Prop from the 1994 Flintstones movie, continuing to decay at Paul’s.  Night, 2-minutes of full moon.

Mid-’70s Ford Granada, at the junkyard. Night, 57-seconds of full moon shortly after dusk, with white and purple from the Protomachines flashlight.

Lets not go the wrong way.  The Mojave, very late, on a very windy night.  3- minutes of full moon and flashlight.

Abandoned at Currant Nevada.  Night, 3-minutes of full moon with white and purple from the Protomachines flashlight.

Mid-’70s Buick Apollo at the junkyard.  Super rare ugly duckling of a car, almost entirely forgotten today.  Night, 78-seconds of full moon with purple, red and white from the Protomachines flashlight.  Interior lighting from 2nd exposure composited in.

I’ve been taking night pictures at the abandoned Pearsonville junkyard, off and on, for ten years now. One of my favorite constants has been The Mollusk, this ’56 Cadillac/RV conversion. We must have arrived at about the same time: I shot it sitting outside the fence on my first visit and it had been dragged […]

Same Packard Clipper as yesterday, backed up a few feet.  A luxurious, massive tank of a car, covered in little ship’s wheels.  Composite of two sub-1-minute exposures, lit with Protomachines flashlight.

Late ’50s Packard at the salvage yard.  Night, 131-seconds of full moon and streetlight twinkle outside, with Protomachines flashlight inside.

This kind of photography is normally a very slow and painstaking process, requiring numerous test exposures and lighting experiments. It can take 15 minutes of wrangling to finally get the exposure I want. This was not that.  “Oh, here comes another freight train.”  I had less than 30 seconds to drop the tripod, focus and […]

The black ’72 Caddy at Pauls, the one that hasn’t moved in over 20 years, on a night of unending, make-your-tripod-fly-away, wind. Funny that in all the times I’ve visited and shot Paul’s, I never made a night shot of this car, until now. 3-minutes of full moon, with a few seconds of flashlight on […]