Yes, it’s true: Joe Reifer and I are holding another night photography and light painting workshop this fall! 3 days and nights of learning and shooting in our intensive and ridiculously fun format, totally unlike any other night photography workshop. September 28-30. Tuition is $900. Registration is now open. We opened it to our priority registration [...]
Dream Car Nightmare
In the total darkness under the eucalyptus grove in the back of The Big M sits this brutally parted-out and weathered, but totally futuristic, 1961 Plymouth. I set the camera in the hoodless and empty engine compartment and lit from camera right with an LED flashlight for a few seconds. I was careful to place [...]
Meat Ceiling Farina
Moldy Rambler station wagon (body by Pininfarina!) at The Big M yard in Williams CA. Shot in January 2012. Green-gelled LED flashlight from both sides, taking advantage of the scene’s natural greens. Red LED flashlight on the ceiling from the far side of the car. I loved how the rotting headliner was hanging in tatters, [...]
Always Looking North
Still sitting on a few images from the abandoned Pearsonville junkyard along highway 395 in Eastern California. This 1922 Seagrave hook-and-ladder fire truck on the racetrack infield was shot during the “Farewell to Pearsonville” workshop, March 2011. Most of this sprawling junkyard was crushed and liquidated and the remainder, consolidated behind a strong new fence. [...]
New Book!
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 [...]
