The Colours of Ostrava venue

Colours of Ostrava music festival is held in a massive former industrial complex of some sort (yesterday I posted some photos from this year's festival). It seems like the type of place that processed or produced a variety of things. Perhaps heavy metals of some sort. Maybe chemicals. Whatever its previous existence was, it now is the location for a huge music festival. I'm sure its been cleaned up a lot since its active dates, but I still wouldn't want to spend too much time there (or lick the walls).

This is a Lubitel shot I took of a small section of it:

Rusty Tacoma

One of the great features of old, industrial cities is the decay and rust that can be found despite all efforts of city councils to modernize and "prettify." Tacoma has a great industrial area that has many abandoned spaces side-by-side with functioning buildings and industries.

Today we took an early morning photo wander around Tacoma's Tide Flats area with a friend. I schlepped my Fujica 6x4.5 and Zero Image pinhole cameras along with the Canon G9 (I can never be accused of favoring one camera over another). Took lots of rust photos with the idea of using them for textures in digital collage. However, I may just keep some of them as stand-alone photos since they're so cool looking.

I took a G9 macro shot of these rusty nails that were scattered on a cruddy old forklift.

Rusty nails

It never ceases to amaze me how many photo-worthy scenes I can find just by stepping in close.