An abandoned sugar factory somewhere in Belgium. Giant looming buildings filled with oversized machinery. Getting in was easy, but we knew there was security so we had to lay low. Rain was pouring down and the buildings were creaking in the ruthless wind, so we couldn't hear if someone else was walking around inside. After a while it stopped raining, and we could hear someone making his rounds downstairs, so we kept still until the noise disappeared. We were almost finished and we wanted to check the last building, the lab. Just as we were about to enter, we noticed a single trail of fresh wet footprints on the doorsteps. Someone recently entered this building and was still inside. We decided to bail and get out of there quietly.

I took my Zeiss ikon Nettar 515 for nightly testdrive last week, it was the first time I used this cam and I noticed that it's really hard to get good compositions with the pop-up viewfinder. The camera is a medium format folder that shoots 6x9 negatives, it's also really well built.

I wanted to take a stab at some medium format night photography, so I loaded the Nettar with a roll of Shanghai GP3 and went outside to shoot some nearby streets. All exposures were between 30 and 60 seconds at f22.

Another abandoned German coalmine. Massive buildings, epic machinery, and of course some nice kaues.

A while ago, someone gave me about 8 rolls of long expired (I'm guessing around 30 years past date) Kodak plus-X. I decided to shoot a roll with my panamate to see if the film was still useable. I developed the roll in HC-110 (dilution H) for about 10 minutes, and I was surprised to see that the negatives were quite ok. There's a lot of base fog and the grain is pretty big, but the negatives were easy to scan.

Another abandoned hospital, this one was being stripped for reconversion while we were there though. Still, there were some intact parts of the building to be found.