Lost America

Overhead rail hoist controller, in the machine shop of an abandoned printing plant.  Fisheye.  Lit with Protomachines 2 flashlight, in total darkness.

Nice curves on this junkyard ’60 Oldsmobile.  The fisheye is so hard to work with in the dark, it took a deceptively large number of test shots to get a composition I liked.  65 second exposure, night.  Full moon, obscured by clouds, flashlight.

Early 50’s Ford Coupe, with most of the lower body cut off.  137-seconds, night.  Full moon-light.  Lit by moving the light down both sides, along the cut edge.  It took a couple of tries to get one where you can’t see the light.  A little selective dodge, and some keystone correction in Photoshop, but the lighting […]

Night in the junkyard. 63-second exposure.  Full moon.  Purple, red and blue flashlight.

Basket-case 1937 Lincoln Zephyr.  Night, 49 second exposure.  Red light from below, warm-white from above.

I think all my International Car Forest of the Last Church images (a crazy-cool art project/installation, on the outskirts of Goldfield, in the middle of Nevada, shot in the summer of 2013) have been blogged already, but I finally put together a gallery of images on the site, so they’re all in one place now. Follow […]

Nash Metropolitan, with the front clip and driver’s door removed, stored behind the barn on the north side of the yard.  Lime, red and warm-white light, via the the Protomachines flashlight.

More fisheye junkyard porn, a heavily parted-out, late-’50s Ford. 87 seconds, night, full moon, red and lime light from the Protomachine flashlight.

Red white and blue light added with Protomachine flashlight.