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First time I visited the abandoned Grantsville, Nevada mining district in 2001 there was a very large, very old Caterpillar bulldozer parked beside the mill. It was almost complete. Visiting again in May 2012 I found it almost completely gone. Metal scrappers had used blowtorches to carve it into manageable pieces and dragged them to the recycler. Only the seat frame, part of the chassis rails and engine/driveline remain. It'll probably ALL be gone the next time I make it out there again. Judging by the graf on there, I'm not the only one disappointed by this.
The camera was placed along the machine's centerline, just at the ends of the cut off frame rails, to take advantage of its innate symmetry. It's parked on a slope, so I left the camera level, taking advantage of the scene's natural lean in an effort to break up the stiff, static nature of perfectly symmetrical images. I also made sure to break the horizon line with the top of the seat and levers: to get that sick green to pop against the blue sky and to follow the angle of the hill.
Lit with the Protomachines flashlight, I mixed up a strong yellow/green that complimented the natural color of the dozer and lit her from both sides. Then I lit the ground underneath with red from below the camera, bouncing it up onto the engine block. 332 second exposure, full moon.
It's strange how some of the most meaningful messages keep showing up in these most unexpected locations.
With the arctic winds kicking up (and my fingers getting numb), my shooting was also becoming fast and loose...
(2 minute exposure + full color LED photography light)
Joshua Tree a study of time and lighting. 6 different pictures taken with different exposures with the exact same added light. Starting with 2 minutes and ending with 10 minutes. During this time you can also see how the clouds moved thru the area and how they are also affected by time. 52% moon light. Nikon 810A, Slik Tripod and added light with Protomachine LED2
Early 40's era diamond T firetruck. Location not disclosed at owners request.
185 second exposure, protomachines set to gold & red.
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Rainbow Filling Station (4735)
Abandoned gas station with graffiti, Barstow, CA. llluminated very colorfully by a ProtoMachines LED2 flashlight and a full moon. Nikon D610/14-24mm f/2.8, 127s @ f/8 ISO 200 Oct 2016.
This is a real photo taken at night. This evening, everything was illuminated by a big bright moon, an almost full moon, almost bright enough to read a book. And setting my tripod-mounted camera to a long exposure made the camera much more sensitive to light than our eyes on this already bright evening. This is why this photo seems brighter than what we might see at night. It is not due to post-processing. The moon, which reflects light from the sun, also makes the sky bluer, and when the photo is a long exposure photo, the sky will appear brighter, making the blue more apparent. I also illuminated the interior in a very colorful manner with a handheld LED flashlight while the camera shutter was open, grazing light off the walls, ceiling, and floor. This is not a post-processing creation. No pixels were harmed during the creation of this photo. :D
I am fascinated with how a single long exposure photo can show movements and the cumulative effects of light in a single image, and how it can show beauty in abandoned places. Thank you for reading this and looking at the image. -Ken
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Volunteer sugar cane grows next to the "wash Table" From here the sugar began its journey to being processed.
181 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to gold.
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I had hoped to return to the ghosttown for some night shots of the ruins against the harsh terrain and night sky, but the weather proved extremely uncooperative. Eventually I settled for a few interior shots before calling it a night...
Click here to see what the exterior looked like from a previous trip.
(2 minute exposure + full color LED flashlight)
The Domes at Casa Grande, Az. Built in 1980 by InnerConn Technology, to facilitate the manufacturing of circuit boards, but was never completed. Thermoshell domes, made of foam and concrete poured over an internal balloon to get there shape. They coast bout 150k per dome. The long ones that look like caterpillars is 300 ft long, 54 ft across and 25 ft high. And one in the shape of a UFO
Natural light on the exterior for 168 seconds, red light from protomachine inside, only on shot of this image, had to jump almost 4 foot wide trench to get inside, aggravated a hamstring injury. Maybe I will return again another day.
Rear view of a front half of a 56 chevy 4 door. A hidden gem of a salvage yard that I put off way to long before I visited. Location not disclosed at owners request.
181 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to green and purple.
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Had to blow a few mins while some kids finished spray painting my original destination for the evening.
Was hoping for a car to come down the back of Hawk Hill, but found this nifty inscription instead.
(3 minute exposure + full color LED flashlight)
This is a puffin in the Látrabjarg Bird Cliffs in Iceland. And now, I will entertain you with some fun facts: - Puffins only have their Technicolor bill part of the time, during mating season.
- They are nicknamed "sea parrots", or sometimes "clowns of the sea".
- Puffins are amazing swimmers, and can dive 60m underwater. So, like, that'd be almost 200 feet under the surface.
- The Látrabjarg Bird Cliffs are the westernmost part of Europe.
- Puffins can be found on menus of some restaurants around Reykjavik.
- I think this is the first time I ever seriously tried to photograph wild birds.
- I did not use any Photoshop Cartoon Function to make this fine bird look like Toucan Sam.
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Former gas station sitting alongside a stretch of rural highway.
Night, near full moon, 60 second exposure, protomatchines flashlight set to gold & aquamarine, a gargantuan sodium vapor light to the left of camera and behind left of the building.
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Excuse Me While I Touch The Sky (5302)
This is a real photo taken at night. This evening, everything was illuminated by a big bright moon, an almost full moon. And setting my tripod-mounted camera to a long exposure made the camera much more sensitive to light than our eyes on this already bright evening. This is why this photo seems brighter than what we might see at night. It is not due to post-processing. The moon, which reflects light from the sun, also makes the sky bluer, and when the photo is a long exposure photo, the sky will appear brighter, making the blue more apparent. I illuminated the foreground with a hand-held ProtoMachines LED2 flashlight to bring out more depth. This is not a post-processing creation. No pixels were harmed during the creation of this photo. :D I used a Pinout remote controller/app to set and trigger the camera.
I took this photo in Joshua Tree National Park, CA, hanging out with Dave Dasinger while doing so. JTNP is my spiritual home for night photography, and it felt utterly fantastic to return here to photograph here at night and hike during the day.
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Collapsing brick house at Grantsville Nevada, a completely abandoned 19th-century ghost town, near Gabbs.
Powered-down, desaturated tertiary colors, created with the Protomachines flashlight, blended with full moon light during a 1-minute exposure.
Recent conservation efforts have raised the water level by several feet, drastically altering the tufa landscape in the process. The rumor has it they plan on raising it even further in the next few months.
(8 minute exposure + full color LED flashlight)
Former "cabin" near Point Coupee/New Roads. The cabin has a river to the north of it and due to recent rains and a lot of standing water was home to some 10 trillion mosquito's (estimated).
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure,, protomachines flashlight set to natural white and orange.
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Front of an old Mobil station in rural Minnesota.
20 second exposure, protomachines set to red around the outside edge of the roof, gargantuan sodium vapor light to camera right.
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A lot is unknown about this cabin, we do know it was owned by a guy named Will Green, he had a zoo & a whole lot of other stuff on his property. This old place is at least from the 30's, and yes probably older than that. Possibly even traces back to the "bleeding kansas" days. If your interested you can read an actual article about it, just follow the link...
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181 second exposure, protomachines set to green (what other color could I use) and a little gold because that log cabin was pretty dark.
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Bathtub in the psych ward of 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.
46 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to blue, pink & gold, interior, complete darkness.
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Not much is left but the really comfy spring seat, as one sits and ponders which car to photograph next. Fisheye lens and orange light from LED2.
The Domes at Casa Grande, AZ. Built in 1980 by InnerConn Technology, to facilitate the manufacturing of circuit boards, but was never completed. Thermoshell domes, made of foam and concrete poured over an internal balloon to get there shape. They coast bout 150k per dome. The long ones that look like caterpillars is 300 ft long, 54 ft across and 25 ft high. And one in the shape of a UFO
146 seconds as the moon emerges from behind the building using protomachine green on the outside from both the right and left, and red inside just out of camera view.
The Great Majestic (2981)
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Antique stove inside mercantile store. Castle Dome City, once larger than nearby Yuma, AZ, is now a ghost town and museum full of artifacts from the nearby mining district. This was photographed during a week-long 1528-mile road trip with Mike Cooper. Photographed in almost total darkness, lit from the back and several other angles with a ProtoMachines LED2 handheld flashlight.
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Nikon D750/Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens. 103 seconds f/8 ISO 400. March 2019.
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Tail end of a late 40's thru early 50's willys wagon (jeepster). A hidden gem of a salvage yard that I put off way to long before I visited. Location not disclosed at owners request.
148 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to red, green & purple.
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Stone age medicine Hmmm.... Bedrock City, Az. Added incandescent, white and lime light from Protomachine LED2 and Canon 6D.
Sign for a former souvenir shop that sold everything from t-shirts, to fudge to probably just about anything a small boys parents would cringe at him loading into the family truckster.
Night, near full moon, 183 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to yellow.
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The Land of Roar
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One of the battling dinosaurs in Borrego Springs, the Carnotaurus unleashes his otherworldly roar that shakes the very stars. To create this night photo, I set the camera on a tripod. I opened the camera shutter for a long time. While the shutter was open, I walked around with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light capable of producing different colors, and illuminated the enormous dinosaur with warm white light. During the exposure, all the light I shined on the subject was cumulative. This process is called "light painting". Why? Because one uses the flashlight as a paint brush, "brushing" on light, not paint. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. And it's more fun than AI-generated images.
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(Plate 4870) Nikon D750/Rokinon 12mm f/2.8 fisheye lens. January 2024.
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Former dairy in what was once the town of antioch kansas.
180 second exposure, protomachines set to purple.
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1959 International R190 tow truck. Location not disclosed at owners request.
184 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to green, aquamarine and purple.
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Inside of a former restaurant that shares a really small parking lot with the "coonass gas" station. Walls have been cannibalized for the copper wire. What what i was told it has been closed for close to 20 years and I should be careful because "they's all a bunch of coonass's south of 10".
Completely dark interior, 43 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to natural and green.
Back building of a long empty ramada inn.
182 second exposure, protomachines set purple and green, large sodium vapor light to camera left.
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Equipment test...
The clouds rolled in slowly but steadily, blotting out all traces of the sky. The moon poked and prodded for a weakness, but ultimately was no match for the unrelenting cloud layer.
(2 minute exposure + full color LED flashlight)
View of the highway & road passing by a former phillips 66 station near millersburg missouri. Every time the the door of the bar next door opened and closed I got the nice odor of stale beer wafting by me as well as the couple of cars driving by with nearly the same smell.
120 second exposure, protomachines set to pink. Big sodium vapor light to camera left, big mercury vapor light to camera right. Light trails provided in part by the local drunks. As of april of 2014 there is nothing left of this but a concrete pad.
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The moonlight shining through the rafters created some interesting shadows at this abandoned gas station.
(4 minute exposure + LED8)
X-Ray room in 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.
70 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to orange, blue, green and gold, interior, complete darkness.
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Abandoned and rotting butternut bread truck sitting for long enough that the tires have started to sink into the ground.
181 second exposure, protomachine set to green & a shot of gold along the side.
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Mid 30's ford truck & yours truly, 187 second exposure, protomachines set to green. I've never done a selfie so here you go, I had a lot of help from my daughter and her mad-light-saber-painting skills...Thanks Courtney!!
The only reason this picture even exists is because I got myself featured in a night photography blog by Royce Bair. If you didn't know anything about it take a look..
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The Domes at Casa Grande, Az. Built in 1980 by InnerConn Technology, to facilitate the manufacturing of circuit boards, but was never completed. Thermoshell domes, made of foam and concrete poured over an internal balloon to get there shape. They coast bout 150k per dome. The long ones that look like caterpillars is 300 ft long, 54 ft across and 25 ft high. And one in the shape of a UFO
Shot with a fisheye lens, using a Protomachine flashlight to light the exterior, 5 min exposure.
Borrego Springs, CA. Sculpture by Ricardo Braceda.
Light painted with LED flashlight (Proto Machines LED 8).
Feed Dryer outside of the Main Building, Grain got dumped in and the fans that you see on this end would blow hot air thru the unit drying it until it had dried to the correct percentage. Feed lot unused since the 80's. Location not disclosed at owners request.
182 second exposure, Protomachine flashlight set to blue and orange, bare led flashlight to light this corner which was near completely dark.
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Someone took it upon themselves to cut words and pictures into the metal siding of an abandoned mine site "in the name of art", only to speed its decay 10x due to the loss of structural integrity and letting the elements in. All the attention their "art piece" drew also opened the door to scrappers coming in and gutting some of the buildings. Enjoy it while it lasts...
(3 minute exposure + LED8 light)
View of the citadel from top of the garrison at Fort Pike. The fort was built to guard the Rigolets Pass, near New Orleans. Built in 1818 and operated until 1890 to guard against British re-invasion of the United States.
131 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to orange, green and purple. Moon slightly visible in the upper left corner of the frame.
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Sign for a no longer is business "fishcamp", catfish restaurant or whatever you want to call it,..it was "kelly's" thats for sure.
Night, near full moon, 60 second exposure, protomachines set to green and gold. Sodium vapor light to camera right. Sun was starting to light the sky and there was a light rain coming down.
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View from in front of the former gas islands of a long closed grocery store. Chads closed up years ago and was then it became a gym, then Katrina hit and the roof fell in..
184 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to gold, purple, blue and gold.
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