During the alumni October workshop at Paul’s last year I did portraits of the students in the junkyard. Here’s my favorite five. Shooting people with hand held and continuous source lights is tough because most humans can’t sit still long enough and end up blurry. But with some experimentation and compromise I was able to […]
Artist of the Year Award
I’ve been selected as “Individual Artist” of the year by the “Peninsula Arts Council.” I’m winning the Diamond Award for my “contributions to the Arts in San Mateo County.” Totally not worthy, but wow, coool! The award banquet is February 2nd, at Kohl Mansion in Burlingame, CA. It’s open to the public, all you have […]
Count Olaf’s Eyes
Here’s the Lemony Snickett movie prop Chrysler Imperial limo again. This custom dashboard is utterly unlike anything I’ve ever seen in a junkyard before. This was an intensely complex set up. Because the passenger area is huge in a limo I had plenty of room to set the tripod up there and point the camera over […]
April 2012 Workshop Announcement
Yes, it’s that time again! Joe Reifer and I are holding another night photography and light painting workshop at the amazing Paul’s Junkyard near Lancaster, California. We opened registration to our mailing list last week and almost filled it, but there’s still a few spots left. April 5/6/7 (thursday, friday, saturday) The basic format of our […]
Star View Drive In
One more image for old film work week. This one’s from the summer of 1998. This drive in, the “Star View” was on U.S. 50, on the western approach to Fallon Nevada. It was shot right after sunset: about 10PM. Still over 90°, plus the teeming clouds of mosquitoes seemed to come from nowhere as […]
Daggett Mattresses
Old film image week continues with this shot from May 2000. Daggett is an old Route 66 town in Southern California, east of Barstow. This crumbling cement motel is lost in the no-man’s-land between the old highway and Interstate 40. Blowing creosote bushes blur in the window as semi’s endlessly stream past. Pink and yellow-gelled strobe […]
Grounded
Another blast from the past, this image was shot at Kingman, Arizona in December 1999. This fleet of early-’70s vintage TWA Lockheed L1011’s had their engines removed prior to dismantling. Most of these airframes were melted down shortly after shooting this image. 8-minute exposure, on Kodak 160T film, under a full moon, with red-gelled strobe […]
Lonoak Imperial
Lets start the new year by looking backwards. This image is from 1992. That summer I visited a dry river in a remote spot in Central California, where the locals tied heavyweight ’50s and ’60s cars to the banks where the river curved, to prevent erosion in the flood season. There was about 50 rusted […]
What Do You Want From Life?
This ’74 Monza was lurking along the back fence at the Stockton yard. When was the last time you saw one of these malaise-era pigs driving around? Been decades for me. Terrible car. If it had the V8, you had to disconnect the engine from the motor mounts and raise it by 6 inches just to […]
Metallic Sunburst
Another late-model insurance write-off from November’s shoot at the Stockton junkyard. Nice coating of dew on this thing–it really helped to pick up the light painting nicely. I took advantage of the car’s intense natural color by using a warm-toned raw xenon flashlight on the body from the front and rear and a series of […]
