from Centrale Thermique, its a powerstation in Europe, disused of course. [...]
Image Processing Tutorial
I thought that I’d create a post showing how I created an image this morning. I’ve been spending a bit of time brushing up on skills and looking into tutorials recently, so I thought it was time to put into use what I had learnt and share that with my viewers. Generally I use several [...]
Some Assorted ROA
I just realised that I’ve not blogged my ROA images from Doel in Belgium – so here you go!
Maison R – tell Me About It
Every urbex photographer likes a chair. I’m not sure what it evokes, but a seat in an empty room can make a picture – the subject adding interest to an otherwise mediocre space. If this chair had not been in the picture then there would have been no shot in the loft. Admittedly it was [...]
Chateau Y – Disconnected By Your Smile
Another great example of my recent Euro Tour #2 and the state that houses are left in. The house was chock full of ‘stuff’ all the cupboards were still full with books and jars, some clothes left too. A really nice find. I’ve processed this one a bit more sympathetically and tried to bring out [...]
Chateau Y – Daydream
This is the reason why Europe is awesome for exploring – houses / chateaus and the like all left in good condition, possibly things get moved around, but generally things are left as they are. This house is an excellent example where the owner has looked after the property (as we found out). All that [...]
Chateau Y – Jesus Saves
Here’s a fairly straight forward image from Chateau Y- one of the many religious images hung on the walls here. An interesting point is that the paper has obviously fallen from the right of the hung picture, however its been replaced after the paper has left the wall. The owner obviously still cares about the [...]
Maison R – Madonna
Maison R has more religious stuff than I have seen at any other location, pictures, crosses, Madonna and Jesus adorn every room. The house even has its own chapel. Possibly the cleanest and tidiest room in the whole house. I’d known that this room was there so was happy to find it and photograph the [...]
ECVB – Cockerill
Here’s my final panorama from ECVB – this is taken from the area furthest from the controll room. More super pipes for you to scroll around. Hit the full screen icon (the right hand square) once the image has loaded for the full screen experience. Again this is processed in a similar fashion to [...]
ECVB – Organ Pipes
This is the money shot at ECVB. Right in front of the control room facing the four massive silver pipes that extend to the ceiling. From here the true majesty of the site can be seen, it really is awesome. This image is made from 162 images,18 shots made up of 9 stop brackets. [...]
ECVB – Turbine Hall
Here’s the turbine hall at ECVB. Compared to the rest of the facility its pretty sparse. All of the interesting stuff is below. There are two turbines housed in here, one at the far end of the hall transversely angled to the one below. I’ll not say much about this and let the images do [...]
ECVB – The Cathedral
Since the first time I went to ECVB on a solo trip quite some time ago I have wanted to do a series of panoramas of this awesome location. The main hall is so vast that to take simple images just does not do it justice. When one arrives in here initially there is a [...]
ECVB – The Sky is the Limit
This weekend we took a trip to Belgium. I’ve been previously a month or so ago and was quite unsuccessful at getting the images that I wanted, I was after some panorama images of the turbine hall, but unfortunately wasn’t well enough practised with the pano head so ended up coming away empty handed in [...]
Chateau T – Enter If You Dare
This is what I have come to expect in mainland Europe. A wonderful house / castle left to rot, it’s such a shame. Its possible that the land owner also purchased some other local land and was asked as part of the purchase contract to look after this property. It’s not as unsound as it [...]
Powerstation CT – Turbine Hall
This is one of the first places that turned me on to urbex. I’d seen images of another part of the facility and knew that I had to go one day. A couple of weeks ago my friend ROMANYWG and I ventured there at last. I wasn’t disappointed. The power station is pretty big and [...]
Chateau Y – Adler
Its amazing when you find something like this in a room out urbexing. there was nothing else in the space excepting this old Alder sewing machine. I doubt it was put there by the (angry) owner, more than likely by another photographer, so thanks whoever you may be. I tried several different views of this [...]
Maison R – Lay Me Down To Rest
Another from the weird house. This is one of the numerous bedrooms in the house. I didn’t set-up the shot. It looks as if this hasn’t been touched for a number of years and is possibly someone’s deathbed, or certainly where the occupant may have spent their final nights. At the time I was too [...]
Maison R – My Favorite Dress
This was the first ‘house’ that we went to on our explore. I’ll call it Maison R. This one had a really weird feeling to it, things were on the whole left as if the owner had just vacated the property. It did actually feel as if we were in ‘someone’s’ house. There wasn’t much [...]
Chateau S – The Cutting Room
Another of the locations that we visited on the recent tour of some Benelux urbex goodness. This was a small house in a tiny village on the borders of Luxembourg and Belgium. After an initial recce we decided on a not so obvious entry and were met on entrance with a group of Dutch explorers. [...]
Spirals of My Mind
Here’s a shot of the wonderful stairs at Château Y. this was possibly the best decorated house I’ve seen from an abandoned point of view – walls all painted with beautiful frescos but left to rot. We were disturbed soon after this by the property owner who was less than impressed that we were in [...]
Liège-Guillemins Railway Station – Panorama
I’ve recently got myself a panorama head and have been quietly testing it at home before taking it out on adventures abroad. This is my first ‘proper’ test and public showing of the results. I’m fairly happy with the results ans it certainly shows a great deal of potential for large areas such as this. [...]
Liège-Guillemins Station
Liège-Guillemins Station was built in 2009 by architect Santiago Calatrava. It’s a very impressive structure, more so in in evening when it is deserted and lit. the stark white beams and supports looking somewhat futuristic and life like. It certainly felt organic and as if the whole structure could morph into something totally different. I’m [...]
University of Liege – Lecture #1
Here’s the other place that we really wanted to see at the university. The lecture hall. There were a couple of broken windows so the elements had crept in, along with the pigeons – the place was covered in bird poo. evidence for how long it had been derelict. Other than that the location was [...]
University of Liege – Stair Action #2
Here’s another couple of shots of the sitars. I really wanted to go the high key clean processing and look for these and am very happy with the outcome. Click the images for a larger version and full gallery
Crystal Palace Park In The Snow
Lulworth Cove - Contenental Drift
Bodmin Jail - The Lag
London - Rooftops
Lomo Lubitel 166B
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