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a row of old work trucks rusts away in the california desert. nikon D7000 + nikkor 10-24mm, 2min exposure under full moon, light painting with protomachines flashlight. 5x 2min exposures stacked for star trails.
Red Runner Retreat
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A cloudy night at an old cafe and gas station along historic Route 66, Mojave Desert. This structure had burned on the same evening as the Goffs General Store, likely due to arson. Volunteers had cleaned up much of the area and even repainted part of the historic "retreat" sign. This structure was the former cafe. 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 trying to break through the clouds and a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device. This photo will most likely appear in my third history/night photography book I'm working on now. Thank you.
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(Plate 5963) Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. October 2021.
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Bedrock Barber and Rockhead Beauty Salon. In the distance are some soft clouds, 20 minutes of star trails and traffic passing by on SR6. Added purple and pink light to the inside and incandescent light on the outside. Full moon, Canon 6D. Bedrock City, Williams Az.
Stagecoach service was available between Bandera and San Antonio every day with this being one of its daily stops. The stagecoach went East in the mornings and came back in the evening. Stage service operated until about 1913 when it was replaced by buses.
Night, Near full moon, 240 second exposure, protomachines set to yellow & white.
Super rare Vanguard Electric Mail Truck, dragged out of the shadows for the workshop at Paul's. Just catching the moonrise. Red, blue, green and snooted white Protomachine flashlight.
Lindbergh's Last Stand
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A mysterious night photo of an abandoned 1920s transcontinental airport languishing in obscurity somewhere in the Mojave Desert. I illuminated the night scene with warm white light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light during the long exposure. 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 typing key prompts for AI-generated art.
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(Plate 0155) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 3 minutes f/9 ISO 200. July 2023.
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1958 Edsel Citation flank at Big M. Total darkness, direct white skimmed from above, with green, red, and blue bounced in from various directions, Protomachines flashlight.
The Joshua Twins Star Trails (5477)
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This is a star trails photo, showing the movement of the stars as created by the rotation of the earth over 30 minutes. I love how a single image can show movement over such a long time! I set my tripod-mounted camera to a long exposure, keeping the shutter open for a long time, which makes the camera much more sensitive to light than our eyes on this already bright evening. I illuminated the foreground with a hand-held ProtoMachines LED2 flashlight to bring out more depth. While I frequently hike into Joshua Tree NP for as much as a mile or more during the night, some of the most beautiful views are just off the side of the road.
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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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Nikon D610/14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 30 minutes total (stacked); each individual photo was 3 minutes each at f/8 ISO 800. Begun at 2017-02-13 21:11.
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Found in a set of abandoned triple-wide trailers outside the town of Mojave last summer. The food bowls are a total mystery to me.
Due to some distracting highlights, I ended up compositing the face of the TV from a second exposure. I also worked on correcting the perspective in Photoshop, to try and square things up . . . until I realized that nothing about these trailers is square. They are slowly being push into trapezoids by the endless high desert wind. 146 seconds, full moon and Protomachine flashlight: 3 colors, from 7 directions.
Support pillars for the pump island overhang at the newer location of 2 Guns tourist trap/gas station along route 66. The remains of this building are north and west of the more photographed lion cages. The pillars and foundation of the building are all that remains of this part of the property.
Night, near full moon 180 second exposure, protomachines set to gold.
Immovable (3058)
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A night photo, as you might guess. This truck must be an unbelievable force of nature. And back in the 1920s or whenever this was built, it must have been particularly imposing, a sort of monstrous Mad Max/Burning Man contraption that was bigger than life. 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 with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure. Thanks for looking.
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This truck has "Dalton Truck Co Crane Division" scrawled on the back. I believe this is a Mack AC truck that was designed to tow a Universal Truck Crane. Mack AC Series trucks were made from 1916-1939.
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Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 30 minutes total "stacked". Each photo 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. November 2020.
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One of the first signs your town is in trouble is if the post office closes or moves away. One of the few remaining resident mentioned that once you lose your zipcode, the police/fire/ambulance don't arrive in a timely manner anymore. Its faster to drive yourself to the hospital than wait for them to figure out which poor sap has to make the long drive out (if at all). Strangely they said Fedex, UPS and Amazon have no trouble delivering packages on time.
(13 minute exposure + moon + LED8)
What do you find at exit 0, you find zero, or the remains of what was a gas station sitting on the state line of texas and new mexico
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomatchines flashlight set to gold and aquamarine.
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Wobbly skinned doublewide off Interstate 15 at Halloran Springs, choked by smoke during the Blue Cut Fire of August 2016. Purple/red/white Protomachines flashlight during 2:38 of full moon.
At the end of a long driveway sits an abandoned farmhouse, on past it on the right sits this house, also in the middle of the Mojave Desert just a little bit further.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines set to green & orange.
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One of the teepees left behind at a former roadside attraction along route 66 in Arizona.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines set to yellow.
Small building at the former Twin Arrows Trading Post. The arrows can be seen in the background. The ruins of the gas station-tourist stop is slowing decaying away alongside Route 66.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomatchines set to yellow and white under heavy cloud cover.
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Remains of a small roadside stand(?) along the side of the highway thru the Texas panhandle.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomatchines flashlight set to green.
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abandoned farmhouse far out along the east avenues of the antelope valley in california's mojave desert.
4min exposure under full moon, light painting with protomachines LED flashlight. nikon D7000 + nikkor 10-24mm.
Fisheye Convair B-58 Hustler, lost in the high desert. Night, full moon, purple and red Protomachines flashlight. About 15-minutes total exposure.
Send in the Clowns (3167)
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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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Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 3 minutes f/8 ISO 250. November 2020.
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Former grain storage elevator, not far from the salton sea in the desert southwest.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines set to orange & white.
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Farm truck, abandoned in the golden hills of California. Shot August 2015. 3-minute exposure, lit with Protomachine flashlight in deep shade.
Looking for something Rich AND Corinthian for a friend yesterday, I found this heretofore unseen pitcher in a folder. Fisheye, lit with the Protomachines flashlight.
derelict 1950s vintage bus in a california desert junkyard. nikon D7000 + nikkor 10-24mm, 4min exposure, light painting with protomachines flashlight.
The Futuro House or Futuro Pod were prefabricated homes designed in Finland & made from fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic. Fewer than 100 of them were built between 1968 & 1973. If this looks familiar to you it should, another image of it appears on page 16 of my book Abandoned Texas: Under A Lone Star Moon.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines set to green & yellow under heavy cloud cover.
1 of the many combines located at "Combine City". Combine city is similar to the nearby cadillac ranch but with combines instead, a field of 14 planted butt down in the dirt with their "headers" pointed up twords the sky.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to pink.
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Low and wide with a 1958 DeSoto at Big M. I shot it mainly for that antenna and yeah, I put the air cleaner there to hold the trunk lid down. Night, warm white, and a tiny bit of bounced red Protomachines flashlight, in 138-seconds, before the moonrise.
a 1950s-era general motors trolleybus waits for passengers in a desert junkyard. nikon D7000 + nikkor 10-24mm, 2min exposure under full moon, light painting with protomachines flashlight. 4x 2min stacked exposures for star trails.
Stripped and derelict B-52, on the fringes of Edwards AFB. Summer 2014. Never shown this purple/green variation before, and I like this super-wide crop. 93-seconds of full moon, with Protomachines flashlight.
In 1917, if you explored a Nevada ghost town you'd probably find a dusty old Faro table on end in the back of an abandoned bar. In 2017 you find '80s arcade games. Not a pure ghost town, dogs were barking at me from the house 50 yards away half the time I was in here. The other half, I was reallllly quiet. Protomachines flashlight in a totally dark room.
A his and hers bathroom at what was once a tourist court along a early alignment of route 66 thru New Mexico.
Night, near full moon, 240 second exposure, protomatchines flashlight set to orange & a shot white.
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When The Earth Reached Its Arms To the Heavens (2507)
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Listening to the cosmos seems easier to imagine with the Milky Way arching overhead. Owens Valley Radio Observatory, run by Cal Tech since 1958, and located in the beautiful Owens Valley near Big Pine and Bishop, CA. I illuminated the dish with a handheld ProtoMachines LED flashlight during the exposure. The sky was murky with the Georges Fire near Mt. Whitney, which was caused by lightning, so I had to be patient, waiting for the skies to periodically clear. Another challenge was that this enormous radio telescope kept moving during exposures! Thank you to the people at Cal Tech for giving me the opportunity to photograph here!
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SINGLE EXPOSURE:
Nikon D750/Rokinon 12mm f/2.8 fisheye lens. 15 seconds f/2.8 ISO 6400 2018-07-10 00:38.
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At the end of a long driveway sits a small farmhouse that was probably built in the 40's-50's. Scattered about on the property are over 10 other buildings including this ford truck and the shed behind it.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines set to aquamarine, blue & orange.
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What looks like it used to be a parts store in a lonely stretch of louisiana highway.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomatchines flashlight set to orange and green.
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Front of what was at one time the caretakers house for a local cave attraction. Opening in the 30s it was home to concerts during the big band era and staying open in 1995.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to orange and natural white.
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More of the art at the “International Car Forest of the Last Church” in Goldfield Nevada. Night, full moon, 3-minute exposure, red and white Protomachine flashlight.
La Paz (6341)
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The beautiful night desert, where silence is louder and the stars shine brighter. This is Ojo Oro Arch, a hidden gem located in a secret corner of the Mojave Desert, not a strange new world from "Star Trek" but almost as far. Bodhi Smith, Chip Morton and I hiked several miles and hung out during this night photography trip. When I finally settled down to sleep under the stars around 3:30 am cocooned by a canopy of stars and the Milky Way arching directly overhead. Every several minutes, I saw shooting stars streaking through the night sky. Much thanks to Bodhi for inviting me on this fantastic trip. I illuminated the rocky arch with warm white light and red light using a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 during the exposure. "El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz". -Benito Juárez. Thank you very much for looking!
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Nikon D750/Irix 15mm f/2.4 lens. Earth: 134 seconds f/2.5 ISO 400. Sky: 20 individual photos "stacked" at 15 seconds f/2.5 ISO 4000. ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device.
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Bathrooms on the backside of the concession stand, backstop to the left. A one stop shop, empty yourself and refill on the other side.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to blue and pink.
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Gas station converted to a liquor store.
Night, near full moon. 180 second exposure, protomachines set to orange.
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In the Shadow of the Moon
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The moonlight added a magical touch to the already captivating light and shadows in the station. To enhance this effect, I used a vivid red and warm white light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 RGB light painting device to illuminate the scene while the camera's shutter was open during a long exposure night photo. The effects are unique and offer new life to the abandoned building. This is located in Southern California near the border of Mexico and was part of our Notorious RGB 1165-mile photography safari. Thanks!
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(Plate 8456) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 2 minutes f/8 ISO 200. October 2022.
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Night photo with the glorious Milky Way over an abandoned aircraft in the Mojave Desert. D610/Irix 15mm f/2.8.
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Reach for the Sky, Just Spread Your Wings
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A rare night photo of the Space Shuttle transport carrier in this long exposure photo, showing the perceived movements of the stars during this very long exposure image. This is a Boeing 747 Tail #N911NA. This shuttle vehicle transport carrier is one of two that ferried the Space Shuttles to and from destinations. The aircraft was extensively modified by Boeing in 1976. This shuttle carrier was retired on February 8, 2012 after its final mission to the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, California, and will be used as a source of parts for NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). It was on loan to from NASA Armstrong to Joe Davies Heritage Airpark in Palmdale, CA, and I thankfully received permission to photograph it then. I illuminated the plane with a handheld Protomachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure. This photo appears in my second book of history and night photography.
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(Plate 8647) Nikon D7000, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8. 2 hour 21 minute long exposure in total "stacked". Each of the 47 photos were 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. May 2015.
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The biggest, fattest, mid-'70s Thunderbird ever, slowly decaying at Pearsonville. Night, with 3-minutes of full moon and purple, red and white light from the Protomachines flashlight.
Mater Trio (2724)
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Night photo of three trucks at the Motor Transport Museum near the border of Mexico in California. This was lit with warm white and red light from my trusty handheld ProtoMachines LED2 during the exposure. Thank you for looking!
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Pentax K-1/Lensbaby Edge 35 Optic lens. 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. October 2020.
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Light trails from cars and semi's passing a long abandoned house along a highway through the Texas panhandle.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines set to yellow with a shot of natural white.
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Late at night on the road, halfway beween Reno and Susanville. 83-seconds of full moon with green and white Protomachines flashlight.