On the last night of October’s secret alumni workshop, I took the group on a field trip to the abandoned AFS/Prison at Boron.  A bit more tagged and mauled since last summer, but still highly shootable.  Free-range workshopping (ie: not inside a junkyard for the night) was a new experience for me, but everyone loved it. 146-seconds under the […]

A selfie from July 1989.  Back to the very beginning . . . this would be from the first time I ever experimented with synced strobes.  One of those “What happens if I look into . . . OW!” moments.  Done in broad daylight, 1/60th, with gelled green and pink strobes. Looks like I was already exercising my […]

I found the TV fascia in a nearby abandoned building and threw it in my back seat, knowing I’d find a place to shoot it later that night.  Weird how it’s been melted, huh? Just a couple of years ago there would have been virtually no lights in the distance of this shot.  The encroachment […]

It’s a DuMont! Never actually seen one of these in person. Today almost no one remembers, but in the early days of television, the fledgling DuMont Network fought for a share of the market with NBC and CBS. Started by DuMont Laboratories as a showcase for their line of televisions, it was beset with troubles […]

Found in a set of abandoned triple-wide trailers outside the town of Mojave last summer.  The food bowls are a total mystery to me. Due to some distracting highlights, I ended up compositing the face of the TV from a second exposure.  I also worked on correcting the perspective in Photoshop, to try and square things […]

  Now on newsstands, Shutterbug magazine’s “Expert Photo Techniques” issue contains a flattering 4-page interview with me about the past, present and future of light painted night photography. The issue also contains interviews with other NP/LPers Lance Keimig, Darren Pearson and Larrie Thomson: lotsa good reading for any night shooter.  Read the entire article as a […]

The gas pump graveyard . . . at my favorite junkyard.  48-seconds under full moon light: the ambient scene is underexposed by 2+ stops, and I used the Protomachine flashlight to key the subjects.  2 colors, 3 directions. Shot at last September’s workshop.

Red and white-set Protomachine flashlight, and the full moon.  This was minutes before the “Red Moon” eclipse last April shut down full moon exposures for the night.

Lets make the clocks run in reverse, from the backseat of the crumbling TimeCop prop vehicle at Paul’s, the future looks bleak.  101-second exposure, full moon and flashlight.

A decrepit prop, from the TimeCop TV show, fades and turns to dust at Paul’s Junkyard.  57-second exposure.