100 feet below the surface, inside a pitch dark Titan I ICBM Missile Silo, looking through a blast lock door.
These doors protected the complex from an explosion inside the silo or an attack on the silo. Each of the silos was separated from the complex by 2 blast lock doors. You can see the second set in the background of this image.
I wish the outcome had been different. Seeing this beautiful building vanish has broken my faith in politicians and has given me very little hope that many structures like this will be saved in the future years to come. Many Kirkbride structures are already gone and now the Greystone Psychiatric Hospital will be added to the list.
Once the largest contiguous building in the United States, this structure opened in 1876 and was designed to house a few hundred mentally ill patients of New Jersey and the surrounding areas.
I had low expectations for this sunset last weekend. A friend had invited me to meet up that morning but the cloud cover was thick and the wind was blowing vigorously along the coast. I went to the beach with the intentions of hanging out and catching up more than shooting, but miraculously, the clouds began to clear just as the sun began to near the horizon.
Peering deep into collapsed tunnel No.3 on the Virginia and Truckee Railroad.
Because today feels like a good day to post a Bison photo.
This image was shot during blue hour inside the Administration Building at the former Hudson River State Hospital in New York. I really do love this staircase. Sadly, blue hour never lasts as long as I would like, so by the time I took the 3 shots necessary for this pano, it was dark and the blue hue was gone.
Night. 4 minute exposure. Landing gear lit with a Protomachines LED2 light.
It’s hard not to feel so small wandering around these massive aircrafts.
Nature has some incredible healing qualities. There's something about fresh air, your toes in the sand, leaves rustling in every direction, critters dancing around your feet and the open sky above your head that creates a sort of natural high.
Watching this sunset being painted in the sky was magical. I had been spying on the clouds all afternoon and hoped it would unfold like it did. When I arrived at the beach, I was shocked to see I was the only person on the sand.
10 minute exposure, f13, ISO 100
...stoic and peaceful, sitting in a private Arizona aircraft boneyard.
Sadly, in a few months, this asylum will be nothing more than dust. Abatement has already begin inside this massive Kirkbride building.
Within four years of this facility opening in the late 1800′s, the hospital was already accommodating 800 patients, though it was only designed to care for 600. At the hospital’s peak, in 1953, Greystone housed over 7,000 patients, many soldiers suffering from PTSD post World War.
Sink inside a patient room inside the Wingdale Wards at the former Harlem State Hospital in New York.
While in Arizona last weekend, I played with the ProtoMachines LED2 light and all I can say is damn!
This light has 9 different brightness settings, saturation control from 1-100% as well as RGB color control.
The image above was shot from two different angles at a low brightness setting, while using a blue and white color.
Inside a cell block of the former Essex County Jail in New Jersey.
Oregon life.
There is something about walking around aircrafts at night that makes me very happy.
Taken at an Arizona boneyard during Mike Hows and Joe Reed's night photography workshop.
(4 minute exposure, lit by moonlight.)
