With all the howling wind and blowing sand in the Mojave last full moon, this truck’s eyes looked like mine felt. I bounced the red light off the ground so it was picked up mainly by the aluminum headlight-surrounds, snooted warm white on the headlights and cool white on the hood and snooted on the [...]
The West 40
Another remote corner of the sprawling WWII Air Force training base (now privately owned) I spent last winter shooting. There are treasures like this pump and electric golf cart hidden all over the property. Those are abandoned barracks/mess hall buildings in the background. Purple light on the pump, white on the cart front and snooted on the [...]
Porcupine of Death
Disassembled North American B-25 in storage at a privately owned WWII air base. Orange and white-set Protomachine flashlight.
Skeletal Wings
Wing spar and raptor skeleton on a sheet of corrugated metal in a field beside a disused WWII airfield. Green, red and purple Protomachine flashlight.
On the Log Run
Moonrise at Paul’s. 391 seconds. Red and white Protomachine flashlight.
Kitchen Witchin’ Hour
About 1 AM in the unlucky kitchen of a destroyed abandoned house. A mile down a lonely dirt road, in the middle of nowhere, in the Mojave. Cool white and salmon Protomachine flashlight during a 2-minute exposure, under the full moon.
Bus Eater
Depth of Field composite, stacked in Photoshop. Two 6-minute exposures focused on infinity and one more focused on the headlight, a foot away. Red, lime and white Protomachine flashlight.
Always Lift With Your Legs
Here’s Chris from last week’s workshop, lifting a truck. Pretty strong for a skinny guy. 2 hand-held strobes. 94 seconds, to let the sky burn in a little.
