Hello and Happy New Year readers. I hope this new year has been nothing short of phenomenal so far for you all. As for me, I come to you an excited queen. Finally, after almost a year now, I got to try my hand at some Urbex photography. I love shooting live music, it is by far my favorite type of photography. The lighting, the atmosphere, the people, the energy, I just can’t seem to get enough. However, I also love expanding my horizons and urban exploration has been on my to-do list for quite some time. So with the help of two photog friends and our lovely Mini Coopers, we ventured and we arrived at an abandoned train location in the Miami area and proceeded to attempt to capture what we saw.
Now, not everyone finds the appeal of going to locations that have been closed or otherwise abandoned. It’s not always easy for people to realize there is still beauty and even life in places/objects that have been pushed aside for the new and improved, etc.. As for me, I’m a texture junkie. Even in shooting nature landscapes, I look for the ripple in the waves, the grain in the sands. Urbex for me was a texture dreamland. I simply was reeling in joy with all the faded and fresh paints, the rusted metals, broken glass and ripped cloths. I could shoot forever and probably not notice the passing of time if not for the light fading. Which brings me to the other aspect I enjoyed on this particular excursion, the lighting as the course of the afternoon went on. I fell in love with how the light would just hit the different components and objects within this train.
I don’t even remember how many shots I took. I do know that it was rather difficult for me to pick the images for this particular set. It was so difficult, that I posted the majority of the images on my Facebook page which you can browse through by clicking here. Feel free to click and browse. After all, my favorites may not be yours and there are others that will strike your fancy.
