Happy Friday night. Here is a 2018 throw back from a Detroit urban exploration photo weekend. I captured this photo upstairs in the Cadillac Stamping plant after it rained hard. I loved the refection of all the plumbing, metal work and industrial machinery.
Fisher Body Plant Graffit
I’ve been to this facility two or three times in the past. It is truly a wonderful explore. This is one of my favorite all time graffiti art works. Maybe not the best done of all time, but I loved the use of the wall and floor.
Weird Skull
I love this abandoned hotel. The ball room where I took this photo and the attic are great spots. I’m not sure who painted this mural and I wish I knew. I love the colors and general design. The artist has talent.
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Flooded Factory
It’s not always great to be out in the rain, but photography in an abandoned building during or just after a rain storm can create some great opportunities like this. It rained for days prior to our arrival and was raining while we visited. So there were a bunch of great opportunities for reflection shots like this one.
This was an abandoned factory in Detroit Mi.
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Detroit Factory
I need to plan another urbex photo walk in the near future. I am so ready to spend a little time in a new (to me) abandoned structure. There is something about the exploration of these sites that I really enjoy. I have something planned in May with a few friends, but that seems so far away.
Until then, enjoy this photo from inside a Detroit factory. I’m not sure what these curtains were used for in the past, but I thought they made for a striking photo.
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Kettering High School
This was an interesting spot to say the least. It was such a unique design for a school. There were a few times, when I didn’t know where I was in the building. Normally schools are very box like structures with symmetrical designs. Not this place. I think the architect took it upon himself/herself to make it totally different. Even these windows at the front door are not like anything you’d see in most schools.
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Chernobyl Bumper Cars
In the city of Pripyat (just outside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant), we explored parts of the city center during our visit. They were getting ready for a city festival that was scheduled to take place and then the nuclear accident happened. As you can imagine, the city got evacuated and the festival never took place. Over thirty years later the carnival rides are still there abandoned like everything else. Ferris wheel, bumper cars, and other rides just rusting away….
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Window With A View
What do you think of this photo? You know I like it or I wouldn’t post it for you tonight. But I’m curious, what all of you think about it. I took this photo from the upper floors of the abandoned hotel just outside of downtown Detroit last spring during our @motownurbex2018
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Kids Camp
I love the shadows in this photo. We were walking around this abandoned children’s camp outside of Chernobyl. It had all these little cabins (maybe 20 of them) with cute murals painted on them. As we were walking back along the path towards our bus, this scene unfolded in front of me…… I had my camera all packed up and had to get it back out to capture this moment. I’m glad I did!!!
Btw….Happy Thanksgiving.
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The Chair
How creepy is this spot??? Super creepy, if you ask me. I took this photo inside a school nurse’s office at an abandoned elementary school. Here is my question….why would an elementary school nurse’s office need an adult medical chair? Now that is creepy!!
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Change Boring Walls
During our time on Bonaire, we passed this abandoned hotel a number of times. So on the last morning, Blair and I ran off to explore this beauty. When we arrived, this wonderful mural was awaiting us at the entrance.
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Pripyat Gym
I couldn’t tell you which building this was in, we explored so many and I saw numerous gyms. But I can tell you this is in the town of Pripyat, just outside the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Wow, what an experience!!!
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Hospital Nursery
Here is another photo from inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. I took this photo inside the hospital nursery located in the city of Pripyat. There are a few rooms inside the hospital like this. I have no idea how many babies were born there per year, but based on the nursery, it had to be a few hundred… I think. This room is an iconic Chernobyl spot…..
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Sneakers
This photo is from our Detroit Urbex trip last spring. We visited a ton of sites while we were there. This is from Bradley Elementary School. This was one of those old style gyms that they also used as the cafeteria. You know the type, where the tables and benches fold up into the walls to clear the space for gym class.
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Abandoned Rye Distillery
As I’ve mentioned in the past, some photos get processed and then sit on my hard drive for a long time (sometimes years) waiting to get posted. I took this photo a while back from a photo walk with Dave, Brad, and Mike at an abandoned rye distillery outside of Pittsburgh. This graffiti is on the 2nd floor. You can see the hole in the floor where the liquid storage container used to sit.
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St. Agnes
Here is a quick post for you. This is the beautiful St. Agnes abandoned church in the Detroit area. What a great spot….
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Holy Water Batman
During our epic Motown Urbex trip this spring, Blair and I went to the Cadillac Stamping Plant before the rest of the group arrived. It rained hard the day before and some while we were at the site. That created lots of flooded spaces including this mechanical rooftop area. That standing water helped provide lots of reflections like this. I loved the way the windows and elevator doors reflected off the water.
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Branch Bank
This is a photo I took about a year ago, while Blair and I explored a bunch of abandoned buildings in a town outside of Pittsburgh. This was a bank with teller windows, a vault, etc…you know…typical bank items. As you can see, the back wall of the bank has collapsed. This was a great urbex spot.
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Pittsburgh's Past
I’ve posted some photos from this spot, Carrie Furnace, in the past. We got private access to this site and spent a few hours photographing it from multiple angles (inside and out). I love the fact that they’re saving this for historical purposes. All other steel mill site around Pittsburgh area already gone.
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Once Proud Stadium
Tonight’s post is another photo from the University of Akron’s Rubber Bowl. I heard recently that they are destroying this abandoned building because they’re concerned it isn’t safe. I understand why they’d take it down, but it’s also a little sad at the same time.
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