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Wow, this is great feedback, thanks guys.
First of all, here is a version with a toned down door. I didn\'t want to take it down too much, because I felt the light would be flat.
Title: Decrepit Door and Sink, Beelitz-Heilstätten, Beelitz, Germany
Caption: Originally a sanatorium for recuperating Berlin workers with non-cummincable ailings, the Heilstätte\'s success caused a rapid expansion, until its final size of about 60 buildings. At the start of World War I, it was repurposed as a military hospital, where among other WWI soldiers from the Battle of Somme, Adolf Hitler recuperated with a leg wound. In World War II, it was again used for military purposes. After the war, up to about 1998, it was used as a sanatorium for victims of tuberculosis and other lung diseases.
Some parts of the complex are still in use today, but much of it has been left to nature. The original beauty and luxury of the complex are still apparent, but the condition is steadily deteriorating, and in recent years, graffiti has made inroads. It is one of the most popular destinations of European and international urban explorers. It is at this point possible to take a photographic tour of some of the buildings.
There are no known teddy bears in the complex.
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I couldn\'t really back up any further, taking the shot from a room across the narrow hallway, and didn\'t have a lens wider than the 21mm, so the framing is about as generous as possible under the given circumstances. Having said that, even if I could have, I don\'t think I would have moved much back or used a much wider lens. I like the tight framing, and I like that it makes you curious, but doesn\'t reveal much. It makes the imagination wander.
As a sidenote, if I had included more, you would have seen more floor, more ceiling, more wall on the left, and a messy closet on the right, which distracted more than it added. I deliberately framed to leave that out.
As a note of interest, inside the little room, which is all that it is, there is a hole in the ceiling directly above the door, and in this hole hangs a very large roof tile precariously balanced on two opposing corners. This is an accident waiting to happen. These urbex locations are often really not safe.
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