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Dit blog geeft een indruk van onze urbex avonturen.

Wij zijn 4 enthousiaste mensen die graag in oude gebouwen fotograferen en de geschiedenis van deze gebouwen proberen vast te leggen. Vooral industrieel erfgoed is erg intrek. Als je op zo'n locatie bent voel je als het ware wat er is gebeurd in het verleden. Wij gaan er dus ook voor om zo veel mogelijk vast te leggen op de gevoelige plaat.

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woensdag 28 april 2010

Cristalleries Val St. Lambert


16 apr 2010


As I could not resist a third urbex trip in 2 weeks we made a stop at the Cristalleries Val St. Lambert on our way to the Ardennes. I could climb the fence at the front but that was too much in the open. So I followed the high brick wall around and found an easy entry at the back side. Crossing the bush I arrived at the old cristallerie. The only entrance there was climbing down in to a cellar. Just when I entered a pump started running very loud scarring the shit out of me. With a headlight on finding the way up out of here was easy. But I was less fortunate climbing out of the cellar again because my tripod dropped. Climbing back down was to dangerous. So before I could start taking pictures I had to find way to get my tripod back. With some wire and a cable I fished up my tripod. With a half our lost walking and fishing, and my wife waiting in the car I had to hurry. After some pictures I noticed that one leg of my tripod was broken of half. The next problem was that the beautiful atelier with the colored glasses and equipment was still not found. On the other side the building was still active. I took a change and walked carefully passed it into the direction of the other old buildings. And there was the atelier I came for. With the limited time left a real challenge. It is unbelievable that the old equipment and crystal glass is still in place. On my way back to the car I discovered a hole in the fence at the front. Despite the broken tripod this was another successful Urbex mission. But the next time I take the front entrance.

At home I called Provak (Manfrotto representative in Holland) for my spare part. Marcel explained to me that it was not possible to order these old parts. But he might have one in stock. Within one minute he found the spare part I'm looking for. "It's the last one" he said. And the best is that he sends it over for free. My tripod is ready for another ten years.

Thanks again Marcel for your great service.

Roel


This picture is made by:Roel Boom

maandag 12 april 2010

the Kent School


02 April 2010

It was the first Photo day of the season 2010 so we all were very eager to start shooting pictures. The first location for this day was the Kent School(I assumed for some time it was located in Kent but in fact it is only a 25minutes. drive from our home town). Standing in front of the gate we saw a car on the site driving towards us. We turned the car and parked on the other
site. It took some time before we found a place in the fence were we could enter. Closer to the buildings we saw a second car that seemed abandoned.We passed it and walked to the building with the church attached.Surprisingly the main door was open. But as soon as we entered we heard the sound of keys jingling and footsteps. We ran out as quick as we could but
the last person fell down and we got discovered by a young guy all dressed up like militarily. The place was a Air-soft haven and because we were friendly he did not call the police but showed us around instead. So we were lucky we got the change to take some pictures there even if it was for only one hour.
Roel.

This picture is made by:Roel Boom

02 April 2010


This picture is made in Germany,.It was a nice place to make pictures.It was our first trip this year and our second location off the day.The wetter was not that good that day but we enjoyed it.This picture is made by:Jacques Yasemin

With kind regards,

Urbek5