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abandoned, decay, historic places, historic sites, laboratory, long island, nikola tesla, photography, urban exploration, urbex, Wardenclyffe
Little geek humor there.
Today I went to the only remaining laboratory of Nikola Tesla in the world. I had a “I can’t believe I’m here!” moment a few times. I had a really tough time taking proper photos with my broken speedlite but just walking those buildings was enough for me.
Lately I am really feeling monotone/black and white photos. Sometimes it’s a pop of color that pulls me back to full color but I really love the simplicity and focus of a nice sepia or black and white. It’s good to be the boss of me.
Little side note this happened to my phone while I was there. Only time I’ve ever thought it was really cool for my phone to break. Tesla chose his laboratory locations carefully, taking into great consideration the natural electromagnetic properties of the area. So Tesla broke my phone. Who can say that?!
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Very, very cool! That you were here, I mean. Your photos, as always, are terrific.
Thanks ❤
yes it nice realy i like them
Awesome shots here Dawn – and love the decision to go black and white/sepia to bring out all of those textures! 🙂 Great work indeed 🙂
Thank you! I always seem to second guess my editing so it’s good to hear some positive feedback.
very nice pic…
Thank you 😀
Keep being the boss of you. It seems to be working. (:
Ha! Thanks 😀
Very cool pics. Keep going !
Thanks for the encouragement! I’m glad you liked the pics.
Like the g(r)eek humour there.
If I may, herewith some great urban shots (http://www.fubiz.net/2012/07/09/abandoned-architecture/adonis-10/#main-header) of some abandonned architecture I found on a friend’s site http://deborahheissler.blogspot.fr/. The Sepia works well in your Pretty Pictures !
Bravo!
Awesome 😀 Thanks so much!
I feel like in the 30’s. Way to go.
When my photos make someone feel anything I know I’m doing something right. I’m glad you enjoyed them.
Love it! Sepia and Tesla look very good together. I love the tree growing out of the grate. Rockin’ title too…I’m sure that helped on your being FP’d. Congrats!
I think that tree is really special. Look how it displaced that huge concrete slab so it had a chance to grow!
Love the texture and the depth of field in these!
Thank you 😀 I wish I had used my tripod for some of the longer exposures but it was really cramped in there. Hopefully this place will be around for a very long time so I can go back and do it again!
nice nice very nice
Thanks 😀
Nice headline. Really caught my attention and made me laugh.
Jimmy
Geek humor rawks!
I love the title of the blog post — great Haddaway parody. And I also like the sepia tone to the photos — the mood you convey definitely wouldn’t have worked as well in color. Congrats on being Freshly Pressed.
And here I was concerned people wouldn’t get it! Thanks so much for stopping by 🙂
Where is this? And why has nobody bothered to preserve any of Tesla’s labs (including this one!)???
There are private trusts looking to preserve this site and they are well underway to completing the funding they need. So not to worry, this site isn’t going anywhere!
Your pictures ARE wonderful, it’s just too bad that the place wasn’t preserved better.
Some of it was in a pretty sad state but most of the structures are really sound. Nature just wants her space back…
Who would have thought such a futuristic automobile somehow had its roots here? Or is that just a lame attempt at geek humor?
HA!
I just found our blog and love it. All of your photos are wonderful and too think you were absolutely right in using the sepia tones with these. Only problem I have with your blog is that you say you are a “photog wannabe”. You are incorrect…you are there and no longer a wannabe!
Thank you! I still have so much left to learn, but looking back I have come a long way. Perfection is an illusion, but greatness is worth the chase.
Wow…if only those walls and gauges and pipes and such could talk, huh? But your photos tell a beautiful story all on their own!
If you ever find yourself in an old abandoned structure, let yourself be there when it was thriving… imagine what it looked like shiny and new – how people worked and dressed… that’s why I love abandonments.
Tesla is sepia seems so appropriate. Great photos.
Cheers, iRuniBreathe
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed them.
grt pics!
Thank you! 🙂
Great electrical engineering humor in the headline. Great photos of Tesla’s lab.
I’m just glad people got it! Thanks for stopping by, I’m happy you like the photos.
I always enjoy seeing the what is left over…great textures. Awesome headline.
Where is Teslers only remaining laboratory located?
This laboratory was named Wardenclyffe and can be found on Long Island in New York State.
The pictures are fantastic and have steam-punk feel to them, great stuff.
I didn’t even think of the steam punk angle but that was the right time for it. Thanks!
Nice!!!!keep up your good work. Best of luck…..
Thanks so much!
I’m really freaked out by what happened to your phone… WHILE you were in Tesla’s lab. I mean… are there still electric currents still running through that place?! CREEPY!
Great post. Congrats on being FP.
I am too! Especially considering it’s almost back to normal working order.
Today I chose to read yours first on Freshly Pressed due to your title – still chuckling! Great photos in the post were my reward!
Thank you! I’m happy you enjoyed it.
I definitely enjoyed it – having that song in my head the rest of the day – not so enjoyable. 🙂
Really neat pics! Amazing what a different color does to a pic
I like to edit my photos to reflect how I felt about a particular place or subject. I was so swept away in the history of the place I thought of old photographs.
Very nicely done.
Great photos! And I love love love the title of this blog!
Great to hear! Thanks for stopping by 😀
Great post. Great photos.
Have you checked out the Tesla Museum?
http://www.tesla-museum.org/meni_en.htm
Wow your certainly talented! I wish my blog was this neat (My blog is whta I call a work in progress)! Did you photograph these yourself? Their Awesome and quite original
Thanks! Everything on my website, unless otherwise indicated, is all my work.
Fantastic pictures! The tree “pressing down the grid” is great, and I found the third one from the top simply awesome 🙂
Keep up the great work!
If you look, it actually sprouted up from under the big cement block and contorted itself in such a way to grow, partially covering the grate. I thought it kind of looked like it was grabbing it.
I clicked because my husband is an electrician and the title made me smile, but I stayed for the photos, pretty pictures indeed!
Thanks for stopping by! I’m glad you enjoyed them.
That title is the worst pun I have ever heard.
I love it.
I was so worried no one would get it…
so very amazing, the place and the way you showed it to us. also amazing is the title.
Thank you! I’m happy you felt my photos took you there… that is the goal of every photographer.
How cool is that? I just have to ask, did your go back to normal. It would be cool if there was some magnetic anomaly left over from experiments that affected your phone just while you were there.
Actually it’s almost completely back to normal function. The waves in the screen are barely visible, it has lost the green tint, but some of the screen isn’t recognizing touch. Crazy, right?!
fantastic photos!
❤ Thanks!!!
I like them,,,, it would make a great setting for a ghost story.
The ghost of Nikola Tesla… he screws up your cell phones!!!
howdy admin 🙂
how are you!!! just going through some of your posts , i found them pretty cool , good going champ 😀
in this post liked your geeky humor 🙂
nice snaps, and you are so fortunate that you have been to NIKOLA TESLA’S remaining lab…. 🙂
regards
~mike
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its nice view i like it very much
That is Wardenclyffe right? Loved the pictures, and hell yes, your phone breaking there like takes it to a new level. I especially enjoyed the picture of the vines all around what looks like a historically beautiful drainage or air grate. Tesla has always been a hero of mine, and although its true, yes, that I learned about him through his Red Alert defensive Tesla coil structure, I should point out that this was the original Red Alert, so I was young enough to be ignorant at the time. Since then I’ve had the time to really appreciate the incredible scientist his was. My grandfather was a nuclear metallurgist (he used to talk about Richard Feynman coming to hang out with him) and he was always in awe of Tesla. Thanks again for the pictures, and if that is really sitting there on Long Island…I am going to have to make the trip.
Great post!
Beautiful Shots! Really, I liked’em. 🙂
Love these photos, most especially because they are in sepia. Like the emotion it draws in me. Congrats on making this post to freshly pressed, by the way. 🙂
very good
Very Nice pictures! I can’t think of Tesla without thinking about “The Prestige” (a film by Christopher Nolan).
I think photos in sepia or black and white look stunning! So fresh 🙂
All I can say is wow! What incredible photos. Thank you for sharing them. 🙂
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Wow, thanks for the tour! 🙂 Have you seen this already? http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
I loved the geek humor title. Your photographs are beautiful.
This is absolutely amazing. I am a huge Tesla Fan. He is one of my major influences. One of many reasons I am pursuing Physics. Where is this located? I want to visit. I can’t believe your phone felt the effects. It makes sense though. His locations were chosen for specific energetic reasons. It would make sense that there is still energy in the area…probably other remnants of his devices as well.
again this is awesome. I plan to share.
keep it up, lucky you
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Did you see this??? http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_museum
Just saw that someone posted that…
Whoops
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