As anyone who has visited this blog regularly will know, I do rather like old buildings, preferably showing some signs of dilapidation and decay, the better to give a sense of the lives they have led…
I have been doing some sorting recently, and attempting to digitalise gazillions of slides and negatives (this is a weighty project ad one that I suspect will never be completed).
Imagine my delight the other day when I came across some images I had taken during a wander around Wapping in the late 1990s which I thought had been lost! Very atmospheric. Alas, not taken with my wonderful Nikon FM2 and Nikon glass on 35mm slides, only a little Konica compact film camera loaded with colour negative film, but it did turn out some reasonable results.
So today I present Wapping High Street……1998.
Wapping High Street
More to follow in the shape of whopping Warehouses of Wapping! And I hope to get back to that area soon, to see what remains….
I really like the photo, but am more excited for you that you found what was lost 🙂
Thanks! It’s always good when we get a nice surprise! 🙂
Such a great composition with the broken bricks at the foreground and that sign being the focus amongst the broken wood and green moss. It just oozes decay and neglect and damp…though I do have to wonder about that satellite dish and what looks like a hangman’s beam! Eerie photo Sue and well executed.
Thanks, Jude… I like well-executed! The foreground is actually the shore of the Thames.. hence all the green slime on that wood. The hangman’s beam is a loading beam for the warehouses, I’m sure, and the satellite dish is the late 20th century arriving in this area…
I figured it was a loading beam, but doesn’t it look just like the drawing in the hangman game we used to play as kids!
🙂 it certainly does, and as you say, it lends more to the eeriness of this image!
That works really well Sue – the red and green are perfectly matched
Thanks, Robin, I must say I was pleased with this ‘forgotten’ image!
I love old, abandoned buildings also. Looking forward to future postings!
There seem to be a lot of us around that like abandonment and decay! I always thought I was an oddity until I started blogging!
I have a friend who has dedicated a whole board on Pinterest to abandoned buildings! Check out Becky Benedict on Pinterest.
Might do that..but I’ve never used Pinterest
OK, there are loads of Becky Benedicts…I need to know how many followers and how many pins she has to have the remotest hope of finding her…
So sorry. I forget about the vastness of it all! And she doesn’t even go by Becky Benedict — it’s bbbfun!!!
Here’s the link: http://www.pinterest.com/Bbbfun/
Well, I’m not familiar wit Pinterest, but looked at it and see it’s not people’s own images, they can just grab anything…whatever happened to Copyright?
I agree. I have no idea how this happens. People can pin images from your site, too, I think. All you need is a Pinterest button and you’re good to go. You are supposed to cite the URL from whence the image came, but not sure everyone does!
I know, worrying…but I do watermark my images
That is such a cool picture!
Glad you like it, Kathryn…I was rather pleased with it…. 🙂
I always think in photo ops for the future too !
I love these kind of happy discoveries! What a great photo. 🙂
Thanks, Lisa! It was a bit of luck happening on this, and when I found this image again and scanned it in, 15 years later (!), I gave it a bit of tinkering to bring out the decay…
Wonderfully atmospheric, Sue. I imagine you could have fun “digitising” this one too 🙂 (I’m always “going to” but it’s not where my interests really lay)
🙂
Colour print film……Lovely stuff….. In some ways I used to prefer it to colour slide…
I think I might just have to give it a bash again.
I never liked it as much as slide film, but there, I’m all digital now..
This is an amazing shot! The first word that popped to my mind was ‘Execution’ too! 🙂
D’you know, I had completely forgotten I had taken this, until I found the negs the other day! I think it shows my affinity with abandonment, decay etc, so not sure what that actually says about me!!!
This is a great shot, interesting subject well composed.
Thanks Lynne…and it’s a slice of history, too
Yes, it’s true – cities and places change and our photographs chronicle those changes.
And part of me wishes I could return, but at least I have the images as a memory of what once was…