
24 Hour Tire Service
Intense sodium vapor streetlights here, so I kept it short (35-seconds: short for me) and overpowered them with a cool-white-set Protomachines flashlight. That’s the full moon masked by the light fixture.

The Edge of Empty
Available light only: full moon, sodium vapor and LED streetlights. 4-minutes.

Spider of Destiny
Crawling with big ones. Dig the ovoid steering wheel, so futuristic. Fisheye, full moon, lime, red and cool white light. 114 seconds in the dark.

Opulent
Riding in the back seat of a Mid-’60s junkyard Imperial. Lit with Protomachines flashlight in total darkness. 109-seconds.

Effie and the Golden Hills
I hiked out to this familiar abandoned California farm last full moon. Last time I was here I did mostly interiors in the rotting and moldy house on the property, so I was happy to stay out in the fresh summer air this time. CALTRANS was doing night roadwork on the freeway in the distance. […]

Speaking Engagement!
I’m gonna be a featured speaker at the “Western NC Foto Fest” in Asheville, North Carolina on September 11 and 12 (friday and saturday). Friday’s talk will be a mutant travelogue of derelict ocean liners, aviation boneyards, abandoned mental hospitals, and many of the other strange things I’ve been shooting since 1889. I’ll talk about […]

And That’s the Way It Was
July 1990, night shooting in the bunker complex at Fort Cronkite in the Marin Headlands. Yeah, I stood there for 8 minutes while my brother operated the cameras (this is on Kodak 160T chrome film). No way I’m gonna remember the specifics after 25 years, but I’m sure Tom and I both did some red-gelled […]

Red as Coal
Pump island, built for high-speed impacts, at a wide spot on US 95 called Coaldale, in west-central Nevada. From here you can see down the normally busy highway about 5 miles, but it was late enough that I could make a 2 minute exposure with no visible headlights. Full moon and red flashlight. Summer 2013.