3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

The hospital was used to store a variety of files and paperwork after it closed - this might have been surplus from the DMH (Dept. of Mental Health).

I suppose because they're usually the largest rooms, and off to the sides or ends of the building, making them a prime storage space.

Thanks; no I don't use the HDR processing software, I personally think it takes a lot of life out of otherwise well-shot photos.

ISO 100 1/60 sec
To create long exposures during the day, you need to cut down the amount of light coming in by using either an IR (infrared) or ND (neutral density) filter depending on the effect you want.

That did happen in 2005 at a different hospital - the Philadelphia Geriatric Center closed up and left the body in the cooler; it was found 3 years later by a construction worker renovating the place.

http://abclocal.go.com...local&id=4273050

Cool, thanks!

Just about everywhere I travel is for photographing abandoned places, and I do a lot of research, planning and saving to get there!

There are some issues with the comments, I'm working on the problem...

The colors came out of creative post-processing.

I'm not sure, there are gray areas of "getting caught", and a few too many to count. I've had guards watch me from inside the building while I was outside taking photos, so I left. I've had them approach and told me to leave, or they made their presence known in an obvious manner until I left. I've been chased off grounds a number of times, but never apprehended after those. I've had a cop yelling into his megaphone at a building I had exited just two minutes before he arrived; didn't stick around for that one. I've been ticked for being on grounds, but I haven't been physically apprehended inside a building.

These are just the things that happen quite commonly when scouting new places, or in an unlucky timing of events.

Sure, I lost count of how many but there have been quite a few, including this one (2x).

Thanks johan! I've updated the location page... it's too bad the site doesn't give any history on the building.

They do look like wooden planks, but I believe they were stone squares placed over a brick / wood / mortar foundation. If they were wood, I imagine they would have rotted out long ago with all the weather that gets in here... the entire fort was pretty solid.

I'm sure I stepped down it before packing up to leave, although I cannot remember exactly what was down there.

Jude, I think the sloping floor is just an effect of the super-wide angle lens, it was pretty level.

Caro, I guess you can say that - I get feelings of fun, excitement, and creativity when something looks particularly disturbing, not a panicky or fearful sensation.

It is a painted mural of two men conversing near the mouth of a French harbor.