Amazing photos, the monochrome shots in particular are very nice. The lack of colour only enhances the desolate mood.

Heres another, similar site... Very good as well.
http://www.abandoned-places.com/

So that's what Roland Orzabal was talking about. I don't see any "blue-yellow-pink umbrellas" though...

Stunning. Thanks for the site Perry.

You may be interested in this one too:

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/te1/

Ive been taking b/w photos of some of the old factories and back alleys of Christchurch for a while now and I'm working on a cyberpunkish/sci fi book set in a kind of British industrial era city.

Iv'e had a fascination with this look ever since I saw David Lynch's Elephant Man.

Beauty is defined by the emotions it inspires. Decay and rust and collapse inspire only fear of death and self-pity. The works of man are the most beautiful things on this earth, because they inspire hope and joy.

"Decay and rust and collapse inspire only fear of death and self-pity. "

Hmmm, thats not my experience.

Nor mine, Shawn.

Fascinating. These Command Economies seem to be good at this sort of thing.

Not far from where I live there is a complete abandoned accommodation complex (about eight or nine quite large buildings) which was constructed by Harold Wilson's government for the happy workers of the oilrig construction industry, who not suprisingly decided to live elswhere, in a place where oilrigs actually were constructed, rather than where the State hoped they would be.

Because it's in such a remote rural area, it is almost undamaged despite thirty-odd years of emptiness. There are hardly any broken windows, the big industrial kitchen equipment is all still there in the canteen, the laundry still has its huge washing machines, and so on. There are, however, quite a few decayed and decaying (Yuck!) farm animals which were trapped inside the rooms when they kicked the doors shut and couldn't open them again.

It is one spooky place, and a great testament to statist folly, all paid for by you and me, of course.

And no, I am not going to tell you all where it is...

Ah, Stalker! I've been waiting for that one for a while. If you like that kind of imagery you might also enjoy the Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker which influenced the game (although the movie has rather more style than content).

An ageing cyberpunk is not really the way it was suppose to work. We were suppose to be part of the "live fast die young" brigade...oh well.

Yeah Stalker looks rather nifty...if it lives up to what it claims it might just give Doom3 and Half-Life 2 a run for their money.

Fabulous. Yes, very cyberpunk. "The sky above Chiba City ... ."

"Decay and rust and collapse inspire only fear of death and self-pity. " No way. We carry on. Rome's gone. The Raj is gone. The USSR is gone. The Packard Motor Car Company is gone. Wisconsin Steel is gone. The buildings and mills and bridges and railway roundhouses, ruined or not, are still here, and have their own beauty. We're still here. We carry on.

Ruins are inspiring not morbid.

"These Command Economies seem to be good at this sort of thing." Yeah, true, but similarly lovely caves of rust and cement can be found in Chicago, too, believe me. Creative destruction is great, but the destroyed stuff really is destroyed, and the wreckage can be very picturesque or creepy or scary ... or beautiful in its own way.

My taste runs to a totally different sort of Stalker.

Rob Fisher,
may be you'll find more content in the original (Link)novel by brothers Strugatsky, who gave their permission for the screenplay but didn't like the resulting movie
It's called Roadside picnic and could be downloaded from the site above.