Aerial tilt-shift photography - Part 3

Another set from my ever growing collection of aerial photographs of the British Isles.

First off a shot of the Humber Bridge, taken to be honest in very poor weather - but at least a break in the days rain.



Deal Castle, taken on the same day as the Humber Bridge, the weather hadn't caught up with us at this point in the trip.



Two from Poole, Dorset





Fishguard, Wales



The Bridgewater Canal, Manchester



A race meeting at Oulton Park, Cheshire



These last few I don't have a clue, the next camera I buy is going to have to have GPS built in - all these pics being taken on a round Britain trip lasting over 23 hours of flying time in shocking weather - you start to loose track after a while.







 Thanks for looking, more pictures can be found at part 1 and part 2 or if your looking for the Microlight Round Britain Rally 2012

- more to follow

Microlight Flying Magazine - August 2012

We got published !!!



Microlight Flying Magazine published the pilot's story of our winning journey in the Round Britain Rally 2012.



More info on the trip can be found in my post on the Round Britain Rally 2012

The End of Peel Mills, Bury

The end is near, the end of another dark satanic mill, sometimes you get to an explore just a little to late....







 

Lascar Works, Bury

A little mooch on my doorstep, having gone for a look at Peel Mill we took a little mooch at this long forgotten dead factory.

Having closed around 2003, this place has been stripped, torched and is now used as a drugs den and graffiti house.

Jdub and myself parked up and entered only to be followed by a couple of low lives, but they thankfully kept themselves to themselves so we bimbled on, should add the offices (or what was) are littered with discarded syringes.

 

 

 

 

Huncoat hits the news

Not a good day, well in one respect the old power station is highlighted for the ongoing graffiti fest that that it is, I'm a big fan of Huncoat and it was one of my first explores.

But sadly on the other side, people sit up and before we know it a new big fence will no doubt spring up around the site - please noooooo !!!!



- Thanks to Phil Plod for the photo !

So the debate is on, or so they say in the Lancashire Telegraph

- Personally I hope the powers that be leave the place alone, Huncoat is a centre for graffiti artists to battle it out and photographers from around the country visit this place, the site has also often used for photo shoots for sportswear catalogues.







Long live Huncoat !!!!





 

For the record, if you have read the article (or your from the Lancashire Telegraph) explorers and graffiti artists co-exist, they are not one and the same. If in doubt the explorers are the ones with the cameras not the spray cans.

Further Huncoat info can be found here on my previous Huncoat posting.

Urbex Tours

Interesting article from DW on a Berlin based company that offers urban exploration trips out, all very enterprising - I'm sure the health and safety rules in good old Great Britain would kill any such entrepreneurial ideas dead in the water.

You might want to have a look at the Go2know - looks good, but having finally watched my dvd of Urban Explorers, my dreams of exploring the derp of Europe with camera in hand are possibly on hold.....

Joking aside, I think a European Tour of Derp is well overdue and on the cards next for next spring.

Manor H and the Jaguar Graveyard

Another rather wet bimble with Urban Spaceman on a not so summer's afternoon.

I'd seen photos of this place, Grade II listed, a hotel sitting in the Lancashire countryside.

It would seem the location was on a need to know basis, you had to somehow locate it yourself or be pre-vetted and be vouched for - and bugger all was coming up on the internet other than reports labelled as Manor H, the anti-vandal/metal thief information lock down was kind of working.

I asked a contact, he said he didn't have a problem telling me the location but first he would have to ok it with his contact, who would have to ask for an ok from his contact - a few days later a "yes" came back.

I hadn't really thought about any of this until the "yes" came back, it was all a circle of trust and it would seem I'm not a tosser after all - which is nice !
 
 

Loved these gates - all a bit Sally Sparrow (Google it).



It was raining as only it can do in Lancashire, so after sitting around in the car waiting for a break in the weather I opened the boot of the car and removed the blindfold and gimpmask from Urban Spaceman - perhaps the gagball was a little over the top. We just made a mad dash for it in the lashing rain without hanging about on the external shots.



 

 

 

Things looked a bit grand, with a spooky staircase, all had seen better days and the fireplaces had been ripped out by the local thieves.

 









Then it got a bit special.....;











 

Moving on to the function room, not that much of interest to see to be honest, it looked like the last few winters had caused a bit of burst pipe in the ceiling.

 

A wander further round the back brought us to the Jaguar Graveyard and I must confess I'm not one of these chaps that gets all excited and wobbly at the knees about cars to be honest - a car simply gets me from A to B when I'm not in a plane or on a train.

I should add at this point that I don't think my choice of footwear helped in proceedings as heavy rain had turned the area around the cars into a quagmire and on a number of occasions I found myself ankle deep in orange mud (bit smelly as well).





 Please don't ask me the location - coz I'd have to ask him, who needs to ask him, who needs to ask him.