After a rather long break, I and my friends Donatas (niekonaujo.lt) and Tadas set off on a trip to see some abandoned places here in Vilnius, Lithuania. One of our targets was the abandoned hotel “Saulės žiedas” (“The Sun Ring”). I have to admit that I had rather high expectations for this place and was a little bit disappointed when I saw the building so vandalized and empty. On a rather warm spring day, the chilling humidity confronted us when we opened the door. Some of the rooms resembled skating-rinks; the floors were covered with a solid layer of ice. On the walls and ceilings – water drops and icicles.
Nevertheless, some rooms were pretty cozy – soft carpets under the feet, nice wallpaper, few things here and there. True, it was dark in some rooms as the windows were boarded up. But it provided the opportunity to test a wider range of my updated equipment and try variety of different photo techniques.
For your attention the report from the abandoned Vilnius hotel, few HDR shots, some colored with artificial lighting (as you remember, bright colors are not Photoshop effects!), some funny episodes with my colleagues, a couple of self-portraits and the last photo, a very interesting composition achieved by accidentally pushing the trigger while I was adjusting camera position on the tripod.
“Have a good time at our hotel.”
But he can explain himself better on his great website 
