Uploads from cseward, tagged scrapyard

Motorcycle Graveyard Wide Angle

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:47:05 -0700

cseward posted a photo:

These photos are part of a gallery exhibit at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, NY. All of the photos are of abandoned places around Western New York. There are many abandoned buildings in this area due to rapid economic/infrastructure changes in the last century. The replacement of the Eerie Canal with the New York Thruway, the collapse of film photography, and over-development before the recent recession left the area with lots of empty buildings and no reason to replace them with something new.

I'm told the motorcycles used to be at a place called Cole's on the north side of the Erie Canal but got moved to this site when urban renewal started along the canal. The owner apparently died in the 1970's, and now the motorcycles have just been left there to rust. I'm not sure who owns the place now.

I didn't have much time to take pictures there, as we had many other abandoned sites to see, but it's really a huge place, three stories, and just brimming with antique motorcycles and parts. The pictures are all taken on the second, and most structurally stable floor of the building.

The motorcycle graveyard, as my friends and I are now calling it, is definitely one of the most eerie, strangest places I have ever been, and i think these pictures really speak to the tendency for old things to be forgotten in america, especially in rural areas, where a building can lay unoccupied for decades.

-Chris Seward

PS. The original non-hdr pictures were on a failed hard drive, so it took me a while to find them. The original photo project had to be all HDR, but here's the originals.

Please contact me at seward dot chris at gee mail dot com for prints or publishing.

UPDATE: The place has been cleaned out. No more motorcycles. dcclassiccycles.dynamitedave.com/graveyard.html

Abandoned Motorcycles HDR

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:47:01 -0700

cseward posted a photo:

These photos are part of a gallery exhibit at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, NY. All of the photos are of abandoned places around Western New York. There are many abandoned buildings in this area due to rapid economic/infrastructure changes in the last century. The replacement of the Eerie Canal with the New York Thruway, the collapse of film photography, and over-development before the recent recession left the area with lots of empty buildings and no reason to replace them with something new.

I'm told the motorcycles used to be at a place called Cole's on the north side of the Erie Canal but got moved to this site when urban renewal started along the canal. The owner apparently died in the 1970's, and now the motorcycles have just been left there to rust. I'm not sure who owns the place now.

I didn't have much time to take pictures there, as we had many other abandoned sites to see, but it's really a huge place, three stories, and just brimming with antique motorcycles and parts. The pictures are all taken on the second, and most structurally stable floor of the building.

The motorcycle graveyard, as my friends and I are now calling it, is definitely one of the most eerie, strangest places I have ever been, and i think these pictures really speak to the tendency for old things to be forgotten in america, especially in rural areas, where a building can lay unoccupied for decades.

-Chris Seward

Please contact me at seward dot chris at gee mail dot com for prints or publishing.

This one's a little lighter on the HDR, cause some people don't like it...

UPDATE: The place has been cleaned out. No more motorcycles. dcclassiccycles.dynamitedave.com/graveyard.html

Decaying Building

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:46:48 -0700

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Motorcycle Graveyard Wide Angle HDR

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:47:03 -0700

cseward posted a photo:

These photos are part of a gallery exhibit at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, NY. All of the photos are of abandoned places around Western New York. There are many abandoned buildings in this area due to rapid economic/infrastructure changes in the last century. The replacement of the Eerie Canal with the New York Thruway, the collapse of film photography, and over-development before the recent recession left the area with lots of empty buildings and no reason to replace them with something new.

I'm told the motorcycles used to be at a place called Cole's on the north side of the Erie Canal but got moved to this site when urban renewal started along the canal. The owner apparently died in the 1970's, and now the motorcycles have just been left there to rust. I'm not sure who owns the place now.

I didn't have much time to take pictures there, as we had many other abandoned sites to see, but it's really a huge place, three stories, and just brimming with antique motorcycles and parts. The pictures are all taken on the second, and most structurally stable floor of the building.

The motorcycle graveyard, as my friends and I are now calling it, is definitely one of the most eerie, strangest places I have ever been, and i think these pictures really speak to the tendency for old things to be forgotten in america, especially in rural areas, where a building can lay unoccupied for decades.

-Chris Seward

Please contact me at seward dot chris at gee mail dot com for prints or publishing.

This one's a little lighter on the HDR, cause some people don't like it...

UPDATE: The place has been cleaned out. No more motorcycles. dcclassiccycles.dynamitedave.com/graveyard.html

Abandoned Motorcycles

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:46:59 -0700

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Decaying Roof

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:46:57 -0700

cseward posted a photo:

These photos are part of a gallery exhibit at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, NY. All of the photos are of abandoned places around Western New York. There are many abandoned buildings in this area due to rapid economic/infrastructure changes in the last century. The replacement of the Eerie Canal with the New York Thruway, the collapse of film photography, and over-development before the recent recession left the area with lots of empty buildings and no reason to replace them with something new.

I'm told the motorcycles used to be at a place called Cole's on the north side of the Erie Canal but got moved to this site when urban renewal started along the canal. The owner apparently died in the 1970's, and now the motorcycles have just been left there to rust. I'm not sure who owns the place now.

I didn't have much time to take pictures there, as we had many other abandoned sites to see, but it's really a huge place, three stories, and just brimming with antique motorcycles and parts. The pictures are all taken on the second, and most structurally stable floor of the building.

The motorcycle graveyard, as my friends and I are now calling it, is definitely one of the most eerie, strangest places I have ever been, and i think these pictures really speak to the tendency for old things to be forgotten in america, especially in rural areas, where a building can lay unoccupied for decades.

-Chris Seward

PS. The original non-hdr pictures were on a failed hard drive, so it took me a while to find them. The original photo project had to be all HDR, but here's the originals

Please contact me at seward dot chris at gee mail dot com for prints or publishing.

UPDATE: The place has been cleaned out. No more motorcycles. dcclassiccycles.dynamitedave.com/graveyard.html

Motorcycle Graveyard

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:19:30 -0700

cseward posted a photo:

There were thousands of motorcycles in this building.

These pictures are all taken in an abandoned scrapyard / motorcycle graveyard in Lockport, NY. Apparently the building was condemned, but the inventory was never sold off. If i ever need parts for antique motorcycles, I now know where to go.

This was part of an HDR photo project at the University of Rochester, but here's a non HDR version, for all the haters:
www.flickr.com/photos/cseward/4817294544/in/photostream/

UPDATE: The place has been cleaned out. No more motorcycles. dcclassiccycles.dynamitedave.com/graveyard.html

Motorcycle Graveyard 2

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:18:17 -0700

cseward posted a photo:

This was one of the less stable buildings we explored. In various places the weight of the motorcycles had broken through the floor.

These pictures are all taken in an abandoned scrapyard / motorcycle graveyard in Lockport, NY. Apparently the building was condemned, but the inventory was never sold off. If i ever need parts for antique motorcycles, I now know where to go.

This was part of an HDR photo project at the University of Rochester, but here's a non HDR version, for all the haters:
www.flickr.com/photos/cseward/4817294424/

UPDATE: The place has been cleaned out. No more motorcycles. dcclassiccycles.dynamitedave.com/graveyard.html

Motorcycle Scraps

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:15:52 -0700

cseward posted a photo:

These pictures are all taken in an abandoned scrapyard / motorcycle graveyard in Lockport, NY. Apparently the building was condemned, but the inventory was never sold off. If i ever need parts for antique motorcycles, I now know where to go.

UPDATE: The place has been cleaned out. No more motorcycles. dcclassiccycles.dynamitedave.com/graveyard.html

The Loneliest Bear

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:14:39 -0700

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Who knows how long Winnie the Pooh has been here.

These pictures are all taken in an abandoned scrapyard / motorcycle graveyard in Lockport, NY. Apparently the building was condemned, but the inventory was never sold off. If i ever need parts for antique motorcycles, I now know where to go.

Motorcycle Graveyard 3

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:17:03 -0700

cseward posted a photo:

Even more motorcycles

These pictures are all taken in an abandoned scrapyard / motorcycle graveyard in Lockport, NY. Apparently the building was condemned, but the inventory was never sold off. If i ever need parts for antique motorcycles, I now know where to go.

This was part of an HDR photo project at the University of Rochester, but here's a non HDR version, for all the haters:
www.flickr.com/photos/cseward/4816671765/

and lighter on the hdr:
www.flickr.com/photos/cseward/4817294228/

UPDATE: The place has been cleaned out. No more motorcycles. dcclassiccycles.dynamitedave.com/graveyard.html

Decaying Roof 2

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:12:08 -0700

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Make a Door

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:13:23 -0700

cseward posted a photo:

Why go around when you can go through?

These pictures are all taken in an abandoned scrapyard / motorcycle graveyard in Lockport, NY. Apparently the building was condemned, but the inventory was never sold off. If i ever need parts for antique motorcycles, I now know where to go.

Decaying Roof

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:10:58 -0700

cseward posted a photo:

Motorcycle Graveyard HDR

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:46:53 -0700

cseward posted a photo:

These photos are part of a gallery exhibit at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, NY. All of the photos are of abandoned places around Western New York. There are many abandoned buildings in this area due to rapid economic/infrastructure changes in the last century. The replacement of the Eerie Canal with the New York Thruway, the collapse of film photography, and over-development before the recent recession left the area with lots of empty buildings and no reason to replace them with something new.

I'm told the motorcycles used to be at a place called Cole's on the north side of the Erie Canal but got moved to this site when urban renewal started along the canal. The owner apparently died in the 1970's, and now the motorcycles have just been left there to rust. I'm not sure who owns the place now.

I didn't have much time to take pictures there, as we had many other abandoned sites to see, but it's really a huge place, three stories, and just brimming with antique motorcycles and parts. The pictures are all taken on the second, and most structurally stable floor of the building.

The motorcycle graveyard, as my friends and I are now calling it, is definitely one of the most eerie, strangest places I have ever been, and i think these pictures really speak to the tendency for old things to be forgotten in america, especially in rural areas, where a building can lay unoccupied for decades.

-Chris Seward

Please contact me at seward dot chris at gee mail dot com for prints or publishing.

This one's a little lighter on the HDR tone mapping, cause some people don't like it...

UPDATE: The place has been cleaned out. No more motorcycles. dcclassiccycles.dynamitedave.com/graveyard.html

Motorcycle Graveyard

nobody@flickr.com (cseward) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:46:51 -0700

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