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Infiltration Forums > UE Photography > 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry(Viewed 1408 times)
miber location:
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2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
< on 12/19/2020 6:55 PM >
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Welp, I spent hours making my year in review thread with great stories and detailed captions for all the photos and I just lost it all. As I was previewing the post I noticed Santa and his reindeer getting laggier and laggier on my screen until all of a sudden the webpage locked up completely. No problem I thought, I had the foresight to copy the entire post to my clipboard before previewing it. I went to open a text document to copy paste it in and that's when I realized... my entire computer was locked up. Anyway, here I go again, this time with greatly slimmed down captions because I ain't got time for that again. 1 photo per location. Not all are abandoned.

2020 was the first year I really did a lot of solo exploring, and I quite enjoyed the ambience of having these places completely to myself. It was the year of getting obsessive over old industrial sites. And it was the year of just going crazy and trying to cross as much as I could off of my domestic bucket list. Overall I'd say it was pretty successful.




Relatively unchanged since our first visit 5 years ago, probably thanks to the vigilant security and their security peacock.








A semi-abandoned power plant. Steam turbines are my favorite machines to photograph.


Steam turbine in a fully abandoned version of the previous plant. Going between these two plants was as close as you'll get to having a time machine.


Not abandoned. We were treated to a private pipe organ concert here, t'was awesome.






Swaggy sewage plant.




















This turbine has already been dismantled.




Office chair in front of the security cameras was still warm.


Managed to see this plant right before the vandalism started picking up. I've been told demolition is starting here but I haven't confirmed it for myself yet.






Hudson Generating Station, all gone now.




Stairwell in an ancient railroad powerhouse.




I assumed this plant was abandoned, and as I walked up to it it seemed like I was right... until I peeked in the turbine hall and saw a worker checking gauges.






I knew this place was going to be hard, but not "pinned down by a sheriff on top of a hill with binoculars while inmates work on the grounds just a few feet away from you" hard.


Wanted to memorialize this car in this thread since it's how we got around to literally all these locations. Bryan and I went 50/50 on this car around a year ago and it's done 40k miles without a hiccup. Just a couple of weeks ago it got rear ended by a distracted driver and now it's totaled. Was a super rare manual transmission in a wagon, will be super hard to find a replacement. RIP.




















Revisited this one to get some better photos than I did the first time around. Fortunately not much has changed here.


Steel mill powerhouse that was undergoing demolition, it's probably all gone by now.


This control room was a nice surprise to walk into, especially when the rest of the plant was already gutted. This is likely gone by now too though.


Control room of disappointment. Damn digitization strikes again.


This place was probably not worth the effort. I mean, it was a cool plant and all, but damn accessing it was rough.


Paid this plant a return visit.


As well as this one.


This plant is mostly gone now. I enjoyed it a lot even though it was relatively modern.








So close yet so far.


Took way too long to get to this one. At least I was able to get a clean shot in this room.




Rest in pieces.












Camped out at this classic. Didn't feel it was safe to attempt entry or exit in daylight so we went in after dark, slept the night, woke up, explored all day, and left after sunset. Pretty great way to experience an abandoned place.




Shout out to the farmer who caught us looking mad sus on his land on the way out of here and was totally cool about it.


This one was a personal holy grail of holy grails. Not going to be showing anything too crazy from here, but this was interesting- a turbo-generator crammed in the basement below the regular turbine deck.






A huge but empty abandoned hospital.






Another revisit to get better photos. My shots here before weren't terrible but this plant deserved better. Glad to see it hasn't changed a bit.




Got busted by a swarm of cops here. When we asked them how they knew we were inside they said they were just doing a random sweep of the building. Just our luck. Fortunately they were pretty cool and let us go. It's always the rinky-dink places where you run into the most trouble...


Nice steam turbine, not so nice graffiti.






Another revisit.


And another revisit.





Here's to a 2021 with just as much exploring and a little less global pandemic. Gotta make some progress on that Europe bucket list!



mookster location:
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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 1 on 12/19/2020 7:38 PM >
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Sweet merciful heavens this is an incredible set.



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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 2 on 12/19/2020 7:38 PM >
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Nice shots. What did everyone do the railroad powerhouse this year? 😂 I keep seeing random pictures pop up.



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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 3 on 12/19/2020 8:14 PM >
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Damn you had a hell of a year. I'd love to see more from those two movie palaces.



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miber location:
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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 4 on 12/19/2020 8:15 PM >
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Posted by Rinzler
Nice shots. What did everyone do the railroad powerhouse this year? 😂 I keep seeing random pictures pop up.


I saw anomalicious made it in, anyone else?



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Montréal - Qc
 
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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 5 on 12/19/2020 9:27 PM >
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Holy shit man that's a fucking good year!

Lucky US bastard.

Your photography is really good man, for real.


Posted by Rinzler
Nice shots. What did everyone do the railroad powerhouse this year? 😂 I keep seeing random pictures pop up.


We cracked it together, me and Tpp. Then i told our boy anomalicious. Other than that i didn't see any other pics.





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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 6 on 12/19/2020 9:37 PM >
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Posted by ClementRSedona
Holy shit man that's a fucking good year!

Lucky US bastard.

Your photography is really good man, for real.




We cracked it together, me and Tpp. Then i told our boy anomalicious. Other than that i didn't see any other pics.




Oh that makes sense! Didn’t realize you guys went together. Good shit.



Cfourexplore location:
North Carolina
 
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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 7 on 12/20/2020 12:54 AM >
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Holy crapneck this is badass! I even recognize #10...spent alot of time exploring it this year. I've also been to #18.
Love these industrial sites, 9 is cool, and that mall shot is, as the sign says, real sweet! Loving all of these, thanks for sharing, and my condolences to you about your car.
Good luck and be safe in 2021! 🙂



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Kurt location:
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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 8 on 12/20/2020 4:27 PM >
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This is one of the best sets I have seen in a long while. What a year you had!



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samw1seg location:
Ontario
 
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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 9 on 12/20/2020 7:01 PM >
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Not that it's a contest.. but this is the best YiR I've seen yet. I'm mesmerized by the shots of turbines and control rooms but the shot of the two planes facing off is my favorite. Are those all the same hydro electric station, or different ones?



miber location:
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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 10 on 12/21/2020 12:07 AM >
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Posted by samw1seg
Not that it's a contest.. but this is the best YiR I've seen yet. I'm mesmerized by the shots of turbines and control rooms but the shot of the two planes facing off is my favorite. Are those all the same hydro electric station, or different ones?


Only one photo is of a hydro actually (the exterior with the river and fall colors). All the others are from conventional steam power stations. And they were all different locations, 1 shot per.



Sheavy location:
Hoover, Alabama
 
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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 11 on 12/28/2020 4:05 AM >
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Posted by miber
Overall I'd say it was pretty successful.



Understatement of the year, some incredible places in this thread and well shot to boot.

Posted by miber
security peacock.






Security even goes inside the buildings here.

Untitled by Abandoned Alabama, on Flickr







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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 12 on 12/28/2020 4:29 PM >
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Wow what an amazing set! It looks like you had many great adventures in 2020. I especially love all the control rooms and theaters. The water park was awesome too, sorry for your run in there though. I hope 2021 brings you as many great adventures.



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miber location:
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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 13 on 12/29/2020 4:09 AM >
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Posted by Sheavy


Understatement of the year, some incredible places in this thread and well shot to boot.





Security even goes inside the buildings here.

https://live.staticflickr.com/4576/38323040966_350370eb3b_b.jpgUntitled by Abandoned Alabama, on Flickr






Lol wow, that's the guy! Every time security left the guard booth to do a round, the peacock would come out and stand right in the middle of the road blocking off the entrance. Was hilarious to see. Figured he would make a ton of noise if we got too close.





Punchy location:
NC
 
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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 14 on 12/29/2020 7:24 PM >
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I thought the security peacock was an urban legend, since we didn't see him when we spent nearly the whole day there a few years ago. Maybe he had the day off that day.

Funny (to me, anyway) to see that little school with the red curtains along with what's mostly massive industrial locations, since it's such a small school in a tiny little town.

Good stuff all around. Helluva year.



The Digital Cow location:
Central Bama
 
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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 15 on 1/1/2021 4:09 AM >
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Wow! Those industrial panels look amazing, but great shots overall.



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Adv.Pack location:
Connecticut
 
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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 16 on 1/1/2021 10:32 PM >
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Looks like you had a good year



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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 17 on 1/3/2021 3:47 AM >
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Shit man, didn't hear about the car accident. Glad you two are okay.

You destroyed my year. I'm hoping my 2021 looks little something like this. Fingers crossed.



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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 18 on 1/5/2021 6:08 PM >
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Good Night Man! These are Lovely! Stunning work. That curved rusty crusty control panel is one of my faves. Wayyyy too many to mention. Keep serving up these delicious pics.



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Re: 2020 Recap - The Year of Industry
<Reply # 19 on 1/6/2021 12:33 AM >
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Super strong photos! No shortage of incredible locations.



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