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Institute
Heretaunga, Wellington, NZ, January 2012: The former Central Institute of Technology campus is now virtually abandoned, it’s buildings in a state of decline…
CIT amalgamated with Hutt Polytechnic in 2001 to become WelTec.
The campus had beds for at least 500, the rooms looked like they were just vacated…
I’m unsure of it’s current status, but it was used by an Australian University for some time.
It looked like it was just evacuated yesterday, rather than 10 years ago…
Walking around the grounds was a trip down memory lane for me…
The Defence Department seemed to have a presence here- convenient with their HQ nearby…
The administration office after it’s last occupants had left…
The Architecture makes me think of a Soviet Cold War era Institution…
The central building- the tiered lecture block- was designed by Chris Brooke-White.
It was contructed in the early 1970s in typical Brutalist Architecture form.
The “steps of learning”- hmmm…
I spent most of a year studying here in 1990…
I know why I left… Canon EOS 30D/18-55is
Shed
Taranaki, NZ, Dec 2011: An old abandoned milking shed in South Taranaki. The market demands bigger, better and more efficient milking sheds for New Zealand’s “white gold”… Canon EOS 30D/Sigma 24-70 2.8
Court
Opunake, Taranaki, New Zealand, Dec 2011: I was taking a “tiki-tour” down the coast road- Surf Highway 45- the other day from New Plymouth to Hawera. There’s many interesting sites, many of these being abandoned buildings…
I’m unsure what this particular building used to be, it looked like a funeral parlour to me. But my father- who has an amazing general and local knowledge- thinks this used to be the former Opunake courthouse… Canon EOS 30D/18-55is
Ghost Town
Kayaköy, Turkey, Oct 2005: This was my second visit to Kayaköy, the ghost town near Fetiye in South Western Turkey. Kayaköy is built on the ancient Greek village of Carmylessus and existed up until the population exchanges of 1922/3. Anatolian Greeks had lived here since antiquity…
After the invading Greek’s defeat to Turkey in the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), Greece had no choice but to sign the demands of the victorious Turks in Lausanne, Switzerland.
More than 1.5 million Asia Minor Greeks were forced out of Turkey, and at least half a million Turkish muslims from Greece…
When I’d visited the region before in April 2003, the USA and allies had started invading Iraq, for a 2nd time… I stayed at Ferah Pension then too, in Fethiye, Monica & co remembered me two and a half years later…
I searched through the visitors book looking for a guide for the supposed Kayakoy to Ölüdeniz track. I couldn’t find one. So I decided to make one…
I gave up trying to map the streets of Kayakoy, so climbed up over the hill and headed towards Oludoniz. I drew up the way as I went. After half an hour or so I lost the track while on a steep-sided hill. I scrambled up and down it searching for a marker. At last I found one, at last because I couldn’t find another…
I was starting to panic a bit as the heat came down. I also started thinking about accidentally stepping on snakes, for some reason. After a long time scrambling around I luckily I spotted someone was on the track below me . I shouted down to them to help me get an idea of the best route south…
I eventually made it down the slope, helped by the fellow trekker below. They were gone before I made it there…
The track meandered along, I scribbled away approximate turns and distances…
And then suddenly the surreal brillance of Ölüdeniz came into view…
Canon EOS A2E/28-105
