Water, water, neverwhere
schmoo
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For 80 years, the municipal water supply was filtered with sand to prevent the spread of typhoid to city residents. The facilities present between the hundreds of pillars are probably a lot more friendly to us now than they were when the center was in operation.
According to my research, the sand was topped with a layer of schmutzdecke, a conglomerate of bacteria, algae, fungi, protozoa and insect larvae. As nature does its stuff, raw water turns to clean water. Yum!
Beneath the ground today, all that remains are the concrete and stone pillars and a huge bed of deep white sand. The space is huge but low, spreading beyond the beam of the flashlight and disappearing into pitch blackness on all sides. The manholes in the ceiling are rusted and sometimes missing, allowing beams of light (if there is any to be found) to reach below. It resembles a huge catacomb or a dungeon. Piles of kindling lay underneath the holes, possibly for/from vagrants. Some mounds of sand contained unlit candles, possibly for/from kids. Either way there was no one there that day: kids, vagrants, or even light.
I think this place has a lot of potential for godbeams, but I wasn't willing to wait around for it!
Without further ado, here are the few that turned out. Ironically none of them are from underground but of the treatment buildings on the surface. :dunno
Yah it was a short morning. :wxwax
According to my research, the sand was topped with a layer of schmutzdecke, a conglomerate of bacteria, algae, fungi, protozoa and insect larvae. As nature does its stuff, raw water turns to clean water. Yum!
Beneath the ground today, all that remains are the concrete and stone pillars and a huge bed of deep white sand. The space is huge but low, spreading beyond the beam of the flashlight and disappearing into pitch blackness on all sides. The manholes in the ceiling are rusted and sometimes missing, allowing beams of light (if there is any to be found) to reach below. It resembles a huge catacomb or a dungeon. Piles of kindling lay underneath the holes, possibly for/from vagrants. Some mounds of sand contained unlit candles, possibly for/from kids. Either way there was no one there that day: kids, vagrants, or even light.
I think this place has a lot of potential for godbeams, but I wasn't willing to wait around for it!
Without further ado, here are the few that turned out. Ironically none of them are from underground but of the treatment buildings on the surface. :dunno
Yah it was a short morning. :wxwax
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The couple pics you got came out well, but something is missing from #3....
PS - I think I am going to add 'neverwhere' into my vocab.
I cloned out your tripod that was hangin' out in the grass there, I admit, but I selected the shot that lacked the moon in the sky.
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