December 2010
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Wistman's Wood - Seeds of Life
Due to some car issues I haven’t been able to make it home to London for New Year and have been without wheels for a couple of days. Luckily one of my urbex mates was in the area so he offered to take me out to Dartmoor for something a bit different. A trip to Wistman’s Wood. the weather was spot on - misty and mysterious. Ideal for this location. The trees at Wistmans are stunted oaks...
Dec 30th
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House M - There's Blood On The Door
After an unsucessful attempt at some urbex photogtaphy earlier in the day, my friend and I ventured to my very local location. It’s a tiny house, two rooms upstairs, two downstairs, a kitchen that has now fully collapsed and a semi outdoors toilet. Viveca and I discovered this place around eight months ago, its rapidly detiorating, one of the windows is now completly missing and it wont be...
Dec 29th
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Plymouth Hoe - Three Steps
As the end of the year approaches it’s time to sum up the lasy 12 months. A lot has happened in my life, most notably a change in job that has brought new challenges and hopefully opportunity. The new job has meant that there is less time for evening website work / processing and blogging which is very frustrating. However the improvement and progress in my photography have been good so I am...
Dec 28th
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Crystal Palace Park In The Snow
With very little urbex going on and snow holding up proceedings pretty much everywhere, there was only one option - head for the park. Crystal Palace Park has quite a bit of varied history, it has held motor racing, athaletics, most famously the structure that housed The Great Exhibition of 1851 was moved here and stood until it burnt down in 1936. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins created the first...
Dec 24th
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Manorhouse S - Light The Fire
I’ve Been to quite a few wrecked houses and for some reason the fireplaces are always in the middle of the room or missing. Now, I can understand if they are missing, but why go to the trouble of removing it if you are not going to ‘remove it’. There are a few of these about this place. I quite likes this shot though, it s heavily processed and I tried to keep the light and...
Dec 20th
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Manorhouse S - Close The Windows
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 protected with steel shutters all the way round. Today I decided to take a closer look. After...
Dec 19th
Drew Gardner's Brown Bag Video Series →
Dec 17th
First Grope: Nikon SB-700 →
Dec 15th
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West Park - Play Me A Tune
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! Original Article
Dec 14th
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Greetings, Newbs →
Dec 9th
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Runwell - Switch ONE
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 blue popped out at me and the layers of paint , one over another give an indication of the age of the place...
Dec 9th
In Which a Commenter Gets His Soapbox →
Dec 9th
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Burngullow Clay Driers
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 to lacking navigational skills, but made it in the end. Initially we looked around some old sheds with...
Dec 8th
Hangin' Eight, with Dave Black →
Dec 6th
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Runwell : FIRE | EXIT
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. I was able to draw houses, corridors, doors and windows and make them...
Dec 6th
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Runwell - The Windows
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, but none the less I do quite like it still. Original Article
Dec 4th
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Runwell - The Ladies Bathe Together
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 sides to the baths themselves. I spent a bit of time with this shot, lining it up and making sure everything was okay. I...
Dec 2nd
It's DIY Thursday →
Dec 2nd
Matthew Jordan Smith Gives Tyra a Ring →
Dec 2nd
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Runwell - Cubicle 1
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 would clean football boots in! It was a pleasure to process something more high key rather than the...
Dec 1st