A mixture of gorgeous Art Nouveau-style pump station and sluice / flood control..er...thingy (I believe that's the technical hydrological engineering term for it) in Northwest Germany that we utterly failed to get into a few weeks ago.
Regardless of what 28DL thinks about the acceptability, or lack thereof, of tearing the hell out of after-the-fact entry deterrents, locks, barricades, what-have-you, I certainly won't say no when some lovely young person has done it for me.
So here we are, zero graffiti, amazing play of light and rust and shadows - in the middle you see the old sluice gate mechanism, used to regulate water flows between some of the local drainage systems and the nearby river.
I don't know anything of the history of the place - it's not huge by anyone's standards - but as a photographic subject it was pretty awesome.
And then of course you can click on the 11kx11k pixel death composite pano of doom:
Regardless of what 28DL thinks about the acceptability, or lack thereof, of tearing the hell out of after-the-fact entry deterrents, locks, barricades, what-have-you, I certainly won't say no when some lovely young person has done it for me.
So here we are, zero graffiti, amazing play of light and rust and shadows - in the middle you see the old sluice gate mechanism, used to regulate water flows between some of the local drainage systems and the nearby river.
I don't know anything of the history of the place - it's not huge by anyone's standards - but as a photographic subject it was pretty awesome.
And then of course you can click on the 11kx11k pixel death composite pano of doom:
More, as usual, at kosmograd dot net.