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This is not your typical empty, derelict house.
I have some good friends that we met up with in Canada a few weeks back, and some of them rent a property with a semi-derelict house next door. That's nothing special, but what IS unusual is that the people who lived there literally just walked away one morning: There's a ready threaded up sewing machine on the kitchen table, pyjamas on a bed, childrens clothes hanging in a wardrobe and medication on a countertop. They just walked out some time between 10 and 20 years ago, occasionally coming back to shove a bit of junk into the kitchen. The property and land now belongs to someone else, from whom our friends rent a house next door.
The roof is coming in now, and it will probably become unsafe in another 12 months, so these images may well be all the world will see of this place. As for why there's only 12, we'd been out for a long day with our friends and their children and were tired & looking forward to dinner. Although we'd talked about doing in there during the morning, enthusiasm was running low, but I managed to persuade our host to take us over. Light was falling as it was evening, so I popped a 50mm f1.7 on and had just about 10-15min inside, shooting at 800 and 1600 ISO to compensate as the sun went down.
I've processed these a little cool, and the high ISO has added a fair bit of noise. I have added a sloppy printing style border to try to increase the sense of disorder and decay, and which disappears on a white forum background. I did experiment with B&W, but the images lose a great deal like that. I know these aren't perfect (wish I'd focussed on the tap instead of the corner in the first shot) but C&C welcome.
I have some good friends that we met up with in Canada a few weeks back, and some of them rent a property with a semi-derelict house next door. That's nothing special, but what IS unusual is that the people who lived there literally just walked away one morning: There's a ready threaded up sewing machine on the kitchen table, pyjamas on a bed, childrens clothes hanging in a wardrobe and medication on a countertop. They just walked out some time between 10 and 20 years ago, occasionally coming back to shove a bit of junk into the kitchen. The property and land now belongs to someone else, from whom our friends rent a house next door.
The roof is coming in now, and it will probably become unsafe in another 12 months, so these images may well be all the world will see of this place. As for why there's only 12, we'd been out for a long day with our friends and their children and were tired & looking forward to dinner. Although we'd talked about doing in there during the morning, enthusiasm was running low, but I managed to persuade our host to take us over. Light was falling as it was evening, so I popped a 50mm f1.7 on and had just about 10-15min inside, shooting at 800 and 1600 ISO to compensate as the sun went down.
I've processed these a little cool, and the high ISO has added a fair bit of noise. I have added a sloppy printing style border to try to increase the sense of disorder and decay, and which disappears on a white forum background. I did experiment with B&W, but the images lose a great deal like that. I know these aren't perfect (wish I'd focussed on the tap instead of the corner in the first shot) but C&C welcome.
