E.U.S.A.G A link between the noise removed of past activities and the deafening silence of the present moment, my pictures show first sight focused on the discovery of a wealth of stories to discover until the uncertainty of its final fate wasteland. I penetrates into a silence that is between discretion and respect and let me gladly surprised by the striking details that the discovery may wish to provide remember. Pictures taken on the fly allow me to represent the emotion felt by the imposed rhythm of the course. If exploration usually involves visiting, photograph and document the history of generally industrial wasteland often discovered by chance, my vision meets specific requirements concerning the places visited: How to Get Cheap Flights Chapter 4 Booking Strategies Large Internet Sites Student and Budget Specialists Domestic Bucket Shops Ethnic and Foreign Bucket Shops Courier Flying Round-the-World Tickets Charters Bumping To Gateways Glossary TWO HUNDRED YEARS ago the cost was seven years to a lifetime of servitude for average people making a one-way crossing of the Atlantic. Now it can be funded by a few days of waiting tables. When booking through an agent, always specify you want the "lowest possible fare," as there may be specials which do not fall under "economy" or "APEX." Moreover, not every agent--even with the budget specialists listed below--will be equally competent or motivated to find the cheapest ticket.
WAG: Elko Tract: Exploring the Lost City There's three of us in the Toyota, and when we turn onto the back road, we cut the lights off and drift onto the shoulder. Outside, the woods are dark and, in the moonless stillness, they seem to form a single, impenetrable wall. The dirt road ten feet from the car is almost invisible, except for the silver ribbons of the telephone and electrical wires that run down its center. For a moment we sit and stare. Then one of us cracks open a door. THE RED FILM Gregory Halpern grew up in Buffalo, New York. He currently lives in Rochester, New York. by THE RED FILM Anna Paola Guerra lives and works in Belo Horizonte, Brasil. Deep Lake - Ghost Town Deep Lake, partial wall of Baron Collier's cottage or an overseer's house Courtesy Jim Pike Original path of railroad tram, now used for Deep Lake tours Courtesy Jim Pike 2 original railroad tram ties, partially submerged on trail Courtesy Jim Pike Close-up of old railroad crossbeam tie Courtesy Jim Pike
Lost Richmond – Exploring Elko Tract, Richmond’s “Lost City” « You Guys Should Know Richmond is a town of history. Everything is historic… the streets, the buildings, the canals, the houses.. its almost overload to the point where there’s so much history no one really pays attention to it on a daily basis because its just there. About a decade ago, I began hearing stories out of Richmond East-enders about Richmond’s Lost City. Although no two stories were alike, the basic gist of it was that during World War II, Richmond created a fake city a few miles east of the airport and during potential air raids, they would blackout the actual city and airport and turn the lights on at the decoy in hopes that from the air, the bombers would unknowingly bomb the decoy and Richmond would be saved. At one point, years ago, someone actually drove me out near that area, showed me the starting point of the road which was barricaded and explained to me the “dangers” of going back there. This is where everything gets interesting.
Photo Booth April 16, 2014 Portfolio: Cathedrals of Ice This past February, thanks to an unusually cold winter, the sea caves along the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, in northern Wisconsin, were accessible by foot for the first time in five years. Visitors were able to walk two miles over the thick ice of Lake Superior to see the ice formations that run up the coastline. Erin Brethauer, a photographer living in North Carolina, visited the sea caves.
Creepy, Crusty, Crumbling: Illegal Tour of Abandoned Six Flags New Orleans ... Hurricane Katrina killed this clown. According to the photographer, “An abandoned Six Flags amusement park, someone spray painted ‘Six Flags 2012 coming soon’ on the wall above the downed head. But they were clownin.’ Six Flags will never rebuild here.” That’s sad, but much of New Orleans has not been restored to her former glory. Abandoned places It was by pure luck, that I caught a glimpse of what appeared to be an abandoned castle, while driving in the city of Liege in the French speaking part of Belgium . The old hospital "Le Valdor" was built in 1889. The castle-like building hides a huge monastery with kilometers of paths through corridors, cellars and attics. Although the building is completely empty, except for a number of chairs, it is still possible to recognize the sister/nurse dormitories, waiting rooms, offices, laboratories, consultation and operating rooms. There is an ominous sense of decay. Impressive facades, monumental stairs, high ceilings, ornate balconies, gothic arches, and endless corridors with thousands of doors; perfect symmetry...overtaken by nature.
Afflicted: 11 Abandoned American Hospitals and Asylums “Open” for Exploration With some of the most disturbing and tragic histories of any buildings in the US, asylums and hospitals are way beyond creepy . Many of them were built in the late 1800s, when “mental illnesses” (such as masturbation, menopause, and teenage rebellion) were considered dangerous enough to lock someone in an asylum. A pain-inflicting misunderstanding of mental illness combined with a chronic mistreatment of its sufferers meant that many people were never released and spent the remainder of their lives in these horrible institutions. In addition to asylums, many sanatoriums were constructed around this time to care for the poor and very sick. Utilizing radical treatments that were incredibly painful yet ineffective, early hospitals often created more suffering than good for the inflicted. To make matters worse, infectious outbreaks forced patients to be quarantined from the rest of society, further isolating them.
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