Pro studies related. Industry. My own Work.

I thought as I'm looking in to careers for Professional Studies I would show some of my own photos regarding some of the five careers I have chosen to look in to. These images are relating to Industry.

With these images of Steetley, Hartlepool, North East England, I had shot them digitally and in colour, however when I got back I liked the look of them in both colour and black and white so for most of the images I edited them in colour and black and white as I couldn't decide between them. Here is a few examples of the shots I took in 2011. I'll show examples of black and white and colour and I'll explain some of the images as well. 

Black and White; 

The first two images are of water towers on the site. These were huge and contained gallons of water for the chemical works. They had a number of these massive water tanks dotted around the area. The Steetley site was a chemical works for metal.

 This image to the left is one of the old buildings which has become derelict and structurally unsafe like the entire site is. As well as the buildings and structures necessary for the site such as the water towers there was also parts that were underground, which when on the site I had to be careful of as I could have fell down easily if I hadn't kept my eyes peeled on where I was walking.

 This is the Steetley Chimney, which everyone in the area knew and recognised and in some cases classed this as a landmark for the area as it could be seen for miles, one of which was my mother who was sad to see it demolished on 30th July 2012 as the site was finally bought for redevelopment.  

Here's a little segment from the Telegraph reporting on the subject and the link below. 
'The Steetley Chimney, built in the early 1960s, was part of the magnesite works which produced chemicals needed for making metal, churning out more than 5,000 tons of magnesium a week in its peak.'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9438183/Child-blows-up-landmark-Steetley-Chimney-in-Hartlepool.html

All of these images are in colour as I really liked the contrasts and the rust showing through and also the water. They are also all focusing on the water tanks in the Steetley site.

My next set of images compare the black and white against the colour.

The final set of images are a mixture of both colour and black and white, they demonstrate what I was trying to get the viewer to understand. The contrast and differences within the images.

 With this image I decided to turn the rubble to black and white and focus on the shoe and make it stand out as it was red, which I've noticed in t.v, films and adverts is, in my opinion, the most used colour to either make an object or person stand out. It also reminded me of Dorothy's red shoes that she has to click three times to get home, but as the shoe isn't the same and there is only one, it felt, to me, like a modern take on this.

 With this image I kept the beach and sea in colour as this is the beauty and to contrast against the bleak industry right next to such beauty. The fact that you wouldn't normally expect to see such difference at the beach, you wouldn't think that on your day out at the beach you would see a chemical works that close.

With this image I, again like before, kept the beach in colour and the Steetley works in black and white. I tried to show that next to this horrible site the beauty is just there. How industry can damage and destroy the land and humans should try to preserve and protect nature. In this particular image the industry buildings are framing the beach and sea scene. I really quite like this image as I like how the pier appears and the colour.