Aerial tilt-shift photography - part 5

Part of my ongoing series of aerial tilt-shift photos, which do no seem to be a little popular.

First off, we have a picture full of everything that is wrong,  a nuclear reactor, HDR and tilt-shift.

 

A bit of a redemption perhaps from the treehuggers?



Next off a bit of a nautical theme, will floaty boaty things









Anyway until next time, the suns out !!!

Keeping the nipper happy

Arrrrr, my daughter chip off the old block, with 4 or 5 cameras sitting around the house, phones with cameras, a DS with a camera she has a growing interest in all things camera. Given my interests, it does tend to rub off and to be honest I wanted to post some the pics we have done over the last few weekends.

So, she flies and is currently badgering me for more trips with her hero, the pilot Jon.



She has had now had a brief little bimble, once or twice, in carefully planned minor urbex explore - still nerve racking stuff.



But, her main thing is planning shots, thinking "what if we"



do this....



Doctor Who mad, a little like myself, "are you my mummy?"

 

 

Sometimes you just have to spark the mind....

 

Stevenson Square, Manchester - June 2012

Feet back on the ground for a few weeks, the plan was a trip to Whittingham Asylum but Urban Spaceman was grounded again - this time Mrs Spaceman had him decorating in his pink handcuffs.

Being that asylums are lonely places on your own, a trip into Manchester seemed like a jolly good idea.

Off to see the ever changing Outhouse Project in Stevenson Square.

Artwork by the Crim Collective.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Whittingham Asylum - June 2012

Having previously flown over Whittingham Asylum I decided to have mooch, so Urban Spaceman and myself decided to brave the bank holiday traffic.

Here's a bit of info


Whittingham Hospital, whose grounds adjoin the village of Goosnargh, grew to be the largest mental hospital in the country, and pioneered the use of electroencephalograms (EEGs). During its time it had its own church, farms, railway, telephone exchange, post office, reservoirs, gas works, brewery, orchestra, brass band, ballroom and butchers.

In 1866, the three Lancashire lunatic asylums at Prestwich, Rainhill and Lancaster were deemed to be full. The building of Whittingham Asylum began in 1869, originally to accommodate 1000 patients. It was built from brick made from clay dug on site from a pit which later became a fish pond.

The hospital officially opened on 1 April 1873. The large site included an Anglican church, a Catholic chapel, a recreation hall (also used as a ballroom) and several farms. The site closed in 1995 and now sits slowly rotting in development hell.

Welcome to the asylum !!!!





The whole place is overgrown, slowly rotting, trees growning from chimneys, bushes swallowing whole buildings - buzzing with bees.

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This place was so peaceful, I think any return visit will involve a macro lens as the insects and butterflies are everywhere. The variety of birds was amazing, rabbits everywhere and I even had a field mouse run over my foot.

****we went back !!!! ****

Kearns of Waterfoot Ltd

Summer is here and what better than a drive in the sun with my round headed friend Urban Spaceman.

Waterfoot, a little village in a nice bit of Lancashire countryside valleys with a dirty half demolished,  run down, tumble down mill - although it has to be said in talking to the locals they seemed upbeat that someone might one day start the long promised conversion into (you guessed it) apartments and housing.

We didn't want to be seen climbing over/under fences in full view of the locals - so the lovely people of Waterfoot directed us to a footpath so we could simply wander into the site for a gander.











 

 

 

 

 

 

"did you go in?" you ask, we popped our head in one building and to be honest nothing to see other that a light bulb and rather saggy wet floors with a big drop below. We spotted the way into the other building and couldn't be bothered by this time as the moment had gone (bit of a first - and it was just a sloppy effort by the contractor with a few stones and a bit of plyboard).



So once again one to miss and save your petrol.

The Holme, Cliviger

Visited this place with Urban Spaceman, posted to save you the effort and petrol - unless your into burnt out 17th century Grade II listed buildings.

Located in the village of Cliviger, just outside Burnley, Lancashire is a house with a view to die for.

The Holme sits burnt out, slowly falling down, slowly being filled with scrap tyres - like so many empty properties in the UK.

The current building was built in 1603 being the ancestral seat of the local Whitaker family.
Used as a country club in the 1970s, later it became an old peoples home which closed under the cloud of scandal in 1984. Vandals set fire to the place in 2004.
 


 The property currently sits rotting and is as always awaiting development into apartments, if it ever comes...

 

Didn't look that bad at first.



Semi boarded up, but the developers seem to have given up on this one, a sign says your being filmed but no cameras of any form could be seen and the back of the property was wide open - the fly tippers had been round.

 



 

 

 









Oh, the view I mentioned







All in all, very sad and if like me you have to copper up the penny jar these days for petrol in these hard times, save yourself the trip unless your a completist (like a lot of us are).

 Next stop Waterfoot ! oh the joys.....