Ever since the end of last year I have found landscape photography draws me in less and less, I have also been finding myself drawn to derelict buildings more and more for some reason that I can’t put my finger on. There’s just something about the light you get in derelict buildings and the colours too that I find I really want to photograph. They fascinate me in many ways, seeing the way nature moves back in when left to her own devices and the evidence of habitation from long ago that can still remains in these places. So for the moment at least, derelict buildings it is!
I am starting to produce images I’m happy with but still feel there is much more that I can do to make them better. I’m starting to use remote flash more and have been experimenting with light painting. So far I have only visited reasonably small places, the cottages and abandoned farmhouses that Shropshire seems to have an abundance and feel I’m just scraping the surface.
Here’s a few I’m happy with and the reasons I like them.
There will be more to follow in this and other area’s of photography…
This is the kind of thing I’m aiming for, colours, textures, light and shadows;

One of the things I like about urbex is the textures you find, plaster, paintwork and time do wonderful things when left to the elements.

Love the light that you find in these places, the possibility of finding little pools of colour and light in every room.

This one on the left is a little more experimental, an old safe found in a small abandoned Pub cellar. The room was completely dark and the image is lit with remote flash inside the safe and light painting with a torch around the safe during a 20 second exposure.
I also find stairs can be very interesting subjects in derelict buildings (in more ways than one)!

This is the doorway at the top of the stairs in the image above taken from the top of the stairs. That light and colour again.

Finally a self portrait taken in a derelict Pub. This is a combination of two shots as the light was much brighter in the second room that I am stood in.

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