Urban Landscape # 29 Green Square Tunnel

Hey Jordan, yes its pretty cool. The tunnel tours run I think about once a month or so and a group of maybe a dozen or so folks stroll around. Its not exactly glam or anything. Like don’t wear clothes you don’t mind throwing out or washing in really strong stuff. The tunnels are flooded in a lot of places and you have to wade through all sorts of ick and its dark so you have to take torches and what not. But I have three teenaged sons so its just the sort of cool thing to do with lads. And the pictures while difficult to get are so worth it. I must be about due for a re visit about sometime soon. Glad you like the pictures. You know what you’ll be doing next time your in the big smoke and guess what …..no tourists! Its mostly hard core locals that do these things.

cheers JP

Wow, I didn’y know you could do such stuff legally.

Do you have a contact for the tours ?

Love this, very Atget feel to it.

I love the light and composition Juliee !

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Thank you everybody. Its such a wonderful thing to get positive comments on work that’s been posted. I love redbubble for allowing this to happen.

Fantastic image Julie, gritty as hell, very Sci-Fi and suits monotone perfectly. Where is this ?

This place is called Green Square station which is a few stops out of Central in Sydney very close to the Airport. Only don’t try and go there now as the trains are running and seriously it won’t be a lot of fun to stand in the middle of the tracks now. I was just very very lucky to be able to get to walk up the tracks with a camera and take a whole heap of frames before the real buiniess end of train station stuff started.

You can go and do a tunnel tour of abanded tunnels though. I think it runs about once a month. If people are interested maybe we could organise a RB tunnel tour. It would be nice to hook up with other bubblers for an outing such as this. What do you think?

Great location well captured.

this is an awesome shot.. i love the depth and the framing

You’ve certainly captured the excitement in this image – I can feel it… Love the wonderful tones and extreme light!

love your use of black and white in this. very nicely captured:-)

Another great image Juilee, the depth is fantastic.
You have a great portfolio.

Everything in this makes you want to walk further into the image. Love rail stuff anyway, but this is great. There are tours in London to abandoned lines also – and they really can be spooky.

Thanks Graemes I am so glad people like this image. And I love going to unusual places and doing things that are a bit of the wall. Which these tunnel tours definiitly are!

This is very cool. Not something you see often.

Thanks Holly. Well your right on in your comment. This is a view that not many people see. I do realize that I was very lucky to be able to walk up this rail tunnel before the trains started to run. :)

an awsome shot, well done!

Super Depth of Field. Love it

Phwoar! .... fantastic.

thanks silverminers :)

great shot, i would love to have walked through these

thanks Jeremy you can’t actually walk through these ones any more as trains now use them but you can go on a tunnel tour under St James station in Sydney which is a fantastic experience.

great shot juilee

thanks miaW I’m glad you like it…

Congratulations on makiing the homepage with this pic, Juilee. It’s definately well deserved.

this is brilliant
very very cool you
congratulations

The light at the end of the tunnel. I always knew it was there. Great shot, like the B & W.

Mind blowing shot !

very cool shot, congrats on home page!

This is so special and spooky,fantastic shot.Congrats for the home page,.

i love it

fantastic image!

Excellent image, very historic.

THis shot rocks. I love it

what a great shot….love the black & white effect…perfect :P

Stunning shot – and brave perspective… love this!

nice shot – reminds me of the Prodigys video for “firestarter” which was filmed in a disused tube line in London!

this is so cool !!!

this is awesome! i love the slightly crooked lines (pipes) running towards the end of the tunnel. great composition that really draws your eye into it.

Wow! This is an amazing shot! I love the dark atmosphere and the depth. I’d be all in that place if I lived there with or without the tour sounds like an adventure. I wish I lived out there I’d go with you guys to these places. Thats what I do in my city but me as my own tour guide.

flawless & professional

Hey Juilee, this is wicked and I just had to point this site out to you cause it reminded me of it. I think you will like it so check it out… here

stunning scene..that tunnel looks like a photographer’s dream ;)

Wonderful atmosphere in this shot almost foreboding, great work !!

You have certainly captured the allure of the location. Well done.

This image is fantastic - looks like you chose a great spot to make an image in the tunnels! Great subject matter too, very interesting - I’ve always been interested in this sort of thing.

Great B&W image – well done Juilee

Great B&W work and the perspective and composition are perfect!

Very cool….....love the dof :)K

Congrats on being Featured with this phot in the sydney group! I luuurv this image :)

it would have been so cool being down there Juilee….. great shot !

Lovely Composition

Juilee, that’s neat!

I love tunnels and stations and big (or small) abandoned places…

there’s something about their contained busy-ness in transit; and the transitory-ness of places that have once been – or which will again be – busy.

This image captures that quality well…

A pregnant sense of time-and-space, people and potential meetings, things that could happen… and the silent empty(?)nesses in between, with a character of their own.
A sense of purposes abandoned, or yet to be formulated.

The composition of your image and its monochrome nature are also key to its appeal and evocativeness for me.

Thanks!!!
Graham

excellent work

Very nice work!

You are very fortunate to have such wonderful subjects as these tunnels to take photos of and it shows that you respect that with the excellent photos you take. Very well done :)

Great stuff
good to find you

Love this pice- being a train driver I appreciate a good piece of rail! Very well composed! Love it. Excellent use of converging verticles!!!:-)

I’d love to drive one of them! For now I will have to be content driving Loco-s up North of W.A…. but eventually I’d love to try something more exotic!!!

Excellent work

Great shot !

Great…beautiful..perfect..Well done..Wonderful artistic ..excellent exploration..have agood time ..alan

This rocks ….....................

great perspective

fresh photo
you into draining?
if so put more photo’s up

Superb shot Juilee – fantastic perspective

Amazing picture. Love it!

excellent… saw midnight meat train the other week – bad movie but… – this shot has that nice dark flavour

Excellent, Juilee. Good luck with the challenge. I’m trying to think of a unique hole too! Hmmm.

LOL. Well, it’s only just opened so hopefully you will have some fierce competition!

Great shot. I love it.
The circle is a great compositional tool.
Kudos ;)

How the hell have I managed to consistently miss this shot??
What a cool place, what a cool tour to go on and what a cool shot-JP, this really is very good.

Great mood and perfect lines and depth.

This is so cool I like the way it goes on until it disappears. well done

Powerful =)

This is a great photo