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Space Station 8322

Space Station 8322

The always popular NYC MTA subway cars at Paul’s junkyard, where movie props go to die.  Just a hint of warm white and red light from the Protomachine flashlight.  4-minute exposure, in a windstorm.  The longer versions I was gonna use for long star trail stacking are all blurry from the buffeting.

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Red-Rimmed Eyes

Red-Rimmed Eyes

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 [...]

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The West 40

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 [...]

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Porcupine of Death

Porcupine of Death

Disassembled North American B-25 in storage at a privately owned WWII air base.  Orange and white-set Protomachine flashlight.

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Skeletal Wings

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.

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Super Liner
On the Log Run

On the Log Run

Moonrise at Paul’s.  391 seconds.  Red and white Protomachine flashlight.

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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.

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Dirty and Crazy

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.

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