34 Comments Posted by Ilaynay

That chandelier looks awfully familiar... I can't remember where I've seen it, but I know I've seen that design before...

I always love the photos of plants coming up through the carpet. So interesting to see nature taking over.

*nods in agreement* And it's a good example of how you can get beautiful photos of abandoned places--even institutions like this one--that aren't creepy. I mean, don't get me wrong, I like the creepy ones too, but it's good to see one that's not every once in a while.

That reminds me, Motts, I'm curious--do you usually photograph items (such as equipment, lamps, desks, the infamous chairs, etc.) just as you find them, or do you usually have to move them a bit to get the shot you want? Just curious...

Well, that's even creepier; I have a mirror of the same design in my house right now. Mine's full-length, but it's definitely the same--this probably came off of the matching vanity. We also have a couple of other pieces of furniture from the same line. I don't know why seeing something so similar to the furniture I have should creep me out, but it kind of does.

Very nice. I like the dramatic curve of the fallen miniblinds (or whatever--that's what they look like anyway) against the straight, ordered lines of the window frame.

I like not just the direction the chair's facing in this photo, but also the way it's leaning forward... It reminds me of a person who, having tried to do something (escape?) and failed, finds themselves unable to do anything more than sit slumped in front of the window and stare out of it thinking of what might have been.

Oh, wow. So that's what those are. I used to have a lamp like that (only industrial green, not brown) in my bedroom when I was a kid! I always thought it was kind of weird and wondered why it was made like that. Perhaps it was an old examination lamp, too.

I like the combination of the unbroken light bulb and the switch sticking out below it, actually. Just seems sort of fun somehow.

I must be the least visually imaginative person in the world, because I can't see anything in this picture. Hallway, doors, light, shadows. I can see how it would be easy for the mind to form patterns out of the shadows, the peeling paint, etc., but I just don't see the things you guys are talking about no matter how hard I try.

I see... nothing in the archway. Another arch behind it, and a few spots of what looks like stray sunlight or something, but otherwise just darkness.

I think this is my favourite of the photos featuring this ray of light. It's gorgeous, in a dark and eerie sort of way. Kind of wish this were one of the available wallpapers; I'd love to have it in my rotation.

Overexposed, sure, but I like it nonetheless. It has a dreamy-drunk-nightmare sort of feeling to it. If all your work were like this it would totally suck--but in the midst of so many clean, stark images, it really has a lot of impact, I think.

Falling trees is my first thought. Although where those trees are now if they fell after the institution was abandoned, or why the railings weren't repaired if it happened before, I couldn't tell you...

Looks like a human being seen through cloudy glass to me. In some of those panes you can see cracks and holes indicating that there *is* still glass there. I have no idea what y'all are on about with the coming through the window pane bit.

Agreed about the platform at the top, but one presumes that a therapist would have been on hand to help with the therapy. I imagine they would have "spotted" the patient, holding the patient's hand as the stairs were climbed? (Of course, I guess you can never tell given the other stories I've heard about the neglect at Pennhurst...)