4,023 Comments for Riverside State Hospital

good composition Motts

arresting atmosphere

Motts - now do be careful. You take remarkable photographs, but that'll be hard to do anymore if, per chance, you end up crushed to death.

I like how Mott's gets a wide variety of shots. Far away, close up, upside down, and inside out. Get a real feel for the place.

heheh... Keeping cool is one thing.I have maybe 50 fans,and some would say that is a lot.
But yes, I guess it could get hot down in the Ozarks. especially if you hold an annual 'show and tell' at your farm where you have a big ole fire roasting a whole pig telling stories of how you acquired a particular fan. Im sure they fail to mention the fan that everyone is ooowing and aahhing over that is worth about $15,000 was acquired from a local picker for $300 who didn't know what it was worth. But I'm sure occasionally he taps his offshore bank accounts to pay retail for a fan from another collector that he can't steal.
But it's all in good fun I'm sure.. provided no two of them have their sights heavily set on a fan. As the great movie line was... "As long as theres no find, the noble brotherhood will last. But when the gold roles in, thats when the trouble starts." well, it went something like that.

Trust me, some of these guys get goose pimply when they buy that special fan. Then they have debates that last weeks over when someone finds a fan blade and doesn't know which exact fan it fits. Others get more excited than they did on their honeymoon when they find a fan that ran off of DC current instead of the more common AC version.

Though as silly as it sounds, it's probably no more strange than when they see people who like sites like this look in awe at some of the photos which to them aren't that exciting. But then again, I don't think many of the photographers are paying five figures for any of these photos. Nor are they throwing BBQ parties to show them off.

I have been looking at this site for a couple of days and it seems like the way that things were left it was more like a bomb threat or something instead of it closing!!! i don't know maybe its just me

you were a lucky person to be there to capture such a shot. keep up the good work!

This shot looks almost superficial. It's amazing, something like a dream. I love it.

Yeah, Physical Graffiti:
http://ledzeppelin.ale...aphics/covers/pg.jpg

Looks like that one Led Zeppelin album cover...tyring to think of the name...anyone? Maybe physical Graffitti?

"And one can safely say anyone who feels the need to have say 10,000 fans in their back yard is obsessed." Maybe they're just hot? I have multiple fans in my home office to keep everything cool (although not quite that many).
Wait... What? People actually collect these things? Wow, I guess there really is a market for everything! I wonder what I have laying around that people would want?

Love your angle this is a beautiful shot

scary looking what did you shoot with? are thes all film or digital did you photoshop any of them would love to know

Again with the creepy erie feel I love how not all the letters are there and the peeling paint it looks like a scene out of an old horror movie I love it . I would love a print eamil me and let me know

Great shot I love it its very gohstly you almost see reflections of people in the windows that shouldnt be there I love the feel.