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A few from another urbex trip I just did -- all with either the X-M1 and Zeiss 12mm, or the X-E2 and Fujinon 23mm:

First one was done in a totally dark room using a long exposure and flashlights.

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Embersville: Just Projecting by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr

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Embersville: Cleanliness IS Next to Godliness... by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr

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Embersville: Considering Decay by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr

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Embersville: Gazing at the Outside World by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr

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Embersville: Hands of Hope by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr

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Embersville: Skyline Mural by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr

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Embersville: Trolley Mural by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr
 
Nice stuff John... I saw "Embersville" and immediately thought "Embreeville" and then when I opened it and saw it was another Chester County dweller, I figured it MUST be Embreeville. But looking at the images I can't see how it would be with such urban drawings on the wall. So, I'm sort of stumped...

-Ray
 
One more. A 3 minute 40 second time exposure and multistage processing involving Lightroom, Nik Color Efex Pro, and DXO Film Pack 3. This is not HDR

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Embersville: The Show is Over by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr

Ray Sachs said:
Nice stuff John... I saw "Embersville" and immediately thought "Embreeville" and then when I opened it and saw it was another Chester County dweller, I figured it MUST be Embreeville. But looking at the images I can't see how it would be with such urban drawings on the wall. So, I'm sort of stumped...

-Ray
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Ray, it's where you think it is but they ran youthful offender programs there before the place closed (all the way into the 2000's from paperwork left behind) and took kids from all over -- including Philadelphia.
 
entropic remnants said:
One more. A 3 minute 40 second time exposure and multistage processing involving Lightroom, Nik Color Efex Pro, and DXO Film Pack 3. This is not HDR

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Embersville: The Show is Over by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr



Ray, it's where you think it is but they ran youthful offender programs there before the place closed (all the way into the 2000's from paperwork left behind) and took kids from all over -- including Philadelphia.
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Ahh, the stuff you can pass a place by for years and never know... Cool - I'll have a new appreciation going forward...

-Ray
 
Mikey said:
Awesome!!! John, your images never disappoint.
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Thanks!!!!

Biro said:
John, are you in SE PA or Texas these days? I'm confused. :confused:
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Steve, I still live in PA where I have for many years -- but I occasionally have to trave for extended periods in my new job -- though when things settle down Texas won't be a primary destination. Our engineering group down there just isn't up to speed yet.

The travel is like the "good news/bad news" part of the job. Bit of a pain, but brings new subjects for photography.
 
Well done, John, as usual. I like the shot of the piano best. These series remind me of my years in India and Burma, where people would still work in totally decrepit buildings built by the British back in the colonial era. Back in Yangon I lived next to a newspaper agency. The building, liked most others looked worse than any of the buildings you've posted lately. Nearly all the furniture and equipment dated back to pre WWII and people would still work on typewriters and printing presses from the 1930s or even older stuff. Add pre WW II Morris buses in the streets, steam locomotives and so forth. I have many images from that time (late 90s) but mostly on film/prints and never digitized them. Back there I had one of the most wonderful times in my life and I guess you would have liked to shoot there too.
 
First off -- thanks all!

SnapDawg said:
Well done, John, as usual. I like the shot of the piano best. These series remind me of my years in India and Burma, where people would still work in totally decrepit buildings built by the British back in the colonial era. Back in Yangon I lived next to a newspaper agency. The building, liked most others looked worse than any of the buildings you've posted lately. Nearly all the furniture and equipment dated back to pre WWII and people would still work on typewriters and printing presses from the 1930s or even older stuff. Add pre WW II Morris buses in the streets, steam locomotives and so forth. I have many images from that time (late 90s) but mostly on film/prints and never digitized them. Back there I had one of the most wonderful times in my life and I guess you would have liked to shoot there too.
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Man, get thee a scanner, lol! I'd love to see that stuff. Negative scanners aren't that pricey -- I have a Plustek Optifilm 7500 and it's great and there are even better ones around and ones like mine available used cheaply. They scan 35mm slides or negatives but it's a good idea to use a better scanner software than what they provide. I use VueScan.
 
Thanks, John. We're talking about ~60000 negatives and slides,135 and medium format (ouch) and I really wouldn't know where to start - I've been to 53 countries (and counting), lol, but those times in Burma before mass tourism arrived are unforgetteable in many ways. I always liked to give those folks I photographed copies of the images, especially if it was years later and in some very remote part of the planet. I recently started to build my own frames from some really nice wood and fine passe-partouts, looking forward to gift some nicely framed images to some victims of my trigger happiness :)
 
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