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Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie

November 1, 2013 11:34 am

The most eerie place in town is the abandoned poor farm, insane asylum, and tuberculosis sanitorium on the Milwaukee County Grounds.  Even more eerie, this place is now in development and the largest chunk of green space we had is now becoming a Technology and Innovation Center (read: big, modern buildings and roads).  My blog post and photos of this place can be found HERE.  Sample photos:

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32 Responses to “Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie”

  1. The top photo gave me a shudder down my spine! Very eerie.

    By Nancy Power on November 1, 2013 at 11:58 am

    1. Definitely the monochrome changes the golden afternoon sun into a shadowy aura of ambivalent light. This was taken with an older digital camera, not my new Canon, and is hence more grainy and historical in quality somehow. Thanks for visiting!

      By scillagrace on November 1, 2013 at 1:13 pm

  2. Very Eerie !
    Great choice

    By Max510 on November 1, 2013 at 12:06 pm

    1. Thanks, Max! Really, it was a bright afternoon with lots of dogs and walkers enjoying themselves there.

      By scillagrace on November 1, 2013 at 1:14 pm

  3. That is the essence of eerie.

    By mrscarmichael on November 1, 2013 at 12:36 pm

    1. It’s got the historical connections with death, madness, poverty and all, doesn’t it? It’s sad that it’s now a modern tech/commercial place with roads. “Discovery Parkway” they call it.

      By scillagrace on November 1, 2013 at 1:16 pm

  4. You’re right that the B&W makes this eerie, even more so when we know what it was.

    janet

    By sustainabilitea on November 1, 2013 at 1:37 pm

    1. If someone were to ask you, “Wanna see the old insane asylum?”, would you jump at the chance? Thanks for visiting, Janet!

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      By scillagrace on November 1, 2013 at 2:02 pm

      1. Yeeee, maybe not. 🙂

        By sustainabilitea on November 1, 2013 at 2:03 pm

  5. nice photos!

    By jampang on November 1, 2013 at 7:49 pm

    1. Thanks!

      By scillagrace on November 2, 2013 at 7:36 am

  6. I missed the first post back in February last year…..But, What an atmospheric selection of shots…

    I’m still giggling about your answer to Mrs Carmichael…..
    Sounds like you’d be happier were it still all death, madness, and poverty…..’The Good Old Days’.
    🙂

    By Stuart Hyde - shpics on November 2, 2013 at 12:15 pm

    1. Well, yeah! Death, madness and poverty are at least genuine. “Discovery Parkway” is a total sham.

      By scillagrace on November 2, 2013 at 8:52 pm

      1. I’m all for genuine!!!
        Wood over plastic, books over tv, home-cooked over ready meal, L.Reed over M.Cyrus, the list goes on….
        But I’m struggling a little with death, madness and poverty…Cant help thinking a decent bit of tarmacadam and a few offices might just be a nose ahead….
        🙂

        By Stuart Hyde - shpics on November 3, 2013 at 1:08 am

      2. The pictures speak for themselves.  You like the gallery….I could take some pictures of how it is now: boring, just like everywhere else.

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        By scillagrace on November 3, 2013 at 6:00 am

  7. 🙂
    I think you have the bit between your teeth on this one……I LOVE THE GALLERY!!!….But photogenic as they probably are, I don’t really want a return to rickets, TB, and straight jackets purely for aesthetic reasons….
    I am however prepared to sign any petition you might care to get going to have Discovery Parkway smart-bombed immediately……

    By Stuart Hyde - shpics on November 3, 2013 at 9:16 am

    1. I don’t really want to return to rickets, TB and the rest either, but I do want to keep the reminders around….like those old castles in Spain!

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      By scillagrace on November 3, 2013 at 9:42 am

      1. Hand on heart..Those castles don’t remind me of rickets.

        By Stuart Hyde - shpics on November 3, 2013 at 11:06 am

      2. The Spanish Inquisition maybe?  Lead poisoning and beheadings?

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        By scillagrace on November 3, 2013 at 3:02 pm

      3. Yes…Buts thats not what I like about it……Those are the bits I deliberately put to the back of my mind..I think of princesses on Lipizzaner stallions…..elegant sword fights between laughing cavaliers …..and bunny rabbits…don’t know why, but I do like to think of bunny rabbits in Castle settings?????

        By Stuart Hyde - shpics on November 4, 2013 at 3:02 am

      4. Bunny rabbits, sure, skinned and roasted, their furry pelts keeping your tootsies warm.  Lippizaners live in Vienna, but I suppose your princess could have gotten one as a gift.  The mind is a jumble of curious associations…

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        By scillagrace on November 4, 2013 at 5:08 am

      5. Lippizaners are the horses used by the Royal Andalucian Riding School in Jerez..
        In the mid 18thC Charles the third gave several Cartuja stallions to an Austrian princess..these were the ancestors of the Lipizzaners……
        So you’re perfectly right about the gift…just the other way around…
        AND DONT YOU DARE KILL MY BUNNIES!

        By Stuart Hyde - shpics on November 4, 2013 at 5:14 am

      6. Thanks for the fact check! I stand enlightened. And I wouldn’t harm a hare….

        By scillagrace on November 4, 2013 at 5:17 am

      7. Phew!!
        C’mon bunnies it’s safe to come out….
        🙂

        By Stuart Hyde - shpics on November 4, 2013 at 10:03 am

      8. I think we would be wise to keep some of the buildings of these terrible places.. if for no other reason than to remind ourselves of how those with mental health problems, and learning disabilities too, were treated… not well ! back in the 70’s I worked in a massive hospital for people with learning disabilities. The building had been a workhouse and was very grim indeed and what were peiople with LD doing there anyway.. they weren’t ill !!

        By Helen Cherry on November 3, 2013 at 3:12 pm

      9. I get a lot out of museums as they help me to visualize a way of life from days of old. Buildings are great visual aids, and preserving them really helps us to understand how people lived.

        By scillagrace on November 3, 2013 at 4:48 pm

  8. The best view of a house of horrors is from a distance, in my opinion. Great gloomy shot.

    By menomama3 on November 3, 2013 at 9:50 am

    1. Point well taken! Thanks for visiting and commenting!

      By scillagrace on November 3, 2013 at 10:08 am

  9. that top photo is eerie in the best possible way.The perspective/depth of field is fantastic

    By Luke Prater on November 3, 2013 at 3:16 pm

    1. Thanks, Luke! 

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      By scillagrace on November 3, 2013 at 3:30 pm

  10. Dear Scilla,
    This is the eeriest response you could have given to the challenge, on so many levels.

    By Naomi Baltuck on November 7, 2013 at 3:55 pm

    1. Ghosts from the past all over, eh?  Change is somehow unsettling, but it keeps happening!

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      By scillagrace on November 7, 2013 at 5:25 pm

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