Alex Wise Photography

An old under­ground tun­nel in Hobart. This was lighted with a red coloured cd case attached to the front of a torch. I put the cam­era into bulb mode and walked up and down each side wav­ing the torch up and down which cre­ated the lines.

I wish you a happy and safe Christ­mas and also thank you for your sup­port over 2009 as I’ve enjoyed read­ing your comments.

A per­sonal favourite cap­tured in 2007 under­neath a noisy highway.

Going a lit­tle over the top with light trails in the Hobart rivulet.

The lights were recently turned off in the rivulet mak­ing it quite eerie. This is a quick burst of light of yours truly.

Under­ground explor­ing photo trips are fun. The colours you see for this urbex scene come from using a torch with coloured cd cases over the top like in this pic­ture.

This series of pho­tographs is from the aban­doned Royal Der­went Hos­pi­tal in Tas­ma­nia, Aus­tralia. Excuse the ugly water­marks but after recently see­ing some­one run­ning around with one of my images on a pho­tog­ra­phy web­site it’s made me a lit­tle hesitant.

I’ve com­piled the images with an out­side pho­to­graph of the dif­fer­ent hous­ing com­plexes and then rel­e­vant shots from inside that build­ing. This is really quite an amaz­ing place in terms sheer size, it had a pool, cin­ema, church and many hous­ing complexes.

I hope you enjoy.

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I can’t believe the year is almost over.. Here are some of my favourite pho­tos from 2008

To start is two pho­tographs from an aban­doned men­tal hos­pi­tal with the Canon 10–22. These were taken at the begin­ning of the year which feels ages ago.

Long expo­sure dur­ing the day with a Hoya R72 (infrared) fil­ter at South Arm, Tasmania

A very wet trip to Syd­ney in February

A moon­lit Coles Bay, Tasmania

Mel­bourne alley­way with the Canon 10–22

A quiet stream in Cra­dle Moun­tain National Park

Pass­ing trucks along an old bridge in Camp­bell Town, Tasmania

An iconic beach side hut just before Swansea, Tasmania

A very over­cast Dove lake at Cra­dle Moun­tain National Park

Seascape at Friendly Beaches, Tasmania

Ron­nie Ling shoot­ing at Friendly Beaches, Tasmania

Water­scape sun­rise shot at Hon­ey­moon Bay in the Freycinet National Park, Tasmania

Road side reflec­tions dur­ing winter

Black and white pho­to­graph at Ralphs Bay, Tasmania

After­noon sun in Lind­is­farne, Tasmania

This year two of my images were licensed for com­mer­cial usage which was exciting

Traf­fic long expo­sure in Rose Bay, Tasmania

Seascape at Park Beach, Tasmania

Park Beach on a wild afternoon

I noticed these as I made my way to uni

South Arm, Tas­ma­nia on sunset

Prob­a­bly one of my favourite shots of the year, I love the light over the grass. This one is at South Arm also

Strick­land Avenue Falls

Taroona Beach sunrise

Mess­ing around with light trails in an aban­doned pool

Win­ter sun­rise at Taroona, Tasmania

A road side cow on a very misty morn­ing in the Huon Val­ley, Tasmania

Traf­fic long expo­sure on the Tas­man Bridge

Tun­nel long expo­sure, I like this one.

Cliché peg shot haha

An arti­cle and mag­a­zine cover for local mag­a­zine ‘Scene’ for their spe­cial on the Hobart Rivulet.

Bay of Fires, Tas­ma­nia on a stormy sunset.

Lind­is­farne on sunset

I hope you have enjoyed my pho­tographs from this year, I appre­ci­ate your sup­port and wish you a good 2009.

Urrrrrrrrrrban explo­ration or urbex is some­thing I enjoy, it’s so fid­dly to get the light just how you want it which leaves me feel­ing I can re-shoot the same loca­tion over and over until it’s cap­tured just how I want it. This was just an hour or so ago, unfor­tu­nately my torch died which killed the shoot and my mobile phone had to be used as a light source to nav­i­gate home, yeah that sucked. Any­how this is beneath the gigan­tic city of Hobart cool huh?

Edit: A recent inci­dent in Bris­bane has left one man dead and another just sur­viv­ing after vis­it­ing a sim­i­lar under­ground like loca­tion dur­ing a storm. It’s on this note I just want to reit­er­ate that when it rains, no drains but also my con­do­lences to the fam­ily of the indi­vid­ual. If you have any ques­tions about explor­ing such loca­tions and are unsure about any­thing please get in touch with me as I may be able to offer assis­tance or direct you to peo­ple who live in your state who can show you around but also have experience.

A funny time of my life

The Hobart rivulet has many open­ings as you slowly make your way up these tun­nels under­neath the city of Hobart. This is one shot in the open­ing which shows a city build­ing back on as the night sky passes over.

I love DealEx­treme.. A lens hood for my Canon 10–22 was going to cost around $17 on ebay but through DealEx­treme $10