This hangar at the Wendover Air Field in Wendover, Utah was once home to the Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomber responsible for deploying the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
(From the 2008 archives.)
Photo: "California's Past"
A train passes behind a group of buses at Northern California bus maintenance yard.
Night. Full moon. 90 seconds. Lit by moonlight.
Photo: "Chalked"
In one of the day rooms at Mayview State Hospital in Pennsylvania sits a lonely pool table. The cues were stacked on the rack and the chalk left next to the score counter, as though the game was played yesterday, but the paint chips covering the table tell a different story.
Photo: "Rounded Rust"
Wooden wheelchair in the basement of the tuberculosis ward at Mayview State Hospital in Pennsylvania.
Photo: "Repeating"
Corridor inside the colonial style administration building at a Virginia State Asylum, constructed in the late 1820's.
Photo: "Chipped"
Patient room inside the tubercular ward at Mayview State Hospital in Pennsylvania.
Photo: "704"
Northern California bus maintenance yard.
Night. Full moon. 120 seconds. Lit by ambient light + moonlight.
Not Every Photograph I Take Is Artistic, But That's OK
Sometimes while photographing abandoned buildings, I snap images strictly for documentation purposes.
In this case, Mayview State Hospital in Pennsylvania was already in the process of being demo'd when I saw the campus for the first time. For that reason, I shot more building exteriors and photos out windows than I have in the past. In particular, the tubercular wards on the campus were some of the oldest remaining buildings and I felt they were worth a few shots.
In a few decades nothing will remain of this former asylum, but hopefully images like this will help people see what once was.
Photo: "Ascendants"
Spiral staircase in the administration building of a Virginia State Hospital. This campus is the fifth oldest asylum in the United States and was in use from 1820's until the 1950's when the campus was moved down the street.
Photo: "Let the Light Seep In"
Standing inside a roofless bus at a bus maintenance yard in Northern California.
(Night. Full moon. 2 minutes exposure. Lit by LED and incandescent flashlights combined with moonlight.)
Photo: "Out of Ideas"
Lightbulb hangs in a patient room of a former psychiatric hospital in Virginia.
Photo: "Your Calls"
After this Virginia psychiatric facility closed in the 1950's, portions of the campus were repurposed to be used as a correctional facility.
This particular building was used to house inmates. Here you can see a black box where a telephone was once mounted. The description reads: "Notice Your calls are monitored and recorded. By using the inmate telephone system you consent to the monitoring and recording of your telephone calls."
Photo: "819 On Time Arrival"
Moonrise at a Northern California bus maintenance yard.
(Night. Full moon. 40 second exposure. Lit by ambient light + incandescent flashlight.)
Photo: "Sani-Glas"
Boxes of glass presciption bottles piled inside a day room of a former New York Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
Photo: "Elevation Pyramid"
View of the Financial District, during blue hour, from the top floor of a downtown hotel.