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In my relatively young journey into urban exploration, the discovery of color in the midst of grunge and oldness is something to be treasured. Especially if it's in contrast with the stuff surrounding it.
A pretty stark wall...dirty whites, grays and blacks make up the textures of the bricks and pavement, but all the plainness just enhances the pop that comes from the blue doorway.
What's interesting about these old doors and alleyways that I find in downtown Phoenix is that most of them appear to still be used. The sign on this door looks like it was installed recently so I can only assume this loading dock sees frequent traffic. That sign actually bothers me, I almost tried to "Content Aware Fill" it away...but it didn't look right and I also felt that wasn't something I needed to start doing.
My urban exploration so far as been solely on the exterior of things. Because of that, I feel like I am doing a lot of these kind of images...finding awesome doors and walls and shooting them straight on. In my head I hear the words "cliche" pop up because everyone takes shots like these. But I still enjoy them and I like the framing. I have another one coming out later on that I love even more. What makes these unique is that they come from downtown Phoenix and may show people the urban portion of the older areas that haven't been seen before. And for that I'm really enjoying this stuf.f
Soon I'm going to try to make headway into the interiors of the older buildings and see what happens.
MUST see in full size and read full description to see the FACES! NOT Photoshopped. Back in 1986 I was at a fire academy in Ione, California. One night we did a fire control class at night. I took this photo as firefighters on the right side were moving in to control the fire over the loading dock.
After I took the photo and showed it to classmates one pointed out the faces of the devil in the fire. We enlarged the photo and it became even more apparent the faces were visible, scary visible!
The first face is clearly visible in the upper right portion of the flames. It's a right side profile view. You can clearly see the mouth, nose, cheek, eye, pupil, eye socket, eye brow and so on in perfect dimensions. There even seems to be a horn of fire coming out of the head.
The second face isn't as defined, but it's also a right side profile. It is larger and below the first face. The mouth is wide open and just above and to the right of the storage tank. The ear is on the left side, the eye just below and left of the first faces cheek. You need to sit back a bit to really see this face good. Use your imagination.
I shot this in 35mm using a tripod.
The new truck looks alright at Domtar ;)
(For the record, I bought it used, so the PIAA, and rims and all the trim getting blacked out - not me.)
EnTrust Records Management
Bounded by Hardy, Rhoadmiller and Durham Streets
Richmond, Virginia
37º34'4" N 77º27'25" W
This is a small portion of a large warehouse, viewed here from Hardy Street. EnTrust provides document storage and disposal services for businesses and government agencies.
This is my fave of the many different views I took of the docks by themselves. We were there when they loaded a frieghter. Although we could hear its soft swish outside, inside the camper we heard nothing.
Night Watchman
Clyde M Brewer, 36 years old, works the graveyard shift. He is the night watchman. It was his lucky evening. The day shift left a box of donuts in the lunchroom. It is three o’clock in the morning and he has five more hours to go. He is bored out of his skull. He knocked off his sixth donut of the evening and washed it down with a tepid cup of thermos java. He fired up a Pell Mell king size non filter with his trusty brass zippo. It was the last one in the pack. It is a good thing he had a fresh pack in his vest, he thought, as he tapped his pocket to make sure that the next 20 “Red Deaths” were there. They were. He felt secure knowing he had a fresh pack to help him make through the night. He crushed the empty pack and flipped it toward the garbage cans. He missed his target but hit one of the cats. The cat arched his back, hissed and to off running into the shadows. Brewer coughed and hacked up a gob of lung gunk and spit it on to the tracks. When he was finished with the smoke, he ground the butt out with the toe of his shoe. He stood silent, arms akimbo, and observed the area for a few minutes. All was quiet. He took the fresh pack from his vest and went through an elaborate ritual opening the pack. He took out a smoke, fired it up, and took a deep drag, then another before flipping the butt onto the tracks. He contemplated going down to the lunchroom and snagging another donut. A filled maple bar this time, he thought. He looked at his Timex. It was six minutes past three in the morning. He had four hours and fifty four minutes to go.
A relative time capsule of it's 90s construction date, this Toys R Us seemed to have lasted until the very end. After a short slumber, Spirit Halloween occupied about a 1/3 of the store, moving on from hhGregg last year.
Continuing around back, approaching the loading dock.
When all the skate spots you go to end up being a bust, just go out there and have fun with the homie. Elliot Katz with a ollie over the homie Anthony Wynn.
Elliot rides for Tork Trucks, Convoy Skateboards and Funsies Clothing. DC area local.
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The annual sale is the chief fundraiser for The Oakland Museum of California, operated by the museum's Women's Board, a volunteer support group. They collect gently used treasures year round for resale. In 2015 they raised over $2M. for the museum!!! This is their permanent work facility, located at the Oakland waterfront in the Fruitvale district..
An old loading dock on a side street in Mackay, ID. Did a bit of HDRing and post processing. I really liked how the old galvanized siding has rusted.
Mackay is truly an old western mining town. You can visit during June for the Mackay rodeo. The town closes down main street and you will be in for a time. You can still drive up on the old mine hill to see the old structures. Don't be surprised if you see horses being ridden down main street every now and then.
Hope you like it.
I don't know what this building was used for but with all the loading docks and what not, I may have been a part of some kind of factory perhaps. I just thought this was an interesting building so I include it here, even though it is not really a part of what one might call a town square or business district. Week 18 of 52. This is a six stop HDR taken hand held with Canon t1i and edited in Affinity Photo on iMac.
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Bricks, Brews & Crews GRAFFITI ART Murals Project at The Loading Dock at 2 North Kresson Street in Baltimore MD on Friday afternoon, 16 August 2019 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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Globe Works the former factory and Warehouse of Robey and Co, on Canwick Road in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Robert Robey and his partner William Watkinson (former employees of Clayton and Shuttleworth) started the Perseverance Ironworks in St Rumbold Street in 1854. The venture was short-lived. By December 1854 it was Robey, Wilkinson and George Lamb Scott, but the partnerships were disolved in the following month. Robey founded his new works on Canwick Road in 1856 in collaboration with Scott, then Thomas Gamble. By 1882 most of the building work was complete, with structures parallel to the Lincoln Avoiding Railway Line on the south side and extending beyond the parish boundary. The site covered 7 acres and contained 2 miles of railway sidings in 1893/4.
The company began by making agricultural machinery, steam engines, thrashing machines, traction engines, and steam ploughs, later developing into mining and industrial engines, dynamos and gas and oil engines in the 1890s. The premises in 1893/4 comprised a foundry, pattern store, pattern making shop, pig iron store, boiler shop, smithy, fitting, turning and erecting shops, thrashing machine shop, dry wood store, testing, lagging, painting and loading docks and an electricity generating dept. The works were the first in Lincoln to be lit by electricity. Other sources of power were gas, steam and hydraulic, for cranes and riveters. Internal tramways carried products through the various processes, and private railway sidings connected to the GNR / LNER at Pelham Street junction. An aeroplane shop was added in 1917 on the south corner of Canwick Road and Dunford Road. Robeys produced a range of military products in WW1 including aircraft, such as the Sopwith 806 Gunbus, Short 184 seaplane, Peters Fighting Machine and "Longhorn" plane. Test flights took place from landing strips and hangars on West Common and an aerodrome built in 1916 at Bracebridge Heath.
Like other engineering companies, Robeys receded between the wars and a receiver was appointed in 1933. However, the firm continued to make steam engines into the 1950s. A tower over the main entrance was removed in the 1960s. There was a take-over by Newall Dunford Engineering Ltd and renaming as "Robeys of Lincoln" in 1969. In 1985 it was acquired by Babcock International. Some of the site was demolished in 1986, leaving the offices, two large bays to the north, and the south complex; boilers were made until closure in February 1988.
The south facade preserves most of its original features with its row of ten red brick gable ends. The wide central gable has a long flat parapet with curved ends and contains nine tall arched recesses. Frames of a travelling crane remain at the east end, but none of the many original chimneys remains. The northern part of the Canwick Road facade remains, but the southern section survives only as an outside wall. The remaining buildings are now used by Jacksons Building Centre as a DIY retail outlet and a building-supplies depot.
It is seven fifty AM on a bright and sunny morning. Ten more minutes to go before Clyde will be done with his shift. He knocked off the last of the donuts. Panic attack! What if his relief man did not show up? It would not be the first time that he was tardy. One time he game in three hours late. What is rule # six on the Watchman List of duties? Do not leave your post until properly relieved. Screw overtime. Clyde paced the loading dock deck and inhaled Pell Mell and wished that he was in the sack. At seven fifty nine AM Lodi Elkins arrived and assumed the day watch. Clyde M. Brewer was relieved.