The day after Christmas? Time for some night photography. Although my Clear Outside app called for almost 100% cloud coverage, it indicated solely high clouds. And I knew high clouds often look beautiful when smeared in a long exposure image. I ended up staying until 4:30 am catching up with my night photography friend before driving back while guzzling Monster energy drinks and listening to metal and Lakers podcasts. I illuminated the scene with a handheld Protomachines LED2 during the exposure. This was one of the last photos of the evening, and things sometimes have a tendency to get strange during that time.
Much of my family has served in the U.S. military, so I suppose I have a soft spot for airplanes and other vehicles. These military vehicles are resting under the night sky in a decommissioned WWII airfield in California, waiting for a night photographer to come along and say hello. One of the other photographers with me kept commenting on how these vehicles made him feel at home, as he drove tanks some years back. Thanks for looking.
I was photographing this at night when someone from one of the RVs approached me, asking what I was doing. Although obviously standing next to a camera on a tripod, I answered politely that I was photographing. He then said many people do this, that he and all the people in the RV have guns, and that they were watching the place and cleaning it up because someone might purchase this and turn it into a glamping spot. He also said I could photograph, so I did so, using a higher ISO so I could get the proper exposure quicker and then get out of there. This is the interior of an abandoned garage in Two Guns, Arizona. I lit the structure from several different angles with a handheld ProtoMachines light painting device during the exposure. This was photographed during a 10-day 2559-mile night photography road trip.
