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Patterns

GrandDuchess

I love how the nature has taken over the manmade building, greenery pouring out of every nook and cranny. Great photo!

Location: Riverside Hospital (North Brother Island)  Gallery: Typhus

Lush Landscapes

GrandDuchess

Cheratte is an old friend of mine, and your pictures of it are just delightful. Then days, even industrial sites like this were built with such care and dedication.

It is sad to see wonderful buildings like this to be left to just deteriorate away. On the other hand - it would be even sadder to see them being restaured into something semi-modern, all-commercial like big business HQ.

Location: Hasard Cheratte (Coal Mine)  Gallery: Deterioration

Lucky 13

GrandDuchess

Bodies brought in dead or "...high risk". High risk of what? Dying? That is the oddest sign I ever saw.

Location: West Middlesex Hospital  Gallery: The Mortuary

Scientific Apparatus

GrandDuchess

My guess is that the round thingy on the foreground is actually detached from the electric cord thingy on the background, and they just happened to be put on the same surface. The round thingy was probably used for heating things, while the other... a lamp?

Location: Kingsley Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Faded Memories

Utensils

GrandDuchess

Eerie. I sometimes dream of an abandoned building - it's always the same building, almost but not quite recognisable - and a few nights ago I was collecting forks and spoons from its grounds. They were in boxes like the one in this picture, and the boxes were in the corners of the building - I wonder what Freud would say...?

Wonderful photo.

Location: Kingsley Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Faded Memories

Photograph

GrandDuchess

I like the way how the people in the pic are slightly blurred, as if they took a part of it with them when they went.

Location: Whittingham Hospital  Gallery: Shut In

Planetary

GrandDuchess

I am actually glad they are restoring it - it may loose some of the romance, but at least it will keep on existing.

Location: Barnes Hospital  Gallery: Almost Too Late

Search for Light

GrandDuchess

Does Sleeping Beauty sleep behind that door?

Location: Severalls Hospital  Gallery: The Beginning of the End

Towers and the Moon

GrandDuchess

I heard that the state of N.Y has decided to restore this place. What a relief, after they tore down Danvers. What amazing photos you have taken!

Location: Buffalo State Hospital  Gallery: Night Photography

Hollow

GrandDuchess

This picture - this whole place - is just sad. A dumping place for people no-one was too eager to have.

Location: Margate State School  Gallery: Antiquities

Do These

GrandDuchess

I did. The text just looks so out of proportion, and if that is a normal-height door, high too.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Complexity

Document Room

GrandDuchess

I'm laughing so hard my sides hurt. This is just nuts.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: Hello Again

Remnants Of Children

GrandDuchess

What always buzzles me in these is the stuff that gets left behind. I mean, if I was to abandon a place I would clean and empty it, not just leave everything to where I last needed it.

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed

Do These

GrandDuchess

Was that orange writing on the wall or did you photoshop it? No matter how much I look this picture, it won't make sense.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Complexity

Tin Ceilings

GrandDuchess

I think there are two people standing in the other end of the corridor, two little girls in matching dresses. Or maybe that's just me.

Location: Danvers State Hospital  Gallery: Tiptoe