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Silenced

It was eerily quite back here...
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I quite agree with you. ;)

I don't know if it was the stress of your trip that day or the fact that the skies were very overcast, but the majority of this gallery is much more dark, brooding and unsettling. It doesn't have your usual style. I really like this new aspect of your photography.
Grace
Wed 10-26-2005
I think its mainly the grey and overcast skies that give it that feeling Grace.
Orchid Lunar
Wed 10-26-2005
Well, usually he uses his flash, or the flashlights differently. (I'm talking about the interior shots.) I do enjoy the external shots with the overcast skies. But the internal shots have changed. Either way, I like the change.
Grace
Wed 10-26-2005
perfect title for this pic
Paulina
Wed 10-26-2005
Beautiful and serene, and all that green shows so much life is still there.
Jude
Wed 10-26-2005
I think the grey sky just adds to the feeling of forboding. I like grey skies, they fit my mood. I'm not saying I'm a gloomy person because I'm not. I just like them.
Chey
Wed 11-02-2005
ill second the grey skies, very calming. Absolutely beautiful shot
Kev D
Thu 11-03-2005
A kindred spirit. How appriciative! :-)
Chey
Fri 11-04-2005
So it appears that Danvers is now doomed. That is heartbreaking....HOUSING. What a load of B.S. There is no where else that they can build...there's no where else that people can live. Motts, thank you for introducing us to these hauntingly lovely buildings. Farewell, beautiful one.
Twug
Wed 11-09-2005
Twug , i agree it is bull shit, the building is extremley beautiful
robert
Mon 12-19-2005
Sad.....too sad. These buildings are so beutiful, and they want to put up crappy-looking boxes with windows. what a crime.....
Tony C.
Mon 12-19-2005
maybe it is so gloomy because the institution itself feels threatened by what is in store for it, and it moans for what it once was in bygone years. Whatever, the photo shots matches what Danvers must be thinking if it had been human...sorta like a death sentence. Sad.
princess
Sun 01-01-2006
I find it amazing how the government can have something so amazing in architecture and an amazing art piece in itself, and allow it to deteriorate to such a $h!tty condition
Firefighter 40
Tue 02-14-2006
Stfu firefighter. It worth more how it is now, then if some political **** turned it into a museum.
Piogan
Thu 02-23-2006
its so cool it makes me want to go so bad right now omg
Ciara
Wed 04-05-2006
That Shot is just BREATHTAKING
Trist'n
Wed 04-19-2006
i cant believe how huge this place is. if u close your eyes u can see dr. and nurses pushing some of the poor patients around in their wheelchairs. so sad hate to see it go.
pam _ spaulding 2000
Sat 05-27-2006
i can see patients wondeing around here lost in the saddness of time. i think about there familys and how they felt. they may have differant feelings about this place. they are prolly all gone now.
pam _ spaulding 2000
Sun 05-28-2006
Such an amazing structure. Too bad it had to get destroyed. But I will never forget this building.
Craig
Thu 07-06-2006
Looks so sppoky up on the hill when you drive by it on 95... the water tower and the coupelas...

..and the crane : (
Joeniel
Fri 07-14-2006
If it looks this good now (boarded up) it must have been absolutely beautiful back in the day...with all the farm land and farm animals. Nice shot
kfb
Thu 10-26-2006
It doesn't look good any more, kfb, it's all been torn down. Sadly, Alas. Amen.
Janice
Thu 10-26-2006
what a sin!
kfb
Mon 10-30-2006
it truly is a beautiful building was .i was across the road from it today the water tower still stands.
fc
Tue 11-07-2006
I walked through the cemetery and saw this girl she was cloudy and she had a mental problem and she was just roming around the cemetery trying to find somthing
Shell
Tue 01-01-2008
You sure it wasn't just a mirror you were looking at?
CAS
Sat 01-05-2008
OMG CAS I just died!
Sian
Sun 01-06-2008
This is a beautiful shot of the building. I love the trees; it makes for a very peaceful-looking picture.
abandonedNH
Sun 02-10-2008
yha well you think that know until you get inside
shell
Sat 03-01-2008
CAS I know when I see a mirror and do U think there is a mirrir in the middle of the garveyard
Shell
Mon 05-26-2008
PS I am a fashionesta
Shell
Mon 05-26-2008
Is a "fashionesta" a female fascist who wears nice clothes? Sorry, I am regrettably unfamiliar with the term.
Lynne
Mon 05-26-2008
no it means that a female wears clothes that are in style and can match very well they can also say well that doesn't match or you can't wear patterns with patterns.
shell
Sat 05-31-2008
Hmm... sounds like a really annoying mental disability. Good luck with it!
CAS
Sun 06-01-2008
No n NO NO NO its not a mental disability. Lynne wanted to know what it ment. GET IT
Shell
Tue 06-03-2008
Yeah I got it... I was making fun of you... GET IT
CAS
Tue 06-03-2008
yeaH I don't think I am dumb GET IT

iI KNOW IT TO GET IT
shell
Sat 06-07-2008
did i just read that motts pictures changed after this one, its the place it has a way? does any one get me?mott did your mood change while taking the pictures ? which are still fab by the way they just seem to be sadder as you get further into them, its like the place knows what the future hold for it!!!!
joolz.uk
Sat 07-19-2008
it is so boring up there now. it used to be exciting and erie to be up on that hill.
fc
Wed 10-08-2008
3 years later . i still miss this place.
fc
Fri 07-24-2009
On one more note, there's a possible relative of mine that dates way back from the turn of the century that is buried in the old Danvers State Hospital cemetery...may God rest her soul as well.
MARIE, CMT
Fri 04-23-2010
It does look eerie back here...I remember the strange silence of this massive structure, the vacant windows staring out like a lost soul. One can feel the saddness of its former occupants.
MARIE, CMT
Mon 07-26-2010

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