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But if you lighten the picture by highlighting it, the detail is incredible! You can see the ivy growing up and over the white picket fence and up the sides of the building, you see the individual leaves on the trees, you can see all the many boarded up windows, you can see the great detail in the masonry around the windows, and you can see the spidery fire escape. Well done!

Lynne: How does one accomplish this view? I'd love to do this. I understand how one could digitally redo this and lighten it and really see the leaves on the trees--I just don't know how !
Any sugestions out there?

quest, if I put my cursor on this webpage and press "Select All", it makes the entire page a light blue. This then lights up the page and you can see all the details. Someone with a pc, explain how to do that to quest using a pc - I gots a Macintosh. :-)

If that doesn't work and Motts doesn't mind, I can download the pic and highlight it and send it to you.

thanks Lynne, I tried the highlighting and also my screen lighting -didn't work. Maybe Mr. Motts will oblige. I have an old Mac in my basement but I won't go down there ;-)

I'm using a pc and the effect worked just as Lynne stated, quite cool!

Hey Motts, i just found this site after doing a search on Richardsonian gothic revival style buildings for a Modern architecture art history class I am taking. I am 34 and just went back to finish my degree and take the last few credits i needed. I was kind of bored by the class but finding your site has really helped! I did a paper on the Buffalo State Hospital and it turned out quite well. I turned my professor on to your site also as i was betting he'd really dig it. I am also really interested in the asylums as i work in a group home for the mentally disabled. The group home is basically the more politically correct replacement for these institutions.

"Do not go quietly into the Night, Rage, Rage

Rage Against the dying of the light."

"Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

Lynne, you kill me girl, but I love ya anyway!

I love all your pics!

Look at the 2 full bodied apparitions behind the greenery close to building. They look like they are wearing uniforms, worked there it seems.

Looks a lot like Danvers State Hospital...

I love this its my favorite ... i love the shadows.... its very peaceful