My pulse began to race, got hot flashes trying to figure out what that was... until I saw the title. Much more bening than the freaky experimental treatments/punishments I was coming up with.

I never did like 5 pin bowling, but that places makes me dislike it even more. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Whitby psych is a depressing morbid place that leaves me feeling disturbed everytime i see it.

Other than my distaste for the subject matter, its a good shot the detail is amazing. The crumbled bits on the floor and the faded chiped paint. I can feel the grain of everything, but I really dislike that place.

Anyone for a game of 10 pin??? now thats a fun game.

I was trying to scale this. Was this the size of my hand or a large truck? Then I saw the title. Very nice. Great colors. The rubbish on the ground is perfect for this composition. My Canon S410 point and shoot isn't quite up to this. :-)

Nice one! :)

Very nice shot
I like the texture on the left

I did exactly the same thing as Joel. actually didn't get it until I read his comment & checked out the title. lol. you obviously have a bunch of sickos that frequent your site! ;) great work as always!

Ah, the basement bowling alley, been there.

I love this series, Sam, you really capture the feeling of this place.

This is like a return to the wonderful humour of the days of a daily dose of generic photos.
You only need to mention "abandoned" and visions of an army of photographers swarming the place are brought to mind.
I think Whitby is now an iconic Toronto reference, it fits alongside your other classic but more mainstream visions like the Distillery District, train stations and your lomo-eyed view of the streetcars & moving inhabitants of Queen St.
Long live the Whitby, fully repopulated in its apparent abandonment!

I see the chin strap and the forehead collar. My only question is, does the patient face up or down?
;~)

Nice subject: good contrast of shapes and textures. However, the foreground appears to be artificially blurred (too much).

knowing there's a large number of photobloggers in the toronto area, it impresses me a lot that only ddoi is producing this stunning images. is this place for public access, or you creep around? =)

Excellent Work . . .I like your photos . .

this one is quite ambiguious. not bad. it indeed is some bowling device, but I think it definitely can pass for those guillotine things...ya know...place the person's neck on the rail like part in the center, install a retractable axe and *chop*......(try reading last chapter of a tale of two cities and see for yourselves). orange used to be my absolute favourite colour when I was a child ;)

I like this one. It's better than some of the distillery district ones we had from ~ two days ago. Good job!

It looks like an orange fish.
I like your pictures, Sam. I've been visiting your site regularty since the summer, never wrote a comment before. These pics from the psychiatric hospital make me feel sad. But I guess that's your goal, to elicit emotions from the viewer.

Love it.
Very retro and cool colour. Nice shot.

Who puts a bowling alley in a pysch facility? Isn't this re-development heaven property in Toronto? Here in Melbourne our Pentridge Prison was redeveloped as a townhouse estate.

You barely ever see abadoned buildings locally.

this is the best one from whitby's so far.

one question..was this for the patients?

I've seen the title and the comments but it still just looks like some kinda misguided torture device to me. :D But then the only bowling I know about involves cricket so...

Very nice shot!!. What were you doing there?

this is great. i think bowling has made me crazier whenever i've attempted it.

why not show the whole alley?
I felt mystified at first thinking it's some marco shot.

This reminds me a lot of something I saw featured on cbcradio3.com...wait a minute...I'm not sure but is that how I got to looking at this website...I beleive it's been some time now. Was that you I saw there?

good work

i couldn't figure out what that was at first visit. Only on second time through I caught the name and the scale of the object snapped into view. I first thought it was some sort of wood planing tool on a table with debris under it. Nice!

Very cool shot Sam, I love the colours and DoF.

Love this. Great lines. Very interesting. I'd most likely be tempted to take that and turn it into a coffee table or something...