Tag: Urban exploring

January 25, 2025 (day 2 of 2)

In the spotlight

16.3 km / 10.1 miles 🚶 🛴

Dortmund 🇩🇪

Dortmund is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the ninth-largest city in Germany.

The story

Day two in Dortmund – this time with some proper urbexing: exploring an abandoned steel factory and its surroundings. Even got a tour through the building by some graffiti artists who were just wrapping up!

The gear

Camera:
Fujifilm X-T3

Camera lens:
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR

Camera lens filter:
Tiffen Black Pro-Mist Filter 1/4

Film simulation recipe:
Ektachrome E100GX

The pictures

March 16, 2024

In the spotlight

700 m / 767 yards 🚶

Charleroi 🇧🇪

Charleroi is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. The inhabitants are called Carolorégiens or simply Carolos.

The story

Visiting an abandoned power plant. Unfortunately, I could not enter the tower due to the mudfest inside!

The gear

Camera:
Ricoh GR III (Street Edition)

Camera lens filter:
Tiffen Black Pro-Mist Filter 1/4

Film simulation recipe:
Americana Color

The pictures

July 31, 2023 (day 8 of 14)

In the spotlight

196 km / 122 miles 🚗 🚶

On the road 🇮🇪 🇬🇧

Cooneen Ghost House: Widow Bridget Murphy and her six children fled their home in the early 20th-century to escape a poltergeist in this very house. The family heard loud noises in the attic, banging on the walls, and even reported beds lifting off the floor and plates being thrown at them.
The Murphys eventually moved to America.

The gear

Camera:
Fujifilm X-S10

Camera lens:
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR

Camera lens filter:
Tiffen Black Pro-Mist Filter 1/4

Film simulation recipe:
Kodak Royal Gold 400

The pictures

August 23, 2022 (day 21 of 24)

In the spotlight

407 km / 253 miles 🚗 🚶

On the road 🇵🇹

The gear

Camera:
Fujifilm X-T3

Camera lens:
Fujinon XF 16-80mm f/4 R OIS WR

Camera lens filters:
Tiffen Black Pro-Mist Filter 1/4
NiSi True Color ND-VARIO Pro Nano 1-5 stops Variable ND

Film simulation recipe:
Ektachrome E100GX

The pictures

Sanatório de Valongo, Valongo 🇵🇹

Being a Sanitarium from 1910, it was built to hold 50 patients who suffered from tuberculosis. Unfortunately this number rapidly grew to 150, as the epidemic known as the ‘white plague’ grew. This number then grew to 500, where these patients roamed the halls, lost, as there was no cure for this disease, and one by one they all died.

These souls are said to haunt the corridors, with visitors and passers-by said to hear the hallow cries of pain and see swift movements in the shadows.

The gear

The pictures

Parked for the night 🇵🇹

The gear

Camera:
Google Pixel 6 Pro

The pictures

August 20, 2022 (day 18 of 24)

In the spotlight

629 km / 391 miles 🚗 🚶

Cortijo Jurado, Málaga 🇪🇸

The legend begins after the death of the patriarch of the Heredia family. With the new inheritors of the property, young girls began to disappear in the surrounding area between 1890 and 1920; they were supposed to die after suffering supposed humiliations and rituals of a satanic nature. Some of the young bodies were later found along the shores of the Campanillas River, not far from the farmhouse.

The gear

The pictures

Tarifa 🇪🇸

Tarifa is a Spanish municipality in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. Located at the southernmost end of the Iberian Peninsula, it is primarily known as one of the world’s most popular destinations for windsports. Tarifa lies on the Costa de la Luz and across the Strait of Gibraltar facing Morocco.

The gear

The pictures

Parked for the night 🇪🇸

The gear

Camera:
Google Pixel 6 Pro

The pictures

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