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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.
Gate & whats left of a corral behind a farmhouse out in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines set to gold.
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Trojan Man (1011)
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Night photo of an old T-28 Trojan navy trainer, with the nearly full moon peaking in from above, and the stars swimming slowly overhead over the course of this 14 minute long exposure. I lit the airplane 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 with Mike Cooper, Tim Little, and George Loo.
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Nikon D750/Rokinon f/2.8 fisheye lens. 14 minutes total; each image 2 minutes f/8 ISO 200. July 2019.
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Three Ears to the Heavens (2196)
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Comet NEOWISE over the Sierra Nevadas and the Big Ears of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, run by Caltech since 1958, located in beautiful Owens Valley CA. I usually don't photograph specific celestial events, but with a comet coming around every 6800 years or so, I couldn't stay away. And I'm glad I didn't. I could easily see it with my own eyes, and it was a fascinating, beautiful thing to behold. I illuminated the dish with a handheld ProtoMachines LED light painting device during the exposure. Thank you to the people at Caltech for giving me the opportunity to photograph here! And thanks to Comet C/2020 F3 for creating a magical display of light. I'll have some spectacular cameras to photograph you with next time you come around. ;)
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Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. Earth: 180s f/2.5 ISO 250. Sky: 22 "stacked" photos, each one 20s f/2.5 ISO 3200. 22 July 2020.
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Interior of what appears to have been some sort of a agricultural supply building.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to orange and green.
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Truxton Barker (0721)
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The old vintage Barker Apartments sign with the nearly full moon peeking out underneath. Ray and Mildred Barker owned the apartments as well as the nearby Frontier Motel and Cafe along Route 66 in Truxton. Ray died in 1990, but Mildred continued to run the cafe until shortly before her death at age 87 in August 2012. Her relatives eventually sold the motel to someone who had contacted them about trying to purchase a 1966 Oldsmobile. How quickly one's life can change when trying to purchase a car! I lit the vintage sign from several different angles with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure, and just let some of the other lights in the distance fly. 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. This photo may appear in a third book of night photography that I am working on now.
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Nikon D750/14-24mm f/2.8 lens. 48 seconds f/8 ISO 320. July 2019.
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2 story brick school is a long lost town that no longer appears on a map. 1946 was the last time this school held class and town disappeared in the 60's when the last postmaster died.
Night, near full moon, 240 second exposure, protomachines set to aquamarine with a shot of white to the front.
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Small overhang of what was a pump island sitting in front of a long closed gas station.
Night, near full moon, 60 second exposure, protomachines natural white.
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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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I Just Want To Tell You Both Good Luck--We're All Counting On You (1763)
Night photo, front end of abandoned B-52 aircraft. This Cold War relic was destroyed and left to rot in the Mojave Desert for decades. Brandishing a flashlight capable of producing different colors, I illuminated the foreground while the tripod-mounted camera shutter was open for this long exposure photo. The streaks in the night sky are star trails created by the movement of the stars during the long exposure photo, accompanied by some beautiful high clouds this cold moonlit winter evening. Please feel free to share.
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Nikon D7000/Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens. 22 minute total exposure "stacked", each photo 2 minutes f/8 ISO 200
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Stairway of a gold ore processing plant in the Mojave desert. Mill opened in the 1980s and closed in 1995 after the market dropped. Due to the hazardous materials left behind it became a superfund site due to cyanide used in the leaching process being left behind
Night, near full moon (off to the upper left), 120 second exposure, protomachines set to red, green and pink.
Back of a 1972 Saab Sonett. A italian designed fiberglass bodied car produced between 1970 & 1974. Sporting a V-4 engine & front wheel drive. A recently found car collection of stuff ranging from the mid 19-teens up to the late 1980s. Location not disclosed at owners request.
Night, near full moon, 32 second exposure, protomachines set to blue & white.
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Dunes
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Night photo of the abandoned Dunes Motel in Lenwood, CA along Route 66, the nation’s first year-round highway linking Chicago to Los Angeles, prompting the migration out West, escaping the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Much of the homes and businesses along Route 66 dried up in the 1950s when the highway system, including Interstate 40, were built, bypassing "The Mother Road".
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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. While taking this night photo, I illuminated the sign with a ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure.
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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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Lone gas pump sitting on an island sitting at a long forgotten gas station in the arizona desert.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines set to red & white under heavy cloud cover.
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Probably my personal favorite of the creepy doll series I did last fall at Paul's. 2AM, at the end of 4 long nights of shooting, I think she might have been winking at me at this point. Lit with Protomachine flashlight, red, white and green . . . full moon too. 178 second exposure.
Radar dish on one of the portable NASA launch control trailers, forgotten at the decommissioned and abandoned Crows Landing airfield. Now gone, scrapped, along with almost everything else on the base.
Red-set Protomachine flashlight, with a couple of spots of snooted lime, to intensify this machine's natural anthropomorphic qualities. 53-second exposure: short, to keep the background sky dark and moody.
Margaret (1523)
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I saw a photo of this abandoned house, and was touched by this story of this woman who built a beautiful house from adobe bricks she made herself on 104 acres just off Route 66, wanting to put a wildlife refuge, maternity hospital, and MotoCross raceway. I was moved to visit, photograph it at night, and try to imagine what she might have felt, looking out onto her land, planning all that. I can only imagine the pain she felt when the California Division of Highways contacted her about building the new I-40 through part of her property. She was moved to write a letter to President Johnson, who amazingly replied. Eventually, a deal was made, with the government purchasing part of her property and building a 4.1 mile asphalt access driveway so straight that Car & Driver later secretly used it to race exotic automobiles illegally, racing Trans Ams at over 200 mph, and racing a Cadillac Seville with a twin-turbo Chevy 454 V8. I know nothing about Mrs. Orcutt, but I imagine that she must have been a very independent, intelligent, remarkable, and passionate person.
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This is the first photo I created with my new camera. I've been using Nikons for many years, so this was a bit of an adjustment but a joy to use. While taking this night photo, I illuminated the house with a ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the ten minute exposure. I chose to photograph it shortly after the sun had set, illuminating it with warmer colors to instill a sense of warmth and calm.
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Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 10m total "stacked"; each 2m f/8 ISO 200. Nov 2019.
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Sitting in a park in the hill country is a slightly smaller replica of the the ever famous monument in England.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomatchines flashlight set to orange and gold, a little mixed sodium vapor light behind the camera to the right and left.
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What was originally a motel, then must have fallen on hard times when the highway in front of it was bypassed by the interstate then became a liquor store only to fall on hard times again.
Night, near full moon, 240 second exposure, protomachines set to orange.
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Inside of one of the houses in a former mining village. This house while almost completely empty had an empty bottle of Jack Daniels old #7 (sitting on the bottom of the stairway rail)
Night, near full moon.156 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to gold, green, blue & pink.
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Sitting in a park in the hill country is a slightly smaller replica of an Easter Island head.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomatchines flashlight set to green.
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Freezing my butt off in the mud last winter, at the junkyard in Fresno. Body still broken, hoping to be shooting again in 2020. Night, 2:10 of full moon with red, purple and blue from the Protomachines flashlight.
Large and In Charge
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Night photo of a 1921 Union Pacific Steam Engine 2564. This behemoth was built in 1921 and weighs 300,000 lbs./136,077.71 kg. This "Mikado"-type coal-burning steam locomotive was originally built for UP subsidiary Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad. My joints and muscles felt sore from my second COVID-19 vaccination photo, but this didn't dampen my enthusiasm. I met up with my friends Ron, Dave, and Ivan on this beautiful warm March night. Bathed in light from numerous streetlights, I worked around it by photographing it from the opposite, darker side. I then created some depth with a ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device.
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Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 104 seconds f/8 ISO 200. March 2021. (4066)
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Small gas station made from round cobblestones from Oklahoma. Built sometime in the 30's after a fire destroyed most of the town around it. Long bypassed by the state highway in middle of middle texas.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines set to blue, green, shot of white to the lt side to cover up the massive sodium vapor light to camera left.
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P'Jem Monastery (3910)
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Whether a place of meditation at a monastery on another world, a stone-age ritual altar lost to the ages or a 1970s student hay bale project, you can decide. Regardless, it has a feature called "The Window of Truth", and that alone is what we seek ultimately, do we not? I lit this night photo with the mighty everlasting ProtoMachines LED2 on a winter evening on New Year Eve's Eve, enjoying the beautiful canyon and the clean air of the nearby Pacific Ocean. Thanks for looking!
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Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8. 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. December 2020.
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443-seconds of full moon and stars, under the hopper at an abandoned mine complex, late at night, somewhere on the back of the Sierras. Lots of color from lots of angles from the Protomachines flashlight too.
Old firetruck sitting along side the road in Gold Point Nv ghost town. Added green light inside the cab, highlighted the headlights and filled in the shadow created by the moon an the side of the truck. Canon 6D, Protomachine LED2 and Slik tripod. Approximately 2 hours of star trails.
"Upon A Galactic Stage" Here's composition from my long walk to Stage Harbor in Chatham, Massachusetts. Both my headlamp and my flashlight died while trekking down the dark path that lead me to this spot but my Protomachine was full charged and easily lit the way. By this time, the Milky Way had aligned just right and I was able to capture it as seen here.
Derail
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I was excited to photograph at night at an interesting site full of old vintage train cars and locomotives. My joints and muscles felt sore from my second jab, but this didn't dampen my enthusiasm. I met up with my friends Ron, Dave, and Ivan on this beautiful warm March night. The site had much more ambient light than anticipated, but we still managed to make it work. The light is from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device as well as a full moon and security lights. Yellow Trona train in the distance.
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Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 94 seconds f/8 ISO 200. March 2021. (4048)
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Knife of Kirom
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I finally returned to my spiritual home for night photography, Joshua Tree National Park. I had not photographed nightscapes in the main part of the Park at night for at least two years. Instead, I had been focusing on photographing abandoned buildings and vehicles and more for my photography books. But not tonight. It was a beautiful March night lit with a half moon. I illuminated the scene with warm white light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure. I've named this after one of the spiritual places in "Star Trek" lore due to its otherworldly nature as well as the significance of JTNP for me and my night photography explorations. Thanks!
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Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 6 minutes total "stacked". Each photo 3 minutes f/8 ISO 400. March 2021. (4016)
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Former rural voting station.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to red, white & blue.
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Dreaming of Peru (2834)
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I love spontaneous trips. I planned this night photography trip several hours before leaving. What made this unusual was that it was a Halloween with a blue moon. I drove north to a decommissioned WWII airfield and photographed underneath the full moon. This is what I believe is a 1937 Ford fuel truck that was used in an Indiana Jones movie. Much of the night, I experimented with a weird new tilt-shift lens I just purchased. You can selectively throw a slice of the image into focus and create these creamy blur effects. Why not? As if night photography isn't strange enough already. I lit the scene with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 during the exposure. Thanks for looking.
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Pentax K-1/Lensbaby Edge 35 Optic lens. 6 minutes total f-stop unknown ISO 200. Halloween 2020.
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Rounding Up the Clowns (7467)
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It looks like there are some strange nocturnal activities going on inside the Federal Clown Prison bus. The imagination reels at the possibilities. 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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Nikon D750/Rokinon f/2.8 fisheye lens. 8 minutes total "stacked". 2 minutes f/8 ISO 250. November 2020.
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Ruins of the general store of a former coal mine. The mine opened in 1921 and this two-story stone building became the focal point of community activity. There was an amusement hall on the second floor. This space served a number of uses including union hall, movie theater, dance floor, and boxing arena. It also had a pool hall, saloon, and a doctor’s office. The building served both the residents of both this town as well as the nearest town.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to orange, green & gold.
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Remains of a motel that was used in filming of "resident evil extinction".
120 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to red & gold.
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One of the pre-histstoric modes of transportation at the recently closed Bedrock City. Built in 1972 to resemble the popular Flintstones tv show. Its kinda like steel magnolias, but not.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomatchines set to gold with a shot of white under heavy cloud cover.
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Royal Crown Red (5106)
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A night photo fisheye view of the interior of an old garage and rusty old 1940s Cadillac Fleetwood on a beautiful cool Mojave evening, lit with red and warm white light by a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during this long exposure.
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Nikon D750/Rokinon 12mm f/2.8 lens. 150 seconds f/8 ISO 400 October 2019.
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Piano of Yesterday (4194)
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An abandoned piano awaits its next player in a mysterious ghost town deep, deep within the Mojave Desert. I illuminated the area with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure. This was photographed during a 10-day 2559-mile night photography road trip with Mike Cooper and Tim Little.
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Nikon D750/14-24mm f/2.8 lens. 1 minute f/8 ISO 200. July 2019.
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Liberator (4265)
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Late night at an enormous abandoned WWII airfield hangar, formerly housing B-24 Liberator bombers, two of which crashed within an hour of each other, among other accidents, leading some to believe the airfield to be cursed. But they seemed to be cursed only by flying poorly designed airplanes. Mike lit the interior of the hangar from several different angles with handheld ProtoMachines light painting devices during the exposure while I lit the foreground, including the abandoned car. This was photographed during a 10-day 2559-mile night photography road trip with Mike Cooper and Tim Little.
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Nikon D750/14-24mm f/2.8 lens. 259 seconds f/8 ISO 500. July 2019.
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Boat sitting next to the trashed dock, another fatality of hurricane Katrina.
120 second exposure, protomachines set to pink and green, distant mercury vapor light to camera right and left.
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Springtime Shack
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Night photo of an abandoned shack along historic Route 66 in the Mojave Desert in California. The structure is on the property of a house that was destroyed in a fire a week earlier, the same day that the Goffs General Store was also burned, both under suspicious circumstances. I had special permission to photograph this property. Illuminated by a full moon and warm white and red light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2. Thanks.
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Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 6 minutes total "stacked". Each photo 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. June 2021. (Plate 4425)
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1 of the 10 cars at cadillac ranch. This is one of my favorite places in the texas panhandle.
Night, near full moon, 240 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to blue & green.
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Built in 1913 this 2 story home has a full basement and hardwood floors.
Night, near full moon. 130 second exposure, protomachines set to aquamarine, mixed lighting to left and right of the camera.
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Flying the Coop
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Welcome! Sit and relax inside an abandoned early 1900s cattle ranch in the Mojave Desert. This was photographed near a full winter moon, one of my favorite times for night photography. The evenings are so often beautiful, clear, cool, and long, perfect for night photography. I lit the scene with warm white and green light using a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure. This trip, I met up with Tony Donofrio for a two-night trip filled with a lot of fun and good food. Thanks!!
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(Plate 0075) Nikon D750/Rokinon 12mm f/2.8 fisheye lens. 134 seconds f/8 ISO 200. November 2021.
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Bathroom in the psych ward at the WV Penitentiary. The West Virginia State Penitentiary is now a retired, gothic style prison located in Moundsville, WV. It operated from 1876 to 1995. It closed after a riot broke out in 1988 resulting in the deaths of 3 inmates and exposing the facility to the fact that it was not designed for todays criminals.
120 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to gold, green purple and a little white, inside a completely dark interior.
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