Posted 8 years ago
SpiritBear
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Albeit incredibly unhealthy (my camera, for example, got quite dusty here), and fairly unsafe (holes in the dark rooms, full of water, leading down who knows how deep), I like exploring urban ruins.
I rarely bring my camera (too valuable to risk losing!) but did for this building.
This post is dedicated to the brighter side of the building, which was once just 1 room next to a former brewery in the 1890s, and added onto into the 1960s before it was ultimately abandoned in the 1990s, burned, and left to rot.
The first photo is my screen-background now.
The next post will be fodder for a horror flick. See it here:
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/182721-sight-unseen
You can read my dig-story in it here:
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/178478-diggin-down-and-dirty-a-story-on-my-ad
For more photos from this building, go to this link:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/105829219381567141804/albums/6177747037642834561
Great photos!
me too!!
Thanks. :)
Spirit, your photos are beautiful and captivating. It sounds like you may have some connection to abandoned buildings as evident in your previous detailed accounts of your adventures and digging expeditions.
Recently i came across this artist and his abandoned buildings series...i think you will relate to his way of describing his feelings towards them (check out his works, too!):
http://www.ephraimrubenstein.com/work/artists-statement-abandoned-houses/
While abandoned buildings draw me, too, with their mystical energy and sadness, my self-preservation instincts usually prevail, so most of my photos are of the outside of such structures. Stay safe and free-spirited! =P
CW didn't think so on my other post with it, Anna. They deleted it for "low image quality." LOL.
But thanks!
Thank you also for the link. I will check it out.
But the inside is more fun, often, than the outside:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-bwBAAz8X-gg/VbvE22UPcNI/AAAAAAAAhH4/9oHh186VQ_Y/w730-h548-no/Exploring%2Ban%2Babandoned%2Bbuilding%2B028.JPG
What's around that next bend?
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-VxPJW_LOMBc/VbvJ0UU1BeI/AAAAAAAAhMs/o62DMAMgVnc/w730-h548-no/Exploring%2Ban%2Babandoned%2Bbuilding%2B101.JPG
Who last sat in this chair? (Yes, there is a chair there.)
We just never know what we'll find inside.
There is a Youtube video from a urban ruin explorer based on Gary Indiana, you might enjoy it and it is rather easy to find!
I used to watch such videos. I chatted a little with the filmer: He always left things exactly as he found them.