Photography - derelict buildings ?

Dreamies

Dreamies

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Does anyone know anywhere you can photograph derelict buildings? I am doing a photography course and they chosen this as my subject, something a bit different and challenging to find, but could really do with some help please,

maybe derelict caravan, house, anything really :q:

Thank you :dance:
 
citricsquid

citricsquid

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How do you feel about your own safety and the law? There's a bunch of buildings around Stafford that qualify as derelict, the pièce de résistance is Stafford Snooker Club on the Sandon Road but you'd have to break in. There's a few other derelict buildings in/around the Sandon Road / Marston Road area that you could photograph without committing a crime, I don't know of any as exciting as the Snooker Club though. A lot are disappearing now with redevelopment, St Georges has met that fate -- not that it's a bad thing for the town, a bad thing for derelict building photography though.
 
Dreamies

Dreamies

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don't really want to commit a crime lol I have cats to feed and work to do haha, but not to bothered about if its classes as "dangerous" I fall off a horse regularly I can handle danger lol

oh no not a bad thing at all, just makes it very boring lol
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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The fire site on Astonfields is pretty derelict.

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You might need steps to see over the net curtains.
 
Ecker

Ecker

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Not a great photo because of the angle at which I had to take it but,
a splendid example of Art Deco signage. This image has been very
much "played with" using Photoshop and HDRtist.

It is down the left hand side of The Sandonia on Sandon Road.

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photography_bloke

photography_bloke

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I was poking around a site on the moorlands, but the MOD have taken it over and it's sealed off now (and, it appears, full of spare aircraft fuel tanks and wings...)

If I think of anywhere I'll let you know - it is worth saying though that to photograph a derelict building inside you will nearly always have to trespass, unless you can track down the owner and get permission (which is tricky, as most aren't willing to let people in due to insurance etc)

Nothing stopping you getting images from public land next to it though, using a longer lens - I took a load of photos of the college site when they were knocking down the old buildings, and I did nearly all of it from outside of the sealed off site.
 
Ecker

Ecker

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You might like to try this before it gets developed. It's in St. Patrick's Place near
the jail and was, so I am told, the only place in the UK which was permitted by
by The Vatican to produce cassocks for priests and habits for nuns. Again
seriously tone mapped using HDRtist. The hoists on the first and second floors
were used to lift large bails of cloth.

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Goldilox

Goldilox

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There's the old KFC on Greyfriars and the slightly odd abandoned house next door. The plants breaking through the KFC car park could be interesting photographically.

Also the old adult education centre (?) on North Walls.
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

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Dreamies said:
don't really want to commit a crime lol I have cats to feed and work to do haha, but not to bothered about if its classes as "dangerous" I fall off a horse regularly I can handle danger lol

oh no not a bad thing at all, just makes it very boring lol
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It's rarely a crime but it is a tort
 
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