942 Comments for Severalls Hospital

Just think of how cool and pristine this must have been when it was new. . .

We just don't see stuff like this in America!

Motts, I love the work you do with perspective. You're so daring with your camera angles - I'd be chicken to try a shot like this on anything but a digital (where I could toss it if it were horrible)!

I love the subtle patterns that the light coming through the windows makes on the ceiling (was that sentence gramatically correct? I really had to think about it hard. . .)

Oh Crap! My last post sounds like a York Peppermint Pattie commercial! LOL! Oh well, got caught up in the moment. STILL feel that way though!

I hear ya there, Sara! Not like the sterile institutional colors we see in American asylums of this era. . .

I don't think that's dirt, Tony; I think it's a shadow. Looks to me like there's another source of light behind Motts as he's taking the picture, another window or something.

Breathtaking gallery, as usual. Your bittersweet photography evokes feelings of melancholy. You are so appreciated, Motts! And thank-you, alias, as well! Like Peat said, thank you for immortalizing these places. Without your photographs, we would have no memories or images of these beautiful places.

Mott's galleries are never complete without Lynnie edjukating us at least once! :-)

Thanks Lynne!

No Ton, because mushsicles is just for us! :-)

Seems like old times. You're the best, Lynne! I still want us to wear derbies and dance someday.

Is that a skylight in the smaller structure? What beauty! Sadness. Not to be saved, to be forever gone.

"Even as on some black background full of night
And hollow storm in cloudy disarray,
The forceful brush of some great master may
More brilliantly evoke a higher light;
So beautiful, so delicately white,
So like a very metaphor of May,
Your loveliness on my life's sombre grey
In its perfection stands out doubly bright."

This was one of my absolute favorite photographs until I read the description of what it was. Motts or alias, do they have to do asbestos abatement in any of these buildings like they do here in America?

"And yet your beauty breeds a strange despair,
And pang of yearning in the helpless heart;
To shield you from time's fraying wear and tear,
That from yourself yourself would wrench apart,
How save you, fairest, but to set you where
Mortality kills death in deathless art?"