Decaying Buildings

Challenge #3 in the Nouns and Verbs series. Hosted by Bob Yanal.

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Photographs of decrepit, ruinous, crumbling, or otherwise decaying buildings, interiors or exteriors. But only buildings built no earlier than 1900. (The Roman Colosseum and Tintern Abbey, for example, do not count as decaying buildings for purposes of this challenge.)

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Announced:

Monday, 6th July, 2009 (GMT)

Submissions:

Monday, 13th July, 2009 – Sunday, 19th July, 2009 (GMT)

Voting:

Monday, 20th July, 2009 – Sunday, 26th July, 2009 (GMT)

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No PP special effects (e.g., blurs, vignetting, etc.)

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

Repeat: Photographs of decrepit, ruinous, crumbling, or otherwise decaying buildings, interiors or exteriors. But only buildings built no earlier than 1900. (The Roman Colosseum and Tintern Abbey, for example, do not count as decaying buildings for purposes of this challenge.)
Portions of buildings are acceptable if it is recognizable that they are portions of decaying buildings.
Other objects - people, animals, etc. - may be included in the photo, but the predominant subject should be the decaying building or portion thereof. ("Ruined Barn with Cow" is OK; "Cow with Ruined Barn" is not.)

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Maximum number of entries in challenge:

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Doctor is coming...

by sumerland

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Taken in Beelitz, a former sanatorium and later on russian military hospital near Berlin, Germany

Camera:	Nikon D700
Lens:	tNikon 24-70/2.8
Submitted:	Friday, 17th July, 2009 15:35 (GMT)
Taken:	Sunday, 8th February, 2009
Focal length:	24 mm
Shutter speed:	1/80 sec
Aperture:	F7.1
ISO:	1600
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Steven, I submitted this photo as I thought it would fit into the rules, which say "...decaying buildings, *interior* or exterior...". I hope I didn't misunterstand them; english is not my native language.

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While undeniably a great photo, I am not sure this is in keeping with the rules, since it is not a building but a ROOM in a building, a room that does necessarily as an indicator as to the decay of the building as a whole.

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