exploration Archives | Nicholas Orloff https://www.nicholasorloff.com/category/travelphotography/exploration/ Photography Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:35:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.nicholasorloff.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-camera-icon-A-32x32.jpg exploration Archives | Nicholas Orloff https://www.nicholasorloff.com/category/travelphotography/exploration/ 32 32 no fish to kolka https://www.nicholasorloff.com/2015/08/no-fish-to-kolka-nicholasorloff/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-fish-to-kolka-nicholasorloff Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:20:50 +0000 http://www.nicholasorloff.com/?p=3615 This photo of a dirt road is the last I took before a travel photographer’s worst nightmare struck. During a cold-stomached panic, all efforts to revive my camera were futile and for reasons I will never know, it was toast. With help out of reach, I strapped my substitute photographic device (iPad) to my chest […]

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]]> the road to sarybash https://www.nicholasorloff.com/2015/05/sarybash/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sarybash Sat, 30 May 2015 23:40:08 +0000 http://www.nicholasorloff.com/?p=3028 This was the most the most expensive and hard-earned lunch I’ve ever had. I didn’t pay for it, but I’m in pain and it took over 4,000 kilometres on planes, buses, taxis and on foot to get to it. And here I am in the remote mountain village of Sarybash on the far edge of […]

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]]> urban exploration in sheki, azerbaijan https://www.nicholasorloff.com/2015/05/abandoned-sheki-nicholas-orloff/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=abandoned-sheki-nicholas-orloff Fri, 01 May 2015 14:24:56 +0000 http://www.nicholasorloff.com/?p=3052 It wasn’t until I realised that all of those empty bottles never held vodka that I was deep inside a complex that held hundreds of sick children many years ago. When you realise what something is something else, you see everything differently. So why the hell am I in this place: instead of this place, […]

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]]> abandoned mine exploration in the arctic https://www.nicholasorloff.com/2014/10/mine2b-svalbard-nicholasorloff/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mine2b-svalbard-nicholasorloff Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:29:36 +0000 http://www.nicholasorloff.com/?p=2156 Several days ago I climbed a mountain in the Arctic to explore Mine 2B, which has been abandoned since 1969. In Svalbard, it is law that anything made by humans before 1946 must be protected; nothing can be touched or removed. Combined with the cold, dry climate, this creates fantastic opportunities to catch a glimpse […]

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