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A small group of rooms at the very end of an asylum hallway caught my eye... they were different than the others. The wooden doors were thicker and weathered, the small rooms had large cages over the already barred windows. Built into these doors were little portholes, made of about 2 inches of thick glass, used to keep an eye for those patients who were in seclusion... the "time out" for misbehaving and violent psychiatric patients.

This shot is to me, like an old man's unblinking eye; the cracked skin and cloudy retina of someone who has seen the darkest horrors of mental illness for almost one hundred years, and is now left to look out upon his vacant home, dark and lifeless. This photograph is something I've been seeking for quite some time, and 25 hospitals later, I think I've accomplished it... to me, looking out of this tiny glass window is the epitome of an abandoned asylum.

Canon 300D Rebel
4 sec @ F8, 24mm
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~stellerstella Jan 25, 2007
is very disturbing...but its beautiful all at the same time.
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~MindAsylum Jun 25, 2006   Writer
Beautiful. I don't know what more I can say. This is the kind of stuff that inspires me. And that takes a lot.
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~Hagbard23 May 19, 2006
This has always been one of my favorites off Opacity - love it.

Do you have like an f/64 lens or something? Or did you shoot this with a pinhole camera?

Yikes, the depth of field is so incredible...
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~CellarDweller Apr 7, 2006
very surreal.. good words to go with it.. mission accomplished man
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~Samuran Apr 3, 2006
This is so beautifully done. I admire the effort you put into this, and the way you gave word to your thoughts....
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~Vlad-the-Impaler Mar 20, 2006
excerlent image. i love you site and have been a fan of it for awhile now. nut i never new you had a da account. so when i found this i was happy. i was looking through your galleries as resserch for my graphics exam piece and was wondering if i could use this image to edit. to add in my own view as am doining a "mental awarnes" campain type poster for my exam piece. and this would make and excerlent frame for my piece that am working on at the moment it would mean alot to me if i had persmission to and would be an honour to be able to use your work.
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~MrMotts Mar 20, 2006
Sure, thanks for asking and the kind words! :)
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~Vlad-the-Impaler Mar 21, 2006
its ok its worth it. id just prefer to get your permission b4 i use any of your stuff
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*ivankorsario Feb 17, 2006  Hobbyist General Artist
very good its photos
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~eyepollution Jan 22, 2006   Photographer
wow...I love this. Just everything about it is wonderful and perfectly captured.
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