Near the top of a rise is an immense barn, rising up out of the Mojave Desert amidst the Joshua Trees and the pines, where the stars shine more brightly. And sometimes, if you are a night photographer and you ask really nicely, you could enter the barn and shoot light out from every crack. I was such a night photographer. Nevada.
Night photo in the Mojave Desert with an old schoolbus needing a Texaco break. Nevada.
The creepiest place I have ever photographed. Moundsville penitentiary has imposing Gothic stone architecture adorned with turrets, and like a castle, has an extremely violent history, with almost a thousand deaths within these stone walls. Shown here is Cell Block J & K. ' Photos were created with only a handheld flashlight in total or near total darkness. The former West Virginia State Penitentiary, a National Historic Places Registered facility, operated by the Moundsville Economic Development Council in Moundsville, West Virginia, was built in 1866, just three years after West Virginia seceded from Virginia, and closed in 1995.
