During a trip to Yosemite last year, I was walking back to the car from a hike and across the meadow I saw a deer. I switched lenses quickly in the meadow and to my surprise the buck, a female deer and two fawns continued to walk closer towards me, seemingly unafraid.
Virginia and Truckee Railroad Tunnel No.3 - "Homestead Tunnel" near Virginia City, Nevada.
I remembered seeing this gorgeous room on my very brief first visit to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital many years ago, but I didn't find the time to photograph it. During my trip last Spring, I made it a priority to find it and photograph it.
This room did not contain any built in closets so one could speculate that this room was intended to hold multiple patient beds and house more than one patient.
(This image is a pano comprised of 3 horizontal images taken with my tilt shift and stacked vertically.)
(Night | 85% moon | 8 minutes | f/13 | ISO 200)
This 15,000 square foot mill was constructed in 1935 and is located in Gold Hill, Nevada. It processed 300,000 tons of ore before the Government shut it down under the War Production Board Limitation Order.
Dentist chair inside one of the wards at a former New York State asylum.
Blast Doors inside the 851-C Beale Titan I Missile Complex in California.
Shooting in this pitch dark facility was challenging as I had to create my own lighting for each photograph. This image was lit with an LED panel and multiple flashlights.
Image taken in 2009
The Woodward Ave Presbyterian Church in Detroit opened in 1911. The facility, designed in an English Gothic style, also contained classrooms for Sunday school in the rear. The church closed in 1993 and has been abandoned ever since.
Triple image pano shot with Canon 17mm TS-E
Inside the collapsed male wings of the former Hudson River Psychiatric Facility in New York.
Peering into a cell at the Essex County Jail, with an in tact sink and bed.
This particular cell was locked, which likely helped to ensure it stay relatively preserved. Many of the other cells in this facility were in worse shape as they have been used by the homeless for the last few decades.
Sunrise at Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park, Washington.
Trina the Triceratops braves the raging waters.
Stacks of lonely chairs inside the former Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey.
The Laurelton State Village for Feeble-Minded Women of Childbearing Age opened in 1917, with 36 patients, and was the first facility of its kind designed to segregate and care for "feeble-minded" women from puberty through menopause. The facility was established on the principles of eugenics and the premise that one’s intelect or mental deficiency was hereditary and the segregation of those individuals was crucial to ensure they did not reproduce and pass down those genetics. in the cannery, kitchen, laundry or in the fields. There were also recreational portions to the campus, as seen above.
In the late 1960's a radical change was made and males were admitted to the campus. Decades later, in 1998, the facility would shut its doors.
The waterfalls in Oregon never cease to impress and this waterfall was no different. This was stop number one on my first day in Oregon and the rocks were particularly slippery due to the temps dipping below freezing. I returned home with 2 very large bruises from slipping during this hike, but I also managed to capture a few shots so it was definitely worth it.
A skylight in this room, within the Administration section of Hudson River Psychiatric Hospital, let in just enough light to give this space a blue glow.
