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I'm going to use this thread as a way to help me sort through nearly 1800 plus frames taken over the last ten years. It didn't start out as a project idea when I first wandered into the disused sand washing plant at Southport. All I was doing was taking random snaps having just got back into photography for its own sake with my first DSLR. Over time the place got to me and I started using it as somewhere to explore different approaches to making pictures. It was in 2013 that it became a project to record the changes taking place as the seasons progressed and eventually as work began to 'restore' the place.
Most of the infrastructure had been removed by the time I got there and it was being taken over by nature, rubbish dumpers and used for recreation. Right now there is less wildlife in the place than before the restoration took place. Reclamation refers both to nature taking it over and the subsequent tidying up. My only regret is that I never took any portraits of the people who used the sandplant for fun - be that birdwatching or riding motorbikes around it.
With the work pretty much done for now (until it gets re purposed) the 10 year mark seems a good time to try to make something of these pictures.
Even though abandoned things appeared, got moved around and disappeared from the place. Almost every time I'd go back it was changed. Sometimes the firm that worked it had been in and shifted something, mostly it was those using it for recreation who had done something.
This is an overview from 2013 with RSPB Marshide reserve to the right to set the scene followed by some pictures picked at random.
Two from my first visit in 2010.
It's been a combination of 'landscapes' and details for the most part. Trying to capture the strangeness and how nature doesn't seem to mind rubbish in the way people do. This is probably an example of what some call 'edgelands' where the urban or industrial meets the natural environment. Places which always fascinate me.
My visits were mostly at weekends or evenings which meant I missed most of the reclamation work going on. Strictly speaking the public shouldn't have been in the plant anyway, so I have few pictures of work actually going on.
From here on I'll post pictures chronologically as I sift through my files.
Most of the infrastructure had been removed by the time I got there and it was being taken over by nature, rubbish dumpers and used for recreation. Right now there is less wildlife in the place than before the restoration took place. Reclamation refers both to nature taking it over and the subsequent tidying up. My only regret is that I never took any portraits of the people who used the sandplant for fun - be that birdwatching or riding motorbikes around it.
With the work pretty much done for now (until it gets re purposed) the 10 year mark seems a good time to try to make something of these pictures.
Even though abandoned things appeared, got moved around and disappeared from the place. Almost every time I'd go back it was changed. Sometimes the firm that worked it had been in and shifted something, mostly it was those using it for recreation who had done something.
This is an overview from 2013 with RSPB Marshide reserve to the right to set the scene followed by some pictures picked at random.
Two from my first visit in 2010.
It's been a combination of 'landscapes' and details for the most part. Trying to capture the strangeness and how nature doesn't seem to mind rubbish in the way people do. This is probably an example of what some call 'edgelands' where the urban or industrial meets the natural environment. Places which always fascinate me.
My visits were mostly at weekends or evenings which meant I missed most of the reclamation work going on. Strictly speaking the public shouldn't have been in the plant anyway, so I have few pictures of work actually going on.
From here on I'll post pictures chronologically as I sift through my files.
