Photo Every Day #66

Today I got some photos back that I'd had developed. They were a random assortment of things; some from the Cheshire Game & Country Fair; some of some horses; some of Pixie and the rest of the abandoned airfield. Most of them I'm happy with but some look a litle yellow so I'm going to have a play around and see if I can enhance them. This one is my instant favourite though.

Idle:


Song Of The Day: Toni Braxton - Unbreak My Heart
Reason: One of those makes-me-cry-every-time songs

Highlight Of The Day: Helping a lovely Mum and Daughter to track down a wedding dress for the Mum's big day!

Inspiration Of The Day: Tyson Beckford. I'm sure I don't need to explain why.

Photo Every Day #54

This evening I have been Pinterest-ing and doing a bit of photo editing. We had my Dad over for tea, which was nice, then the boy went to bed early leaving me to my artistic hour! I'm so obsessed with Pinterest at the moment. I'm using it to look for ideas for decorating my new house since I have a blank canvas; the main reason I wanted a brand new build. There's some amazing inspiration for anything you could think of! Lovely! I've also edited some photos from our third trip to the abandoned airfield. It was a nice day so we were able to get some good shots. I think I've come out with my best ever photo too! The lighting was just stunning in the toilets inside the lab building so it's created a shot I'm super happy with.

Horror Movie Bathroom:

Song Of The Day: Lana Del Rey - Riding In Cars With Boys
Reason: I wish I had the life she sings about.

Highlight Of The Day: Editing my masterpiece!

Inspiration Of The Day: Gothic interior photos on pinterest. 

Photo Every Day #51

Today we took our third trip to the abandoned airfield to take some photos. I'll be editing and uploading them over the coming weeks. I also went for a meal with my Mum and Step Dad at the Choy Hing Chinese Restaurant which was lovely. Now I'm trying to have an early night ready for filming tomorrow!

Hidden Snails:


Song Of The Day: Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark
Reason: Really catchy with a creepy, quirky edge.

Highlight Of The Day: Going to the airfield!

Inspiration Of The Day: Taking my own urbex photos inspired by many, many other urbex photographers' work that I've seen over the years. Far too many to mention!

Photo Every Day #231

Today I have been working on editing, or rather tweeking, some of the photos I want to go into my starter portfolio. I've mainly been playing with the ones taken at Blackpool and Southport on the Diana F+ just to bring out the colours a bit more. I've also started looking through some of the ones from when we went urbexing in Salford. So this is a sneak peek!

Footprint On The Moon:


Song Of The Day: The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Dammit, Janet
Reason: The best musical film in the world, plus the only one I've ever liked!!Even typing the song title makes me want to burst out singing it at the top of my voice!

Highlight Of The Day: Just having a chilled evening working on my photos.

Photo Every Day #224

Today has been a good day! Firstly, we went on the Lubitel Lovers with Leshetz. The Lubitel is definately the camera now at the top of my list! I'll give a full run down of the workshop once we get the photos back. After the workshop, we went walking round the run down, abandoned buildings of Salford. I took a fair amount of pictures even though we only managed to get into one building. So this is a sneak peek.

Falling Down:


Song Of The Day: Alex Clare - Too Close
Reason: The live lounge version is amazing! Such a talented singer.

Highlight Of The Day: Being inspired by an awesome photographer

Urban Exploration

I'm a huge fan of abandoned, deserted places that time forgot. I think there is an incredible beauty in the quiet, isolatedness of a place where no one goes anymore. Recently I've been looking at more and more blogs about the exploration of abandoned places and a lot of the photos I've seen have really moved me. Strange but true! One of the best, if not the best blog I came across was by Michael John Grist's website (I hope he doesn't mind me linking to his site). I spent around 2 hours looking at his photos and reading about his trips exploring locations and felt that I'd been trekking round Japan with him! I'd really recommend having a good read of his website and it's very entertaining.

Recently, I discovered a way into an abandoned airfield within a few miles of where I live. I'm amazed to think that it was there all this time and I had no clue!! So I dragged my poor boyfriend around for a quick look whilst we were looking for locations for Project Black. We only had around 20 minutes before we needed to get back to meet the rest of the crew, but this was long enough to find the control tower and spot a bunker style tunnel.

As soon as I had to be dragged away I wanted to go back. So I planned to go back the following week. We managed to have a good look around pretty much the whole airfield, including the control tower, 2 bunkers, the reservoir and all of the runways. It's amazing!! We did get stopped by a guy who said part of it was private land and asked us to leave. It was a shame but we left without fuss as we'd seen most of what we wanted to anyway. I think I'm going to leave it at least a few months until I go back to see what changes occur.

Here are some photos I took, I'm no photographer, but they're nice to look at methinks and not bad for my first go!:

Toxic Barrel

Mini Runway

Caution: Height Restrictions

Control Point

Start/Finish

Reminants of a Party

Stairs

Switch

Radio Receiver

The Hungry Caterpillar

Lonely Hut

Yellow

Tunnels

Hidden Tunnel

Empty Reservoir

Scattered Seats

Handprints

Love

Silhouette