The night before last October’s workshop, one of my students, Ron Pinkerton, took me to a Mojave desert ghost town called Cantil.  All that’s left are few buildings and this trailer.  Nice spot!  After setting up and shooting for a few minutes, a figure approached out of the darkness with a shotgun.  “I gotcha covered! […]

Amazing to me that people are still driving by out here at 1:30 in the morning.  Bet I looked really suspicious . . .  

Plug that title into your GPS and drop on by, anytime.  Even at 1:24AM, like when this was taken. Protomachine flashlight and 250 seconds of full moon light.

Some poor creature met it’s end in the backyard of the “Wolves Lair” house from yesterday’s post.  My guess is a large dog?  The bones were picked clean and strewn over a large area, centered on this mattress.  The hair on the back of my neck still stands up when I think about it.  Just […]

Another abandoned home in the middle of a hot and humid August night, lost somewhere deep on the lettered Avenues of the Antelope Valley. Full moon, red and turquoise-set Protomachine flashlight.  I really liked what the blue-green light was doing to the lemon yellow paint on the house.  The inside, where I did the red […]

Fibonacci this boys and girls.  Sorry, I didn’t mean to get all golden mean on you. This spot can be seen in the background of yesterday’s post.  Lit with that crazy-ass Protomachine light again, during a relatively short (72 second) exposure.

Avast ye hearties!  Buried treasure or a pile of dead trees?  Considering the nearest body of water is 100 miles away, I’m pretty sure it’s the latter. 139 second exposure for the lit exposure (By Protomachine flashlight set to red, yellow and blue) and the sky is a stack of four 9-minute exposures, making for […]

Dead trees at an abandoned ranch somewhere in California’s high desert.  The lettered avenues that lace the Antelope Valley. 135 seconds under the full moon, Protomachines flashlight set to red and purple.

Today, right now, is the initial release of my new e-book: BONEYARD! This project contains over 61 full sized and zoomable light painted night images, shot in two separate aircraft graveyards, “The Secret Boneyard” and “Aviation Warehouse.” 50 of these images have never been shown before.  These are not outtakes or stiffs I never bothered to […]

86 second exposure, f/8, iso 200.  Protomachine flashlight set to green and red.