Sun Hallway

The purple and blue light looks great with the green and white walls and the brown of the filthy floors, the ceiling, and the walls . . . Your perspective is sure interesting on this one, the way the shaky overhead pipes "point" to the end of the hallway contrasting with the open door to the left. Super textures, too. Great how you lined up the shot - this is pretty spectacular.

how high do you set your tripod? you seem to get such a great amount of subject in your photos!
great jopb! (as always !! )

motts u never stop amazing me! just wow!
kind of makes me want to cough and sneeze at the same time....
oh and i'm still working on the paintings...u just keep making me want to change my mind! lol i just need to get on working on them more, beautiful work dear....
kym...

Hmm.. I wonder where the fallen peices of ceiling went...

BALCONIES??? Thats no fair, where I went they didnt have balconies for us to have fresh air, they didnt let us out side ofr weeks!

BALCONIES??? Thats no fair, where I went they didnt have balconies for us to have fresh air, they didnt let us out side ofr weeks!

Once again, TB hospital, not mental institution. Fresh air was the only cure they had before antibiotics.

If I am not mistaken, I think I read where the hospital was also used as a psychiatric facility when the TB part closed. I may be wrong and if I am, forgive me.

DeafAngel, you are correct. From the intro page:
"I really don't have much information about this particular hospital other than it was once a tuberculosis sanitarium, and then was converted into a psychiatric facility. The building seems to have been abandoned in the 1970's and left alone since."

The soft light in this picture makes it seem so different. More beautiful perhaps. Props to you Motts.

Yes FRESH AIR was one of the treatments for TB. My sister-in-law's Mother had TB. That was back in the 1960's. They did surgery on her and cut the part of the ling that was infected. She did firne and lived quite a while afterwards.

dose anyone notice that all the hallways in these places have the same mint chocolate chip paint on the walls

its a type of paint called portafleck, basically a base coat with some different colour specks in it that all come together in the one tin(the base coat is water based emulsion, and the specks are oil based, so the two dont mix, this is sprayed from a special spray gun, all in one go, base and colour specks and then when dry is glazed over with a seal. its a quick and cheap option. the paint is cheap to buy and as its sprayed on, isnt as labout intensive to apply, making it popular for covering large wall areas. in fact it tales longer to mask off windows and doors than it does to paint the walls. very popular in hospitals schools and public buildings.

In Psych101 Light green and light yellow have a calming effect mentally so it was always the choice color of schools and mental as well as regular hospitals.Still is today.

Wierd - ass hall.

Back in the 50's when my aunt had an arrested case of TB part of the treatment was to not drain the spagetti too thoroughly

A "perfect" hallway shot. This picture has it all!

Beauty amongst the decay....awesome shot.