The Green Room

March 1, 2013 | luciawillemsramirez

June 2009, Germany.
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Star Sculpture

February 24, 2013 | luciawillemsramirez

Sculpture at Kröller-Müller Museum.

Oktober 2012, The Netherlands.
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Greasy Monkey

November 10, 2011 | luciawillemsramirez

Abandoned industrial buildings in Holland, a rare find. And right in the middle of a suburban area. This place was completely and entirely covered in a greasy substance. It once was a Vaseline factory and left for quite some time now, not sure how long. We were here more than a year ago. I’m sure by now its being demolished for something else to be built there instead.

Some photo’s

April 2010.

The Office

August 6, 2010 | luciawillemsramirez

I’m proud to let you know that this photo has been selected for the Art of Photography Show competition, based in San Diego, US. There will be an exhibition of the 111 selected works in the Lyceum Theatre Gallery in San Diego from August 28th until November 7th, 2010. The opening reception is on August 28th from 6 to 10 pm. If you have the chance and/or are in the neighbourhood; have a look and see my photo on display! Cheerios!

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Abandoned factory, Germany

Germanness Randomness II

September 29, 2009 | luciawillemsramirez

…continuation from last post
Germanness Randomness I

The second location was on my list of things to do because what I had seen of it reminded me of Beeltiz Heilstätten (Beelitz & Elstal), up to date one of my favorite locations visited. The beautiful tiles and long halls. The sereneness. This place is also very nice, and did have a bit of the Beelitz feel to it, but in a different way. This time we where accompanied by Anna Bas Backer and her friend form Argentina. Anna is an old colleague of mine who is now part of our little explorer nerd group :). Anyways, here are tha last photo’s yo.

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Eastern germany, August 2008.

Germanness Randomness I

September 24, 2009 | luciawillemsramirez

These are more photos taken on the germany-trip I was talking about earlier in the posts Sleeping with Lenin & Sanatorium S. The Urbexweekender in august 2008. In the mean time I’ve had another one of these weekends, august 2009, but I’m just a bit slow on my scanning and posting material… So your gonna have to bear with me, and read stuff that happened ages ago :).

These are the last photos form locations in eastern Germany from that weekend. The first location is a bit of a lucky shot. My friend martino was scanning through google earth in preparation for our weekend, looking for locations. Found some rooftops with black spots on it and named it Bingo. We drove there and it turned out to be a massive location in the middle of a forest next to this beautiful lake. Well done Martino!

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Continues in next post…
Germanness Randomness II

SanatoriumS

August 4, 2009 | luciawillemsramirez

Apparently this place is really close to very observing villagers. People live and work right next door to this place, although its located in a very peaceful and beautiful area.
It is meant to be difficult to enter, but once we found the place to get in (all windows and doors were covered by wooden panels), we managed to get in quickly and unnoticed.
Inside we had to be very quiet so people wouldnt notice our presence and kick us out. We were a little bit disappointed that the whole building was empty; no furniture, materials, objects, books or traces of it being inhabited whatsoever… But the place itself was very peaceful.

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The next photo was taken in a different building then the shots before, but still part of the same sanatorium. It was more in the woods down a hill. Here it was completely trashed. The stairs to the top floor had completely disappeared. So the only way up was a rusty little fire escape on the outside of the building… Luckily I went up, because there I found this little beauty of a room!

A room with a view
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Germany, August 2008.

Durgerdam

July 8, 2009 | luciawillemsramirez

A day out and about with dad and brother

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July 2008.

Beelitz & Elstal

March 27, 2009 | luciawillemsramirez

Something that is becoming a yearly recurring happening between me and a few friends of mine, is the Berlin Urbex Weekender. Once a year we go to Eastern Germany, do research on abandoned and decaying locations in the area and go camping. They are absolutely amazing. We have stayed at, what I can safely call my favorite, Camping Potsdam. It is situated right next to the Templiner See (see photos of older post), which makes crawling out of your tent in the morning a heavenly experience. These weekends are all about being outside, taking photos of beautiful locations, camping, adventure, campfire’s and last but not least; spending time in Berlin eating sushi, drinking with friends & playing pool. In other words, Happy Time!!!

Beelitz-Heilstätten

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Elstal

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Germany, October 2007.

California Trees

March 25, 2009 | luciawillemsramirez

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California, August 2007.

Chocolate Factory

March 24, 2009 | luciawillemsramirez

My first Urban Exploring trip ever. Fresh off the flee market I got myself an Olympus Trip-35. Bought for a whopping €5,-. Packed with some 3200 ASA black and white film, me and some friends went to this decayed Chocolate factory to sneak in, have a rummage around and take some pictures.
Seen as the camera I was using had minor setting possibilities, only the roof shots come out well exposed.

Here is the outcome