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As much as I love taking portraits or photographing flowers and graveyards. I have always, and probably will always prefer photographing urban decay.
It's probably a case of out-of-sight, out-of-mind but only 200 yards away from one Hartlepool's busiest shopping parades lies what is probably the town's biggest death trap. Now derelict Steetley Magnesite works last owned by CJC Chemicals.
With hardly a safety fence in sight, the works is wide open to exploring children and teenagers. The plant which contains enormous settling tanks part-filled with water, decaying machinery and underground tunnels and drainage ducts. The Council cannot be unaware of the situation, so presumably they are crossing their fingers hoping that no dreadful accident occurs.
However, there is no sign of demolition or site clearance. Nor has there been any sign of any on-site security. The site lies immediately north of the Brus Corner Shops and through the horse-shoe arch. This is a popular route for children on their way to the nearby beach.
The former Steetley site is without doubt a blot on the landscape. The 200ft Chimney can be seen as far as Sunderland and Saltburn while the rusting buildings contaminate the skyline of the northern part of the town.
Since March 2005, the site has been the subject of a planning application. The proposed developers, Culford Properties, are planning an £8m development for the 50 acre site which includes the building of between 450 and 500 new houses.
Despite its present state, the site, somewhat amazingly, is listed as a specially protected area. We say 'amazingly' because a short walk along this stretch of the North Sands would leave the walker wondering exactly what effort has been made to respect this status by preserving the area.
Nevertheless, that status is important principally because of the local flora and bird life that can still be found there. There are also issues of contamination to be dealt with before development can take place.
One of many shots I took of this dying old building in downtown Austin. I do enjoy shooting these gritty, urbex sort of shots. Some folks out there get a chance to do this a lot, and I can see how this type of photography can get a grip on you. It's pretty fun, and the details and textures you can find are pretty impressive.
From the blog at: www.nomadicpursuits.com/blog/
Well friends, I made it home late last night (actually, really early this morning!) from 5 days up in the mountains of Colorado. I came home with a lot of photos, which I hope to find time to work on soon. I recently did a commercial shoot and need to finish those shots and deliver them to the client, I need to catch up with all my Flickr friends and your fabulous work, I have a birthday to celebrate (yeah, I'm getting old LOL!) and of course I have all the normalcy of life during the holiday season. In other words, I need to find a way to stave off sleep for about 2 weeks. Any ideas?
This is one of multiple buildings that make up what originally was a Holiday Inn.
The motor inn in Muskegon Heights opened in 1964 as a 92-room Holiday Inn. It was Muskegon County's premier motel with guests such as Tricky Dick Nixon. In 1966 it expanded to 140-rooms and 190 in 1967.
It remained the most popular lodging location in the county until 1986 when the Hilton opened in downtown Muskegon. In 1991 this motor lodge became an Econo Lodge. In 1996 it became a Days Inn. Finally it became a the Mona Lake Inn. It only operated for a short time after the final renaming. It closed in 2008 and has been abandoned since.
The photo I liked the best after going on a photo-walk, looking for a 'decay' photo for Leo Laporte's Tech Guy group.
This weekend I have, in an effort to reduce pointless internet time, got round to actually reading one of the many issues of Black and White Photography which have been sat around in their plastic wraps. Yes it is a somewhat a pretentious magazine, however a lot of it reminds me of the type of photography I used to take – more observational than staged.
Which meant that this morning I brought my M100 out with me on the way to work, having thought last week that I should document some of the destruction of the old police station in Lichfield before it disappears for good to be replaced with… Who knows, every plan for the area seems to falter and disappear.
Anyway, minimal structural editing on Snapseed with my B&W preset makes for a positive outcome, in my opinion.
Old uncared for houses decay spectacularly rapidly in Sicily. There are lots of them in the countryside. The flooring of this upper level room was almost completely gone, and in the rest of the upper floor I certainly wouldn't have trusted any of it with my weight. I was able to take photogoraphs of these uppoer floors by pushing the camera up into them on a tall monopod. A tiltable LCD and remote shutter let me do some camera aiming and simple composition. A new use for the camera-on-a-stick trick!
(Not by the way the interior of the ruined house shown in the nearby exterior shot -- there was quite a collection of ruins.)
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Took the bike out for a run around the Dalmeny Estate. Mostly had the luck to be going with the wind when the snow was falling - though the photos of the snow don't really look as good as it did in reality. So here's a bit of rural decay... A huge wreck of a truck dumped about 100m or so from Dalmeny House. Looks like its been there some decades...