Lost America

Yesterday’s ’53 Kaiser Manhattan. I loved the faded sticker, dew, moss and rust back here, so much texture and detail to sink my teeth into. Yes, complete and restorable . . . but it’d be a gigantic undertaking. 37 seconds, no chance for the full moon to burn in. Protomachines flashlight, purple bounced off the […]

A complete junkyard 1953 Kaiser Manhattan, the one with the widows peak windshield. Exotic in it’s day, extremely rare in 2015. Night, lit with a flashlight.

Camera pointed almost straight up from the pilot’s footwell of a junkyard Bell Huey helicopter. Full moon, Ultramarine and lime-set Protomachines flashlight, 39-seconds.

All it said on the box of slides was “Summer 99, AZ”  Others in there put it near Solame, Arizona, Highway 60 west of Phoenix. 160T Kodak Film, about 8-minutes, lit with hand-held, gelled strobe.

For you control panel fetishists, a pile of dust covered WWII-vintage Army-Air Force radio equipment. Lit with flashlight in total darkness.

Two versions of a ’57 Dodge Coronet. Can’t decide which one to post, so here’s both. Direct, indirect and snooted Protomachine flashlight under the full moon.

This is one of those late-’70s AMC Hornet-based AMX’s with about 110 horsepower, so really, this sticker on the hood WAS the car’s best feature. Shot in 2011, 23-seconds, lit with an LED flashlight.

Just after 1AM on a drought night in an abandoned Delta farmhouse, overrun with small animals and birds looking for a cool spot to nest.  I could hear them chattering and scurrying about while I clomped around the house for 20 minutes, balancing my lighting. Unfortunately, none of these animals were housebroken.

A pile of wrecked movie-prop police cars, destined for the shredder. 62 seconds, cool white LED outside, warm inside.