Saturday 16 February 2008

Daily Photo #70

This one was shot at the rapidly decaying Swan Centre in Yardley. Its tagline is Swan into the Swan for a bargain. Sadly, all the bargains are now gone and all there is are boarded up shops and a bingo hall that's seen better days. It almost has a Phil Larkin or Graham Greene sadness about the whole thing. A shopping centre now left to rot.

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I remember it pretty well as a kid, it used to be a thriving shopping centre until the likes of Safeway and Asda turned up. It's quite atmospheric when the wind whips through the place, it sounds like the moans of the undead.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ooh, I like the colors on this one. Did you do any color editing, or was it this spooky all by itself?

Traveller28 said...

I quadtoned it but the location is pretty sinister :) Didn't have to do much work to get the ambiance.