Good on ya pat another awesome shot – would like it hanging in my home……

pp

That’s Pavel Chekov’s bridge, right?

Picture Australia has heaps of pictures when CI was still alive.
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/apps/pictureaustralia?term1=cockatoo+island&Submit=search&action=PASearch&attribute1=any+field&mode=search

Recognise this lathe from Patrick’s photo of the same? (following link)
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/PhotoSearchItemDetail.asp?M=0&B=3198906&SE=1

http://patrickboland.com.au/project/content/Cockatoo_IV_241_2_3_4_5Enhancer_large.html

As others have mentioned fantastic composition. Really elegant and delicate balance of massive and cumbersome subjects.
To all the haters banging on about HDR, perhaps the artist is exploring a tool, using a fantastic subject matter to expose the power of a medium. Again as mentioned before: like impressionists exploring the dynamic nature of light.

Lots of credit and applause to a talented artist employing a tricky technique to great effect. Well done and I for one will keep an eye out for your name. I look forward to your next gallery, can I suggest that technique that makes everything look small and like toy models.

For the record, the actual shipyards of Cockatoo Island are indeed abandoned, even if leisure activity elsewhere on the island somehow ruins the experience for the “true urban explorer”. The heritage-listed island is owned by the government and open to the public, it’s history preserved and can be explored free of any manufactured theme park experience. Land is not for sale, and the island is not being transformed into a resort.

Cockatoo Island has, in it’s history, been a convict prison, a reform school for boys and finally a navy shipbuilding yard before it was left abandoned for more than a decade. More recently it has played host to events and exhibitions as part of the both the Sydney Arts Festival and the Sydney Biennale, including the Biennale’s opening party in the amazing Turbine Hall. I love that we have access to this odd little island in the middle of our harbour.

Most of those details would probably be obscured by dim or shadowy lighting in a standard photograph. The HDR technique does a great job of letting us examine every nook and cranny of such a complex and detailed environment.

Holy crap on the people complaining about HDR/tonemapping. Good artists don’t put down other artists. Anyway, most of the artistry in photography is in the post-processing.

It hard to hate isn’t it. You make me laugh.

@ #60 I was All Tomorrow’s Parties and it was very very fun. Such a great idea to have the festival on an island. The only annoying bit was security closed off a lot of the areas I wanted to explore which is weird because normally they are all open to the public to wander around.

@52 So Okathleen, does the internet live in America only?

To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

On which planet?

52 posted by Okathleen , January 26, 2009 3:17 AM
I appreciate the idea, but think more of us should look closer to home for beauty and inspiration -

…and welcome to teh intertubes – I’m sure for many of us this is close to home.

Not to mention all the other posts by Cory about locations, people and events local to him.

And Cokatoo Isl is abandoned… from it’s original purpose.

A few weeks ago the first “All Tomorrow’s parties” (curated by Nick Cave!) had the final leg of it’s festival there – that would’ve been amazing.

I really liked these photos and it comforts me that children will play and people will vacation in industrial apocalypse wonderland.

Actually, the dry docks on Cockatoo Island date back to construction starting in 1847, built by convicts and for a short period one of them, The Fitzroy dock, was the biggest dry dock in the world.

‘Rotting’ is an adequate description, it certainly looks like everything outside is still succumbing to the elements even if the island is now looked after by a harbour authority.

http://www.cockatooisland.gov.au/

They got a campground even with a “coin operated barbecue.” Interesting nonetheless, but the true urban explorer knows the difference.

That should be “hewed”.

Or maybe hewn’d?

I think its also worth noting that the majority (if not all) of these shots have been HDR processed, which tends to give a hyper real quality.

That should be “hewed”.

Yeah, hey buddy. I’m an ancient, rotting machine and I don’t appreciate you’re telling me what’s a love note. Feel me?

Next time you wanna post some pictures, just do it. Save your flowery stuff for your wifey!

- Ancient, Rotting Machine

Beautiful images, nice to see my city on BB. Coin operated barbecues are ubiquitous in Australia, so “true urban explorer”s may have trouble avoiding them.

Fuck, eclectro… don’t you know anything? This was shot just behind that neighborhood HBO shot Weeds at.

I think they are calling it Weedsland or some shit.