Photo: "Dusk to Dawn"

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Blue hour inside a day room of Building F, a former tuberculosis ward, at Mayview State Hospital. 

Mayview State Hospital was constructed in 1892 and it wasn't until 7 years later that a first physician was assigned to the "insane" department. In 1909, a hospital was built on the grounds, stemming from the need to treat the patients there due to mental illness. The hospital's last building closed in 2008 and demolition began in the spring of 2012. 

Photo: "II"

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The Beaux Arts style Waldo Hotel, constructed in 1904, was converted to apartment in the 1950's, but it was once known as the most luxurious hotels in West Virginia. Since being abandoned in the 1990's, the former hotel has sat abandoned and has now been condemned. 

Photo: "Morgue Table"

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This New York psychiatric hospital opened to the public in 1931 with 60 only male patients, though they had beds to support over 5,000. The hospital was designed as a "theraputic suburb," where patients could leave the noise and pollution of the city and seek treatments to cure their illness. By 1959, the hospital reached it peak and was home to 9,000 residents, including a staff of 2,000.  

Photo: "HBF"

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Blast furnace pipes at the former Homestead Steel Works in Pennsylvania.

When I saw these pipes and metal stencil labels, I knew I had to photograph them. Problem was they were about 2ft above my head and the light was fading. I bumped the cameras ISO up to 12,800 and took this shot. With a little noise reduction in Lightroom, the image is certainly usable online. I'm going to begin printing a few mid-sized test prints of images shot with high ISO's to see how well the Mark III noise translates to print.