Noel Kerns
Crime Scene
There's absolutely no good reason to view this picture large on black.
Abandoned gas station & gift shop on Route 66 in Mclean, Texas. Across the highway from this gas station. Interstate 40 flows in the background.
This was an outtake from my Route 66 trip (for obvious reasons), taken back in November of 2007. On top of the riduclously bad strobe job, this image was significantly underexposed (I amped it up in PS), but I've included it here to tell the story.
Now about that title...
As I mentioned, this was a gift shop of some sort. If you turn 90 degrees to the left from the camera position and start walking, you'll climb 3 or 4 steps just out of the cameras view, and wind up in the gift shop area, where there are still a lot of fixtures in place, some even with merchandise still laid about in disarray. The single most prevalent piece of merchandise left though were some cartoonish porcelain figurines, all of which has been crudely decapitated. Not terribly surprising; kids and vandals are always doing that sort of thing. No, the strange thing was, all I found were the bodies...the severed heads were nowhere to be seen.
Just another one of those freaky little oddities one finds when they explore places like this!
Night, full moon, ambient sodium & mercury vapor light, ill-advised red-gelled strobes, and natural flashlight (I don't recall what sort anymore).
Crime Scene
There's absolutely no good reason to view this picture large on black.
Abandoned gas station & gift shop on Route 66 in Mclean, Texas. Across the highway from this gas station. Interstate 40 flows in the background.
This was an outtake from my Route 66 trip (for obvious reasons), taken back in November of 2007. On top of the riduclously bad strobe job, this image was significantly underexposed (I amped it up in PS), but I've included it here to tell the story.
Now about that title...
As I mentioned, this was a gift shop of some sort. If you turn 90 degrees to the left from the camera position and start walking, you'll climb 3 or 4 steps just out of the cameras view, and wind up in the gift shop area, where there are still a lot of fixtures in place, some even with merchandise still laid about in disarray. The single most prevalent piece of merchandise left though were some cartoonish porcelain figurines, all of which has been crudely decapitated. Not terribly surprising; kids and vandals are always doing that sort of thing. No, the strange thing was, all I found were the bodies...the severed heads were nowhere to be seen.
Just another one of those freaky little oddities one finds when they explore places like this!
Night, full moon, ambient sodium & mercury vapor light, ill-advised red-gelled strobes, and natural flashlight (I don't recall what sort anymore).