Pictures from Chernobyl

notman · Oct 2005

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 · Oct 2005

I though this was going to be another chernobyl heart.

adam · Oct 2005

Wow.

milla · Oct 2005

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

Striff · Oct 2005

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

Amazing photography! Makes me want to visit there.

JBoskma · Oct 2005

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 · Oct 2005

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

KeyserSoze · Oct 2005

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Check the background, what are those sunglasses wearning suited guys doing between all those militaries?

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OMG KGB!

hawken · Oct 2005

screen shots from stalker right?

Fordy · Oct 2005

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

_Shimmer · Oct 2005

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 · Oct 2005

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

rooster · Oct 2005

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

Gmanx · Oct 2005

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 · Oct 2005

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 · Oct 2005

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 · Oct 2005

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

notman · Oct 2005

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 · Oct 2005

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 · Oct 2005

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

Eric Chadwick · Oct 2005

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

Moz · Oct 2005

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 · Oct 2005

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

Moz · Oct 2005

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

Eric Chadwick · Oct 2005

Ouch, man. relax.

Neo_God · Oct 2005

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 · Oct 2005

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 · Oct 2005

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And when you say "nature" im assuming you mean plant life, because animal life gets cancer and dies there just like us.

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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'.

Pictures from Chernobyl

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