December 2011
4 posts
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October 2011
2 posts
On Assignment: Theresa Daytner, Pt. 1 →
Q&A: Speedlight Color Shifts →
September 2011
21 posts
Q&A: Avoiding Cross Shadows When Rim-Lighting →
Bjorn Stopped By the House on the Way Home… →
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BC3 Assignment #4: 36 Hours →
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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 statue in place when I explored the second floor. what a treat.
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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.
“The Beam Engine House is a Grade 1 Listed Industrial Building constructed in the...
Choosing Extension Cords for Plug-In Strobes →
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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.
[pano file=”/ecvb1/ecvb1.xml” width=”900” height=”750” panobox=”on”]
This image is made from 162 images,18 shots made up of 9 stop brackets. I...
On Assignment: Stephanie Barnes →
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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 that respect.
While I am working on the panoramas, I thought that I’d load up...
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Chateau T - Enter If You Dare
This is what I have come to expect in mainland Europe. A wonderful house / castle left to rot, it’s such a shame. Its possible that the land owner also purchased some other local land and was asked as part of the purchase contract to look after this property. It’s not as unsound as it looks and being made of very heavy stone has lasted well all things considered, the roof is mostly...
Boot Camp III Assignment #3: Results →
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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 we only really had time to explore part of it. Another trip is required.
the strippers had been there and taken a...
A Master Class in Messi Lighting →
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Chateau Y - Adler
Its amazing when you find something like this in a room out urbexing. there was nothing else in the space excepting this old Alder sewing machine. I doubt it was put there by the (angry) owner, more than likely by another photographer, so thanks whoever you may be.
I tried several different views of this shot mostly from the other side of the room, I wanted to get the pleasant view out of the...
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Chateau Y - Adler
Its amazing when you find something like this in a room out urbexing. there was nothing else in the space excepting this old Alder sewing machine. I doubt it was put there by the (angry) owner, more than likely by another photographer, so thanks whoever you may be.
I tried several different views of this shot mostly from the other side of the room, I wanted to get the pleasent view oout of the...
August 2011
22 posts
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Maison R - Lay Me Down To Rest
Another from the weird house. This is one of the numerous bedrooms in the house. I didn’t set-up the shot. It looks as if this hasn’t been touched for a number of years and is possibly someone’s deathbed, or certainly where the occupant may have spent their final nights. At the time I was too focussed on getting the image, however thinking about it afterwards it creeps me out a...
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Chateau S - The Cutting Room
Another of the locations that we visited on the recent tour of some Benelux urbex goodness. This was a small house in a tiny village on the borders of Luxembourg and Belgium. After an initial recce we decided on a not so obvious entry and were met on entrance with a group of Dutch explorers. They were finishing up as we were starting. We said our ‘hello’s’ and continued with the...
Chris Waind's Epic NZSO Compositions →
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Spirals of My Mind
Here’s a shot of the wonderful stairs at Château Y. this was possibly the best decorated house I’ve seen from an abandoned point of view - walls all painted with beautiful frescos but left to rot.
We were disturbed soon after this by the property owner who was less than impressed that we were in her (abandoned) house, despite the back door being wide open!
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Ikeya Tomohide: Drawn to Water →
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IEMZA - Panorama
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Liège-Guillemins Railway Station - Panorama
I’ve recently got myself a panorama head and have been quietly testing it at home before taking it out on adventures abroad. This is my first ‘proper’ test and public showing of the results. I’m fairly happy with the results ans it certainly shows a great deal of potential for large areas such as this.
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Liège-Guillemins Station
Liège-Guillemins Station was built in 2009 by architect Santiago Calatrava. It’s a very impressive structure, more so in in evening when it is deserted and lit. the stark white beams and supports looking somewhat futuristic and life like. It certainly felt organic and as if the whole structure could morph into something totally different.
I’m by no means a train spotter, but...
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Sheffield Toolmakers - Cubby Holes
The tool makers was covered - wall to wall on all floors with cupboards and cubby holes where product would have been stored. There must have been some very knowledgeable people here who could actually manage to find things quickly.The floor all over is covered in pigeon poo!
The image is processed with photomatix for HDR and a selection of filters from Nik Software.
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Reclinier
We quite often come across discarded toys at urbex locations, Never sure if these were left here by the last occupants or someone has just dumped them, either way these toys were once held and adored by young children who may even still remember them to this day.
Here’s a little doll that was left at Thornseat.
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Sheffield - Thornseat Lodge
Thornseat Lodge is on the border of the Yorkshire moors, built in 1855 as a shooting and hunting lodge, it was converted to a childrens home in the 1830s and remained as such for 50 years. Apparently vacated in the 80’s it has been left to rot since.
The building is one of the most dodgy that I have been in, there is no access to the upper floor with all of the stairs rotten, a lot of the...
Open Air Home Studio →
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Phlegm - Looking At You
Another from the telescope fixates Phlegm, this time an exterior image painted on the side of a derelict building.
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Phlegm - Telescopes
A recurring theme in Phlegms work is the use of telescopes - really cool telescopes that go around corners and allow the viewers eye to shine out of the other end - this was placed nicely in a window frame.
I’ve processed this fairly heavily using Nik Filters and Focal Point with a good dose of curve.
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Phlegm - Horseman
Finally catching up with ‘stuff’ after a couple of weeks out of the game dealing with real world work and life.
Here’s one from an abandoned school / chapel in Sheffield. Another Phlegm piece. Perfectly placed on a back wall amongst the decay and dereliction.
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July 2011
27 posts
I Stand Corrected. →