The second shot in the Truck Inn sequence, the sky was just starting to lighten when I completed this frame at about 5:30AM. It’s a stack of three 8-minute exposures yielding 24 minute star trails. Shot at f/11 to increase the diffraction spikes on the street light. Page 30 of my new book, which you […]
Kincaid Mine
When I had visited this remote mine in 2010, it had been abandoned for many years. Unfortunately, we got rained out that night (and ended up shooting the TV in the motel room). Returning to do more work here in the summer of 2011, we found a trailer parked behind these old structures with lights […]
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 […]
The Lace
I’m sure The Lace was a happening spot at one time, but now it’s sign overlooks a vacant lot alongside Highway 50 in Western Nevada. This is mostly lit by moonlight and the sodium and mercury […]
Mineral A100
Early ’60s Dodge A100 van, rolled at Kincaid Mine in Central Nevada. Four 4-minute exposures, stacked for 16 minute star trails. Most of the van was a 5th exposure stripped in on top. The roof was lit with a xenon Stinger from 25 yards away and the interior with a red LED from the rear […]
