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 [...]
Some Assorted ROA
I just realised that I’ve not blogged my ROA images from Doel in Belgium – so here you go!
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 [...]
Rocket01 vs. Phlegm
I recently took a trip up to Sheffield with my friend RomanyWG. We wanted to check out a hotel that we knew was in the process of demo and had some cool street art. Luckily we had one of the artists with us which made things a little easier. I really think that we would [...]
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 [...]
Hospital B – The Bends
This was the part of the hospital that I came to see, I’d seen several images of this bendy corridor before and was keen to find it for myself. There are not that may locations with curved corridors, so I was glad to open the door and stumble right into it. I can only assume [...]
Hospital B – Carnage!
Here’s a not unusual urbex room – windows broken, metal removed and false ceiling collapsed. This was also very wet with water dripping everywhere including all over my camera, not ideal, but I had to get the shot! Another location in the hospital that I wasn’t really too fussed about and If I remember correctly [...]
Hospital B – Disarray
On the way back from Cornwall we stopped off at a ‘nice’ hospital that I’d found out about. Initially I wasn’t too impressed and on return to the PC after uploading and looking at my shots i really wasn’t expecting much from this set at all.Viveca and I didn’t spend too long at the location [...]
West Park Asylum – DRUGS
Having visited West Park around 15 times over an 18 month period, I was fairly used to seeing artefacts laying about, toys in the children’s ward, beds and chairs etc. However it’s shocking to see that documents and logs with patients names still left in place. Some a little disturbing making the casual visitor realise [...]
West Park Asylum – Frail and Bedazzled
This week has been an interesting one for me. I did my first ‘photo presentation’ at a local camera club. This was around HDR and urbex, more focussing on the urbex side of things and hopefully dispelling the myth that all HDR is bad. It was a very fulfilling couple of hours that I really [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Motorsport at the Palace in Crystal Palace Park
Tate Entertaining
Dartmoor - Underworld
Filature EDP - Printing Blocks in Disarray
London - Citypoint vs Ropemaker Place
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