Last weekend a group of us tripped up to the 21st birthday party for the Meredith Music Festival. I left big old, heavy SLR at home and took light, trusty iPhone with the ever more popular instagram (and an LC-Wide with a bucket load of film). These are a few shots for you.
As you may remember I started a 365 Project a while ago. The only real rule was to take a photo every day. This I have now done (apart from one miss) for 229 days. *The actual 365 platform died for two days hence the number difference.
It is, so far, going very well. Taking photos is now just another part of my day, just like eating breakfast or brushing my teeth. It is less of a pain now than it used to be and it is on the very rare occasion it gets to 11:50pm and I think: "Holy shit, I haven't taken a photo yet." Coming up will be a lot of holiday season reds and greens as well as a bunch of beaches and maybe even a week of self portraits to mix it up a bit!
I have not posted anything for a while so I thought I would find some shots from the end of my trip from the begining of the year. These were taken in Glasgow, Scotland. I stayed there with two lovely friends of mine I met the first time I visited the UK in 2006. I hope one day they can come to Melbourne so I can return the favor. Xo
As we were leaving the main hospital building, two of us decided that it was best to scale up to the second story window of the - what appeared to be - school building. Armed with only my 15mm Fisheye, as climbing with anymore camera gear seemed stupid, I was able to get these few shots off before we had to run and miss our train.
I would recommend checking out Beelitz Heilstätten, however, take a spare pair of underwear and some confidence, it is defiantly not the place for the faint hearted. It scared the shit out of me!
There are few places in the world that scare me as much as this one. Originally built as a Tuberculosis Sanatorium, it was converted to a Military Hospital during the First World War. It was then taken over by the USSR who remained in control of the hospital until 1995.
The 60 hospital buildings in the town are now all deserted, left for ruin in the 90's. Once upon a time I can imagine these grounds - surrounded by dense pine forests - would have been quite beautiful. Now though its like a ghost town, no sign of life, no wind, no noise, just kilometers of nothing but the shells of the once beautiful buildings designed by architect Heino Schmieden.
This is possibly one of the coolest and most curious places I have had the chance to visit.
Teufelsberg sits atop a man made hill just outside of Berlin (former West Berlin). The hill is made from an estimated 400,000 buildings destroyed during the Second World War. What is so odd about this place is not the hill itself but the Nazi Tech training camp below. It was so hard to destroy, the Allies decided to bury it instead.
It is now the home to an abandon listening station set up by the US National Security Agency in the late 50's to listen to Soviet, East German and other Warsaw Pact nations military traffic.