Italian Hospital A – Bedlam
High up in the Alps in a small village thee is an abandoned hospital. There are two well known highlights of this location, one is the chapel which is very distinctive, the other is the fact that there are beds remaining in the wards. They’ve seen better days, but none the less its great to [...]
Hunting Lodge A – Kitchen
There wasn’t very much left in this kitchen, a couple of sinks and that was about it. I liked the symmetry again and thought the varying textures and pastel shades on the walls would pop nicely when processed so took a bit of time with this one. Click the image for a slightly larger version [...]
Hunting Lodge – Main Stairs
After seeing where we were going on our day out I did a search to see what to expect and came across the stairs in the lodge. Pretty much everyone who goes here takes this picture and its hard to do something ‘different’ really so I just went with the flow and shot this. I [...]
Hunting Lodge A – Guest WC
A lot of urbex photographers have a thing about taking shots of the toilets in abandoned locations. I’m not quite sure of why this is, maybe because its sometimes the only furniture that is left as its attached to the walls. Maybe because the white porcelain is quite photogenic or that it sometimes dates a [...]
Abandoned Art – Senso – Fallen Angel
In the warehouse somewhat hidden away was this fantastic piece by Senso, I really like this, the image really jumps out of the wall and the artist has used the environment well, the fallen angel sitting on the switches. Click the image to see a slightly larger version or to purchase
Balestrino Abandoned Village – External
As you can see the weather was lovely in the village, blue skies and sun for a change. It was great to wander around without the worry of being quiet, getting caught or falling down any holes. The village is mostly intact, nothing remains in the houses although the spaces are quite nice. Tiles [...]
Balestrino – Abandoned Church
The third day of our trip was a treat – an abandoned village on the side of a hill. After a little confusion we found the right place. RoamnyWG and I had different locations in mind, I’d found a different village to him! The weather was great, lovely and sunny and the small village contained [...]
Abandond Art – FRESH
Another from the same location as the previous images. I think was the only piece we found by ABSOLUT here.
Abandoned Art – Sea Creative – Vine
More excellent contact work from my travelling colleague. We met a couple of the artists at a secret spot in Italy, yet another vast location with a lot of excellent art. The guys have been painting here for a long time and will continue to do so. The art on the walls is outstanding some [...]
Abandoned Art – James Kalinda
My travelling colleague is a bit of a street-art collector, or more accurately hidden art, a few mails and call were exchanged and we had the location of a new spot sorted. There’s something affirming and ego-less about the guys that paint in hidden and abandoned locations, great works on vast walls, not for the [...]
Urbex Palace – NON PLUS ULTRA
Having seen pictures of this hall I kinda knew what to expect. However on arrival I was blown away, intricate carvings all painted white, skylights letting in wonderful light. This surly was a place to behold. I had high hopes of shooting a mega-panorama here, however it appears that it’s not to be. The regular [...]
Lavoir à Charbon A – Pincer Action
It wasn’t all manor houses and hospitals on our recent tour of Italy. On the way we travelled through France and Luxembourg, stopping off at a rather tasty coke washing plant. This was an interesting one as the site that it is on is live with plenty of people around. thankfully we entered unnoticed and [...]
Manor House T – The Chapel
I’ve been to several large houses in Europe that have chapels attached, nothing quite like this one though. In keeping with the rest of the property the whole room was painted with trompe-l’œil pretty much everything in the image apart from the alter is painted. It’s obviously been a long time since the chapel was [...]
Urbex Palace – The White Room
Finally back from Italy, around 3,000 miles driven over 11 days, what a great trip. My exploring partners and I have seen some wonderful locations, got some great photos all with little incident despite getting caught three times. The picture below was taken at an abandoned manor house, well, its a bit more than that [...]
Italy – En Route Post
Half way through the Tour d’Italia with RomanyWG and EllisD and things are going well for us. After a slow start of one location a day we’ve done three today. We hooked up with some locals for a convent, but unfortunately it had been recently boarded so entry wasn’t possible. Luckily they had a backup [...]
Hellingly
Here’s a typical scene from the now demolished Hellingly Asylum, sad to see it go, but I guess there has to be progress.
Hellingley
Another corridor in the now demolished mental asylum. I’m having trouble being creative with my writing at the moment, lots on my mind and lots to do, it seems to be sapping my thought process hence the lack of ‘wordy-ness’ recently!
Sheffield Abandoned Factory
After searching through the archives I came across this shot – Its a pretty straight forward image and not the most interesting I must admit, however it was nice and easy to produce for a Sunday morning. We’d actually gone to do some graf hunting, looking for a pigs arse of all things, which we [...]
PTGui Tutorial
I’ve had a few people ask how I line up my panoramas, so I thought it was about time I shared my processing technique. Currently I am using PTGui, its a pretty cool program and works really well. The only proviso is that you have a panoramic head that is correctly aligned for your camera [...]
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. [...]
Battersea Power Station
A few weekends ago I went to take an image that I’ve been after for a long time. I was hoping to catch a pano from this spot but unfortunately my camera failed me, or more to the point, it wouldn’t expose long enough to get any useful data from the ground. I may still [...]
Hellingly Asylum – Bricks and Mortar
The weather had been inclement throughout the explore and as we exited the main complex of the asylum it started to rain adding to our mood. The destruction of the hall had almost completed and we both knew that within the next week destruction would be complete. Both of us got on with our work [...]
Hellingly – Gone But Not Forgotten
Whilst at Viveca’s the other day she was looking at her old pictures from Hellingly Asylum, this spurred me to have a look at mine. as this was the first place I went on urbex missions my early images are almost all rubbish, however its a good testament to my perseverance in the craft of [...]
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 [...]
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