To further explore HDR photography I combined it with some urban exploring in a abandoned coal mine, washing plant and coking plant. This massive complex is called Zollverein located in Essen Germany. Well in fact it’s not really abandoned since it is now home of the Ruhr Museum.

The museum is located in the former washing plant, with many of the machinery still in place. The huge coking plant ceased operation in 1993 and didn’t change since. Nature is slowly retaking the plant, a great photo opportunity!

Staircase in Kohlenwäsche designed by Rem Koolhaas

Schacht 1/2/8

railroad switch

Coal train in front of cooling tower

Kokerei

Druckmaschine

Druckmaschine

Löschwagen

Entstaubung Koksausstoß

Schacht XII

Schacht 1/2/8

Since the beginning of this year, news on AviaMagazine was running slow. We simply lacked the time to update the news more frequently. Well, finally I had some time to build a definite solution for the problem. I’m now completing the new build homepage which features automatic news feed integration provided  by Aviationweek.com. New AJAX techniques were used to get the feed data asynchronously. The new homepage of which you see a small peak on the right will be online shortly.