3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

No, it is being renovated but not complete yet.

This building predates the remaining buildings at Kings Park by many years, so I doubt it.

Taunton will be featured on the site in the future.

Thank you, this shot was taken with a Canon Digital Rebel, and I use a Canon 5D as of now. I have been shooting abandoned places since 2002.

There could be a few factors... perhaps most of the closures of institutions happened later in England than over in America, giving the buildings more time to be vandalized.

Many places in the US were not protected in the early years; exploring back in 1995 was much much different than after the millennium... Danvers State Hospital was just sitting on that hill with no boards on the windows and no security for a good while!

The security in England seemed much more lax in terms of repercussions though. When I got busted by a guard and his K-9 in England there was no questioning or ticket; in the US a place with that level of security, a criminal trespass would have been issued at the very least.

England has it's share of trashed places. Look at all the burned buildings at St Margaret's. An upcoming gallery of Normansfield Hospital will show a lot of vandalism, and Hellingly had a good amount as well, I didn't shoot much of it because it was quite ugly :-)

I don't really; it's the people who built this place, worked and lived in it, abandoned it, the sun, wind, water and ice... I just take photos of it all.

I will definitely be producing a book at some point, I have been just too busy shooting to begin this project...

Yes they do, this is just a courtyard enclosed by the building.

"To Fire Exit"

Yes, most of the buildings on campus were heated with steam from the nearby power plant.

Actually KPPC is pretty barren given it's size... it looked like they took most of the equipment and furniture which makes this light an odd find.

24 seconds at F5.6 with an infrared filter.

Thanks Frida! I wind up cropping/straightening about 40% of my photos... I try to get it right the first time but I'm usually a little off especially when the camera is at an height that is uncomfortable to look through the viewfinder.

I would post paranormal photos if I had them, I haven't experienced anything of the like in these places.

Bad wording... the hospitals closed permanently around the end of December and early January. :-)