684 Comments for Hasard Cheratte (Coal Mine)

Great shots Mr.Motts. Thanks...

thanks for the info Mr Motts thats cool hey i love your site my sister is a big fan as well she was the one who showed me your site its fantastic. im also on your myspace hey keep up the great work. also i dont know if you knew dut the kirkbride in danvers and it north adams are all gone now there is one still in taunton but the admin building was burned down. Its so sad to see all these great building torn down and destroyed buy a bunch of a-holes its kinda sad t othink that people spent thier wholes lives in thoes places and now there is nothing left but a parking lot.

awesome shot

makes you wonder , maybe the poor guy never came up from the mine . and its left behind as a memorial . just a little spooky .

Thanks; yes I do shoot in RAW mode, so all the photos need to run through an image editing program, where I correct the color and contrast.

No, there was no power or water being supplied to this facility.

did you actually make it up there, motts ??

Please. In the US this site would have been demolished and replaced with a mall or a condo development.

shnel, shnel, shnel

The same system is still in use in the Winsford rock salt mine over here in Cheshire, UK. I had a guided tour it back in 2004. Its also where the Police and govenment hide evidence/secrets in a part of the mine called deep store. Its all a bit x-files.

was there any running water?

Your photography is so emotionally evocative. Do you shoot in RAW and photoshop these later, or was this the result of the original exposure?

Reminds me of Joel Peter Witkin.

I love the muted blast of colors in this shot. Surprisingly, the shot is visually extremely interesting, even though it is so dead center. You have an amazing eye and real balls to do a shot like that.

Reminds me of the autopsy rooms in the asylums, only more organic. There's more use out of the room and seems like a lot of time, effort and love was given here.