Wonderland Part 2

[lapsedmodernist]

the world is run by clowns who can't WAIT for it to end

I have yet to meet a kid not scared to death of clowns


a clown pretended to be a girl who pretended to be my friend

coaster

curves

to the left

tunnel ahead

decay

and up and up and up

enjoy the ride


spiderweb carousel

tea party

the maple leaf

and where it came from

curly fries

door

lone orange star

the chair and the sunlight

little christmas light fireflies

fuse box

reflective surface

special XTRA for sissyhips: more billowing

Comments

[lilsamkudu.livejournal.com]

i like that no one ever lives where your camera is. you have an apocalyptic lens.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

haha, I do.

And thank you for that comment on your journal about how I only take pics of beautiful things :)

[lilsamkudu.livejournal.com]

humanity without humans in it is beautiful.

doi!

[new-republican.livejournal.com]

"a clown pretended to be a girl who pretended to be my friend"
is one of the most sinister things I have ever seen!

Clowns are bad enough. Clown tongues...now that just.....WRONG!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

the captions to the first three pictures are lines from a Too Much Joy song.

and yes, I thought it was prudent to cut the clown tongue :) lj-prune it, so to speak.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thankyou

[sissyhips.livejournal.com]

gorgeous! what a haunting place; conspicuously lifeless.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

more billowing just for you! also, life is everywhere there, nature reclaiming everything. These places never feel lifeless to me.

[njtech.livejournal.com]

and where is this slice of heaven?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

New England :)

I like your icon

[njtech.livejournal.com]

that wouldn't be near mt holioak would it?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

no, it's not, and also I never, ever post locations in public posts, and I screen comments that identify places. Sorry, it's totally nothing personal, but there are good reasons for doing that! :)

[williamleevi.livejournal.com]

These are fantastic. Did you have a good time exploring the park?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thank you and YES, it was one of my favorite places that I've ever explored, going just by the fun factor.

[doorinward.livejournal.com]

I love it. You should sneak into the old Enchanted Forest in Ellicott City MD sometime to see what is left. Little gingerbread men lined up like so many tombstones in the weeds. (A lot of the old attractions have been removed and preserved elsewhere, but much remains, like the fairytale castle and the gingerbread house.) There is now a shopping center in front of the place and the King that used to point the way to the Enchanted Forest entrance is now part of their sign.

As for clowns I was never afraid of them...but that might have something to do with the fact that I grew up in a magician's prop closet. (Clowns were the least of my worries.)

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

have you ever been to Enchanted Forest? Is it guarded? It sounds like a place I would love to check out.

Enchanted Forest

[doorinward.livejournal.com]

I was last there in '96...just a few days before it was closed for good.

I don't think it is "guarded" as such, but plenty of other people have managed to get in. (There may be some minor fence crossing.) Really neat juxtaposition though, with all the decay and overgrowth and yet the fairy tale theme...like the end of childhood and/or a time in our history when chldhood was practically worshipped. If you google a combination like +"enchanted forest" +ellicott, there are still maps in existence of where things used to be in relation to each other and possibly other photographers. ;) Neat site.

There is also the family that has been rescuing and restoring many of the features of the old park. I think it is "Clark's Elioak Farm" or something like that. You may be able to get in touch with them and find out what they know before you attempt it. It may well be that most everything has now been removed from the old site, but I still can't see them moving the castle or many of the houses...or the whale for that matter.

I do know from memory that (like other "storybook parks" that popped up all over the country) it predated Disneyland. At a time when even Disney was segregated, the owner of EF insisted that ALL children were welcome to use the same facilities together without rule or restriction. The first amusement park anywhere in the East to do this.

There have been many "plans" and efforts over the years to rescue the old park, but so far nothing. I think that at most, it may have finally been identified as a "historic site" and placed on the register as endangered.

[machina.livejournal.com]

yay!!! great work!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

:)

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thanks!

[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

Coolness! Were there any bumper cars left??

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

sadly, no bumper cars. I think they've been sold off.

[starman566.livejournal.com]

You just have to know where to look to find them

[actionfunkimba.livejournal.com]

WOW... your pictures are absolutely amazing.... seriously. Thank you for sharing them. :)

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thanks :)

[https://users.livejournal.com/-duffy-/]

Add another one to the "jesus h those are great pictures" pile.

Bear with me if this is a totally moronic question, but I am completely inept with cameras (on both ends of them)... did you capture the colors like that as is, or do you do some work with them afterwards? Just idle curiosity... my level of respect is the same either way.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I do set the camera to capture the colors (exposure, ISO, etc.), then I edit the photos in Photoshop to balance the colors, bring out the midtones, adjust the highlights, etc.

[paratozor.livejournal.com]

Super!!! Thanks for sharing this pics!)

[slit.livejournal.com]

Neglected roller coasters freak me out for some reason.
Great pictures.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

the nice thing about them is you can climb them to your heart's content!

[moonlight-way.livejournal.com]

[dfordoom.livejournal.com]

I have yet to meet a kid not scared to death of clowns

Hey, I'm an adult and I'm scared to death of clowns!

Re: Wonderland Part 2

[chris-brigham.livejournal.com]

holy &%@# I'm almost sure I know that roller coaster.

IM me?