I have not written any comments until now, but have been a fan for a while. I've been called Sketch for 30 years, which is natural if your last name is "Sketchley"

Those connecting hallways are huge, like a giant jigsaw puzzle. 7 down, or 12 across. Give us the clues!

Reminds me of a giant mechanical insect with huge jaws.

...and all these hallways with incredible colors put together at this place.

Cool shot. It reminds me of three switch plates put in this position, one in front of the other.

That is an incredible tower. I can picture the stairs heading upward past each window. This tower was meant to be there for a long time.

I know this is strange, but at first glance it reminds me of opening a door to an outhouse, and seeing the seat to the john. Mr. Motts, you have a great eye for shades and shapes.

This shot reminds me of looking down the barrel of a shotgun. Unless you mentioned that it was burned out, I don't think I would have noticed that. The arches are what brings this shot into an "intention getter".

Hey, the first for me, landing near the top for a comment. I love this staircase, looking almost like fresh gloss paint. The railing is what really grabs my attention. Nice photo, Mr. Motts!

Lynne, you are by far the queen asshat! It isn't blood, it's poop!!! Really runny poop...

Nah, they were cold long before they got here. You don't often hear of someone dying IN the morgue (although it would be more convenient if they did!)

Motts, I apologize in advance...

If you don't like the comments we make, why are you reading them? The site is set up so that you can look at the beautiful pictures at the top and not even know there are comments underneath unless you go out of your way to look for them. I spent my first month not even knowing they were here! As with anything in life, be adult enough to ignore the things you don't want to read/hear/see. That's what the rest of us do...

This might have been covered & I missed it, but why doesn't the color go all the way to the ceiling in most of these rooms? There is a clear line in almost every one of these that the color doesn't go past. Any idea why?

I always thought the long exposure night shots looked fake, like something generated in 3D Studio Max or a similar program. Here's a good example: http://www.opacity.us/gallery81.htm
All of them look that way, in varying degrees. I know Motts took the pictures, and I'm just amazed by them, but they still look like CG.

Skye: Woohoo!!! Alice Cooper fans unite!

Motts: great pic! I love how the edges of the walls are starting to crumble on both sides...

Could this have been a therapy room rather than a bathroom? The stairs look a lot like stairs used for rehab, and the shower would have helped loosen up muscles before using the stairs. That would explain the medicine cabinet (probably things like bandaids, low dosage pain meds, etc for bumps and bruises). Motts, was there anything else that made it look like a bathroom (toilets, sinks, etc)?

Yeah, Physical Graffiti:
http://ledzeppelin.ale...aphics/covers/pg.jpg

The building I work in used to have marble very similar to this covering the entire first floor (walls and floor both!). They decided it was too much work to maintain (because cleaning it yearly was too hard?), so they covered it with drywall. The biggest insult: They did a fake marble finish on the drywall!

Kime: The patient side (shown) of the door would not have a handle, but the employee side (the back of what we can see) would have had a handle.

"And one can safely say anyone who feels the need to have say 10,000 fans in their back yard is obsessed." Maybe they're just hot? I have multiple fans in my home office to keep everything cool (although not quite that many).
Wait... What? People actually collect these things? Wow, I guess there really is a market for everything! I wonder what I have laying around that people would want?

Without there being an open flame, I doubt that these would have gotten hot enough to start a fire. No actual flame would occur until the wood was around 535 degrees, which is when the gases released would become combustible. Before that the wood would smoke, dry out, probably char, but not burn. This can be taken advantage of to char decorative patterns into wood, technically called "burning", safely. Since the temperature on most steam radiators (I'm assuming this was steam, right?) doesn't exceed 230 degrees, this would be completely safe.

I'm guessing Chipy means Seasonal Affective Disorder. Briefly, it means that during late fall/winter people who suffer it (myself included) get depressed because we don't get enough light, and the pineal gland overproduces melatonin. There are two treatments currently, antidepressants (which have wicked side effects) and light box treatments (which are expensive). Of course, getting as much natural light as possible also helps out.

That looks bigger than the bedroom in my first apartment, and (sadly) in better shape too! Lord Motts, I know you must get tired of hearing this, but damn do you know how to take a beautiful picture! No other photographer has ever impressed me like you...

Yeah, but they're film, and I don't have a scanner to get them into my computer yet. As soon as I figure it out, I'll let ya know...

This is it! This is the one! If I could get any picture of yours in print form, it would be this one! This would be the perfect example of how to do IR correctly, and should be used in every photography class. (Are you blushing yet? :D ) I'm serious, though, this picture is one of the best I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot in my time.