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20730 East Palmdale Avenue

20730 East Palmdale Avenue

Plug that title into your GPS and drop on by, anytime.  Even at 1:24AM, like when this was taken. Protomachine flashlight and 250 seconds of full moon light.

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Purple Vertebrate

Some poor creature met it’s end in the backyard of the “Wolves Lair” house from yesterday’s post.  My guess is a large dog?  The bones were picked clean and strewn over a large area, centered on this mattress.  The hair on the back of my neck still stands up when I think about it.  Just [...]

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Wolves Lair

Another abandoned home in the middle of a hot and humid August night, lost somewhere deep on the lettered Avenues of the Antelope Valley. Full moon, red and turquoise-set Protomachine flashlight.  I really liked what the blue-green light was doing to the lemon yellow paint on the house.  The inside, where I did the red [...]

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The Captain is Dead

Fibonacci this boys and girls.  Sorry, I didn’t mean to get all golden mean on you. This spot can be seen in the background of yesterday’s post.  Lit with that crazy-ass Protomachine light again, during a relatively short (72 second) exposure.

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X Marks the Boat

X Marks the Boat

Avast ye hearties!  Buried treasure or a pile of dead trees?  Considering the nearest body of water is 100 miles away, I’m pretty sure it’s the latter. 139 second exposure for the lit exposure (By Protomachine flashlight set to red, yellow and blue) and the sky is a stack of four 9-minute exposures, making for [...]

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Tentacle Deadfall

Dead trees at an abandoned ranch somewhere in California’s high desert.  The lettered avenues that lace the Antelope Valley. 135 seconds under the full moon, Protomachines flashlight set to red and purple.

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New e-book: Boneyard

New e-book: Boneyard

Today, right now, is the initial release of my new e-book: BONEYARD! This project contains over 61 full sized and zoomable light painted night images, shot in two separate aircraft graveyards, “The Secret Boneyard” and “Aviation Warehouse.” 50 of these images have never been shown before.  These are not outtakes or stiffs I never bothered to [...]

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Objects In Your Past May Appear Larger Than Actual Size

86 second exposure, f/8, iso 200.  Protomachine flashlight set to green and red.

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The Craters of Mars

Under the school bus perched on steel cylinders, along the north fence at Paul’s Junkyard.  Those of you who’ve been to Paul’s know how difficult it is to get to this spot.  Super claustrophobic under there, not a place I’d want to be in an earthquake.  Lit with the Protomachine flashlight, set to red, purple [...]

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Surreality TV

An abandoned ranch, someplace in the central Antelope Valley, in California’s high desert.  There’s just never anything good on, is there? Three stacked 6 minute exposures for 18 minute star trails.  The lighting was done during a shorter exposure and stripped in.  Protomachine flashlight set to red and shined through the ventilation grilles on the [...]

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