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waylon · Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2002 11:33 pm

Hey, everyone! Last weekend I took a trip down to Gary, Indiana, where I took lots of photos of some wonderful decrepit abandoned factories. I've put some of the photos on my web page, in two galleries:
www.waylon-art.com/cgi-bin/loader.cgi?9
www.waylon-art.com/cgi-bin/loader.cgi?10

Here's one of the images (actually, the first I took)

Enjoy!

[ April 09, 2002: Message edited by: waylon ]

Sktizox · junior member Member # Joined: 22 Jan 2002 Posts: 16

Holy shit dood u went to Gary, Indiana and didn't die..ur a lucky man..im from Indiana and i know i wouldn't go there with out a few firearms..btw nice pics ^_^

Fabrys · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2002 10:02 am

Great site !
I wonder if you allow free use of your pics for drawing ?
Thx

Tinusch · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2002 10:33 am

Those came out really well.

horstenpeter · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2002 10:56 am

Hey, great photos, I love your industrial photography. I saw your old stuff as well, I wish I had that much stuff to take pictures of over here. But they tear most of the stuff down after a year or two.

BTW, I wanted to ask you that for a while but never got around to emailing you, any photography boards where you post your stuff ? I occasionally do industrial photography as well, I'm fascinated by the abandoned factories and the like.(Recently had the chance to photograph a huge abandoned Soviet army base) I'd like to show the stuff to people but I don't really know where to post it.

tyron · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:19 pm

that smiley.. did you add it? or what was that industry producing?

Waldo · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2002 4:26 pm

Thanks, waylon.

I've gotten a lot of reference mileage out of the abandoned plant series you posted a year or so ago and I'm sure I'll get good mileage with these as well.

Much appreciated!

waylon · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2002 5:06 pm

Hey everyone, glad you like the pics. I just got back the negatives I took - I'll post them when I get them scanned.

Sktizox - heh, no, I didn't get mugged or shot. I did get stopped by paranoid security guards, who called the cops, who confiscated one roll of film, but that's ok, it didn't have anything good on it anyway.

Fabrys - If you want to use these photos for anything non-profit, go ahead.

horstenpeter - No, I haven't really found any photography boards I like. Haven't looked much though. Do you have those army base pictures online somewhere? I'd like to see them....

tyron - heh, no, I didn't add the smiley. It really was painted on the building. Underneath, I believe, was written "Have a safe workplace". It was... creepy.

Akolyte · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2002 6:45 pm

Cool pics man. Is that where they make happy people?

Alan · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2002 9:02 pm

Hiya Waylon... what's up

Thanx for posting the cool photos, they could be useful for all kinds of things.

-Alan

The Green Man · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2002 10:21 pm

smily face or not old abandoned factories are downright creepy, nice pics though

strata · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 2:59 am

I wonder why our website thinks your site is 'Hacking' related... I hate this company... *sigh*

edraket · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 5:46 am

Cool pics. I think I'll forward this to some of my coworkers.
They would also make good reference if you like that kind of subjects.

My only qualm with the pictures is that most of them seem to look more like backgrounds. I think the composition of a lot of them could be more dynamic if you tried to do more with fore/background, diagonals or contrasting colors.
I also would have liked to see some more details.. A rusty bolt here a glowing piece of uranium there...

egerie · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 5:54 am

I really gasped when seeing this one....

Reminded me of Enki Bilal's universe

arkoh · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 6:53 am

Jesus.... as an architect, my fingers start itching when seing pictures like these!!!

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Holy shit dood u went to Gary, Indiana and didn't die..ur a lucky man..

I'll tell ya, I would kill myself for a day at that site!!!

Awesome pics man!!!

eBoy · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 7:14 am

Oh my god how I love these trashed industrial wastelands by all my heart... there's some really beautiful pictures there!! I've taken some industrial picts myself... check them here LimeSite

Keep it up

eBoy

horstenpeter · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 8:47 am

waylon, I don't have a site yet. There's not much left of those pictures anyways. I came there ill-equipped (was actually there for a seminar unaware of the huge base complex there) and I only found out later that my camera had broken while I was there. So out of the 70 pictures or so I took only these came out in a way that I`m not totally embarassed to show them: (I hope you don't mind that I post them in your thread). I'll definitely go there again in the summer (it's near Berlin)....once my camera is back from repairs.

[edit]By the way, eBoy, your stuff is very good, too ![/edit]

[ April 10, 2002: Message edited by: horstenpeter ]

waylon · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 6:48 pm

Hey everyone, it's nice to get such an enthousiastic response. I've got my 35mm negatives half scanned... looks like I'll have them up later in the week.

edraket - yeah, I know what you're saying, the composition IS a bit dull. My purpose in taking these was more documentary than artistic... I wanted to capture exactly what the place looked like for future reference material, even if that meant some of the shots might be a bit dry. Some of the shots with my 35mm are a bit more dynamic. (though just a bit.

)

eboy - Good stuff! Man, this shit is addictive....

horstenpeter - Ditto. Great pics. I really like the third one... quite creepy.

Little Beefucker · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 7:43 pm

Wow! Yeah, this kind of stuff really wets the... mouth. I took some shots of a collapsing array in Silverthorn, CO.

Great pics, everyone!

[ April 10, 2002: Message edited by: Little Bee ]

TheRealT · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 9:22 pm

Great pics man! Thanks for sharing, very useful

Fabrys · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 5:12 am

Thank you waylon !
I would use your pics to draw scenes, actually not to use your photos.
It could be integrated in a french comic book which I'm working on. So, I don't know if that's the commercial way you say.
Anyway, I'll contact you through your site when it'll happen.
horstenpeter : your pics remind me some places around Berlin and Potsdam. Where do you live in Germany ?

PS : I'm looking for pics of sewers.

sweetpea · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 12:55 pm

wow, excellent, i adore the photos you took. i'm completely enamored with dilapidated buildings, factories, mines. living out in utah, there's many abandoned mines and ghost towns to poke around in, and your photos gave me that same awesome creepy vertigo feeling i get while exploring.

waylon · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 3:44 pm

Hey, those pics rock, Little Bee. Got any more?

Rattmouth · Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2002 11:50 pm

Isn't Michael Jackson from Gary, Indiana?

I hope so. That smiley face would have been a great background for the Beat It video.

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