Ruins

[Jack Dahlgren]

A couple from Sutro Baths in San Francisco. The enormous salt-water pools have almost merged with the sea.



And the iron bars have become mineral deposits.

[Jim Cole]

Here's one from a couple of years ago. This subject has been done by many photographers, some famous, but every take is just a little different. This is my version of White House Ruin at Canyon de Chelly, AZ.

[hmf]

Girl's school, Silver Spring MD:

I'm surprised to see this site, which is only a mile or two from my home, done by a photographer from Minnesota!

That complex was a seminary, girl's school and finally a U.S. Army mental health research center. Care to guess who let it go to ruins?

The Army sold the remains to a developer who has turned the complex into up-scale housing. The Gymnasium pictured is one of the few structures that is still unimproved.

[sidmac]

This was shot on Mt Evans, CO

[Robert Hughes]

That complex was a seminary, girl's school and finally a U.S. Army mental health research center.

I lived in Colesville MD for a few years. The way I heard it, the complex was used by the nearby Walter Reed Army Hospital Annex as an exercise area for damaged Vietnam vets to walk around and recollect their ruined minds and bodies. The Army's goal wasn't preservaton - indeed, the idea was that the recuperating soldiers could relate to their environment. I'm not sure that's the message you should be sending to wounded veterans.

Another shot, this one from an unrestored 6x6 Agfa folder with shot plastic bellows - hence the light leak:

Wouldn't this make a dynamite set piece for a zombie flick?

[sly]

Yeah, great for a Zombie flick, but does it belong here? 6x6 is not large format is it?

[rjbuzzclick]

Beehive grill from the late 1930's near where I live.

http://www.restorelilacway.com/Beehive_History.html

Pacemaker Speed Graphic, pinhole lens board, HP5+, HC-110 dil. H:

[Gary Beasley]

A couple of toned 4x5 polaroid prints at the gun galleries in Fort Pulaski near Tybee Island, Ga. Might have been a Calumet Cadet I was playing with that day, 150mm Caltar lens. Lugging a monorail camera around there was a bit burdensome but not impractical as there was lots of room to set up and work.

[sly]

Spent an enjoyable day at Mclean Mill near Port Alberni. Logging camp was abandoned for years, but is currently being restored as a tourist attraction. Still lots of abandoned items in the woods.

[IanG]

Palladium prints of the ancient Greek Theatre at Patara:



The irony is the Romans converted the theatre to a Gladiator arena building a wall on top of the bottom row of seats



Ian