City Images (September 2020)

Earlier in the month I posted some photographs of the war memorial in Nottingham. In that post, I said that I had done a lot of walking looking for photographic inspiration which often means trying finding a subject where I can link images together in small panels - five or more related photographs rather than individual or standalone images. 

Inevitably, there are a number of false starts in this process where I manage one or two captures but it fail to progress or I don’t make the necessary links. These are a selection of some of those starts including one or two images that actually do standalone and say enough about the subject in one capture, like the Watkins Street image below and the acer leaves in the arboretum:

Watkin Street

Old and new development in bright afternoon sun:

Tinker's Leen

A diverted section of the the River Leen, I believe, running through old and new buildings: 

Dereliction

One of the old buildings along Tinker's Leen:

Outside Plumbing

Station Car Park

The newer cladding on the railway station car park:

Love Locks 

Love locks on Wilford Suspension Bridge:

Arboretum

Seasonal colours from the acers in Nottingham arboretum:

Abandoned Hotel - Part 3

The remaining photographs in the abandoned hotel series includes one particularly impressive piece of art work. I have no idea who is depicted in the mural or whether it has any cultural significance...my interest was therefore to simply reflect the artistic impact of the wall painting:

There was some evidence that people had used the hotel's apartment or bedroom spaces as temporary homes - although I saw nobody whilst I was walking around the building:

Finally, the building has collapsed at one end and it looked fire damaged:

Right, that concludes all the photographs of the abandoned hotel. Hopefully I managed to convey something of its eerie scale, isolation, and derelict nature -  there was a strange silence as I walked around the building which I found quite disconcerting and although I enjoyed the photography I was pleased to start the journey back towards Playa Blanca.

Abandoned Hotel - Part 2

In my previous post I set the scene for some photographs of an abandoned hotel in Lanzarote. Here, I show shots taken at the rear of the building which I think includes window spaces that would have formed corridors had the building ever been finished. There is also an underground entrance which may have been designed to accommodate store rooms or possibly the kitchens.....whatever was intended the building is now in a poor state - eventually it will be demolished I guess....