Busted up Arco sign at Old Dale, on Highway 62 between 29 Palms and Parker, Arizona.  The gas station and cafe are closed, but they were still flying the stars and bars for the 4th of July week.  An hour after sunset, it was still over 100° F, so I had to keep my exposures […]

Map nerds rejoice!  While the interior of the Tagus Ranch restaurant/night club/gift shop complex is gutted and wrecked, this giant road map of California painted on the wall in the dining room is still there.  Check out those pre-Interstate route numbers, this dates back to before the ’50s at least.  About 15 seconds, lit with […]

“The Purple Kiss” World famous Tagus Ranch, alongside Highway 99, north of Tulare, California, a huge complex housing a restaurant, cocktail lounge, dinner theater and gift shop.  The ranch also housed a POW camp during WWII, detaining German and Italian soldiers. It’s been abandoned for over 20 years. Protomachines light mixed to purple and green, […]

Shot about 10 minutes after the image in the previous post, I turned around to catch the stylishly scripty side of the sign and the rising full moon, tucking it behind the pole, to avoid flare.  J’s is long gone, the only thing left is this sign.  25-second exposure, desaturated, cool-toned Protomachines flashlight from 2 […]

I’ve reformatted my book Light Painted Night Photography: The Lost America Technique for sale at amazon.com, for their Kindle Fire platform.  It’s available NOW! Please tell all your Kindle-user / photographer friends to come on over and pick up a copy.  It’s still a steal at only 10 bucks! Heartfelt thanks to all of you […]

Late ’60s / early ’70s Fiat 850, parked beside a WWII-era hangar at the former Wendover AFB on the UT/NV state line.  This car was in the same exact spot 10 years ago when I passed thru here. I was working fast here because the sun was starting to come up–it’s only a 41 second […]

  Abandoned bread truck between the derelict barracks buildings at Wendover AFB.  Red LED flashlight inside and a little AA Maglite on the front of the truck.  Lightly during a 3-minute exposure.

Abandoned WWII barracks at Wendover AFB (Interstate 80 at the NV/UT state line) in the last hour before dawn.  The previous evening we had been chased back to the car by a howling wind/dust storm that made shooting impossible, so we crossed back into Nevada where the big shiny casinos are and had a relaxed […]

Collapsing brick house at Grantsville Nevada, a completely abandoned 19th-century ghost town, near Gabbs. Powered-down, desaturated tertiary colors, created with the Protomachines flashlight, blended with full moon light during a 1-minute exposure.