Ferns

THE FERNS ARE SO BEAUTIFUL! LOVE EM!

Hey, there's a blue "x" in the first doorway on the left. I wonder if it's like the brother of the pink "x"-'s

I Call it "Fern Hall".

Now this is one gorgeous shot! Again the red in this really makes everything pop, but those plants and natural light soften it all.

Really beautiful...restful

Absolutely and totally darned swell!

These hallways just keep getting better and better. Maybe the next one will have trees and a few deer?

Very "Pines Hotelish" Ed from Oregon

So, now it's the wild greenhouse....coolness!

i love it when nature takes back over

The blue cross is probably where the sasquatch was last seen peering over its shoulder. would a deer look out of place in this shot? i think its great when plants grow in abandoned buildings.

imagine what it will look like if it goes unchecked 10 or 20 years.

very very VERY pretty and cool; i've allways liked ferns. theres something about them...prehistoric, maybe? eeh, they're just cool....

and i agree, they should leave this grow for at LAEST 5 years, it'll be a fern palace! or a cool greenhouse

That 's it! No more soda and candy for me while looking at these pictures! The song "Jungle Boogey" is now blasting in my head. The sad thing is i'm not even that crazy about that song!

Seriously though, I love this shot. I love how the white walls and red doors contrast with the green plants. What a great shot Motts. You were on a role in this place.

By looking at the condition of the floor, it looks like the hallway will collapse within 10 to 20 years, if not sooner.

looks like there is a fire hose at the end of the hall. Before you leave, could you please water the ferns?

I bet the ferns improved the atmosphere...

Looks like Max's room turning into "Where The Wild Things Are"!

Puts me in mind offa Horrowood set for Indiana Jones or some sech.

My favorite shot of this series

What does the sign at the end of the hallway say?

This is a really amazing picture.

Regards, Justin
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So far, the crosses have been largely guesswork. Surely there's someone out there who knows someone in the construction/demolition biz that could clear it up. In all these picyures, that is the one thing that bugs me the most.

I'm just loving the indoor outdoor flow of this room.

You realise if you wanted ferns growing in your carpet you'd have to pay some designer-decorator-botanist-type-person a quarter of a million dollars to do it, and they'd be dead in a week (the ferns that is, not the designer-decorator-botanist-type-person, well, unless you were *really* unhappy with the job).

LOOK its the forest hall of hospital

I wonder? how you find these hospitals??

JUMANJI!

I have always hated ferns for some unknown reason.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.

Her name was Anna Schuleit. The project was titled Bloom, and she filled an abandoned mental institution with wall-to-wall flowers, lined the walkways with sod, and piped in recorded sounds from when the institution was up and running. reminiscent ....

Talk about Feung Shuay going too far!

I have always loved your work but this piece just took my breath away!
Nature taking back what is hers.

Fantastic

I like this one - its got a lovely calm feeling to it.

CALMING? try standing there, its nothing but calming.
IF ANYONE IS THINKING OF VISITING WHITTINGHAM PLEASE DO NOT ENTER ANY AREA NEAR WATER TOWER ESPECIALLY THE BUILDING TO THE LEFT. THESE AREAS ARE VERY UNSAFE (I DONT MEAN STRUCTURALLY) I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE. PLEASE CONTACT ME HERE IF YOU WOULD LIKE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT WHITTINGHAM. THE RED X'S ARE UNSTABLE STRUCTURE AREAS, BLUE ARE SAFE AREAS/EXITS, NOTHING TO DO WITH ASBESTOS (ITS A MAZE IN THERE)

I agree it is a maze in there. The x marks were done by me to indicate which rooms we had investigated for asbestos, colour changes were because my spray can ran out (theres green and yellow too). The complex IS FULL of asbestos but most areas should be safe for explorers, just dont go in any sub-floor ducts. The asbestos there has been disturbed by somebody 'salvaging' the copper pipes and is heavily contaminated. It is a wonderful site and I wouldnt like to see anyone regret exploring it in later life.....

It must be a coincidence that all the red marked areas are very dangerous and that the blue areas lead to exits. did you make the ultraviolet markings too?

please nobody enter and area near the watertower

Amazing just amazing.

wow. That reminds me of that Japanese movie.. "Infection" They have like, a hospital with practical no staff.. and hardly any money. No new supplies and they sort of shut down. Then some patient gets randomly wheeled in the back, and his insides decompose into green. Then the doctor see's everything as green [well, everything that was red]. and the green was the 'infection' but it was really just an 'evil' halucination. it was weird. something about how your mind processes colors. Kind of a cheesey movie, but I liked it. Seems to fit this hospital.

Opportunist ferns.......great shot!

Ferns growing indoors!? Now I've seen everything...

Nature reclaims the territory that humanity took from it in years past....

I love it!

The program called "Life after People" on the History Channel (or maybe it's National Geographic) shows some interesting computer simulations of how vegetation would overtake abandoned buildings and what the area would look like after a year, five years, 100 years, etc. The underlying premise seems a logical impossibility to me (what could happen that would exterminate all human life but leave plant and animal life essentially intact?), but that doesn't take away from the program's quality. One segment shows a return to a former town of 50,000 in the Ukraine that was completely evacuated in a period of a few hours about a day after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986. It is a moment frozen in time, with everything literally left just as it was--dishes on tables, scattered toys, remnants of lives left behind with no time to take more than just what one could carry. The buildings have now decayed to a point where any kind of rehabilitation is impossible, just because of weather and lack of maintenance. Because entrance has been prohibited, and because radiation is enough of a threat to keep people from trying to breach security, there is no vandalism at all.

you know the place has gone to hell when the ferns grow lol...beautful shot!

ive walked past this building it was an amzing looking place... trees growing out of the roof...awesome

DME-

The town that was abandoned was Pripyat.

And if I recall, a russian girl pulled some strings and was able to get in about 10 years ago and took photos. She said it was kind-of-safe, as long as she stayed on the cement.

I read entries about it some time ago. If I find it again, I'll link to it.

Wow, the ferns are actually kinda nice. Bizarre growing inside, but nice.

whittingham regular why shouldnt you enter near the watertower is it dangerous? or is there other reasons?