Blog#779 Elvaston Castle URBEX with Line + Light - Mono Images

 Following on from yesterdays Blog here are some Mono images from Elvaston Castle

Elvaston Castle URBEX with Line + Light

Excellent days photo course / photo opportunity at Elvaston Castle in Derbyshire last Friday with my friend Ken from the Camera Club. The course was run by 'Line and Light' and lead by Martine Hamilton Knight, a renowned Architectural Photographer. A few shots outside as a record then started the course at 10 with some advise about the opportunities around the building. Elvaston Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Gothic Revival Architectural Style. Originally built in 1633 but extensively changed in the early 19th century bu architect James Wyatt with further work by architect Lewis Nochalls Cottinghamin the 1830's The estate passed into the hands go Derbyshire County Council in 1966 and the the park is open to the public. The house is not deemed to be safe for the public and many of the rooms are out of bounds. Line and Light have been running courses on internal architecture and URBEX for some time and well worth attending. Martine did mention that other organisations / local community use the venue on occasions and annoyingly tidy up a bit :( You can read about Elvaston on Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvaston_Castle

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Todays post is with colour photos. I will post a monochrome post soon.

Urbex Adventure (2) Monochrome

Second post from my Urbex Adventure, this time images in monochrome.

URBEX Adventure

Back in January I had the opportunity to go to a house a friend of mine had inherited. The house had been owned by an elderly gentleman who I had met a number of times over the last 30 years or so. He had moved to the house some 40 or 50 years ago with his mother. His mother died soon after. He lived in just one room so the rest of the house remained virtually untouched.

There is a genre of photography called Urbex. The quote below is from Wikipedia

"Urban exploration (often shortened as urbex or UE) is the exploration of man-made structures, usually abandoned ruins or not usually seen components of the man-made environment. Photography and historical interest/documentation are heavily featured in the hobby"

I have often wanted the opportunity to do some urban exploration. The URBEX Photography community is very secretive about the locations of deserted building etc so its not easy to find the opportunity. I jumped at this chance to visit the house.

This is the first of two posts. The second one will have monochrome images.