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Moondocking (1025)
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The puns just keep coming. Some moonlight boondocking with some invisible guests. I lit this 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 D610/Rokinon 12mm f/2.8 fisheye lens. 181 seconds f/8 ISO 200. July 2019.
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They may look the same, but according to those grilles, one's a Dodge and the other a Plymouth. Both are movie prop cop cars in storage at Paul's junkyard. 2 minutes of full moon with white, red and purple from the Protomachines flashlight.
Despite the forecast for clearer skies after midnight, the clouds kept building as the evening wore on.
(5 minute exposure + RADIUM LED light)
Spirit of the San Joaquin (0392)
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This is a long exposure photo of a Lockheed Harpoon which shows the movement of the stars over long periods of time. I added light with a ProtoMachines LED2 handheld flashlight from several angles while the tripod-mounted camera's shutter was open. And indeed, the developer of the ProtoMachines, George Loo, as well as Dave Dasinger, joined me in photographing a decommissioned WWII airfield.
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Nikon D750/Rokinon fisheye f/2.8 lens @ 20 minutes in total "stacked"; each photo 2 minutes f/8 ISO 200. 28 April 2018.
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Former county courthouse. Built in 1911 from local stone. The town lost the county seat in 1925 to a nearby town so the courthouse was left to mother nature.
240 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to lime with a shot of natural white to the front.
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Wagyu Coop
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Night photo, abandoned cattle barn area of an old early 1900s ranch on a beautiful Mojave evening. This was photographed near a full winter moon, one of my favorite times for night photography. I love it nice and cool with a longer night for photography. I lit the smokestack, exterior, and interior of the structure with 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 6217) Pentax K-1/128-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 6 minutes total "stacked". Each photo 2 minutes f/9 ISO 200. November 2021.
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Abandoned mining complex in the shadow of the Sierras. Placement of the center tube between the power/telephone poles without touching them wasn't an accident. Night, four 6-minute exposures stacked for 24-minute star trails and purple, red and yellow from the Protomachines flashlight.
Midnight Dinner Train (1826)
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Late night photo of what I believe is an old dinner car, probably from the 1920s, and most likely serving passengers well into the 1960s. 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. Although I really don't know very much about trains, I still love them, and having the opportunity to photograph them at night is a special treat. The streaks in the sky are the movement of the stars during the length of this long exposure night photo. I lit the yellow Union Pacific railcar with warm white light from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure. 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. This might appear in my second book of night photography images, which the publisher hopes to release later this year. Thanks.
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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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Quite a few of the Cars/Trucks that are "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 white.
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Small building more known for nobody knowing what it was than for knowing what it was. Sitting along a little used road in the California desert.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to orange and blue with a shot of white.
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Canopy of Heaven
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The Milky Way over Trona Pinnacles, CA on a very hot August evening. The pinnacles are tufas left from an ancient lake bed. I used a ProtoMachines LED2 to illuminate the tufas during the exposure.
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(Plate 3000) Nikon D750/Irix 15mm f/2.4 lens. 25 photos "stacked" to reduce noise. Each photo 20 seconds f/2.5 ISO 4000. 24 August 2022.
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Section of the original location of 2 Guns tourist trap/gas station along route 66. The stone & wood ruins clearly had different rooms for selling whatever kind of things would have been sold to tourist back in the 30's & 40's.
Night, near full moon.180 second exposure, protomachines set to yellow.
Neptune's Inferno (5923)
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Looking at the starry night skies in the cockpit of a dismantled P2V-3W Neptune aircraft on a decommissioned WWII airfield in California. I illuminated the interior of this plane, managing to scratch my leg while trying cramming myself inside, wondering how the pilots could squeeze themselves in here when flying. I hope they weren't 6' 1". I used some red light from my ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device while the camera shutter was open during a full and bright winter moon on a chilly night in February. This will likely appear in my second book, which I hope to finish by fall 2020. Feel free to share.
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Nikon D750/Rokinon 12mm f/2.8 fisheye lens. 1 minute f/8 ISO 200. February 2020.
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Exploring what remains of a combination gas station / zoo tourist trap along the historic Route 66.
(2 minute exposure + LED8 light)
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and if you don’t celebrate the holidays, have a great day!
Mojave Christmas
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A night winterland holiday scene, Mojave style, located in El Dorado Canyon in Nevada. 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 and a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device. Thank you.
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(Plate 5667) Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 3 minutes f/8 ISO 200. October 2021.
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Small stucco church and pasters house thats been through a number of incarnations over the years.
Night, near full moon, but just at the beginning of twilight, 180 second exposure, protomachines set to green, blue,orange and white.
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Neptune's Rod (5932)
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I may not know very much about military aircraft, but I do know I am in awe of them and the people who flew them. You are looking at the starry night skies from the cockpit of a dismantled P2V-3W Neptune aircraft on a decommissioned WWII airfield in California. I illuminated the interior of this plane, managing to scratch my leg while trying cramming myself inside, wondering how the pilots could squeeze themselves in here when flying. I hope they weren't 6' 1". I used some warm white light and red light from my ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device to illuminate the interior and exterior of the cockpit while the camera shutter was open during a full and bright winter moon on a chilly night in February. This will likely appear in my second book, which I hope to finish by fall 2020. Feel free to share.
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Nikon D750/Rokinon 12mm f/2.8 fisheye lens. 1 minute f/8 ISO 200. February 2020.
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Tiny general store sitting along a state highway outside a tiny town thats no longer on a map. This tiny little store did not make the cut to be included in my book, Abandoned Louisiana: Under A Bayou Moon.
Night, near full moon, 42 second exposure, protomachines set to aquamarine and white, large sodium vapor light to camera left.
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1955 Oldsmobile, with a chrome coated dashboard and giant steering wheel for leverage. At that land of barn find wonder and excitement called Big M Auto Salvage. Yes, of course , I got bites on my hands. Total darkness, with pink thru the windshield, cool white through the drivers side windows and green reflected off the headliner out of the frame for ambiance, all laid down on just under 2 minutes with the Protomachines flashlight.
Heart of Stone
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Do you love exploring old ghost towns? We did some long exposure night photography in a ghost town in the Sonoran desert. This is an early 1900s hotel built of stone, located in the Sonoran Desert. I lit this with a handheld ProtoMachines light painting device during the exposure. This was photographed during a three-night trip with night photographer Mike Cooper, exploring the remote corners of the desert.
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(Plate 7004) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens.
Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. I guess this wasn't one of those.
(4 minute exposure + RADIUM LED)
First Night on Hanon IV
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I photographed some night portraits for Bloomfield Machine, a band masterminded by Brian Kassan (Chewy Marble/The Wondermints). Cool January evening in Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave Desert. Great night of creativity. Illuminated with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2, Nikon SB-600 speedlight, and a full moon. Thanks!
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(Plate 0282) Nikon D750/Rokinon 12mm f/2.8 fisheye lens. 30 seconds f/8 ISO 800. January 2022.
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Not Quite Dead Yet (7565)
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The remains of a grille and car languishing at a decommissioned WWII airfield in Central California. The high clouds added this beautiful moonbow halo. Light added from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure. To accentuate the weirdness of this car, I backlit the grille and used a fisheye angled downward to exaggerate the curvature.
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Nikon D750/Rokinon 12mm f/2.8 fisheye lens. 107 seconds f/8 ISO 320. December 2020.
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Small building more known for nobody knowing what it was than for knowing what it was. Sitting along a little used road in the California desert.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to green.
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There Were Sand and Hills and Homes
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Has your GPS ever led you astray? Most of the time, our GPS is rock solid. However, sometimes it goes awry. In this case, Mike's GPS sent us on a dirt road that morphed from a smooth ride to boulder crawling. We realized that the GPS wasn't tracking properly. Peering at my downloaded satellite maps, we found the correct directions. That took us to this adobe homestead in the hills of the Arizona desert. There, we encountered five loud, aggressive dogs and later on, a cowboy who had been through the desert with a horse trailer with no name. I managed to create this one night photo with light painting, illuminated from the inside and outside with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 during the exposure. We then decided that going elsewhere to create night photographs was a better use of our time.
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(Plate 6746) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 157 seconds f/8 ISO 200. February 2022.
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What I think was an office for a long gone mobile home park behind a long closed gas station and restaurant in the desert.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines set to blue & a shot of white under heavy cloud cover.
Tiny gas station sitting along a side street of a tiny town that must have closed forever ago since it is about as far off the beaten path as you can get.
Night, near full moon, 60 second exposure, protomachines set to blue, orange and a heavy shot of white, large sodium vapor light to camera left, light from houses from behind the building to camera right and left.
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Momma's house sits not far from where she now lives, but her old house sits semi empty awaiting a new tennant.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines set to purple, orange and aquamarine.
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This well photographed wood frame house that was last lived in sometime into the 1970s. The house sits in the middle of a field in the middle of Kansas.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines set to yellow & white.
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Small 2 room jail located between the ruins of a mine and the former townsite where the miners lived. At its height the town was home to approximately 600 people, a post office, 1 hotel and more than 1 saloon. The mining company whose smelter opened in 1907 and then closed in 1910. the town post office closed in 1919 and by 1921 the town had become a ghost town.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines set to orange.
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, 240 second exposure, protomachines set to red and white.
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In the Navy (7363)
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A night photo fisheye view of a former navy 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 bus was formerly used by the Special Services Naval Air Station in San Diego. Thanks for looking.
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Nikon D750/Rokinon f/2.8 fisheye lens. 3 minutes f/8 ISO 250. November 2020.
Back section of a fuselage of a B-52 sitting in the desert.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to pink.
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Neon Nights
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This is the iconic Roy's neon sign in Amboy, CA, along historic Route 66, seen from one of the still-empty motel rooms. Illuminated during the exposure by a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device. 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. Thank you.
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(Plate 5883) Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. Two photos "stacked". Each photo 12 seconds f/11 ISO 100. October 2021.
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1959 Imperial dashboard in total darkness, lit with red, cool white, purple and blue light from the Protomachines flashlight.
Goldfield Nevada, vintage subway entrances dating back to the 1940's or 50's. Now it sits just off US 95, where did they come from and what are they doing seems to be a big mystery. Cloudy night added blue light and lime light from Protomachine, a touch of white light on front and the sides are from the sodium vapor streetlight nearby. Canon 5D Mark IV.
Rotten, at the abandoned Silver Queen Mine. Shot 5 years ago, never shown before. 40 seconds of full moon, Protomachines flashlight, fisheye.
Mohawk
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The streaks of car's headlights on I-40 zooming past the once popular dome shaped Meteor City Trading Post along historic Route 66 in Arizona east of Winslow. I illuminated the structure with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 during the exposure. This was part of a three-night trip with night photographer Mike Cooper, exploring the remote corners of the desert.
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(Plate 6889) Pentax K-1/28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 lens. 91 seconds f/8 ISO 200. February 2022.
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"Nature Is God"
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Another fun mile-long walk in the dark of night with no trails to photograph these fascinating carved rocks left by a former miner and rancher in the 1920s. I am grateful to my handy GPS, and not so grateful for the cactus that nailed me on the return trip. :D John Samuelson was a miner and rancher for the Keys Ranch. In the 1920s, he built a cabin and began carving messages into the rocks nearby in what is now Joshua Tree National Park. He eventually moved to Los Angeles with his wife, where he then killed two people in Compton. He was declared insane, but later escaped from the hospital. Illuminated by a ProtoMachines LED2 light and a full moon. The photo shows the movement of the stars over 306 seconds of time, created by the movement of the earth. There are eight rocks with carvings on this hill. Yes, I found all eight.
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(Plate 9895) Nikon D610, Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 14mm, 306s f/8 ISO 800 2016-03-25 22:44
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Tail section of a B-52 sitting in the desert. Blown apart from from the rest of the plane to make the USSR happy after they were discovered on satellite photos and were not a part of the cold war agreement for disarmament.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to red and yellow.
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The view out the window at the Palmdale Insane Asylum. Night, full moon, Red and yellow light from the Protomachines flashlight. 173-seconds.
Deep in the Southern California desert are a number of large metal sculptures created by Ricardo Breceda.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomatchines set to white.
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The Green Haunting
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Night trains pass behind the eerie abandoned Pendergast Hotel in Ludlow, CA. You can actually see the train through the front door. I had visited this house on the way to Amboy Crater in the Mojave Desert a few years ago before I began doing night photography, and thought I would revisit this at night. I illuminated the exterior with a warm white light, and the interior with blue light from various angles using a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device while the camera's shutter was open. This photo will appear in my third book, this one about abandoned Route 66 night photography, history, and stories.
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(Plate 3180) Nikon D750/Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens. 102 seconds f/8 ISO 200. 21 March 2019.
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A shot from me recent trip across the state of Texas. The "slug bug ranch", a homage to the nearby cadillac ranch but with volkswagen bugs instead.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines set to red, green and white, mercury vapor light to camera left under heavy cloud cover.
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The Ghosts of Boondocking Past
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Night photo near an old abandoned general store in Goffs CA, one of several ghost towns along a lonely stretch of Route 66 in the California desert. Goffs was an old mining and railroad town until, as with many other towns, evaporated when Interstate 40 took the travelers away, bypassing the town. Today, there are several residents and an excellent cultural center in town who keep the history and the town alive. You can regularly hear trains rumbling past.
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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 RV with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure.
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(Plate 1674) Pentax K-1, 15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 2 minutes f/8 ISO 400. November 2019.
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The Gold Eye and the Heavens Above (6322)
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You know you are somewhere quiet and remote when you are keenly aware of that barely perceptible "hum" and are conscious of how well you can hear your breathing. 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. Thank you very much for looking!
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Nikon D750/Irix 15mm f/2.4 lens. Earth: 135 seconds f/2.5 ISO 400. Sky: 17 individual photos "stacked" at 15 seconds f/2.5 ISO 4000. ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device.
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What appears to be a terminal or control tower and windsock at a airfield that was established after WWII. The airfield does not appear on 1945 maps but does appear in 1946 maps. Aerial photograph taken in the 50s shows this building a T-shaped hanger and 2 unpaved landing strips.
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines set to orange & a shot of white under some pretty heavy cloud cover.
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1960 Cadillac 60 special slowly decaying in the high desert of nevada
Night, near full moon, 120 second exposure, protomachines set to pink & blue.
Here's another favorite from one of those broiling hot summer nights in 2012 at Aviation Warehouse. Never online before, but in the "Boneyard" book. Broken airliner landing gear tower over the endlessly shifting dunes. 25-minutes total exposure (in several stacked images) with blue and pink from the Protomachines flashlight, and then layered together in Photoshop.