Night photo of an abandoned community room of an old church along Route 66. You can also see a piano inside the room. I lit this with ProtoMachines handheld light painting device, going "rainbow style" on the interior, during a fun week-long 1582-mile night photography road trip with Mike Cooper during this 69 second long exposure.
Night photo of an abandoned, heavily painted double-decker passenger trains rot away on unused railroad tracks in the Mojave Desert near the border of Mexico. The train was illuminated from several angles by a ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device during the exposure.
The mighty oil-burning steam locomotive Baldwin Engine 9 was built in 1909 for the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway, one of the early Western narrow gauge runs. When this run ceased operating, Southern Pacific purchased the engine in the 1920s, and kept it running, sometimes intermittently, becoming one of the last narrow gauge steam locomotives running in the west. The “Slim Princess”, as it was nicknamed, continued heaving away into the 1950s, finally stopping when an ICC inspector declared that its boiler was shot.
