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Why were there so many children there? Did parents just drop off their crippled, deaf, and/or blind children here? This is so sad th think that these children had to live there and endure so much coldness!

I haven't seen the updates until now. Very interesting basis for a photup although lately psychiatry has been driving me crazy....


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Karen

That playground is part of a building owned by Cardinal Hayes Home for Children. It was once a nursery school, then part of the Cardinal Hayes School, and now belongs to the work program for Cardinal Hayes. The college is interesting to look at while we work, and it's impossible to go in there now to explore because some kids were caught trying to set it on fire. Now we see patrol cars there constantly.

HOLY FUCK. I went to rockford inpatient program just recently in maryland. The same damn chairs. exactly.

this looks so simmilar to the theatre at henryton insane asylum that burned down in eldersburg md.

as I was sitting here reading these comments in complete silence my dog scratched on my bedroom door from the outside. I about pissed myself.

its a galant

This photo would make great wallpaper. Wonderful, Motts.

It was duplicated by pulling out the drawer adjacent to the one that was previously spilled... only these two had a considerable amount of water collecting in them.

Not a stupid question at all - when a photo is taken at a long exposure (these were taken with the shutter open for a few minutes) the color of the sky starts to emerge in the visible spectrum, which is blue due to Rayleigh scattering.

"In locations with little light pollution, the moonlit night sky is also blue, for the same reasons that the sky is blue during the day (moonlight is reflected sunlight, with a slightly lower color temperature due to the brownish color of the moon). We do not perceive the moonlit sky as blue because at low light levels, human vision comes mainly from rod cells that do not produce any color perception."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.or...lue_color_of_the_sky

Most of the colors in the above photo were not visible when I took them, simply because it was too dark to see them. If there were a bright light shining on the building, the sky would appear black as in this photo (a 10 second or so exposure): http://www.opacity.us/...158_quarter_moon.htm

In this set, the sky is also sometimes takes on orange and violet hues due to light pollution from New York City.

Don't want to ask a stupid question or anything, but you say this was shot with the moon out, so I assume it was at night. Why is the sky blue or bluish rather than black, and why is it so bright it looks like daylight? Is this done in the lighting or camera settings? Thanks.

I think I've joined the crowd of groupies (addict?). I started this morning at around 10:20 and it's now 4:52 p.m. Hand is stuck on mouse and I'm starting to atrophy! Gotta pull myself away or my cats will starve to death! ;^)

Hey matt so have you been there recently? I was there saturday, and I've been doing nothing but researching this place since. Have you stayed there at night alone? I have a friend who has been inside, and he says particularly the second floor is haunted, Also the window on the third floor in the left wing with the curtain that it is always blowing even if there is no breeze. I would love to hear your prospectives as I believe there is much much more to this site than is being talked about. Some more interesting info I found about this property was that It was one of the northern most spots for the underground railroad, along with other things!