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Ã¢Â˜Â¢ Chernobyl trip: Temporary takeover! Normal Cornwall - Wales landscapes will resume soon! Ã¢Â˜Â¢

The massive, 150m high x 550m lo...
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Ã¢Â˜Â¢ Chernobyl trip: Temporary takeover! Normal Cornwall - Wales landscapes will resume soon! Ã¢Â˜Â¢

The massive, 150m high x 550m long Duga Radar near Pripyat within the Chernobyl exclusion zone - erected to detect incoming missiles.

Our guide provided some interesting detail as to how the location was kept secret from the world - including Russian civilians...

The military site is accessed via a 6 mile long road through dense forest. The road was intentionally built with slight twists so that the base could not be seen from a distance. More interesting still, is that old Soviet maps labelled the base as a children's summer camp - and a bogus bus stop complete with a mosaic children's illustration was constructed at the beginning of the access road to support the ruse.

Fairly grey weather, and the vastness of the radar made finding a creative shot quite tricky. One of my travel party found an interesting composition using a reflection in another puddle on the roof of this military building - so I borrowed the idea with this shot!

Fuji X-T2 (borrowed) | Lens at 27mm | Ã†Â’-9 | 1-210 sec | ISO 320 | Handheld (taken 7-5-2019)

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Copyright Andrew Hocking 2019
www.hocking-photography.co.uk

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