Pictures from Chernobyl

notman

Thought you guys might like to see these. I'm assuming these are recent photos showing the place is still a ghost town (not surprising). If anything, it may be good for some envirnmentals

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=41507

Weiser_Cain

I though this was going to be another chernobyl heart.

adam

Wow.

milla

Some of those photos are absolutely beautiful, but they're all so eerie. There's something macabrely fascinating about such utter abandonment.

Striff

Hmmm...that place is a haven for photo-textures!

Amazing photography! Makes me want to visit there.

JBoskma

Great pictures, reminds me of the bike trip of that girl from a few years ago.. I've been browsing across that forum a bit more, and stumbled on a thread with russion red barret photos. A particular photo caught my eye. A boxing match between soldiers. Check the background, what are those sunglasses wearning suited guys doing between all those militaries?

Keg

excellent set of images for reference material. makes me want STALKER a little bit more now.

KeyserSoze

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OMG KGB!

hawken

screen shots from stalker right?

Fordy

Reminds me of an old joke about why all the guys there should wear lead-lined underpants - otherwise chernobyl fallout

_Shimmer

wow, amazing photography. Something I noticed it that on nearly all pictures the wallpapers on the wall are coming off. Is that hust a coincidence or...

Also I have to say, great environemnts and all. No wonder, GSC choose this theme for Stalker. You could make cool movies there too, if it would ne that contaminated.

Josh_Singh

So Thats what the world would look like after a nuclear holocaust? Whoa.

rooster

does make you wonder what'll be left when we're all gone.. I bet its nothing like the ending of AI anyway.

Gmanx

We get parties of kids touring around here from the children's charity "Children of Chernobyl". It's a harrowing experience connecting those kids with those school images - even if it's their older siblings who would have filled those classrooms. On a lighter note - it kinda reminds me of the look Victor Antonov created for city 17. If Stalker can re-create that eerie desolation properly, it'll be 'an experience'.

_Shimmer

hmm what Ive seen so far from stalker they caught the atmospehere pretty good. Hopefully this game wont turn into some dumbass mutant zombie killing in a nice environement.

I serously thinking about recreating some environemnts for my folio including their mood and lighting. Really inspririn stuff...

jzero

I've read that the Stalker game is based on the real-life Chernobyl landscape, combined with inspiration from the Tarkovsky film of the same name. I saw the film in college, and it's no big jump to say that the alien-created, human-abandoned 'Zone' in the film could very well be the same as the Chernobyl quarantine zone.

The movie is a real sloooooow experience, but it definitely features desolate, abandoned landscapes in long, contemplative stretches. The life-imitating-art aspects are striking.

/jzero

Thegodzero

This one just freaks me out.
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~dmcmill/1994/Large/Fox-l.jpg

notman

haha, yeah, same here. I was curious exactly what it was. It looks like a caged dog, but it couldn't have survived this long in a cage. I was wondering if it was captured, or just behind a chicken wire gate that LOOKs like a cage. That one red eye is freaky though

Eric Chadwick

Great stuff, thanks for sharing!

Some good text on the home site.
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~dmcmill/Index.html
Also describes the caged fox...
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~dmcmill/1994/Large/Fox.html

There was another site linked from that forum thread, documenting motorcycle journeys through the zone. A great read and more good pics.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html

notman

yeah, the kiddofspeed was interesting also. I followed that one from that site also.

Eric Chadwick

A couple cool sites in the same vein...
http://oboylephoto.com/ruins/index.htm
http://d3dnff.gat.com/2002Photos/Vent2002.aspx

Moz

that kidd of speed thing was proven as a hoax. They run tours in Chernobyl and the woman just took here leather jacket and helmet.

Eric Chadwick

Moz, now THAT was a good read. Loved the posts from "duat". Thanks for this.

Moz

It was one of the first revelant links that showed up on google, give me a break.

Eric Chadwick

Ouch, man. relax.

Neo_God

Wow! These Pictures are great!!!

I especially like this picture
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~dmcmill/1996/Large/Hotel-l.jpg

I think it's because I like how brillant the green is compared to the rest, and how it sort of looks like nature is reclaiming the world.

ScoobyDoofus

Which is amazing considering its a radioactive wasteland.
And when you say "nature" im assuming you mean plant life, because animal life gets cancer and dies there just like us.

I dont see a bunch of deer & whatnot prancing around, growing healthy & strong due to the absence of humans. Hehe.

Just once I want gamma rays to turn somebody into a muscle-bound superman, rather than bursting them into flames, or giving them cancer & tumors!

Neo_God

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Well, I'm really talking in a more general way, regardless of where it is, it's still a picture of a plant life coming up through a room, and even a small tree growing in it.

Though just wait until plant life grows into a race of nuclear super plants, that flourish in highly toxic atmospheres, haha. Like Malcom said from Jurassic Park, 'life finds a way'.