’70s-vintage Peterbilt cab-over semi-truck at Paul’s Junkyard. This body was off the frame, sitting on the dirt. Normally this interior would be 8 feet off the ground and virtually impossible to shoot using these techniques, but I was able to easily set up at shoulder-level in the doorway. Red-gelled strobe inside the sleeping compartment, blue [...]
The Final Stop
The subway cars at Paul’s Junkyard. September 2011. A spot for you just opened up for the April workshop in this amazing junkyard. subway junkyard
No One Escapes The Claw
This rusty armored car circles the drain at Paul’s Junkyard. Shortly after this was taken it succumbed to the claw and shredder. Yellow-gelled LED on the claw and red-gelled strobe inside the vehicle. Lots of flashlight on the exposed engine too. 202-second exposure, long enough to get some nice movement in the clouds. We had [...]
Vacuum The Bed
Red and lime-gelled LED flashlight in the bed, red gelled strobe through the windshield. 85 second exposure. Paul’s Junkyard, October 2011.
One Track Mind
Out in a field on the Munz Ranch property, as far from the sodium vapor lights as I could get. Is this a Snow Cat or just some kind of home-made tracked farm vehicle? Cool and rusty, whatever it is. LED flashlight down the side and snooted into the broken headlight, orange-gelled strobe inside the [...]
Munz Ranch Elizabeth Lake
1930s-vintage International dump truck, out to pasture at Munz Ranch, near Lancaster California. A strong sodium vapor light on the far side of the truck is lighting the weeds and background trees, The truck, this side in total shadow, was lit with an LED flashlight along with a couple of blue-gelled strobe pops from the [...]
Nesthyl
Critters love to build nests inside old gas pumps, I’ve seen this kind of thing many times. I think they like the warmth and safety being behind glass provides, but I’m no bird whisperer. Due to the extremely strong sodium vapor light shining right on the pump (reflecting on the stainless steel “National” band) this [...]
Presidio Pet Cemetery Part 2
Here’s a few more from my January 2011 trips to the Presidio Pet Cemetery. Visit the first post in the Presidio Pet Cemetery series to learn more about this exciting and weird location. This overview from McDowell Road gives the site a sense of scale and placement to the temporary roof over the cemetery, which was removed [...]
As seen on CNN
Wow, you sure get a lot of new visitors when you’re featured on CNN. I’m overwhelmed. Welcome to all the new visitors. Hope you enjoy my galleries of work shot in decommissioned military installations, abandoned amusement parks and aviation boneyards too. The “Lost America” body of work is not just about cars! Get on the workshop [...]
The Presidio Pet Cemetery
San Francisco’s elevated-freeway approach to the Golden Gate Bridge, called “Doyle Drive,” winds its way through The Presidio, a former Army base, decommissioned in 1994. Doyle Drive dates back to the original construction of the bridge in the mid 1930s. Now seismically unfit, the new “Presidio Parkway” is currently under construction to replace it. Nestled [...]
