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

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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

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I’m getting towards the end of this set from West Park I think. I need a little break from relentless processing to start afresh. with renewed vigour. Its not helping that my 550D is

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Another nice simple shot in my series of simple shots together with a simple post! I loved the peeling pain on this switch and the almost monochrome paint colour a lot, the rust breaking through

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Another quick post this evening. Here’s an image from one of the bathrooms at the asylum. I’m trying to move away from my normal style taking some different images and angles. Its actually very

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Although West Park has been mostly cleared of trinkets and other such ornaments there is still the odd thing to be found before the demo teams continue their assault on sturdy Victorian architecture. Here

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I was surprised to come across the showers in this area of the asylum. Having been there many times before I don’t think I’ve been in this area before. It has what can only

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Here’s an image that I’ve processed slightly differently to my usual manner. I’m trying to add a little more colour to this one. I’ve used the cross processing filter in Nik to get a

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Here’s a typical view of the architecture and decay in the manor house – somewhat crusty, but not yet falling apart (too much). You can also see the scaffold that has been put in

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Here’s a close-up of the awesome old skool craftsmanship in the manor house library. This shot was enhanced by the lovely morning light coming in through the windows. I was really taken with the

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This image is typical of the rooms in The Manor – tidy and swept. Ready for the contractors to come in and get busy. Interestingly there were a couple of paintings on the window,

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Right at the top of the house were a couple of rooms that were still left with ‘things’ in them. This was the only one with a bed though. The setting indicated that this

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Another quick post as its Friday and I have to have a quick turn around. I’ve seen many great pictures of staircases, but never been anywhere that I’ve been able to grab great images myself.

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Those were the days eh! Three years rent £13! This was on top of a pile of papers left in the Great Hall (which I have now found out was a library). Thing like this

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Just a really fast post this evening as I’m heading out! Click the image for the full

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I’ts funny that I often complain on here about not having any inspiration to process images. The advice from others – GO SHOOT. Recently I’ve been in good processing health and for some reason

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Not sure why I chose the title for the image, possibly as my dinner was ready after I’d finished processing. I don’t know about any of the other photographers, but when I get home I

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My urbex colleague and I had been planning this one for a couple of weeks. We had originally thought about doing a south coast industrial location, however he wanted to go somewhere totally different

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The front of the housing block looked pretty bleak, all doors and windows shuttered and welded closed. The estate was deserted except for a few people passing through as a short cut. Yet the

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I though that I would finish off the Heygate images this evening. As the area is somewhat ‘dodgy’, with lots of under under and overpasses and covering quite a large area I didn’t really

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