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Orange Glow

Orange Glow

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I love this shot! The "Orange Glow" is intriguing!
Bri
Fri 12-16-2005
Funny - this puts me in mind of architecture you might find in Italy or somewhere in Europe. Odd for such a new building (in comparison to the age of the buildings in Europe).
Lynne
Fri 12-16-2005
are all the corners/edges on the walls in front of doorways made rounded so that people dont get hurt by walking into them?
I aways wondered about that....
Mona Lisa
Fri 12-16-2005
I think we decided that it is partially that, and partially to make it easier to transport patients on walkers/wheelchairs.
Sketch
Fri 12-16-2005
Wow! What an orgy of colour in this one, great stuff Mr. Motts!
Jude
Sat 12-17-2005
The corners are rounded as in the Kirkbride style of building. Asylums in England (Cane Hill, Severalls, etc) never used the Kirkbride plans, preferring echelon instead. The corners probably have some use, though.
derelict sensation
Sun 12-18-2005
It does remind me of catacombes ( spelling?)
awyper
Tue 12-20-2005
Anyone ever been to the Catacombs in Paris? It's pretty unreal the way they stacked the bones like cordwood, and made little patterns with the skulls.
Grifspop
Thu 12-22-2005
the closest ive gotten to any catabombs is on the History Channel.
awyper
Thu 12-22-2005
Same here, and they look so amazing! I wish that I've been to the Catacombs...maybe one day! :0)
Bri
Thu 12-22-2005
Yeah, they emptied out some cemetaries to use the land, and filled up some quarries with the remains. You could be standing on a street in Paris above the catacombs and never know it. They closed the area off from tours for a long time, and only recently re-opened the tours. The dust on the floor from the crumbling bones gets on your shoes, and you track it onto the street outside, it looks like cigarette ashes on the sidewalk.
Grifspop
Thu 12-22-2005
Are you serious?!?!?!?! EWWW
Poisonousxbeauty
Fri 12-23-2005
Yeah, you can google "catacombs paris" and see pictures of the catacombs with the bones piled up
Grifspop
Fri 12-23-2005
There should definitely be a disclaimer on this site that says something like "If you're eating a delicious steak and cheese sub and reading this, I would reccomend you put it down before you get sick.
haha. But seriously, for some reason this site makes me hungry, so I make food, then resume looking around, and loose my appitite.
Poisonousxbeauty
Tue 01-03-2006
In PA somewhere there is an underground road. I'm not just talking about a tunnel, it has houses and everything. It flooded in the 1800 and eveyone just left leaving eveything behind. the houses were moved around a little and are used for support for the road above it. Unfortanitly most "treasures" have been stolen. Its sad that people steal the only remnants of human life once being there to sell it for money.
Ron
Wed 01-04-2006
the colors in this shot are really great
Dana
Tue 02-21-2006
the orange glow seems reminiscent (sp?) of life in the building...contrasted by the very spotty blues....always a flicker, eh?
lola
Fri 04-07-2006
golden times....

like this
belamort
Sat 10-14-2006
the above mentioned underground street is located in norristown pa it is mentioned in the bood weird pennsylvania also
sande
Sat 10-28-2006
There is something wonderful in the classical architecture of the arch contrasted to the flaking skin of the building...It's like it has a horrible case of eczema. The gorgeous and the ugly... as one.
Bob
Thu 01-18-2007
The walls and the floor have the same texture of peeling paint. Their textures are a reflection of each other. Amazing shot....
Amazed
Thu 03-06-2008
Love the Architecture.
Deb
Mon 09-15-2008
That doorway looks like a glass-melting furnace.
nvusofmotts
Tue 09-16-2008
Beautiful... there is a sense of fear in this photo... like waiting for the Devil to step through the door.
RoseRed
Sun 11-08-2009

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