Sick Britain

I’ve written my own article of Urbex Photography Tips but I thought it might be handy to post a link to a great set of hints and tips on Photocritic.org, and article by Haje Jan Kamps with tips from Roy Barker. See the full article here: Capturing Urban Decay.

Incidentally I also found this interesting article 35 Beautiful Examples Of ‘Urban Decay Photography from Smashing Magazine – it’s not a ‘tips’ article but the shots themselves may provide inspiration if you’re looking for it.

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For those of you that haven’t joined already we’ve created a Flickr group called Sick Britain for sharing photos of derelict and abandoned places, we’re up to well over 1,000 photos there now so I thought I’d share some of my recently added favourites from people using a Creative Commons license (or where I have permission to use them)…

Here’s some other recent photos not marked as Creative Commons…

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Another personal site from a UK explorer with a North-East leaning, includes site reports and photos, some from a visit to the Urbex ‘Mecca’ that is Chernobyl…

http://www.forsakenplaces.co.uk/

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Pretty Vacant is the personal site of prolific explorer and well-known forum community member Rookinella, containing site reports and a massive amount of photos.  The site is great for finding inspiration or if you want to get a good taster of what Urban Exploration is all about…

http://www.prettyvacant.fotopic.net/

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The Royal Observer Corps were in existence from 1925 to 1995 and their first significant operation was to act as aircraft spotters in WW2 where their task was to radio in any sightings of enemy aircraft or flying bombs. After the war ended they were briefly stood down after being in continuous operation from September 1939 to May 1945 then as the peace transitioned into the Cold War their role changed. The new role was to report nuclear explosions and monitor the nuclear fallout, to do this the crew of three would have to be prepared to spend up to 21 days underground in a 16ft x 7ft x 7ft bunker, between 1958 and 1968 over 1,500 of these bunkers were built across the country.

ROC Remembered is a site built by the grandson of a former ROC member in memory of his grandmother, it lists the state of ROC posts around the country and includes photos and coordinates of many…

http://www.rocremembered.com/

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