Honestly, I don’t remember which location this is around Detroit. I think it is the Fisher Body Plant, but I’m probably wrong. Either way, I like the final outcome of the photo from 2019
Detroit Water Tower
This is the abandoned water tower at the Packard Plant in Detroit. This photo was from our 2018 Detroit Urban Exploration photo trip.
By the way, sorry I was absent for a while….
Mystery Flower
I have no idea what type of flower this is. Does anyone out there know? I’m sure someone (or a bunch of people) does. Anyway, I captured this photo in a botanical garden near Cape Town South Africa in 2017.
Chernobyl School
On this Sunday, I have a photo for you that I took inside one of the many abandoned schools within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. This specific school was in the city of Pripyat (the town right next to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant). We explored this school and took a ton of photos of it and frankly everything else we explored during our 4 days within the Zone.
Fisher Body Plant Graffit
I’ve been to this facility two or three times in the past. It is truly a wonderful explore. This is one of my favorite all time graffiti art works. Maybe not the best done of all time, but I loved the use of the wall and floor.
Pripyat Overgrown
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.
Detroit Glory
This abandoned automotive factory is a wonderful explore. I’ve been there a couple of times and would go back again. It isn’t as big as the abandoned Packard Plant, but it is massive in its own right and there was a section full of unopened hockey sports cards….
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Chernobyl Surgical Suite
It’s hard to believe it has been two years since our Chernobyl trip. We planned to go back this October, but that isn’t going to happen. No shock there, since 2020 is messed up from top to bottom.
I took this photo in the Pripyat Hospital, which is a few miles from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
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Pripyat Cultural Center
This iconic Chernobyl building is the Cultural Center in the main square of downtown Pripyat. It has a couple swimming pools, boxing ring, gymnastic equipment, auditorium, exercise rooms, and a bunch of other things. Right behind this building is where the carnival was setup to start a festival that never happened. By the way, this structure was a great building to explore.
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Detroit Reflections
Long before our current worldwide lock down….. a few of us went to Detroit to explore some abandoned buildings. This is from one of the abandoned auto manufacturing facilities. It rained hard the day before and that morning, which made for some great puddle reflections. This was from the attic space in the large factory. I loved the freight elevator in the background.
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Cadillac Stamping Plant
I hope everyone is safe out there…. We’re doing our best to follow the rules (stay home, etc…). Of course, I am still going to work and helping a wonderful team deal with the world-wide crisis.
It’ll be a long time (I think it could months yet…maybe into the fall) before we’ll be allowed to return to normal. So, I’m preparing myself mentally for that potential outcome. One technique I’m going to use is my photography. It’s great during normal times to help reduce my stress, so I’ll continue to use it. Each photo reminds me of a trip, location or photo op from a safer time in our world history.
This photo is from a prior trip to Detroit, when a small group of us explored a few wonderful sites.
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Pripyat Restaurant
I loved the stained-glass windows in this abandoned restaurant along the river in Pripyat, Ukraine. Before the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, this must have been a great place to enjoy a meal.
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Abandoned China Factory
It’s been a long week, do you agree? I also have a busy weekend planned, what about you? I hope you enjoy your weekend and upcoming week.
Tonight’s photo is from an abandoned china factory outside of Pittsburgh. I loved the standing water in this area and the effect it has in this photo.
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Somewhere Chernobyl
I honestly can’t remember where within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone I took this photo. I think it was inside a factory building, but I’m not sure. Regardless, after I finished processing this a couple of days ago, I knew I had to post it. I loved how simple and powerful this scene is within the photo. I liked the shadows, the single push cart in the room, etc….
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Chernobyl Cultural Center Pool
Short post tonight….. I took this photo of the pool inside the Pripyat Cultural Center. Pripyat was a large city next to the Chernobyl Power Plant built to support the employees and their families. All of this is now within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. As I was exploring the Cultural Center, I happened upon it at the back of the building. I loved the reflections.
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Chernobyl Ferris Wheel
One of the most popular spots to visit inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is the abandoned carnival. Unfortunately, the city of Pripyat was set to have a carnival/celebration for a few days, when the radioactive disaster struck. So the carnival rides (bumper cars, ferris wheel, and rides) got left behind like everything else since they became radioactive from the nuclear fallout.
This is one of the highlights for most visitors to Chernobyl. You can see we were at this spot early in the morning, thus the long shadows and we got to experience some great fall colors.
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Fisher Body Plant
Today’s post is from the Fisher Body Plant in Detroit Michigan. I took this photo in early 2018 when I was exploring the city with Theaterwiz, Robert, Blair, Jacques, and Luis. I was happy and sad to see the improvements within the city. They’re taking down and/or repairing abandoned buildings very quickly, which is great for the city….sad for urbex photographers like me.
I liked how the blue glass in the windows made this area look…..
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Pripyat Train Bridge
This is the bridge our train crossed going back and forth to Chernobyl every day. Towards the end of the week, we went to this spot to photograph the bridge with the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Number 4 and its new sarcophagus in the background. As you can tell, it was very overcast that afternoon…..
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Pripyat River Crane
Today’s post is another photo from our Chernobyl trip. I took this photo along the Pripyat River of an abandoned river loading winch. As you can see, it is starting to fall into the river. We happened to be here early in the morning at a beautiful time.
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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.
