This is a photo looking down, via my drone, at the City of Pripyat, which sits next to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It has been abandoned since April 1986 following the nuclear disaster at this site. As you can see, mother nature is taking over. These buildings are high rise apartment buildings.
Chernobyl Article
Here is another newspaper article about Blair and I traveling to Chernobyl to photograph the Exclusion Zone. This is from my childhood hometown paper. Click HERE to see the article.
Pripyat Apartment Building
I haven’t posted a Chernobyl photo recently, so here you go. This is one of the large apartment buildings in the city of Pripyat a few miles from the nuclear power plant. Typical Soviet utilitarian style construction. As you can tell, I was there in the fall while the leaves where changing colors and used by drone to capture this image.
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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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