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Urbex: photographing old military buildings

Urbex: photographing old military buildings

| Kim Schröder | 8,430 views | 10 comments

Today I’m taking you to military territory. First to Prison 11, an abandoned barracks built in 1890 in Belgium.

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Fort de la Chartreuse: an urbex photography location for beginners

Fort de la Chartreuse: an urbex photography location for beginners

| Kim Schröder | 7,978 views | 11 comments

Would you like to get started with urbex photography? Finding good locations is not easy. I will show you how to find great urbex locations and take striking photos.

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See how beautiful frozen Lake Baikal is

See how beautiful frozen Lake Baikal is

| Michelle Peeters | 6,923 views | 2 comments

A unique natural spectacle can be seen at Lake Baikal in Siberia in winter. The lake freezes and blocks of ice are pushed upwards by the pressure of the ice. Large cracks and strange methane bubbles can often be seen too.

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Photos of my urbex experiment in Germany

Photos of my urbex experiment in Germany

| Elvira Smit | 5,382 views | 3 comments

I recently visited a former ironworks in Völklingen, Germany. You can follow a five-kilometre walking route there. Along the way, you climb 40 metres, wearing a helmet, to see the whole site from the top of the blast furnaces.

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Photographing the Marker Wadden

Photographing the Marker Wadden

| Elja Trum | 4,222 views | 1 comment

Yesterday I visited the Marker Wadden with Fotoclub Wijchen. This man-made area in the Markermeer was created to help nature recover. Visitors and photographers are very welcome.

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Would you like to take better photos and keep up with what is happening in photography? Photofacts publishes articles that teach you something about photography — from a product announcement to a practical shooting tip or a look at a website. Photofacts covers photography every day and is a hobby project of Elja Trum's that got out of hand. The articles are written by a team of volunteer authors. If you would enjoy writing one or more articles for Photofacts, do get in touch.More about Photofacts

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