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Aran
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 1848 likes
Huh. I guess covid made me a trendsetter.
| | | Re: Running into other explorers < Reply # 2 on 6/14/2022 3:14 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Unless it's an explorer I know (which it pretty much never is), I typically acknowledge them, maybe exchange information about any hazards in the building/contact information, then finish exploring the building myself while avoiding them. There's always that tense moment where you're trying to figure out each other's intentions, and as a rule I typically don't turn my back to people I've just met in an abandoned building, explorer or no. Once I get home I can usually dig through their instagram or something to get a feel for if they're chill or not, and if they are I'll ask if they want to meet up again. But when you meet each other for the first time in an abandoned building you don't know if they're stealthy, if they smash stuff up, if they'll rob you, whatever.
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| "Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there. |
| Furious D
Location: Northern Ontario Gender: Male Total Likes: 294 likes
The Night Time is the Right Time
| | | Re: Running into other explorers < Reply # 5 on 6/15/2022 12:28 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I met one of my good photographer friends while exploring an abandoned house in Central Alberta. We both saw each other from a distance. He thought I was the land owner, and I thought he was the land owner! Then, I noticed his tripod and I smiled and waved my camera. We both exchanged contact info and started sharing locations and exploring together from time to time. Since then, he's moved on to become a very successful photographer, leading tours through abandoned properties in the prairies with permission from land owners, and heavily researched the history of homesteads. When I travel back home, I'll often catch-up with him and go out photographing together. We met at this place: One time I was photographing at night inside an abandoned house and I noticed, while in the upstairs, a small group of people with flashlights walking across the field towards the house. I imagine they were a young group of college students from the nearby town (exploring creepy old houses is a right of passage there). I was doing some light painting at the time with flashes. Without pausing from my work, I set up another photo and started firing my flash around the upstairs rooms, illuminating the photo. I looked out the window and saw the group running back to their car! I laughed pretty hard. This was the photo I was taking at the time, hahaha
| "The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Fame is a by-product of doing something else. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit." -Banksy The work of FuriousD: https://www.flickr...photos/opdendries/ |
| Aran
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 1848 likes
Huh. I guess covid made me a trendsetter.
| | | Re: Running into other explorers < Reply # 15 on 6/29/2022 6:18 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Just some anecdotes about running into other explorers... 1.)Ran into a group of cavers in a flooded mine who looked like they came straight out of 1968. There were maybe half a dozen of them, all dressed in surplus WWII US Army uniforms complete with the netting on the helmets. They all wore tactical headlamps and carried inflatable rafts that were painted jet black to complete the look. We exchanged pleasantries with them, though they were tight lipped about most things, and parted ways. 2.)Encountered a pair of teenage graffiti kids in an abandoned steam plant in MSP. I just held up my camera and said something to the extent of "don't worry, we aren't here to bust you- we're not supposed to be here either" and parted ways. I ran into them again, stuck halfway out a window fifteen feet up. I had to instruct them how to navigate the climb so their floundering wouldn't draw the attention of the security guards at a building next door. 3.)Ran into a group of explorers at a school in Gary. Our conversation was pretty much "you here to take photos? Yeah, me too." And then we went to the far side of the building, away from them. 4.)Bumped into the same dude twice at two different abandoned buildings in Chicago. The second time, we exchanged Instas and parted ways. He hit me up a few times asking to explore, but given his tendency to clout chase and name drop spots, I never took him up on it. 5.) Ran into a group of teenagers atop an abandoned mill in MSP who were passing around a blunt. I just said I was there to take pictures and gave them space- though I did also encourage them not to try walking across the rusty sheet metal roof when I overheard them bringing up the idea. That's about how most encounters with other explorers go in my experience, though encounters with homeless people and scrappers can sometimes be a little more tense- and I do have more stories on those situations, but those are tales for another thread.
| "Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there. |
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