The House Where Nobody Lives [C&C]

Setun

A collection taken near Wicklow town of an old house where nobody lives. The building beside it used to house a swimming pool - don't know how long ago - but now the pool is filled with stagnant rainwater. A lot of random debris thrown in there, most of it from the derelict house beside it.

Anyway, here are the shots, any C&C welcome

Outside the buidings:





Inside the house:


Old swimming pool:


There's a few more on my flickr, if anyone's interested. www.flickr.com/photos/hendersonsix

Borderfox

First two are really nice and the second one would be tops for me. Nice set though.

Dragan

I'm with Borderfox. First two are great. The pool one is interested, but if it were possible to get up high, for a top down shot, that would be very interesting i think.

John

The second one you posted here is my favourite of these ones (the pool shot is a bit dark on one side compared to the other) but there's some better ones (IMO) on your flickr. This one I love (it looks like an impending apocalypse) and this one is pretty atmospheric too.

duckysauce

nice shots where in wicklow is this?

Setun

Dragan wrote:

The pool one is interested, but if it were possible to get up high, for a top down shot, that would be very interesting i think.

Cheers Dragan, will definitely try that next time I'm down there.

John wrote: »

The second one you posted here is my favourite of these ones (the pool shot is a bit dark on one side compared to the other) but there's some better ones (IMO) on your flickr. This one I love (it looks like an impending apocalypse) and this one is pretty atmospheric too.

Yep I know what you mean. Feckin sunlight! Maybe later in the day might be better, these were taken about 11am or thereabouts iirc.

duckysauce wrote:

nice shots where in wicklow is this?

It's about a 40 minutes walk north of Wicklow town along the beach.

democrates

Well done, enjoyed those shots.

On the fourth one, my inclination would be to get lower down and crop compose to include the doorway, wild flora, and the blue paint going down to the neglected floor, that would be enough information to identify what is in the scene, and allows focus on for example the peeling blue paint that hints at what an oasis this place used to be, plus if you get down to human level, it's like you could be there to swim, waiting for that someone special to walk through the door, but now that time is long gone.

I still have a problem of only noticing possibilities later - when I'm on the scene I get this urge to document everything, like each shot has to give a complete record like evidence for an insurance claim. Paradoxically it takes a bit of discipline to allow freedom, to ignore all evidence, and zone in on enough to tell the story, the most poignant elements in the scene.

Your shots remind me of an abandoned place beside the Il Presidente apartments in Algarve, frozen in the seventies or eighties, haunting, memories you can only wonder about. Nights of music, laughter, dance, and romance, but what happened in the lives of those people after that.

There's a palpable tragic aspect to abandoned places like this.
Cheers.

Setun

Thanks for that. I do plan on going back down again so it'll be interesting to see how different the set will be next time.

There is a very strange feeling in places of dereliction. They're not "scary" in the ususual sense of the word. They're quite uncomfortable in an eerie sense. It's quite sad to think of all the good and bad memories held within the walls of a house, then to see it in a state of dilapidation. I'd love to know why this one was abandoned. Especially with the second building housing a swimming pool, which is definitely very strange considering the style, size, and area of the house itself.