The Lost America Blog

AK Blush  :::::  Circa 1941 Chevrolet Truck

AK Blush: Limited Edition Print

“AK Blush” Now available as a signed and numbered limited edition 8×10 print. I am only doing 25 of these! $25 by paypal. (Includes shipping in the USA only! Outside the US, add $5) Message me if you’re interested.

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Trying to Gauge  :::::  American-La France Fire Truck

Trying to Gauge

Details on the side of an early ’30s American-La France fire truck.  These gauges have a patent date of 1906, but A-LF used them for decades.  Paul’s 2nd junkyard. Total darkness, Protomachine flashlight tuned to pink and warm white.  Snooted on the gauge faces.

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Brass Age Dump  :::::

Brass Age Dump

In the 19th century, Concord was the leading American manufacturer of stagecoaches.  The iconic Welles Fargo coach was a Concord.  After the turn of the century they began manufacturing trucks to stay competitive, but by around 1925 they were gone.  This incredibly rare, nearly 100 year old dump truck is one of dozens of incomplete […]

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Frozen Wasp  :::::

Frozen Wasp

Pratt and Whitney R-4360 Wasp engine, originally bought for salvage value, only to find all the high value parts had already been removed. Now its a high desert lawn ornament. Shot at Paul’s OTHER junkyard . . . Blue and red-set Protomachine flashlight, full moon and lots ‘o clouds. 2-minute exposure.

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Lost on Avenue F  :::::  The Antelope Valley

Lost on Avenue F

463 seconds under the full moon, late at night, deep in the Antelope Valley.  Lancaster glows, off in the distance.  A few seconds of red light, from the Protomachine, inside the house.  The rest of the time was spent standing around freezing my butt off in the wind.

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A Sphinx with Jets  :::::  Armstrong Siddeley Saphire Limousine

A Sphinx With Jets

OK, motorheads, here’s something you don’t see every day . . . especially in rural California: a mid-1950s British Armstrong Siddeley Saphire 346 Limousine.  Found under a filthy tarp, in an old hangar, at a privately owned WWII training airport.   Yes, that hood ornament is a winged Sphinx with jet engines: Siddeley was best known as […]

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Gas Pains  :::::

Gas Pains

A Bennett 900 gas pump, painted in Chevron blue, circa 1955.  Part of a private collection. Rising full moon lighting the face, red Protomachine from camera left.  Two 15-minute exposures stacked for 30-minute star trails.  The lit version was a separate 4-minute exposure and the whole thing was blended into one image using Photoshop.

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The Red Barchetta  :::::  Jaguar XK 100 (replica)

The Red Barchetta

You just never know what you’ll find lurking in a dark warehouse. Looks like this Jaguar XK 100 (settle down, it’s a plastic kit car!) hasn’t moved in years. Protomachine flashlight set to warm white. 37 second exposure in total darkness.

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Late Delivery  :::::

Late Delivery

Probably my personal favorite of the creepy doll series I did last fall at Paul’s. 2AM, at the end of 4 long nights of shooting, I think she might have been winking at me at this point. Lit with Protomachine flashlight, red, white and green . . . full moon too. 178 second exposure.

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A Fresh Interview

I was recently asked to do an interview by the Marguerite Avenue art blog. We talked about motivation, karma and the psychology of my photography. Heady stuff. They went live with it today, so check it out!

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