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Current mood:  artistic Category: Art and Photography
I thought it might make sense to have some sort of narrative to go along with my pictures, assuming anyone bothers to read them
Have just posted pics from my first real solo explore, in the folder "Verboten Part 3", heralding a return to one of my favourite places. A considerably gloomier day than my first visit had the entirely expected effect of making this place a lot more foreboding than the first trip (on a gorgeous sunny day), and I must admit to some additional nerves, combined with the nerves that are naturally already there for exploring somewhere huge, old, dark and empty, on your own. Decades of horror films are hard to entirely shut out no matter how much you want logic to overcome natural instinct for self-preservation.
Much time was spent creeping around in extremely dark basements looking for ways up into the main building - they are full of inexplicable piles of strange things, huge fans, boilers and other machines, as well as low pipes to bang your head on, wires to strangle yourself with, and deep, even-darker holes to disappear down into if unwary, probably never to be heard from again.
Although the point of this trip was to see the bits I didn't have time for on the last visit, the unexpected sounds of someone playing a cello from within the ruinous hospital did prompt me to have another look round a few bits I already knew, and it was sad to see that the local idiots had trashed things even more than last time. Some of the interesting little features that make this place such a wonderful explore, having lasted anything between 15 and nearly 112 years were destroyed in a few moments of animal dumbness, so that no-one else can now enjoy them.
Anyway, although the pictures are obviously not immensely different to my previous ones - the other buildings share the same 1898 origin and architects, I found a few things I thought were different enough to share, and hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed skulking around in the darkness to get them...
5:21 PM
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