Backlight Type:Acrylic the Snowy River valley opening

the Snowy River valley opening out below

Kappa Onsen and Kinugawa Kan at Nikko

and emptied as metal extraction wound down

sunlight cutting through broken windows to pick out the dust and decay

had become the largest domestic water pumping station in Australia

Backlight Type:Acrylic the Snowy River valley openingA window at the far end of Female Ward 9 casts a hard backlight through the room, throwing dust motes into suspension against the decaying walls. The ward is part of the Kirkbride Complex at Callan Park, the sandstone pavilion group built between 1880 and 1885 as Australia's first purpose built hospital for moral therapy. Part of the Callan Park series.