Floating on Green

A Japanese red Beetle crawling over some green plants. On the final picture it looks like it’s floating on the green rather than walking.

Sunny Garage

Once full with cars and trucks, there is only trash, scattered glass and sunshine left in the big garage. With the last employees the last cars must have left.

In Flight

A small brown hoover fly approaching a white flower.

A first test with my new macro speed lights.

Holding on

A green Stink Bug (yeah: if you touch them, they pee – usually it smells like a concentrated essence of grass) holding on a grass.

Opening

The rusty door of one of the remaining boilers in the heating room. Still some color is left but the door remains closed…

Come in! …. or stay out?

The entrances to the staff buildings and a leisure room with a forgotten child’s bicycle… With kids around it must have looked a bit more inviting than it does today.

Under the Kitchen

Underneath the big kitchen of the Clinique Du Diable this must have been the storage room. Now it’s empty – but it must have held a lot of non cooled food for this big complex while in use.

Regulation

A lot of pipes run all through the basement across the buildings and up to the top floors. The valves as well as the pipes lost purpose and just remain relics with some color…

These Boots are made for…

However the boots got in to an empty room with (artificial – I assume) blood on the wall, one can only speculate. If someone left props from a photo shooting – or if there was something else going on? We won’t know…

Bloody Hand

A barricaded corridor underneath the big kitchen in the Cinique du Diable. The furniture was most likely used once upon a time. But however it got here and where a red hand print on the wall comes from will stay a mystery…  

The chief doctor’s villa in the Clinique du Diable, France

The chief Doctor’s villa in the Clinique du Diable. The building is a bit up the hill, behind the main complex and hidden in the trees. It looks as creepy as some things we found in the cellar…

Determined

April 2018: The Clinique still stands. With some people from our photo group we went for an urban exploration to the Clinique. Compared my last visit there is even more damage caused by vandalism and thieves. The place got also rather crowded meanwhile: not only urban explorers but geocacher and groups with soft air- or paintball guns in army uniforms… And still: there were more rooms and corners to discover. So my pile of photos raised to over 400 GB and a lot of work has to be done with them…