Hallway inside a former Virginia State Asylum.
This Building, Building 30, dates back to the 1890's and contained a carpentry shop on the top floor.
Photo: "Unicorn Mural"
Last April, while exploring one of the buildings in a Virginia State Asylum, a friend and I noticed a small hint of color from underneath some peeling paint in one of the communal rooms. We knew it was a mural that had been covered, so we began to look for flat objects to scrape away the top layer of paint. After about an hour, this is what we uncovered, a unicorn mural that had been sketched with pencil and later painted over. Unfortunately there is no way of knowing whether or not this was done by a patient, but it certainly was a neat find.
Photo: "Amber Glow"
Street lights give the ceiling an amber glow before dawn inside the top floor of a former asylum building in Virginia.
This campus was eventually repurposed as a correctional facility when the hospital was moved down the road and inmates were kept in this building. The top floor contained a guard shack and would have also had dividers and beds, which have since been removed, for inmates.
Photo: "High Clearance"
Container ship and tug boat pass under the Bay Bridge in San Francisco during the #lumpsonahill photowalk last night.
Photo: "Blue Hour Bridge"
The Bay Bridge in San Francisco during blue hour.
Photo: "Decorator"
Main staircase inside the North II Complex at Mayview State Hospital.
The End of the Sea Shadow Stealth Ship
The Sea Shadow is an experimental stealth ship built for the Navy in 1985 by the Lockheed Corporation for $50 million. She was built inside the Hughes Mining Barge which acted as a floating dry dock (and was eventually involved with Project Azorian, recovering a Soviet submarine from the ocean floor.)
Her purpose was to test naval vessel stealth technology to determine if radar-evading technology in aircraft was also possible in water. The experiment was a success, and used in secret for years until being exposed to the public until 1993, but the vessel was never reproduced.
In 2006, the Sea Shadow and the Hughes Mining Barge were relocated to Suisun Bay and placed in the Mothball Fleet where they have been moored since.
Yesterday, news broke that a Bay Area company purchased the Hughes Mining Barge at auction. They will preserve the barge and use it as a floating dry dock, however, the auction required the purchaser to destroy the Sea Shadow.
Photo: "Moonscape"
Mono Lake, California.
Night. Full moon. 90 seconds. Lit by moonlight.
Photo: "Room 220"
Early morning light inside a patient room in a former tuberculosis ward at Mayview State Hospital.
Photo: "5 Inch Guns"
The USS Hornet CV-12 aircraft carrier was once outfitted with twelve 5"/.38 caliber guns, but post WWII this was reduced to just four.
Photo: "Lobby Staircase"
Grand staircase inside the Waldo Hotel in West Virginia.
Photo: "USS Iowa, 2nd Deck"
USS Iowa, 2nd Deck.
Near crew's mess.
Photo: "North Tower Moonrise"
On Tuesday night, I made the trek to the Marin Headlands to shoot the moonrise over the city and bridge with a few other Google+ photographers. Earlier in the day it seemed as though it would be a clear evening, but by the time we got to the headlands, it was fairly hazy. Interestingly enough, it gave the moon a very odd-shaped appearance at moonrise.
Photo: "The Spy"
Mono Lake. Eastern Sierras, California.
(Night. Full moon. 7 minutes. Lit by moonlight.)
Photo: "Irreparable"
Inside the women's wards at a New York Tuberculosis Sanatorium.