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Firelight

The setting sun lit the building up in a firey display.
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it looks otherworldly to me
motts, your panaramic views rock!! hehe, and i was the first to comment on any of them, neener neener :-~
This was very wonderful Motts. Thank you for sharing. This place has alot of windows, beautiful windows at that. I hope this place becomes restored in all it's glory to once again shine like you have made it in your photos. Thanks again Motts!! Keep em coming!
yeah, this is an incredible gallery. you've done this place great justice.
Lots of Photos in this gallery, sorry to say, this is the last!!
The last photo in the gallery and probably the most beautiful.It does look like something out of a dream.
WOW, what a great gallery. With these photos this place will be preserved forever. You should set up some way for your fans to buy prints of these photos Motts. Outstanding!!!
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH EVEYONE HERE ESPECIALLY THE COMMENT ABOVE MINE I WOULD LOVE TO BUY PRINTS!
YUP! I've been asking if we can buy prints! Theres so many great pictures.......
Ok Motts , We are all in agreement , hey, you can add these to your wallpaper shots.....
Best shot in the gallery imo

Brilliant
First thought:
SATAN'S CASTLE.

Ooooooh!
Motts! Really, really beautiful color contrast between the building and the light blue sky
LOVE IT!
PICTURE PERFECT!
THat picture reminds me something out of a horror story.
It should read "It's beautiful, but once the sun goes down, it's beauty dissapeers with the evening sky"
OH MY!
it looks alot like satins castle.....i wonder if any one has tried to count the bricks on this place?
I think a Satin castle sounds nice....

Beautiful picture, Motts
Blood red bricks! What an excellent sunset illusion you have captured here Motts!
WHOA!!! FAVORITE! FAVORITE!!
yeah your all right,exept for Motts hes has the best ideas
This picture is beautiful. That building doesn't look like it's the same.
Yup!
What an ending to a moving tribute. Thank you.
I'm sure this is by far my favorite album/place!
This is so magical, a beacon of hope on the hill. It's like the light is accenting the building, illustrating the hopes that its designers and architects had of making it a place of healing and new beginnings, and not the dark reality that these buildings became in the decades of overcrowding and underfunding. For photography experts: What is it about the light at sunrise and sunset that makes it so beautiful and so different from light at other times of day, a particular 'cool' quality in the morning and a 'warm' quality in the evening? I suppose it has something to do with the angle of the sun and the amount of moisture in the air, but I wish I knew the physics behind it (maybe the mystery is part of the magic, though).
Very nice analogy, I like it...

I don't know much about the physics of it, but feel that when the sun is so low in the sky, the light turns orange, red, and sometimes violet, creating a totally different atmosphere than what we are used to the other 22 hours of day or night. Everything is illuminated at a vastly different angle as well, accenting features that are often cast in shadow.

For me, nothing beats this event inside an abandoned place - the light is weak enough to emit a soft, colorful glow inside the dark corridors... I feel like I should be sprinting from room to room to try and capture what little I can in that 45 minutes of bliss.
Thanks Mr. Motts for another wonderful Gallery to see.
Motts How do you come up with these names on the gallery!!!!!!!!!!

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