Undisclosed location.
(Night. Full moon. 90 seconds. Lit by moonlight and ambient light.)
Photo: "Growing Tires from Seeds"
Blue hour on the San Francisco Bay.
(30 second exposure @ f/8, ISO 200.)
Photo: "Patients Bath"
Corridor inside Building 2, the female ward, of a former New York Sanatorium.
Read more about this location here.
Photo: "Undersea Paradise"
Corridor inside the female ward at a former New York Tuberculosis Sanatorium, responsible for major advancments in medicine pertaining to the disease.
Photo: "Solitary"
Single cell inside the basement of the Wheary Building, built in 1938, at a Virginia State Asylum. These cells were added in the 1950's, following the closure of the hospital, when portions of the campus were repurposed as a medium security correctional facility.
Photo: "Treatment Room"
Medical equipment outside the treatment room of a women's pavilion at a former Tuberculosis sanatorium in New York.
Photo: "Golden Escape"
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.