91 Comments Posted by katy

My first thought was.."That gives new meaning to be put on a pedestal!"

Seriously people! Lighten up...it's a joke that Grandpa fell asleep peacefully at the wheel while everyone in the car was screaming...it's called sarcasm....or bete noir. Unless, of course you have personal experience with this sort of thing...then, my apologies...;-)

Children can be diagnosed with EBD (Emotionally Behaviorally Disturbed) as young as the age of 3 yrs. old....they often have RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder), ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder), and OCD..etc... these children often self-mutilate...hitting themselves, biting themselves and others. Sometimes they need to be put into a, "basket-hold" to stop themselves from being hurt...my daughter was diagnosed with these problems when we adopted her at the age of three...if we hadn't taken her, she would have ended up in a facility much like this because foster care has a hard time placing these children....
As sad as we may think these places are for a child, at least licensed professionals are taking care of them and they are not being sent back to Russia to an orphanage... that started the RAD, ODD, etc... in the first place....these children are very hard to raise without medication and a ton of education and understanding of their disorders....thank goodness for the professionals that take care of them in these places!

Nice use of the thesaurus Motts...

Okay, they couldn't take the pictures off the wall before they painted it?

The tines are spaced too far apart to be a fork....

I think they are dental chairs....why would they need that many barber chairs....and the sea-foam green on the chair matches the podium of the thing in the foreground...but I could be wrong, it's been known to happen.. ;-)

Wallpaper for my computer!!Please?!

I like the wooden doors and the glass windows....it just seems more organic and human instead of think metal doors....

Yay! Just cracked open a beer and ready to experience some more of Mott's talent!

LOVE THIS ONE!! The bend of the wood is beautiful!

Damn! I am impressed that you had the guts to continue onward in these buildings!

Few things are still intact in this place....but the light bulb lives on....

Excellent shot! Reminds me of Alcatraz!

Motts, do you do research on the places you visit before you shoot them so you have an idea of how you want to shoot it? Or do you research after you have taken the shots...or a little of both? For this location, was it just shot organically, or did you have an idea ahead of time of parts if it that you were looking to shoot?