announcements: if you find beauty in industrial decay, you should check out IDN01 - The Industrial Decay Network - a beautiful new photography book compiled by noted video game artist and photographer chris smart. it features work by the best of the genre - 25 photographers from 11 different countries - and i have the honor of being among them. this book is available in large and standard-size formats. films: i have always dreamed of being a film maker, but i have no formal training in it whatsoever, and stories of indie film makers bankrupting themselves have kept me a safe distance from it - until recently. my films are as low-budget as you can get. they are short, not-so-simple studies of abandoned locations that i consider beautiful and interesting. i currently have three films - with two more in the works. they are currently hosted on the garden bay films website, but i will move them here when my site redesign is complete. enjoy! abuse and neglect pennhurst state school was created in 1908 to house children with developmental disabilities. in 1979 a class-action lawsuit brought pennhurst to the attention of the u.s. supreme court who, after reviewing the institution's history of abuse and neglect, decided to permanently close the facility. more than 2 decades later it still sits abandoned in the woods of pennsylvania. the papermill the papermill uses time-lapse photography techniques to record a day in the life of an abandoned new jersey paper mill. clouds swirl overhead, beams of light track over broken machinery on the factory floor. A passing rain moves in then out again. by simply speeding up the events of an ordinary day, an abandoned papermill takes on a new, fascinating life. almost gone (trailer) almost gone is a visual journey through what remained of bethlehem steel's historic lehigh plant on the day that bethlehem steel corporation dissolved on december 31st, 2003. it takes the viewer down deep into the twisted labyrinth of the blast furnaces, the forlorn recesses of abandoned locker rooms and into the massive, gaping foundries where America forged its mighty weapons in the wars of yesteryear. i still get a lot of inquiries about my bethlehem steel photography exhibit. according my web reports, most of the traffic to my site still goes there.