After months of false starts and rewrites, my third book has finally been published! It’s a technique e-book, downloadable through Trey Ratcliffe’s publishing company “Flatbooks.” It’s readable on any computer and tablet. It’s only $9.97, so go forth and consume! This book’s success depends on YOUR word of mouth, so tell every photographer you know [...]
Kincaid Mine
When I had visited this remote mine in 2010, it had been abandoned for many years. Unfortunately, we got rained out that night (and ended up shooting the TV in the motel room). Returning to do more work here in the summer of 2011, we found a trailer parked behind these old structures with lights [...]
The World is Yours
Lit with a AA Maglite from both sides. There’s a little LED on that palm frond too. The Big M, Williams, California.
The Creeping Mold
Blue and lime-gelled LED flashlight. 142 second exposure, full moon. You would not believe what it smelled like inside this thing.
The Last Days of Doyle Drive
There’s few living San Franciscans that will miss the old Doyle Drive. Built in the 1930s, hopelessly outdated by the ’70s and site of many gristly head on crashes–this worn-out butt-ugly elevated freeway should have been torn down a long time ago. Now that she’s gone, here’s some pix to remember her by. These were [...]
The Red Eyed Grouper
1954 Buick Special, another amazing mold-covered barn-find that turned up at Big M Auto Dismantlers this winter. I have no idea how he still manages to find these gems. Natural, blue and green-gelled LED flashlight. Snooted red LED in the headlights. Red-gelled strobe in the interior. Base exposure for the overall scene: 365 seconds at [...]
The Presidio Parkway Project
This weekend in San Francisco, CALTRANS is closing and demolishing Doyle Drive, the ancient and crumbling freeway approach to the Golden Gate Bridge. Last December I approached the contractor with my work shot in the Presidio Pet Cemetery underneath the new freeway, and asked for access to shoot the freeway construction. Much to my surprise, [...]
Downtown from the Flying Bridge
The best thing about a ship in dry dock for night photography? It doesn’t move. This allowed for long exposures at f/16 to get sparkling lights and crispy details of both the ship and the downtown San Francisco skyline. Base exposure of 85 seconds with some blown out highlight areas stripped in with 30 and [...]
Jeremiah O’Brien in Dry Dock
The Jeremiah O’Brien was in dry dock for about a month. I was lucky enough to be on the very short list of people allowed into the BAE shipyard at San Francisco’s pier 70 to shoot her and I was the only one to do it at night. BAE is a tough location to access, [...]
Jeremiah O’Brien goes to Dry Dock
Back in January, I was invited to ride on the Jeremiah O’Brien for its trip to dry dock for repairs, cleaning and repainting. The JO’B is one of the last surviving Liberty Ships from WWII, now converted to a museum, permanently docked in San Francisco. We left at 5:30, before dawn, on a cold and [...]
