Industrial landscape

[Phill D]

I took this shot on a greyish autumn day on a visit to my home city of Stoke on Trent. I felt I couldn't put it on the main Landscapes thread as the autumn rural landscapes were so nice & this has an altogether different feel. I see it as a slice through the English landscape showing how it is changing rapidly. In the foreground it has a desperate feeling of old industry being swept away in the old pottery bottle kiln & the demolition. The old rows of closely spaced houses with the encroachment of new age PC World & Piza Hut (& McDonalds but I just managed to miss the arches off the shot!). Higher still is the ASDA supermarket out of town developments and the new village housing on the edge of the old traditional village with church & a few houses on the hills in the distance. Overall a slight sadness to see the changes but also I'm glad that the old place is surviving.

[Geoff Chandler]

Phil - I love that shot!
It's a great shot - and it's a really good idea fr a thread.
I will see what I can find later, just enjoying your shot for the moment.
Geoff

[Phill D]

Very different & modern but still an industrial scene. Captured early in the morning on the way to work. They are probably winding up to meet the morning demand.

[Geoff Chandler]

Very different & modern but still an industrial scene. Captured early in the morning on the way to work. They are probably winding up to meet the morning demand.
Isn't that one you sent me a while back - when I did an electrical
High Voltage course - the power station near Nottingham???

[Glenn Kennedy]

Phill D. That takes me back...

I used to live south of Didcot, in a wee place called Compton, north of Newbury. I have many memories of the big chimneys at Didcot power station filling the winter sky with steam, while I was driving up the A34 to Oxford every day. I haven't been back for years. We don't seem to have anything similar on this side of the Irish sea.

[Phill D]

Glen yes we get the same images around here as there are lots of power stations on the rivers. We think that they are the reason that we have such mild snow free winters locally when a few miles away they get covered. Glad you liked it.
Here is another industrial shot of the local hospital early one morning, they are rebuilding it hence the cranes. This could have gone on the silhouette thread as well but I put it here as I was typing anyway!

[Kushnirenko]

Factory without the owner. The country without the president...
Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Dec, 17, 2005

[Phill D]

That's a pretty sad scene Kushnirenko but nicely captured. Here's a slightly different mix of industry & nature.

[Kushnirenko]

Frosty morning. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Feb, 15, 2006

[Kushnirenko]

Biscuit factory. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Feb, 17, 2006

[Kushnirenko]

Chimney. Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Feb, 17, 2006

[Kushnirenko]

Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fuji FinePix S9500. Mar, 10, 2006

[JTL]

Wasteland of the pre-apocalypse...

http://JTL.smugmug.com/photos/59535486-L.jpg

http://JTL.smugmug.com/photos/59535992-L.jpg

[Prospero]

Here is a picture of the mining industry in Carrara. The marble industry in this region is one of the oldest industries in the world that still operate. Already in the Roman times mining businesses were operating here.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/mining1.jpg

Here's another one, I am not sure whether or not I have posted it before.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/panorama/carrara-small.jpg

[zdzislaw]

prospero,

i think you did...
but hey... what the heck....
we all do it from time to time(ok. not all...right?)
it is a pleasure to look at them again anyway,

i do paint marble as a hobby,
its quite a fun,
(one have to follow the vains of the original as one go...)
can be done on most surfaces,

carraras marble will cost you a little...

regards

zdzislaw

[Prospero]

Zdzilaw, thanks for your reply.

Carrara-marble can come real cheap, if you have travelled to that place.
I took a couple of pieces myself. I was planning on creating some statues :rolleyes:, but painting seems a nice, and a somewhat more practical, thing to do.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dolkens/pictures/marble-small.jpg

I don't think these pieces are good enough for painting, probably too rough and the quality is not that good...

[YZdirtrider13]

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j247/YmotocrossR/IMG_0334-1.jpg
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j247/YmotocrossR/IMG_0335-1.jpg

[Phill D]

Nice shots YZdirtrider13, it's good to see this old thread revived. What & where is that place? It looks rather sinister with the out of focus barbed wire in the first shot, the B&W treatment worked well.

[YZdirtrider13]

thanks:)

i thought the color shots were kind of boring.

this is some (abandoned?) area - im not exactly sure what, down by the water just outside of downtown duluth, MN
anyone know what that looks like? i don't remember but it looks like theres a boat int he first one LOL

[Phill D]

I couldn't think where to post these then I remembered my old Industrial Landscape thread. It seemed as good as any. This is a shot of a chemical plant I grabbed with the TZ1 as I was travelling light.
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I'm told that this flaming is normal safety procedures but it certainly looked pretty spectacular. The stack is about 250 feet high so you can see how big the flames were.
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