Night photo of a 1921 Union Pacific Steam Engine 2564. This behemoth was built in 1921 and weighs 300,000 lbs./136,077.71 kg. This "Mikado"-type coal-burning steam locomotive was originally built for UP subsidiary Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad. My joints and muscles felt sore from my second COVID-19 vaccination photo, but this didn't dampen my enthusiasm. I met up with my friends Ron, Dave, and Ivan on this beautiful warm March night. Bathed in light from numerous streetlights, I worked around it by photographing it from the opposite, darker side. I then created some depth with a ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device.
Night photo of the historic fading Whiting Bros. Motel along Route 66 in Yucca, Arizona, during a night photography trip along the Mother Road. Four Whiting brothers founded the company, owning a chain of filling stations, motels, and truck stops along Route 66 in the Southwest. The expansion of the interstate highway system bypassed many of their service stations. Some vacant stations with the original signs still remain.
