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.
Abandoned airplanes in the Southwest desert. Brandishing a flashlight capable of producing different colors, I illuminated the foreground while the tripod-mounted camera shutter was open for this long exposure photo. The streaks in the night sky are star trails created by the movement of the stars during the long exposure photo, accompanied by some beautiful high clouds this cold moonlit winter evening.
