The Valley Junkyard

Spargazer  :::::  Late-'50s Ford

Crestview Bowl

The Columbia 300

Portraits

The Gassy Hitman

Gene Winfield Customs

The 6000 SUX  :::::  One-of-a-kind prop car from the movie "Robocop" (3 made, 2 blown up).

Faded Signs

Long Term Welcome  :::::  2021  ::::::  Mojave, California.

NASA Crows Landing

Twiki In Love :::::  NASA Crows Landing  :::::  Launch Control Trailer  :::::  March 2013

Pearsonville 2009

Christine in Repose  :::::  1957 Plymouth

Published

Christine  :::::  Stephen King  :::::  2011 Edition  :::::  Hodder & Staughton, UK

Big M Auto Salvage

The Pioneering Spirit  :::::  1961 Dodge Dart Pioneer

The Salton Sea

Salton Sea Trailer  :::::  1992  :::::  Salton Sea Beach.

The Chronicle

The Ink Mist Vortex  :::::  San Francisco Chronicle Printing Plant
Air India  :::::  2003  :::::  A first generation 747 in the middle of the recycling process.

Out of Gas

Petroleum Bender  :::::  2016  :::::  Armagosa Valley, Nevada

Pearsonville 2008

The Newport Leap  :::::  1962 Chrysler

Aviation Warehouse

Exit Row  :::::  2009  :::::  Boeing 737 and 727 fuselage sections.

Air Force Radar Base

Moonbase

Paul’s Junkyard

Every Mile Magnificent  :::::  Greyhound Scenicruiser

Lost Wheels

Trailer Moonrise :::::  2006  :::::  1950s Travel Trailer  :::::  Hodge, California
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Junkyard Nights Released

I have in my hands the first copies of my fifth book, Junkyard Nights. I’m ecstatic about the print quality and the way the layout came together. I know I say this with every book I’ve ever done, but this one truly is the best book I’ve ever done. It contains some of my most […]

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The Night Photography Summit

The night photography workshop group at “National Parks at Night” is putting on their first “Night Photo Summit” and I’m excited to say I’ve been asked to be one of their 28 speakers!The virtual event is 40+ talks on night photography, spread over 3 days. All sessions will be broadcast and recorded live, and then […]

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Harbor Lights

Early sixties Chrysler Newport convertible, one more space-wreck, crash landed at Big M Auto Salvage in February 2020. A minute-thirty-four in total darkness, with purple and red from outside and warm white diffused inside for ambiance. Protomachine flashlight, hand-held, single frame.

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Rocket Sled

Another view of one of the F-86s (The Australian CA-27 variant) in that location I was asked not to divulge by the owner from the “Boneyard” book, but never shown online. Shot a few minutes after yesterday’s post, facing the other way, just after midnight in March 2011. Stormy, cold, and camera-killingly windy. 3:13 of […]

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My Evil Twin

F-86s, stored in that location I promised not to divulge as part of my permission to enter. On a bitterly cold and windy winter night in 2010. A 2-page spread in the “Boneyard” book, but not posted online before. 257-seconds of full moon and a little LED flashlight bounced around.

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Happy Landings

Here’s another favorite from one of those broiling hot summer nights in 2012 at Aviation Warehouse. Never online before, but in the “Boneyard” book. Broken airliner landing gear tower over the endlessly shifting dunes. 25-minutes total exposure (in several stacked images) with blue and pink from the Protomachines flashlight, and then layered together in Photoshop.

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Charred Remains

747 and 737 wreckage at Aviation Warehouse, a 2 two-page spread in the “Boneyard” book, but never online before. EXIF notes say: 7/31/2012 12:23 am. 280 seconds. Under full moon, broken by summer monsoon clouds. Lit with the Protomachine flashlight using red, lime and warm white settings.

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The Dunes Abide

The Mojave consumes a neighborhood on the north edge of Newberry, east of Barstow. A slow motion tsunami of sand, this is the top of a collapsing two-story house. Night, two-minutes of full moon behind the clouds, with red and white LED flashlight. Shot March 2019.

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Catching Up

Hiya! Hope you’re happy and healthy. I’ve been posting on social lately and neglecting this space. Here’s a catch up post with a items you may have missed. Spacewreck (2016)B-52 in the Mojave. Blown up to appease the START treaty in 1991 and left for the road runners to find in 2016. Night, full moon […]

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Klenk

I shot this, one-handed, about 30 minutes after falling and tearing my rotator cuff in July 2019. Just another amazing pile of movie prop junk, destined for the shredder, at Paul’s. Four minutes of full moon (most of it spent doubled over in pain) and some LED flashlight from a couple of directions. And yes, […]

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