Photo: "Marches"

Sheet music left backstage in Noble Hall, a Connecticut psychiatric hospital theatre. 

Photo: "Dominos"

Norwalk Hall was a male staff and Psychiatric Aid residence at a Connecticut State Hospital. Each room on the lower floors of the Hall were approximately 8ft x 10ft and contained a bed, rocking chair, desk, lockable closet, dresser, mirror and sink. The third floor rooms were much harder to come by and were reserved for the veteran staff. 

Photo: "Bridalveil Falls"

Bridalveil Falls, in Yosemite National Park, flows all year round and stands at an amazing 617ft tall.  
(Night. Full moon. 5 minutes. Lit by moonlight.)  

Photo: "Chroma"

Dawn on a screened porch of Building 14, a medium security ward, at a Pennsylvania State Hospital. This cottage plan hospital, founded in 1876, received its first patient, a woman, in 1880.

Photo: "Starlight, Starbright"

Big Sur, California. 
(Night. Half moon. 60 seconds at ISO 1600.) 

Photo: "Stoop"

Norwich State Hospital was established as a psychiatric hospital in 1904 in Preston Connecticut. It was the second public mental asylum for the state and opened with only 95 patients. Within a few years, the need for more buildings grew. The campus continued to grow and eventually contained 30+ buildings.  

Photo: "Lights Out"

Part of a haulted housing project in Bethel Island, California, scheduled to have been completed by 2008. The project plan contained 494 plots, 416 docks, 19 new streets and a marina, but the only elements constructed thus far are the docks. 

Night. Full moon. 3.5 minutes. Lit by moonlight.

Photo: "Disregard"

This psychiatric hospital in rural New York opened in 1931 with 60 male patients, but had sufficient beds for over 5,000. As with many early psychiatric hospitals, this one also had its own working farm, a power plant, industrial shops and bowling alley inside the Assembly Hall. 

Photo: "Three Brothers"

Three Brothers, Yosemite National Park. 
Night. 85% moon. 15 minutes. Lit by moonlight.  

Photo: "Lower Yosemite Falls"

I just returned from a great 3-day weekend in Yosemite with a bunch of Google+ photographers where I spent 3 nights photographing under the moonlight. It was my first time seeing the park and I couldn't have had a better experience. My goal for 2012 is to photograph the park during each season, but maybe even squeeze in a few other trips, like when there's snow. 

Lower Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park. 
Night. 85% moon. 8.5 minutes. Lit by moonlight.