toronto's don valley brickworks.
on saturday morning shahin, hasnain, ghazal and I paid a visit to this abandoned factory. the morning sun was
shining through the holes in the ceiling.
I strongly recommend checking out the bigger size for more details.
half-life 2 anyone?
This photo was taken on October 1, 2005 in East York, Toronto, ON, CA, using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT.
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RezNyce, rageforst, Computer Science Geek, marie b., and 308 other people added this photo to their favorites.
RezNyce (81 months ago | reply)
This is beautiful
Adge (81 months ago | reply)
Awesome! Great timing and amazing photo...the lighting is excellent. Great textures, colours.
ShimmeeGrrl (81 months ago | reply)
quite stunning!
LOVE the light!! :)
Computer Science Geek (81 months ago | reply)
Great light capture!
sinceday1 (81 months ago | reply)
It's good to see that you're also on flickr. I've set your daily dose of imagery along with Shahin's as my homepage(s) to begin my days with pleasant images ;-) You're also featured in my own photoblog on xanga.
I've yet to come to the urban landscapes group photo exhibition, am planning to do so tomorrow if time allows, something that I wouldn't want to miss.
About the image itself, the simplicity of the architectural arrangement reflects the linear industrial processes that may have occurred within, which I suspect to be steel works, it's almost an architectural discourse in its own right that took place simultaneously across continents. Perhaps photographs are the only preservation that we'll have left of these buildings that were engines to the industrial revolution, the skeletal frame you've captured of this building is really the essence of the place in its own time. Brilliant work as one would always expect from you.
-Nick
Norma Tub (81 months ago | reply)
Just exceptional! Brilliant!
Mute* (81 months ago | reply)
That's just wonderful, the light and colour, spectacular.
sigma. (81 months ago | reply)
Amazing shot sam. Please add it to Industrial Decay
www.flickr.com/groups/indecay/
Michael_P (81 months ago | reply)
"Now arriving at... Sector C Test Labs and Control Facilities..."
sinceday1 (81 months ago | reply)
Yes, brickworks.. what was I thinking. :p
phule (81 months ago | reply)
Wow, excellent stuff. The way Reichmann makes it sound, no one is supposed to be in there :)
luminous-landscape.com/workshops/Brickworks-w s.shtml
Vitor Jardim (81 months ago | reply)
my god,
ever perfect photos.
i didnt know that you have a flickr,
now i will added you here, ok?
baronvonaaron (81 months ago | reply)
more like this please!
mystery.me (81 months ago | reply)
Stunning piece of work.
thtstudios (81 months ago | reply)
Bravo, this is an amazing shot. You composed it so well. The exposure is outstanding.
DGA (81 months ago | reply)
Great composistion on this shot. It would be really something printed huge and under glass!
Shreyans Bhansali (81 months ago | reply)
half life 2 for sure.
Normal_Toothbrush [deleted] (81 months ago | reply)
Very nice. Before I even read your description and the part about HL2, thats exactly what I was thinking.
Trevor Haldenby (81 months ago | reply)
Sam, that's unbelievable!
Easily one of the most memorable photographs I've seen; in terms of texture, colour, light-as-subject, scene... amazing work.
carf (81 months ago | reply)
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patternleaf (81 months ago | reply)
*whistles*
gorgeous.
trentroche (81 months ago | reply)
awesome picture sam
matt kuz [deleted] (81 months ago | reply)
yes!
ojaipatrick (81 months ago | reply)
Wow spectacular!!
geremology (80 months ago | reply)
my new wallpaper.
tilo driessen (77 months ago | reply)
wow, i want a giant print of this.
fotograf.416 (76 months ago | reply)
this has been my desktop image for over a month and i'm still not sick of looking at it... amazing photo!
phrenophile (76 months ago | reply)
I like the fake light shafts. Solid photoshop work. I'd love to see the unadulterated image as well.
wvs (76 months ago | reply)
no photoshop here phrenophile, all light shafts are real.
gregolem (76 months ago | reply)
Like an acid flashback, just wonderful, love the green ray of light coming through. It's like angels live in some of the most surprising places!
CGP314 (76 months ago | reply)
Amazing.
John Goldsmith (75 months ago | reply)
It is super fantastic in large. Great colours, detail. Fabulous!!
peppermint.patty (74 months ago | reply)
very awesome
skip694 (74 months ago | reply)
half-life 2, definately
John Hann (73 months ago | reply)
Incredible!
calibre68 (73 months ago | reply)
Very stunning. I love the theatricality of the shot and how the beams of light punch through the structure to light up the space. It has this surreal feel to it.
andrew-tye.com (69 months ago | reply)
this is an absolutely stunning photo. did you break in, or did you have permission to be there? it looks like the setting of a ridley scott film. genius - both you and ridley.
graziedavvero (67 months ago | reply)
I agree with previous comment. The ligthing is perfect.
This is a wonderful image. A fav for me.
Also congratulations for your photoblog.
Sameli (67 months ago | reply)
Fantastic!
monoglot (67 months ago | reply)
This photo was monoglot's first favorite.
Please add it to my first fave group :
www.flickr.com/groups/firstfave/
RiftDweller (66 months ago | reply)
half life 2 indeed :D
rodrigobittar (62 months ago | reply)
you have an awesome gallery!
great shot
congratz!
pd88 (62 months ago | reply)
This pictures is incredible. The lines created by the light, the colors, the expansiveness. Beautiful.
drayde (62 months ago | reply)
Spectacular shot! A fave!
Cri - JIT Pictures Experiment (61 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Half Life Like, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
If you like HL and HL2, please join the group!
thebaz_dublin (61 months ago | reply)
excellent !
jonbrown13 (61 months ago | reply)
great set of photos, which my rss feeds delivered to my desktop!
sashakasha (58 months ago | reply)
The staircase gives a hint of scale and adds to the perception of how huge this place is. Having said that, I did a mental exercise imagining that this is a photo of some tiny industrial crawlspace :)
Like www.flickr.com/photos/whybesubtle/286447755/i n/set-721575... or www.flickr.com/photos/whybesubtle/286446901/i n/set-721575...
myles.tan (54 months ago | reply)
Amazing, feels like im there.
Vineyards (52 months ago | reply)
Photogenic Urbex location. Excellent shot.