Lost America

Atolia Mine.  July 2012 Full moon, magenta and orange Protomachines light. 264 second exposure.

Back door to the assayer’s shack, the Acid House, looking towards the mill building and water silo.  Protomachines light set to red and an orangy-white during a 390 second exposure.  Tungsten balanced.

The exterior of the assayer’s office.  Interior lit with the Protomachine’s HSB flashlight.

Inside the assayers office at Atolia tungsten mine, abandoned since the ’60s.  Judging by the ventilated booths on the left, a dirty chemical process was done in this room.  Red, pale blue and green Protomachines flashlight.

Subtler than yesterday’s post, but no less complex, this Atolia Mine image is lit with blended orange and pale green light on the ground and wall leaning towards the camera (seen in the Undercut By Time image), with red and green light overlapped on the debris pile through the trapezoidal window.  2 minute exposure, full […]

An experiment in overlapped and blended lighting, this was done with the Protomachines HSB flashlight.  Red-orange, purple and lime light from several directions.  One of the slowly collapsing buildings at the abandoned Atolia Mine in California’s Mojave Desert last July.  198 second exposure, full moon light on the exterior.

Collapsing structures at the Atolia Mine, near Randsburg California.  Abandoned for 50 years, the site has really taken a beating recently.  Last time I was through here about 10 years ago, this building, and several others, were still standing.  4-minute exposure, pure full moon-light.

I wonder if they work on 8-Track players too?  Movie prop at Paul’s Junkyard.  There’s 3 of these identically painted late ’70s Dodges in the yard, in various states of crashedness, undoubtedly used in a filmed car chase.  Shallow-angled LED flashlight and red LED through the top of the windshield near the mirror.  2 minute […]

Back half of a crashed Ducati on a pallet at Paul’s Junkyard.  Red and natural LED flashlight.

The Precipitate art blog has posted a piece on my work as part of their “American West” issue. Lots of images accompanied by a nicely written essay on the artistic implications of, and meanings in, my work. Flattering to see my photography get noticed by these folks.