Today I went to Belgium village called Doel. My friend went there few month
ago to take some pictures which I saw. From that moment I was suggesting to
him that I would like to go there as well. We never agreed on date so I
decided to go alone today. Weather was rather changing but I was planning
for it for few days already so I said today I go in any case.
I passed Antwerp and went by Ring two around harbor. I need to pay for
tunnels and than I need to go across industrial zone. It was not really
nice road to village. You know what is so special about it? This village (I
only heard this) was kind of force to abandon. People where more or less
forced to leave (I understand that the reason was extending harbor of
Antwerp) and therefore you can find empty houses and lot of protesting
words on walls. But what I have found wasn't that terrible. There were
still quite a people living. Yes few houses were empty, hotels and
restaurants as well (some still looks running), police office empty. On the
other hand church in great shape.
So as I was approaching I was wondering do anybody want to live in this
village anyway? If you consider this access through industrial zone.
Channel on next side and. That shocked me the most, nuclear power plan from
other side, just about 500 meters from village. If I am living there and
anybody offer me house somewhere else I would go right a way :-)
But please understand that I have no knowledge about what really happened
there and also my view is surely different from view of somebody who grow
there and live whole live.
Anyway I didn't shoot a lot there. Just one roll, bad weather and also the
atmosphere which was there Sunday morning wasn't really inspiring.
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I used Across and exposed it on 160 ISO. I developed it as suggested on
Paterson web site 12minutes with first 30sec non-stop inversion and than
10sec each minute. I am not finished with scanning yet but it looks like
not much shadows details at all.
