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Sherbet Boarding

Sherbet Boarding

Sherbet Boarding

Been spending a little time at Aviation Warehouse, down in El Mirage, this winter.  The owner loves my photography, so I’ve had an open invite to shoot here since 2006. I like to visit for a few nights every couple years. Minimal daylight scouting time, lots of clouds and unexpected dew point-based lens fogging issues made this trip a constant challenge, but I took what the site offered and worked inside the aircraft and storage buildings a lot. Never been here with the fisheye . . . so it was interesting to see the place all round and bubbly. I love this continuously evolving boneyard, I could visit a hundred times and never tire of it.

This is a C-118 Liftmaster (A military cargo DC-6) fuselage, laying in the sand by the willows. To compliment the dappled sodium vapor light through the trees, I bounced some purple off the parts stored out of the frame on the left to gently tint the shadows, so as to not make hot spots on the reflective metal. Lime green skimmed inside as well. 339-seconds under the full moon.

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