Stunning Pictures Loz, memories for a life time   :yes:

 

 

Oh......." Do you now glow in the dark "    :think:

Thats a fantastic report, reminds me of when I was on the 28 days later forum in my younger days.

 

Thanks for posting!

No, none of it glows!

Thanks for that. I've never wanted to go there myself, but we do need to remember (be reminded) just how epically we as a species can fvck up!

A guy I know used to go out there on a regular basis as he was part of an engineering team working on some of the treatment systems.

love things like this, very interesting gonna have to have a look at the rest on fb [emoji4]

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Not sure which tour operator Loz used but I found this one which is very interesting.

 http://www.tourchernobyl.com/

I don't actually know who ours was, my boyfriend saw a post on ocuk asking if anyone wanted to go. There's a load of them that go regularly together. The guy who organised it for us knows the guys over there that organise it (if that makes sense). So we went through him. Ours covered all travel except flights, 3 full days in the zone, 4 nights in slavutich (breakfast and dinner included, with lunch one day too), one night in Kiev on the way home (with breakfast next day) and a night out just outside slavutich at a place called gut hut. There was only our group there and they cooked us Ukrainian food and gave us home brew vodka - as much as we could drink! All included. We had a party and it was awesome fun! I went outside and looked up - OMG the stars! Like nothing I've ever seen! I've never been so far away from cities.

That was £430, then you pay for your flights and one evening meal in Kiev. And drinks (except at gut hut!) but they are so cheap. We bought lots of snacks too!

Oh and it was £25 for the shooting range but that was optional

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Thanks for that. I've never wanted to go there myself, but we do need to remember (be reminded) just how epically we as a species can fvck up!

There's a morbid curiosity in us all although I'd be more interested in the industrial site itself rather than the general abandonment of the town. I'm in no rush to go there either but fascinating all the same.

Great photos - must have been an amazing place to visit!

Thanks, yes it was

I am not a photographer, how do you get the vivid effects they seem great vibrant colour.

High dynamic range in order to expose the whole shot correctly. They are all 5 different exposures stacked together.

High dynamic range in order to expose the whole shot correctly. They are all 5 different exposures stacked together.

So a feature of the camera? I have a Nikon D40X (it was given to me) I guess I am a few years behind. Thanks for the feedback.

No, I do them manually thank you very much :p I like to control my images from start to finish. The images were all shot in RAW. They most definitely did not just pop out of the camera looking like that! Haha!

My camera was released in 2007 same as yours, so I'm also out of date really :(

So basically I could have done all these shots with your camera petty much the same so don't feel like your camera is rubbish!!

Edited 4 November, 201411 yr by Loz

Fantastic Pictures of a very iconic site, :clap:

No, I do them manually thank you very much :p I like to control my images from start to finish. The images were all shot in RAW. They most definitely did not just pop out of the camera looking like that! Haha!

My camera was released in 2007 same as yours, so I'm also out of date really :(

So basically I could have done all these shots with your camera petty much the same so don't feel like your camera is rubbish!!

I didn't mean to offend, I will take a look at what can be done. Thanks again for the explanation.

lol, you didn't offend it was tongue in cheek

I was wondering how the tour guides cope with the radiation if they're doing regular trips there?

Tourists doing day trips won't be an issue but regular trips might be an issue.

Any Nuclear scientists on here that could explain? 

There are hundreds, possibly thousands of people working in the zone day after day. As mentioned, the background radiation is for the most part pretty low. Those working in higher radiation areas, such as the dome for reactor 4 have work schedules so they only have 'x' amount of radiation. Everyone who leaves the zone is scanned with a dosimeter to check they haven't been contaminated. In fact, we had to go through two of them! This is one of them:

(Photo shamelessly stolen from my friends facebook - my camera was all packed away once we got back to the station!)

I was one of the worriers about radiation, and even I was disappointed by the background levels! Ha!

It was the dust that worried me.

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I also think the tour guides and workers are just hardened to the fact and don't really care our guides were awesome! As for Sergei, he's already had 80 years of radiation as he was working there the night it happened, so I doubt he's too worried about the measly remains

Good explanation! It does help if your Russian though as they're a bit mad lol!

Have you thought about a visit to Japan to see the Fukushima disaster area lol!

I must say once again Chernobyl fascinates me!

Haha no!

I'm not just what interested me about it in particular, I just always wanted to go and the people I went with made it super awesome, we had so much fun.

Excellent pics, very eery indeed

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That place fascinates me. Would love to go there some day.