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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Reims – Iemza, Street Art
On the way back from Luxembourg we detoured through France to visit a derelict industrial compound that was due to be flattened. there were still a few buildings left, this one in particular held what we had come to see. The artist of the insect like beings is IEMZA. There’s a lot of work gone [...]
Dartmoor – Underworld
Hidden under the Dartmoor turf is this little urbex gem. Its a disused pumping house. The second visit for me, first time it wasn’t this damp. I was expecting there to be a little water, however I wasn’t expecting it to be 18 inches plus deep. I shou8ld have taken my waders! There is very [...]
Filter House Gallery – Panorama
Just outside Sheffield is a disused filterhouse, it’s a haven for creatives and their excellent art. I was lucky enough to meet one of the artists here as he was working on a new piece. It’s over six months since I’ve been here and was amazed to see that the walls have changed – such [...]
Wool Grading Sheds – Ironwork
This is a pretty simple image – just an empty warehouse, but look at the lovely ironwork in the roof. They don’t make them like that anymore. The room was probably the tidiest, of the buildings at site, nicely clean floors and no rotting roofs. the sun was low as you can see and gave [...]
Wool Grading – Dodgy Room #2
Here’s another shot of the room with the dodgy floor. After venturing across the bridge and not being sure what to find the other side of the door I was faces with a rather large hole in the floor. Luckily the door was placed over the hole so I was able to get into the [...]
Wool Grading – Two Ways
I’ve tried to take advantage of the wide angle lens here and split the image in two. This was an idea I saw at some of the local asylums where the corridors are acutely angled. This is testament to having my eyes open and thinking about framing images and what the camera and lens can [...]
Wool Grading Sheds – The Switch
Although the mill is very stripped and just a shell there are a few interesting things left on the walls, well one or two anyway. I spotted this switch and thought it would make a nice subject and a change to use a different lens. Shooting wide angle is pretty easy, composition is a doddle [...]
Crossness Pumpingstation and Panorama Heads
On Sunday Viveca and I went to Crossness Pumping Station. It was Open House London day and as we were a bit slow off the mark we hadn’t booked to go anywhere. Its basically a weekend where-lots of usually closed houses and architectural oddities a that are normally closed are opened up to the public. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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