City view
Whitstable
I have always enjoyed playing with long exposure. Unfortunately, in order to work, it requires the camera to see very little light. It means that you could play either at night or in dimmed chambers. Luckily humanity, in all it’s inventiveness, has developed sunglasses for cameras as well 🙂
Zdrowaśki, Długas
Fence
Kuprava
When we were in Latvia we went to visit friends staying in the east of the country. We had a nice evening when, among other things, they were telling us bits about the local area (while mosquitos were showing us their idea of fun). When they mentioned a closed factory, a red lamp flickered in my mind and I persuaded them to take us there the following day in the morning. The place was rather in a bad shape. No equipment left, many floors, walls and ceilings missing, a substantial pond in the middle of biggest hall etc. Obviously, absolutely no one cared about the facility after closure somewhere in the beginning of the 90-ties.
But there was one up-side to this. At least you do not have to worry about some security guy with exaggerated sense of responsibility nosing around. And there was where to roam, as the area was pretty big. After a while we gathered that the place must had been a brickyard (I guess many broken bricks and a pile of clay helped us coming to that conclusion). The whole facility provides a few hours of sightseeing and a few takes to make the camera happy as well. And, as a cherry on the top of the cake, there was a ladder leading to the highest roof 🙂
In the name of experimentation, I have made them black and white this time. Enjoy.
Zdrowaśki,
DÅ‚ugas
Churches
  
Oracio
It is my great pleasure to introduce Oracio. Oracio is a very friendly and positive dog living in Viareggio.
Oracio is here because, while posing to this picture, he made me ask myself a question “who else can see him from this perspective?”. I suppose there is many things that can experience him from this angle, but a mouse happened to come to my mind. Following the flow I started to wonder how do they see other things. That is how an idea was born and led me to explore their view bit more. Thanks, Oracio 🙂
Zdrowaśki
London daily
A few pictures either dug up from ancient archives or a bit newer, let’s say from medieval ones 😉
Zdrowaśki, Długas
 
Thames exposed
Effects of a few longish walks along the Thames.
Long exposure photography. Requires some patience but the effects are quite satisfying. Remembering to have fully loaded battery might be handy as the camera becomes very hungry when giving the sensor a chance to have a proper, long look at the world (I suppose being lazy and using live view does not help as well). I suppose next time I will wait for the tide to be low, entering the river banks might be rewarding in regard to spots 🙂
It is also worth to be sure that no one is closing a gate behind you, if you have entered through an opened one. Regards to security guard who does not bother to check if he locks people in public places 😉
Zdrowaśki, Długas
 
A cigarette
Oil tanks
Hidden in the woods, not very deep though. Surrounded by a fence, not exactly effective to be honest. You feel quite surprised that this is a part of a military base (still active, just a mile further).
These oil tanks had been build by the Germans during World War 2. They had fuelled German battleships including u-boots. Well, as some may know, the Germans had not exactly succeeded in the war, so many facilities had been deserted. After the war the Polish used them to store some other materials. For some reason it was not worth doing anymore, so they left it as well. I do not know how long have they stood empty, but I guess a while. Long enough for some satanist wannabies to paint pentagrams and inverted crosses on the walls and do whatever they do beneath them.
Before going to the main attraction there is a little appetizer in the form of small tanks just beneath the ground level (first 3 pictures). Especially if you do not know what to expect from the site in general, these are worth visiting first. We have entered the main facility through a small square hatch with a ladder. Just later we discovered that from another side one could actually enter via huge gate… Anyway, as you go down the ladder your hopes get lightened up, as it is around 10 meters down and you have to choose which level to explore first. The lower one is made of very long corridors leading from one tank to another, all connected in the pumping station. There one can still find huge engines (incomplete), some pipes going in different directions (most of them have disappeared on account of scrap-collectors and their incredible powers…) and a meter of water on the bottom. I would not be surprised if it burned if you threw a match in it.
Everything adds up to at least a few hours of exploring. When you are done there is nothing better then having a beer on one of the tanks with a view on Gdynia’s harbour 🙂
Zdrowaśki, Długas
  
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