Hartlepool shoot

Hartlepool






Following taking images at Seaton Carew i wanted to capture some images in hartlepool of the more run down buildings and some images of some of the industrial parts of hartlepool. I began by taking images in the town of run down buildings, this is something id like to explore more in this project, not just of hartlepool town but maybe some of the colliery villages near to where I live?

I really like the retro style of this building and how run down it now looks. The shape of the building is unusual, even the colour of the bricks makes it stand out. there is so much detail on this building to look at. I took a photo of this because its a building i drive past every day on the bus on my way from from university and i just can't believe just a big building like this is just left to be so run down.

Moving from Hartlepool town i then went on to Seal Sands where i photographed some of the industry here. I then travelled further to port tyne side where i was able to get close to the tyne bridge. There were people bunji jumping off the bridge but i chose not to present any of those images because that wasn't really the way i was wanting to portray the bridge and the area surrounding it.

Although this image is extremely similar to a previous image here i wanted to leave it as this image showed the train tracks a lot clearer. I think this train track really adds interest to the image and draws the eye across the bottom of the image into the distance in the direction of the tracks.

What i like most about this image is the contrasts of bright reds and blues in more that just one area of the image. 

I found this image worked best in monochrome. What i think really adds interest to this image is the unusual tree in the background, i feel it adds an eery feel to the desolate run down cafe.

This is probably my favourite image of the bridge. i feel the use of black and white really works well and the angle which I've taken the image at does too. The bridge looks pretty impressive and in my opinion looks to be shown in a positive light. 

I was really taken back by the housing literally yards away from the famous transporter bridge. I couldn't quite believe full streets of houses were stood completely empty like this, it felt like such a shame. What would have added to the interest of this series of images of the houses would have been if id of walked down the street and captured an image of the street face on, as it was really interesting and quite strange to see that bang in the middle of this street, one house was still in use.