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This is a shot I did before from the old silk mill in Lonaconing, MD. Here I am trying out processing a 3 shot bracket using Nik HDR Efex instead of my more usual LR Enfuse plug in. They are different.At first, I didn't think I liked the Nik software at all, but I think I'm slowly figuring it out. For some shots it may be better -- time will tell.Photographed with an Olympus E-M5 and 9-18mm f/4-5.6 lens.
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I made a very early morning visit to what was once one of the largest mental hospitals in the United States -- or even the world.It's been shut down for decades but it still stands -- a monument to mental illness stretching back to the 19th century.To enter it you must travel long distances underground through abandoned steam tunnels which I did alone and that was a little scary -- but it was worth it.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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I made a trip to today to a Silk Mill once known as the Klotz Throwing Company, but also as Lonacoming Silk Mills.I will have a few more but I'm very tired. I photographed a party the night before, got 4 hours sleep, then drove 4 hours each way to Lonaconing!Photographed with an Olympus E-PL5 and 17mm f/1.8 lens.
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I think they have lost control...I got a powerful little "enthusiast" camera called the Panasonic DMC-LX7. Can it do what my micro four thirds cameras and my previous APS-C cameras did? I took it around the steel mill where I work and also shot in an old pumphouse on the property that's been abandoned for 50 years. I shot both straight single-shot and some 3 shot brackets that I turned into HDR. This camera did a GREAT job on this material -- and it fits in my pocket! (Tightly, lol)Panasonic DMC-LX7 camera with it's fixed Leica designed lens that is 24-90mm equivalent and f/1.4-2.3Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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I made a very early morning visit to what was once one of the largest mental hospitals in the United States -- or even the world.It's been shut down for decades but it still stands -- a monument to mental illness stretching back to the 19th century.To enter it you must travel long distances underground through abandoned steam tunnels which I did alone and that was a little scary -- but it was worth it.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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Time stopped within, but the world paid no notice...I made a trip to a Silk Mill once known as the Klotz Throwing Company, but also as Lonacoming Silk Mills.I will have a few more but I'm very tired. I photographed a party the night before, got 4 hours sleep, then drove 4 hours each way to Lonaconing!Photographed with an Olympus E-M5 and 9-18mm f/4-5.6 lens.
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I made a trip to today to a Silk Mill once known as the Klotz Throwing Company, but also as Lonacoming Silk Mills.I will have a few more but I'm very tired. I photographed a party the night before, got 4 hours sleep, then drove 4 hours each way to Lonaconing!Photographed with an Olympus E-PL5 and 17mm f/1.8 lens.
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To the right is the top anchor of the bellt sysstem and motor drives which hauled the coal to the top of the building.These are just a teaser from my first visit to an abandoned coal breaker in the western middle fields of central Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. I arrived there just before sun up and shot throught the early morning.Taken with a Panasonic G5 (DMC-G5) and Olympus 9-18mm lens.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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I was not at all sure how sound the top of this thing was, but it was good enough for me to climb out and get a shot looking down the long chute that brought the coal up -- minus the very long belt.These are just a teaser from my first visit to an abandoned coal breaker in the western middle fields of central Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. I arrived there just before sun up and shot throught the early morning.Taken with a Panasonic G5 (DMC-G5) and Olympus 9-18mm lens.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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I made a very early morning visit to what was once one of the largest mental hospitals in the United States -- or even the world.It's been shut down for decades but it still stands -- a monument to mental illness stretching back to the 19th century.To enter it you must travel long distances underground through abandoned steam tunnels which I did alone and that was a little scary -- but it was worth it.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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With apologies to Stephen King! This laundry room in the basement of the medical building had vegetation filtering some of the light which rendered an eerie glow to an already eerie lighting.From the Letchworth Village Institute for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic
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The looming presence of the breaker just before sun up.Note the long chute to the right. It was used to bring big chunks of coal to the top where they were dumped into tall machines which broke up the coal, washed, and sorted it.This was my first visit to an abandoned coal breaker in the western middle fields of central Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. I arrived there just before sun up and shot throught the early morning.Taken with a Panasonic G5 (DMC-G5) and Olympus 9-18mm lens.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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I made a very early morning visit to what was once one of the largest mental hospitals in the United States -- or even the world.It's been shut down for decades but it still stands -- a monument to mental illness stretching back to the 19th century.To enter it you must travel long distances underground through abandoned steam tunnels which I did alone and that was a little scary -- but it was worth it.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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Sure he was poor, with a worn out sole... but that was no reason to reject him.What to do with the world famous "boot room"? I've seen so many takes on this odd room that still has workman's boots in it 50 years after teh breaker closed. So this is my shot for what it's worth, lol.This was my first visit to an abandoned coal breaker in the western middle fields of central Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. I arrived there just before sun up and shot throught the early morning.Taken with a Panasonic G5 (DMC-G5) and Olympus 9-18mm lens.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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I made a trip to a Silk Mill once known as the Klotz Throwing Company, but also as Lonacoming Silk Mills.I will have a few more but I'm very tired. I photographed a party the night before, got 4 hours sleep, then drove 4 hours each way to Lonaconing!Photographed with an Olympus E-M5 and 9-18mm f/4-5.6 lens.
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Taken with a Panasonic DMC-G5 and Panasonic 7-14mm f/4 lens.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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There is a sad little abandoned synagogue on the property that was "Congregation B'nai Israel". Inside, on the Rabbi's podium was this little scene.Was the young man who was bar-mitzvah'd a resident of the facility or a family member? These little reminders of the life of people in the facility moved me the most.
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See the "crop circle" like patterns in the dust. Took me a few minutes to figure out: it's where the water drips off the seams in the cone at the rivet line.These are just a teaser from my first visit to an abandoned coal breaker in the western middle fields of central Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. I arrived there just before sun up and shot throught the early morning.Taken with a Panasonic G5 (DMC-G5) and Olympus 9-18mm lens.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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I'm sorry, but this old lab gear makes me think of H.G Wells (or maybe Jules Verne) and then my wicked sense of humor took over, lol.However, this could explain a LOT about Moreau's behavior...These photos are from a photo session at the old Watts Campbell Steam Engine machine shop in Newark, NJ. this 1/2 block sized building houses a number of old machine tools, as well as items collected from the once sprawling 3-1/2 acre complex that has mostly been torn down or repurposed. Chadd Watts himself allows free-roaming access by appointment.
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I made a very early morning visit to what was once one of the largest mental hospitals in the United States -- or even the world.It's been shut down for decades but it still stands -- a monument to mental illness stretching back to the 19th century.To enter it you must travel long distances underground through abandoned steam tunnels which I did alone and that was a little scary -- but it was worth it.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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Judging from the ukelele and the styles, this was painted back in the 1940's. However, it was painted over (several layers) at a later date. Even the "frame" is just painted.But the new paint has peeled revealing a past "masterpiece".I made a very early morning visit to what was once one of the largest mental hospitals in the United States -- or even the world.It's been shut down for decades but it still stands -- a monument to mental illness stretching back to the 19th century.To enter it you must travel long distances underground through abandoned steam tunnels which I did alone and that was a little scary -- but it was worth it.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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First, as some know, I have struggled with depression in my own life. One thing I remember is that feeling of always being "walled away" from real life -- which looked both bright and terrifying. I wanted to be part of it so bad; but anxiety and an inability to move 'towards the light" kept me back. Even though my world was dingy and limited, it seemed I was stuck there.Everything was both clear and clouded at the same time -- a constant contradiction.I can't imagine but that for many of the residents here, even if not clinically depressed, that feeling was present at times.
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A corridor in the lower level below a burnt building (presumed arson by, believe it or not, another urban explorer photographer, or so I've heard...).
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The controls to an old x-ray machine in the corridor of the old patient building that was burned.
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....and his watch stopped keeping time...These photos are from a photo session at the old Watts Campbell Steam Engine machine shop in Newark, NJ. this 1/2 block sized building houses a number of old machine tools, as well as items collected from the once sprawling 3-1/2 acre complex that has mostly been torn down or repurposed. Chadd Watts himself allows free-roaming access by appointment.Chad Watts, a descendant of the original owners of the Watts-Campbell Engine Co. in Newark, NJ personally let myself and a whole group of urbex photography enthusiasts and history buffs into the last remaining building of the once huge complex.We were allowed to roam around at well for over 5 hours.
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Taken at the old Watts-Cambell steam engine company in Passaic, NJ, this odd wheel in the test lab is an enigma -- hence the title which is more fitting for a martial arts movie...
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They are assembled to evaluate conditions...
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Large knife switches, batteries, generators... it made no difference...I made a trip to today to a Silk Mill once known as the Klotz Throwing Company, but also as Lonacoming Silk Mills.I will have a few more but I'm very tired. I photographed a party the night before, got 4 hours sleep, then drove 4 hours each way to Lonaconing!Photographed with an Olympus E-M5 and 9-18mm f/4-5.6 lens.
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The techno-zombies have been here and stolen the brains of the old scarfing robot arm...I got a powerful little "enthusiast" camera called the Panasonic DMC-LX7. Can it do what my micro four thirds cameras and my previous APS-C cameras did? I took it around the steel mill where I work and also shot in an old pumphouse on the property that's been abandoned for 50 years. I shot both straight single-shot and some 3 shot brackets that I turned into HDR. This camera did a GREAT job on this material -- and it fits in my pocket! (Tightly, lol)Panasonic DMC-LX7 camera with it's fixed Leica designed lens that is 24-90mm equivalent and f/1.4-2.3Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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When I was framing this I could see the flare and almost reset my viewpoint... but then I decided I liked it.This was my first visit to an abandoned coal breaker in the western middle fields of central Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. I arrived there just before sun up and shot throught the early morning.Taken with a Panasonic G5 (DMC-G5) and Olympus 9-18mm lens.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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I made a very early morning visit to what was once one of the largest mental hospitals in the United States -- or even the world.It's been shut down for decades but it still stands -- a monument to mental illness stretching back to the 19th century.To enter it you must travel long distances underground through abandoned steam tunnels which I did alone and that was a little scary -- but it was worth it.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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I made a very early morning visit to what was once one of the largest mental hospitals in the United States -- or even the world.It's been shut down for decades but it still stands -- a monument to mental illness stretching back to the 19th century.To enter it you must travel long distances underground through abandoned steam tunnels which I did alone and that was a little scary -- but it was worth it.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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I made a very early morning visit to what was once one of the largest mental hospitals in the United States -- or even the world.It's been shut down for decades but it still stands -- a monument to mental illness stretching back to the 19th century.To enter it you must travel long distances underground through abandoned steam tunnels which I did alone and that was a little scary -- but it was worth it.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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I made a very early morning visit to what was once one of the largest mental hospitals in the United States -- or even the world.It's been shut down for decades but it still stands -- a monument to mental illness stretching back to the 19th century.To enter it you must travel long distances underground through abandoned steam tunnels which I did alone and that was a little scary -- but it was worth it.Please visit the Entropic Remnants website or my Entropic Remnants blog -- THANKS!
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It can scarcely be called a greenhouse. I found this today at lunch and had to teeter precaruiyskt ib a narrow ledge to get this through a broken pane.
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