Any decent lens cloth sold at a camera store fixes the problem well. If smearing occurs, I use a lens cleaning fluid I keep on me, it has come in handy a few times in these dusty and dirty places.
The sign was a Fire Procedure Notice, with what might have been a fire alarm next to it. I suppose this photo is just chock full of fire safety symbols!
I went to the building many times last summer (because I live in Goshen right near the school) and I have to say that now it is much more difficult to get in the building because of the building being gutted and renovated...its sad to see them demolish the building.
PS--the reason it closed was the lack of enrollment...although many people like to attribute it to the death of Paul Ramos
I took Opacity as being derived from the word Opaque.... because I used to wear "Opaques" pantyhose. Sorry for the totally uncool reference there Motts.
this shot sooooo makes me think of hill house, the creepy gothic mansion from 'The haunting. though that film was set in america the real house they used was actually in england too... and yes it's even scarier in real life...
bobbo this won't get torn down for a supermarket, in Britain old buildings like this are all eing turned into fancy flats (apartments) and sold to rich people... i'm sure this will go the same way
Yes i would imagine that the plaster work is all still there above all the polystyrene tiles. They probably knocked holes throgh it to suspend the cieling though. peopel once thought victorian architecture was fusty and old fashioned and tried to hide it from view. Nowadays houses wiht original features fetch a premuim cause so many were destroyed in the name of fashion .