Lost America

Happy to report, 3 weeks after the operation, that my shoulder is slowly healing. They have me moving it passively, but I still can’t move it using the muscle at all. With the physical therapy, it’s sore all the time, but nothing like the pain of the first week. It’s gonna be a long, slow […]

If you pre-ordered, it should be shipping today. If not, now is the time to pick up your copy at amazon or your other favored booksellers. I have not received my copies yet. Once I do, I will be selling signed copies online via PayPal or Venmo. More on that when it happens. In the […]

The second prop Imperial for the movie Cobb, in that hard to get to corner of Paul’s. This was the last shot before taking a nasty fall onto my shoulder a few days ago (getting better thanks, but it’s still not right in there, MRI tomorrow). Yeah, I landed right on those girders, while setting […]

Seeing’s how CNN posted this previously unseen image from the book (yeah I said it was OK), there’s no reason to save it anymore. Yeah, there still are a number of never shown images in the book. Fuselage segment at Aviation Warehouse. 112-seconds, set up so that the full moon would just start to pop […]

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Low and wide with a 1958 DeSoto at Big M. I shot it mainly for that antenna and yeah, I put the air cleaner there to hold the trunk lid down. Night, warm white, and a tiny bit of bounced red Protomachines flashlight, in 138-seconds, before the moonrise.

Up close with a mossy Imperial, in the shade at the Big M. Purple, green and white from the Protomachines flashlight, in 51 seconds.

Veranda of an abandoned farm in the Mojave near Newberry Springs. Shot during that one Spring week when the valley turns green. 3:03 of full moon with a little blue from the Protomachines flashlight.

Datsun B-210, rescued from certain death, by KC, another visitor hanging out at Big M Auto Salvage. Quizzical looks all around when I asked him to stay after dark so I could shoot this car, even tho I was surrounded by hundreds of rare 50s and 60s cars to shoot. It’s been a long time […]

While the rest of the weeds at Big M have been scorched away after the first really hot days of the season, a windshield left in front of this 1960 Valiant has created a lush little eco-system, a fragile green world, under the dome. Green, white, blue and red from the Protomachines flashlight, laid down […]