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Rivets and Curves (7480)
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A night fisheye photo accentuating the curves of the front of this rare vintage bus. I snuck in a quick visit just before Thanksgiving Day, photographing for two nights in a row in the California desert near the Mexican border. And I managed to stay awake for Thanksgiving dinner the following evening, a great success. Although warm and sunny during the day, by the time I packed up, it was below freezing and I had ice on my windshield. I illuminated the scene with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure.
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This is a rare 1930 Nite Coach made by Pickwick. The transport industry was then regulated by the railroads, stipulating how buses would be built. This one was built from aviation aluminum and was designed as a touring bus. The lower half had beds, bathrooms, and showers. The upper half was for sitting and dining. While this sounds elegant, apparently they were not too popular since they were smoky and noisy. Thanks for looking.
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Nikon D750/Rokinon f/2.8 fisheye lens. 3 minutes f/8 ISO 320. November 2020.
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Can't tell you how good it was to get out last week and do some urbex shooting after an almost two-year layoff (between my shoulder surgery rehab and the pandemic). I was taken (via cross country 4x4 ride) to an abandoned prison deep in the woods, surprisingly close to my home. A wonderfully overgrown and decrepit sixties complex, complete with A-frame structures. It was refreshingly free of heavy vandalism and tagging, probably due to the difficult access. We could hear animals, large ones, breathing and rustling in the bushes around us. This was my last shot of the night, but it's of the entrance gate, so it feels like a good lead off image. 1:16 under a foggy full moon, with red, white and blue from the Protomachines flashlight.
Sierra Stars (0839)
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Lake George, up in the snowy Eastern Sierras. So many people miss the amazing night sky. I am thankful for the opportunity to have a few friends who are willing to share in adventures and experience new places, escaping from some of the struggles life throws at us for a short while. Going to the Sierras and hiking, kayaking, biking, and slowing down and connecting with the night sky is a luxury. Many cannot do these things, and I never take it for granted. In our fast-paced world, we rarely have a chance to see the stars drift across the sky. This beautiful location is located in Mammoth Lakes, Eastern Sierras, California, with Crystal Crag in the distance, and the inspiring Milky Way overhead.
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BLEND, STACK.
Nikon D750/Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens.
Earth: 500 seconds f/2.8 ISO 800.
Sky: 20 images stacked for NR in SLS, each 15 seconds f/2.8 ISO 12800.
2018-06-13 01:03 am.
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1965ish Thunderbird by the gate at Big M. Been seeing these cars with big whitewalls lately, must be a thing. Pink and turquoise from the Protomachines flashlight in 1:01 of lens time.
Went to a rat rod show with a friend recently. and this is another one of the shots. Small block powered, twin turbo powered small block ford pickup.
Night, zero moonlight, 120 second exposure, a few semi-distant sodium vapor lights, protomachines flashlight set to orange, green, purple and a little white.
Click on the image because "its best BIG on black!!"
Entrance & kitchen/concession area that leads to the gym-cafateria-auditorium at a school that closed in 1999 after the town ran out of students. operating as a k through 8 school for most of its existence at last count the town had 4 residents.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines set to aquamarine and orange in a completely dark interior.
Aware of The Night
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I always find myself wondering who lived here and why they left. Stars streak overhead on a quiet night at a very remote abandoned cinder mining camp in the Mojave Desert. The mine is located near one of the numerous cinder cones in the region, the result of ancient black basalt lava flows. Illuminated during the exposure by a full moon and a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device, illuminating everything during the exposure. I hadn't had a flat tire in many years. However, some of the very rough roads brought that long streak to an end around midnight. That aside, it was a beautiful quiet night for photography.
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(Plate 9704) Nikon D750/Rokinon f/2.8 fisheye lens. 6 minutes total "stacked". Each photo 3 minutes f/10 ISO 400. September 2021.
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Soledad, Soledad (3694)
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A solitary Airstream sits alone on Route 66 in the Mojave Desert, with streaks of light from the highway beyond. I lit this scene with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 flashlight from several different angles during the long exposure. Thanks for looking.
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Nikon D750/Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens. 140 seconds f/8 ISO 200. 18 May 2019.
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Castles Made of Sand
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Long exposure night photo of a house hopelessly buried in sand somewhere north of Route 66, our Mojave version of Kolmanskop. This is a result of a combination of nature taking the earth back coupled with some foolish actions that led to more sand drifts than nature intended. This was considerably more buried in sand than last time I visited a couple of years ago. And it had been burned, something that put me in a rather bad mood when I first saw it. Regardless, I can't help but wonder about who lived here, and how helpless they must have felt from the onslaught of drifting sand. I lit the scene with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure. Thanks.
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(Plate 6251) Pentax K-1/128-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 140 seconds f/9 ISO 200. November 2021.
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Early 70's International stuck tail down at the International Car Forest of the Last Church. The car forest is a art project in the nevada desert that consists of about 40 vehicles total, cars, trucks, buses all "planted" in the ground.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines set to pink & white.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
View of the front of mountain lion building at 2 Guns tourist trap/gas station along route 66. The stone & wood ruins clearly had a couple rooms for selling whatever kind of things would have been sold to tourist back in the day. This building was from the most recent buildings from the re-routing of route 66. Behind this buiding wasout to the wild animal cages.
Night, near full moon.240 second exposure, protomachines set to white & green.
Points of the Mojave
I don't know which one I like more, so here's both. Portable rooms, forgotten in the high desert. Down some dirt road, late at night. 116 seconds, lit by the full moon and Protomachine flashlight. Perspective distortion corrected in Photoshop.
View of the stairway leading up to the 2nd floor cells at Eastern State Penitentiary or ESP. The walls are 30 feet in height & 10 feet thick. The prison opened in 1829 and closed in 1971.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set green, red & a shot of white.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
From Days Distant (4083)
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A night photo of what felt like ancient ruins hundreds of years old. But no, this was decades old, not hundreds. This is the "interior" of an abandoned structure near a former zoo in Two Guns, Arizona. I lit the structure from several different angles with a handheld ProtoMachines light painting device during the exposure. This was photographed during a 10-day 2559-mile night photography road trip a day before meeting up with Mike Cooper, Tim Little, and George Loo.
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Nikon D750/Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens. 125 seconds f/8 ISO 500. July 2019.
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This prewar Chevrolet pick up is crammed into the crowded Northwest corner of Paul’s Junkyard. Many workshop students have struggled with shooting this truck, so I wanted to give it a try. Its cut in half, just behind the cab, so it sits with its nose pointed in the air. I got down very low to accentuate this strange angle, setting the camera on some metal debris laying just in front of the bumper, with the lens pointed up, nearly vertical. This was my first shot of the evening: with the still low moon hidden just behind the peaked hood, I had only a few minutes before the rising moon flared into the shot. Protomachine flashlight: turquoise behind both tires, snooted warm white on the headlights, and pink, straight down on the hood. This battered old truck is pretty scarred up and ugly in the light of day, so I kept it mostly dark to read as shapes instead of details.
Morris Oxford abandonado, noche de luna llena e iluminación con linterna Protomachines, procesada en Photoshop.
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Abandoned Morris Oxford, full moon night, lit with Protomachines flashlight, processed in Photoshop.
Try Putting Floormats Under the Tires (1555)
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I don't know what circumstances exactly may have led to this bus being buried in sand, but it seems to be nature taking the earth back coupled with some foolish decisions that led to even more sand drifts than nature intended. This is a long exposure night photo of a bus hopelessly buried in sand somewhere in the Mojave Desert.
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This is one of the first photos I created with my new camera, a Pentax K-1, which was a joy to use. I've been using Nikons for many years, so finding the controls and everything else was a bit of an adjustment. I photographed up and down Route 66 at night, using Barstow as a home base. I used a warm light from a ProtoMachines LED2 to light the interior of the bus and some of the sand outside as well.
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Pentax K-1, 15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 2 minutes f/8 ISO 200. November 2019.
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Remains of what started out as a garage and then at some time became a auto parts store. East end of route 66 in San Jon New Mexico.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomatchines flashlight set to blue and pink, large mercury vapor light to camera right.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
1 of the buses planted at the International Car Forest of the Last Church. The car forest is a art project in the nevada desert that consists of about 40 vehicles total, cars, trucks, buses all "planted" in the ground.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines set to lime and white.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
2 of the many fake palm trees around at the zero depth entry kiddie pool. Construction started around 2010 and was stalled due to money constraints. Work was restarted in 2013 but to date it has never opened.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines set to yellow.
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The Delaney Sisters
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Cool, cloudy January evening in Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave Desert. I photographed and scouted a bit for a night portrait photo shoot the next evening. Illuminated with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 and a full moon heavily diffused by Mother Nature's largest softbox. Thanks!
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(Plate 6424) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 2 minutes f/8 ISO 200. January 2022.
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3 of the cars at cadillac ranch. 1 of my favorite stops along route 66 in the texas panhandle.
Night, near full moon, 240 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to red, green & blue and a shot of white to fill in some of the shadows.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
The theater opened in 1947 and was the smaller of the towns two movie houses. It was a Quonset Hut-style building built using WWII era surplus, with Streamline Moderne façade and décor. The Kay Theatre had a small balcony, originally for the use of African-American patrons in the era of segregation. The theatre closed in 1962.
Night, near full moon, 60 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to blue, mixed street lights to camera right and left.
My Wistful Winter (2982)
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Night tilt-shift photo of a Chevrolet truck, probably from the 1930s. I snuck in a quick visit just before Thanksgiving Day, photographing for two nights in a row in the California desert near the Mexican border. And I managed to stay awake for Thanksgiving dinner the following evening!! Although warm and sunny during the day, by the time I packed up, it was below freezing and I had ice on my windshield. I illuminated the scene from several angles with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure. Thanks for looking.
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Pentax K-1/Lensbaby Edge 35 Optic lens. 21 minutes total "stacked". Each photo 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. November 2020.
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Last Stop of the Rio Grande (1822)
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Night photo showing the movement of the stars in this long exposure photo. As a small child, one of the first words I liked to say was "choo choo train". I loved trains so much as a four year old, my grandmother used to take me to the rail yard in Skokie, Illinois to watch the trains come in. Having the opportunity to photograph them at night feels so special to me. This is a view of the night stars streaking over a 1920s Rio Grande dinner car which had an air conditioning unit with an ice system. Built by American Car and Foundry for The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in 1927, the "Castle Peak" was one of four cars built concurrently, named for famous "Peaks" along the route of the D&RGW. This car was used until the late 1960s, and has been resting under the stars of the Mojave for decades. Back in the distance is a Union Pacific railcar. I lit the dinner car with warm white light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure, while the light of the car in the distance were already on. Also, I know that some of you know where this is, but I was asked not to reveal the location because they don't want too much publicity. Thanks for your respect and kindness. This might appear in my second book of night photography images, which the publisher hopes to release later this year.
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Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 9 minutes total "stacked"; each photo 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. March 2020.
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Building that housed mens and womens bathrooms at a former mineral spa. The nearby artesian wells and bubbling mud pots making this a spa to the stars were complicated by the floods of '76 and '77. The adobe building was originally a dry ice plant, with the dry ice being made from the carbon dioxide found on the site.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight green & gold
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nikon D7000 + nikkor 10-24mm, 2min exposure under full moon, light painting with protomachines flashlight.
Where Seldom Is Heard A Discouraging Word (3775)
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I visited this home just three months prior to my visit this evening, and I'm rather certain that it had many more planks of wood on the exterior walls. Night time in an abandoned homestead in Lucerne Valley, CA, in the Mojave Desert. I illuminated this scene on a quiet desert evening with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 flashlight from several different angles during this long exposure image.
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Nikon D750/14-24mm f/2.8 lens. 63 minutes total "stacked"; each 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. 18 June 2019.
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Evidence of squatters/scrappers in the decommissioned barracks at Alameda Naval Air Station. June 2015. A different section of this complex burned under (not so) mysterious circumstances a few months later. Total darkness, lit with Protomachines flashlight.
Cantina at Castle Dome City. This building has a few tables built by miners in the 1800's.
Night, near full moon 240 second exposure, protomachines set to green, blue & white.
Click on the image because its best BIG ON BLACK!!!!
Interior of a 1977 American LaFrance pumper truck who's life was spent in Vegas and now sits in the middle of the mojave.
Night near full moon 120 second exposure, protoamchines set to green, yellow & a little aquamarine.
Small shotgun house thats been sitting so long it has a small forest growing inside.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to yellow, aquamarine and a shot of white.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
Remains of a pier for a long abandoned naval air station at the salton sea. The sea (located behind the pier remains) was used for naval aviators for target practice for dropping bombs.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines set to yellow.
Petronas Towers (9494)
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The nearly full moon illuminating the strange, stark desert landscape in Devil's Garden, Staircase-Escalante, Utah. Illuminated with a handheld flashlight from several angles while the tripod-mounted camera was doing a long exposure, which also shows the celestial movements of the stars over 45 minutes. I love how a single image can show the long passage of time in a way that we cannot perceive when we are there. Devil's Garden involved a 12-mile drive down a dirt road from the town of Escalante. A beautiful moonlit night, I had the whole night to wander in peace and create.
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Nikon D750/Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens. 45 minutes total stacked, each image 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. 2018-06-24 23:38.
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Chicken coop sitting behind a farmhouse out in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines set to lime, orange and pink.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
Former gas station that has now become a local trash dump, especially for large tires.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomatchines flashlight set to gold & yellow.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
Big Sister, Little Sister
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Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave Desert. JTNP is my spiritual home for photography, where I began photographing at night. This was the last evening of a 1856-mile night photography safari with Tim Little, Mike Cooper, and George Loo, and George the monkey. Illuminated during the exposure by a full moon and a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device. Thank you.
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(Plate 6123) Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 127 seconds f/8 ISO 800. October 2021.
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Junkyard 1961 Imperial trunk ornament/lift-handle. So space age! Three colors from the turned-way-down Protomachines flashlight, in deep shade at night. It took a lot of experiments to get the lighting this balanced.
Whats left of a 50's wagon sitting on its side in a wash in the middle of the mojave desert.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines aquamarine & white.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
Restaurant for Castle Dome City.
Night, near full moon 240 second exposure, protomachines set to green, red and. a little yellow.
Click on the image because its best BIG ON BLACK!!!!
Kelso
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Night falls around the historic post office and historic L. J. Packard Store of Kelso, a remote railroad town. Kelso had a reliable water source from Providence Mountains, and provided water for steam locomotives. Kelso also had extra "helper engines" that would help trains make it up the grade that came after. After two long years, my night photography friends and I got together for an eight-night trip to Nevada and California. This was a 1856-mile night photography safari with Tim Little, Mike Cooper, and George Loo, and George the monkey. Illuminated during the exposure by a full moon, ambient light from the Kelso Depot, and a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device. This photo may appear in a future history/night photography book I'm working on now. Thank you.
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(Plate 5632) Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. October 2021.
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First generation dodge charger at an undisclosed yard. Heavy cloud cover and incoming rain only gave me time for 3 different set ups this night.
120 second exposure, protomachines set to green, red & white.
Click on the image, because it's best BIG on BLACK!!!
My first attempt at shooting and editing the Milky Way...well, with a little help from my friends Ken & Tim.
Night, near full moon, 20 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to white for the foreground.
Click on the image because its best BIG ON BLACK!!!!
Stand Tall, I'm Young and Kinda Proud
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A waning half moon appearing behind a tall, majestic Joshua Tree in Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave Desert, showing the movement of the stars over a long period of time. This was the last evening of a 1856-mile night photography safari with Tim Little, Mike Cooper, and George Loo, and George the monkey. Illuminated during the exposure by a full moon and a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device. Thank you.
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(Plate 6107) Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 12 minutes total "stacked". Each individual photo 3 minutes f/8 ISO 400. October 2021.
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Blue Sky Mine
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Night descends on a very remote abandoned cinder mining camp in the Mojave Desert. The mine is located near one of the numerous cinder cones in the region, the result of ancient black basalt lava flows. Illuminated during the exposure by a full moon and a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device. I hadn't had a flat tire in many years. However, some of the very rough roads brought that long streak to an end around midnight. That aside, it was a beautiful quiet night for photography.
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(Plate 5346) Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 15 minutes total "stacked". 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. September 2021.
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Another One Bites The Dust (3595)
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An enormous dinosaur swoops down for the attack. This is a life-sized metal sculpture created by Ricardo Breceda. I illuminated this with a handheld ProtoMachines flashlight while the camera shutter was open for this long exposure image at night. I had not been to Borrego Springs for over three and a half years, and was happy to return to this beautiful location, especially since I got to hang out with night photographer friends Lance Keimig and Chris Nicholson.
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Nikon D750/Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens. 20 seconds f/2.8 ISO 4000. May 2019.
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Backside of the newer location of 2 Guns tourist trap/gas station along route 66. These ruins date back to the late 1930's. The stone & wood ruins clearly had different rooms for selling whatever kind of things would have been sold to tourist back in the day (up top) with the wild animal cages down below with the canyon behind the camera.
Night, near full moon.180 second exposure, protomachines yellow and blue.
The Federal Six (2766)
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Night time light painting allows me to highlight some of the beautiful details of vintage vehicles. This 1929 Federal school bus was no exception! This busused for the processing of honey, the owner removing the seats and glass windows and installing screens over the window openings to keep the bees out. The owner installed a centrifuge, honey heater, and containers to can the honey inside. The bus was made by the Federal Truck Company and has a 72-horsepower six-cylinder flathead engine with seven main bearings and was considered a rugged engine for its time. I lit the front of the bus with a ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure. This may appear in my second book of night photography that I am working on now. Thank you for looking!
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Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 42 seconds f/8 ISO 200. October 2020.