Motts, do you happen to know what the columns are made out of? The color looks like it is almost is reminiscent (sp?) of bronze, but I doubt they'd make it out of that. It's beautiful -- whatever it's made from.
First, glad the site's up and running and that things are starting to smoothe out for ya, Motts!
Second....AMAZING gallery! Such a RARE look into Victorian machinery...and it's not rusted or decrepit looking, it looks like it's only a few years old!! I can tell from the size of the bbuilding that you were probably looking at mostly BEHEMOTH stuff there, too. FAB, Motts, simply FAB!
Just the sight of something like this would make my bones straighten out on their own!
Imagine being mentally challenged and having to endure a "treatment"...Lord have mercy.
My grandmother taught me that age is a state of mind. She was rafting down the Orinoco (sp?) River into the Amazon forest at 93. She also taught me to admire old abandon places. Her father used to go into the tombs in the Valley of the Kings to paint what he saw on the walls there. That was before cameras. If you would like to see his paintings I am sure there are many in the Boston Museum of Art, if not look his name up - Joseph Lindon Smith. You take after him Motts! Keep it up I love the pics.
I wish I found this site earlier...it's awesome. The poem has this eery and yet awe-inspiring feeling do it...I'm so curious about it and I'm going to look it up now. I'm also so curious about the person who "tagged " this poem on the walls. Where did you find it? What inspired you to make it your tag? I've been very interested in KPPC for 6 years now, and I am looking forward to learning more about it.
Wow! It's been a while since I checked back here, and I'm so glad I returned when I did!
Mr Motts, you've done us proud! I love your pictures, and it's always a delight when you shoot places over here in England! You always breath new life into the most interesting of buildings, forgotten to the world!
I belive a standing ovation is in order!
Well done!
I live out near the bush in northern New South Wales, when I get back to the US and New York I spend my life looking up like this. I'm not used to builds over two stories.
Soon enough the Power Train Automotive in Buena Vista, MI is going to close if it hasn't completely closed already. But if Motts wants to take pictures of the abandoned Pioneer Sugar plant in Carrollton, MI. that would show unique machinery. Michigan is begining to be a waste land of closed factories. And many zombies of the un-employed wander here too.