I recently went cycling with some friends and went past abandoned house VERY close to where I live. I'd not seen it before despite the location being so close to home. Several times I've driven past, and as the leaves have fallen to the ground its been obvious to me that the place was properly [...]
Here's another of the West Park Piano - I'd been after a shot like this for a while - using the lower F-Stop to get a lovely focus point, although I must admit that I was helped a little in the post processing stages by a few filters!
The decay at Runwell Asylum is pretty epic in places. Peeling paint all over the place indicating how open to the elements its been here in the past. Now safely boarded up though keeping the majority of the rain, wind and snow out of the main building. I was really taken by this switch, the [...]
A couple of images from an explore last year with one of my urbex friends. We were both in The West Country visiting relatives over Christmas and decided to hook up for some photo fun. Our target was Burngullow Clay Driers. From what I remember we had a bit of trouble finding the location due [...]
This is the first image I took at Runwell, well second after re-framing it. I was never any good at art at school and was always more mathematically minded, however when we were introduced to perspective I was instantly more interested - art with a mathematical bent. The straight lines and vanishing point immediately appealed. [...]
This shot was thought about quite a bit and took a bit of lining up. I worked hard to frame it just how I wanted getting all of the windows in place and trying not to crop the radiator. I processed this a week or so ago and think it might be a bit overblown, [...]
One of the few tings left in one piece at Runwell were the baths, both in the male and female wards. The curious thing was that the ladies had two baths in the same room where the guys had a bath and a shower. They make for good images, shiny tiles, decaying ceiling and moldy [...]
Another from Runwell. Toilet furniture was well preserved at this location - a surprise really, most urbex WCs are smashed. I cant really think why anyone would want to smash a loo, but there you go.I'm not sure what this is - its not a toilet, or a bidet. It actually looks like something I [...]
My exploring friend said that we were going to see 'the piano' on our journey. I'd only seen one at this location before - a big grand upstairs in one of the wards and I thought that this was were he was talking about. However I was pleasantly surprised to find this upright version in [...]
My friend and I made our way around the two story building, it was quite samey, square, stripped and decaying. The light was great though, low sunlight through clear winter skies.We didn't see anyone at all and given that the place was fairly recently boarded up there was little chance of anyone else entering making [...]
second day of urbex in a row and I met my friend Howzey for a trip east. We planned to do another location but after gaining entry were disconcerted by the PIR and speaker messages telling us that we shouldn't really be there and that it would be for the best if we left. Luckily [...]
This week I've had a hard time finding anything to process. I've mentioned before that I'm not happy with my 'old' photos. Composition, focus and general shoddy work. I've only been taking photos semi-seriously for two years so I've learnt a lot and improved a lot. Added to this I've had a very busy couple [...]
Here's a shot from about a year ago. These are the body refrigerators from a disused mortuary at Harold Wood Hospital. The was a particularly notable explore for me as I was not well prepared for how cold it was going to be - bloody cold Given that we were in a mortuary as well [...]
One of the generators in the turbine hall at ECVB.
Not Much to say about this one really - I've not been out exploring anywhere crusty for a while now and after taking delivery of a Sigma 8-16 I'm itching to get out again. I reckon this location will do the trick, there are lots of open spaces to take advantage of the wide angle. [...]
After posting a few images of the fireworks and shots from the weekend I was surprised and totally shocked to find out the power of Twitter. Until now I've been a bit skeptical about how many people my blog and twitter actually reach and who actually gets to see my images via this means. I [...]
I had a friend asking me about rooftops and as we've been out together before I thought it would be good to arrange a meet and go somewhere with a vies. Initial plan was to go up for the fireworks on Saturday, but i was unsure of the security and amount of people that may [...]
Last week I got hold of a ND110 filter- that's a 100 times reduction in light through the lens. The principal reason for this was to get some nice shots of milky water. Unfortunately by the time Viveca and I got to Littlestone the tide was out, so the water was a bit far away. [...]
I spotted this sinister Hammer on top of one of the pulling machines. Covered in grease and oil, the head flattened I immediately sawa photo opportunity. It had character, obviously used for a very long time and had no doubt weathered some storms. Often when I take a photograph I immediately know what to do [...]
Recently I have noticed that my tag cloud at the foot of my web page was becoming very long and causing the page to be way too long for little benefit. I investigated how to adjust this and came up with a very simple solution: Navigate to your ..\WP-INCLUDES\.. folder from your host and download [...]
I'm slowly going to start writing about my WordPaperPress / Photoshelter site and how it was made I will hopefully go some way to explain the three constituent parts (Wordpress, Graph Paper Press and Photoshelter) and how they glue to each other to provide a seamless experience between sites. There's recently been an upgrade to [...]
After selecting Graph Paper Press, Wordpress and Photoshelter as suitable hosts for my blog I set about getting things exactly how I wanted them. I have no HTML or programming knowledge and despite being an IT engineer by trade, there was a good deal of guesswork involved to achieve my goals and get everyrthing 'just [...]
Site almost complete. After almost two weeks my site is almost complete. www.markblundellphoto.com Just as well i'm not doing a fixed price job -I'd be very skint. Its been a fairly painful journey, but a very rewardng one. I shall be writing up and reviewing my experiences with Wordpress / Photoshelter / 1and1.co.uk and a [...]
