I was fortunate enough to be allowed inside the decommissioned Seaholm Power Plant in downtown Austin this morning along with several other members of the ”Austin HDR Mafia” – Andy ”Atmtx” who arranged the outing, Alex Suarex, Van Sutherland, Mike Connell, Mike Tuuk and Steven Ng. We had free reign to shoot whatever we wanted for a couple of hours thanks to the nice people at City of Austin.

This plant operated from the 1950s through until 1989 and was decommissioned in 1996. Since then, plans have been drawn up to redevelop the site, retaining the original building as a space for special events. Even before the redevelopment has started, the space is already used in a reasonably regular basis for events including various put on during the annual South By Southwest (SXSW) music festival.

Posted on Sunday, April 10th, 2011 in: All Images, Architecture, Austin Power Plants, HDR, Travel, Architecture, art deco, austin, City of Austin, downtown, interior, power plant, seaholm, sign

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• A.Barlow on April 11th, 2011 at 8:43 am

  This is one of those shots you could write a story around, I love it! Now how do I favorite this thing….
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• Alex Suarez on April 11th, 2011 at 9:35 pm

  Wonderfully captured and processed, Dave. Great shooting with you.
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• atmtx on April 12th, 2011 at 7:50 pm

  Dave, the light and texture is fantastic.
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