Post industrial landscape

Finished off a roll of Lucky 100 yesterday and dunked it in FX-50

[with just a dash of Rodinal for old times sake]. This landscape just

tickled my fancy. Taken from the front of the Manchester Velodrome

looking towards the old coal-mine and brickworks adjacent to the City

of Sport Stadium where Manc. City FC 'play'.

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Reminds me the landscape we saw in the movie "Four weddings in a funeral" - for the funeral scene actually.

 

We have almost the same in France (North and East) and I guess they should not be very different in Belgium or Germany...

Sad, beautiful photo.

Andrea,

 

I keep returning to look at this gripping photo. It has a apocalyptic feeling about it, with so many unattractive man-made objects and no people at all!

 

Very nice work, thank you.

 

Dennis

I've lost the link to it, but there was a website of photos by a lady in Russia who'd ridden her motorcyle into the evacuated zone around Chernobyl and photographed the abandoned buildings there. Your photo has much the same mood about it. As Gene aptly called it, a sad beauty.

Excellent photo. You are building quite a body of work. Congrats.

Nice one, Andrea. Sad, but nice.

Pff, stuff like these you can see alot in eastern europe. Plenty of devastated, deserted factory buildings too... I still plan to take a series of shots when i next time go over there.

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In the meantime, here's one from Germany, in the vicinity of the very beautiful Aachen - landscape filled with brown coal mines and power plants.<p>

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Todd, I agree, that's what I remembered too by looking at Andrea's image. Here's the url for <a href="http://www.kiddofspeed.com/">the Chernobyl-stuff</a>.

Nice shot, Andrea. It does look strangely like the "Adventure Playground" by Ian Rance from near Chernobyl. The series referred to about the motorcycle rider was somewhat discredited because of some apparent inventions about the manner in which the pictures were made. I'm not sure how much that really mattered, though, as it was still a neat story.

Great picture Andrea! Have you seen the run-down area by the old Docks in Liverpool? There are old pubs and factories lying there that must have closed down in the sixties or seventies. There is an innate sadness about these sites that must have been thriving at some point but are now part of a post-industrial wasteland. I've got pictures somewhere and I shall try to dig them out. I like your canal pictures as well. Keep up the good work. One day all this will be gone and our pictures will be the only witness.

Ian

Thanks everyone. I might add I think I may be doing the area an injustice since it is in the process of redevelopment and either side of the frame of the photo something has been built new and apartments [not Flats] are selling at huge prices. I shall re-photo the area and re-post.

It is not quite post apocalyptic Ukraine thank goodness!