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Abandoned
Abandoned Places and Spaces. http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enha...4329851-24.jpg Kolmanskop in the Namib Desert http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enha...64329937-5.jpg The abandoned Wonderland Amusement Park outside Beijing, China http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enha...64330224-5.jpg The Kerry Way walking path between Sneem and Kenmare in Ireland http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/the...s-in-the-world |
Train Graveyard
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Abandoned Amusement Parks
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Cool! Have ya been to all these places. I'm a derelict places enthusiast too. I go to take pictures but some just prefer a more psychogeographic experience. What kit do you take with you?
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It's a sad reality that these places, buildings, and the like actually exist in the US. Detroit actually has so many of these empty and alone buildings and houses. I lived only 5 mins from south Detroit, and it was very sad and gloomy there. I hated it.
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I love this thread. Though sad, I find it absolutely breath taking, the way nature reclaims what is hers.
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ty for sharing Femme ~ interesting shots :) ~
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[QUOTE=Cailin;779759]I love this thread. Though sad, I find it absolutely breath taking, the way nature reclaims what is hers.
I agree! The economic story behind the abandoned place is a story of pain and loss for many people, but also, there is the story of reclamation, resiliency, all the ways nature fights for a place on earth. |
Ruin Porn
The History Channel's program, "Life After People" illustrates what would happen to our cities, buildings, structures, etc. if everyone just disappeared today. Many of the buildings still standing, believe it or not, are still structurally sound, and were built of such a quality, that current churches, buildings, structures, etc., cannot match.
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Just a reminder that if these pictures aren't taken by you and you don't attribute the photographer of the pictures you're stealing their work.
Me and other urbexer friends have had our work stolen regularly. There's even been folks passing other's pictures off as their own. Copyright is serious stuff folks. Awww Dapper :winky: |
A couple of my fave urbexing shots.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3265/3...a9bee45e70.jpg table revisted by Dr.Doo, on Flickr T.G Green Cornish Ware pottery factory http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3074/2...9153772733.jpg Wheelchair Access by Dr.Doo, on Flickr My best urbexing selfie at Nocton Hospital, Lincolnshire. |
Dkatari brought up a word I didn't know: "urbexing."
I found this definition in http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Urbexing "Urbexing is the act of exploring urban areas that are generally off-limits to regular civilians." I've always been intrigued by spaces that are off-limits to many. I'm not talking about private residential space, but private spaces within public settings. I like meeting people who share access to those spaces. Like, an old friend who was the head of pathology at a hospital in NYC. He gave me a tour through lab areas that were off limits to visitors, so I could take notes for a poem. I would love to find a guide who could share access with me to:
Before 9/11, when security all over the City was more slack, I would sneak behind the scenes at Madison Square Garden at the Westminster Dog Show, so I could wander up and down the aisles where the show dogs were being temporarily housed and groomed. Their owners sat in lawn chairs, and the dogs were on leashes next to them. The owners were happy to talk about their dogs, and the dogs were friendly and well behaved. I got to pet an Irish Wolf Hound; I'd never seen one before in person. And it was so cool to watch the dogs being blow dried and groomers trimming their whiskers and eye brows and so on. It's a real art, grooming some of the dogs, like standard poodles, where such precision goes into their hair cuts. So I guess I have the heart of an urbexer. Who knew. |
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My friend is coming loaded down with photo equipment, so this should be pretty fun! We've been researching some great locations in Portugal and Spain. What do you use to shoot with? :) |
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:chaplin: Sadly there's been a fashion for over-processing urbex shots with the HDR technique. As can be seen in some of the above pictures. I personally don't like it and think that it spoils the natural beauty of decay. |
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I feel a strong affinity (regarding my work, and way of being in the world), with both the flanneur and psychogeographic aesthetic! Thanks for bringing those words to mind. As for the HDR technique—I Googled it: "High Dynamic Range" photography. As for "spoiling the natural beauty of decay," I agree in the sense that the technique seems to romanticize decay, whereas if you didn't HDR the shots of abandoned places—in which the human-made decays, and the natural thrives—there would still be plenty of opportunity to capture intensity, longing, despair, joy, and other feelings they might evoke. I'm not a photographer and I don't want to dis the HDR thing outright, just saying in some instances I think it's the easy way out. But still beautiful. And as for stuff that's romanticized, I like it romanticized to the point of being almost hallucinogenic. |
I agree with Cailin and IslandScout. Thank you for starting this thread femmeInterrupted!
I adore seeking out abandoned buildings, especially in the countryside. There are a lot of abandoned homes and barns in Oregon, and Mother Nature takes them back with gusto. I find them hauntingly beautiful. I took all of the photos below, while exploring in Oregon... http://i47.tinypic.com/357oe41.jpg White River Falls Abandoned hydro power generation plant 2012 http://i49.tinypic.com/nqnsch.jpg White River Falls Abandoned hydro power generation plant 2012 http://i45.tinypic.com/zkea.jpg White River Falls Abandoned hydro power generation plant 2012 All of these images were taken within walking distance of the home I lived in, in Brownsmead Oregon... http://i48.tinypic.com/2zno2gw.jpg Aldrich Point Rd in Brownsmead Oregon 2006 http://i47.tinypic.com/2s5zart.jpg Abandoned home, on Aldrich Point Rd in Brownsmead Oregon 2006 http://i47.tinypic.com/k3k48w.jpg Old gray barn, on Aldrich Point Rd in Brownsmead Oregon 2006 Here's one I found on accident when driving back from a hike in the Columbia Gorge... http://i50.tinypic.com/2rcucnq.jpg Abandoned home, Columbia River Gorge Area 2012 |
I took this one in 2012, in Kid Valley Washington. This A-Frame, was buried in a river of mud after the May 18th, 1980 eruption, at Mount St. Helens.
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Holly, I love the images you just posted.
You don't use that HDR technique I've just been made aware of, by this thread, but you do create a lot of wistful and sometimes spooky intensity with the angles in the shots. A lot of people on BFP live in rural areas. I bet they know of many, many glorious old abandoned barns and farmhouses and other structures. If only we could put you on a tour, like artists back in the days before artists' colonies, when artists and writers and musicians would stay on people's estates and just do their thing for a while, then give a show or a concert or a reading, and move on! |
LOVE THIS...........
Holey freakin cow..................
Thank you for this thread............I forgot how bad I feel today..... The roller coaster shot is cosmic... a perfect visual for the idea of time/life being circular.... twisting turning.... and the trains........ |
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3307/3...9365c72b_m.jpg pink cell http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3650/3...be4506a0_m.jpg Welcome to Hellingly East Sussex County Asylum. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3002/2...81da1d7b_m.jpg Open Door Policy St.John's Asylum, Lincolnshire http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3640/3...50ba01e13c.jpg Severalls: Split Corridor http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3418/3...0e8f12e8_m.jpg Severalls: Bed Severalls Asylum, Colchester. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3005/3...326f69d546.jpg if only Whittingham Hospital, Goosnargh nr Preston I love detail shots, particularly playing with dof. I love shots taken in pitch black on long exposures and playing with light painting. Corridor porn used to be 'big' in urbex circles too :cheesy: Minimum kit for exploring Very stout boots and old tough clothing and latex gloves. One can often be found crawling about in service tunnels and up ladders caked in pigeon shit. Camera rucksack Nikon D100 dslr Nikkor 35mm f1.4 - didn't take this one often as it's not AF Nikon 28-200 f2.8 Sigma 28mm f2.0 - Small sturdy Slik tripod 1 2xC cell Cree bulb torch 1 2xAA Maglite mini PP3 mask - Asbestos is an issue in old buildings. As a person with lung disease I had to be especially careful and wore a respirator on more than one occasion. Toilet paper...for the obvious Travel medical kit - used on many occasions. Food/liquid is important on a full day trip too and space needs to be made in the camera bag for it. We used to see the younger urbexers out with nothing to eat or drink but the Usual Suspects - Muse, Scary Mary, Magoo & Dr.Doo, were all older and we looked after ourselves a little better. As to HDR. The photographers and urbexers I admire don't use such techniques. Despite being a digital photographer myself, the work of those I admire is always on film. I loved what Ex.Mrs.D used to do on medium format film when urbexing. The were the best urbex pics I've ever seen...yes I was and am biased but she is a very talented woman. The pictures I admire tend not to need to be 'boosted' to achieve their aim. I do understand why others like the HDR technique, I'm just not one of them. I wish I could show you the Palimpsest series of pictures she did for her degree show. They were truly awesome. |
I am SO loving this new thread! I have long had a passion for abandoned houses... and there's an old state school and sanitarium nearby that I have long wished to explore. There's even an abandoned rail way (which they want to make into a hiking/biking rail trail!)
In Vermont there are MANY abandoned towns in the woods...with buildings and even cemeteries . I will DEFINITELY have to learn how to post pics to share with y'all :) Thanks for the thread femmeInteruptted! :hangloose: |
Daktari,
A couple of those photos were like sets for a horror film. You know the ones that take place in an abandoned hospital? Or an abandoned wing no one knew about, in a living hospital? The school was pretty scary too... Scout Oh, and interesting that you have to worry about asbestos. I guess they used lead paint in all those institutional buildings, too. |
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It does appeal to my adventurous heart, even now... femmeInterrupted mentioned Spain & Portugal...and my brain screamed "ROAD TRIP!!!" In my accomplishable dreams...:) |
Edison High School, Philadelphia, PA
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Detroit
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Long Island
Kings Park Psychiatric Center
http://www.spiritsoftheabandoned.com...ll/kp_3521.jpg Pilgrim State Psychiatric Center http://libn.com/files/2009/04/3445018353_5c0fd73c4b.jpg Reopened http://4girlsandaghost.files.wordpre...im-state-2.jpg |
Bethlehem Steel
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Detroit is so...lost
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Cool pictures Turtle and Sleepy. Did you take them? What kit do you use?
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Asylums and hospitals are (were - ill health has meant that I've haven't explored for a couple of years sadly) my passion. Most are in seriously bad condition. The main halls are usually the centrepiece and quite often were rather grand; some even had cinemas. Asbestos, lead paint and all sorts of nasties are in these places. Safety gear is essential for those who value their health or have health issues. To be honest I had to stop the most exciting parts of urbexing because I stopped being able to run far and fast enough due to lung disease. Ingressing such places is actually a civil offense and if caught by security or the like it is possible to be prosecuted. More seriously, if caught exploring 'abandoned' military venues then prosecution under the Terrorist Act can then come into play. One needs to be able to run fast to evade security sometimes. :winky: One side of urbexing that doesn't grab me at all is the guys who like to climb. They climb not only buildings but cranes, towers and anything that takes them high. :| |
What a gorgeous thread! I don't have anything to add but looking through all of these beautiful images was wonderful.
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Hey Daktari,
I did not take these. I pulled them off of Google Chrome. I do love taking these kinds of pics though. I really must figure out how to be able to post them here on the Planet. Thanks. Oh, military sites - there are lots of pics online from the Brooklyn Navyard (which also had a hospital) and other abandoned bases and forts. A warehouse in Red Hook, Queens http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6...1d1ca655_b.jpg |
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Stairway to...
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http://media-cache-ec5.pinterest.com...c8fe54d59b.jpg abandoned maison heinen in luxembourg photo by roman solowiej http://media-cache-ec2.pinterest.com...fd8dd2b02a.jpg http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73...e2ffd34c90.jpg Awesome spiral staircase in an abandoned castle in Luxembourg http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/73...a44dc25cbf.jpg |
Hey Turtle. Awesome pics but please would you please attribute them to who ever did take them to avoid copyright infringement.
I've seen numerous instances where folks have used someone else's picture, taken off the name or watermark and used the image without attributation or payment to the artist. . I'm not in any way saying you've done that but posting other folks work without attribution is intellectual theft. |
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