Night photo in the Mojave Desert with an old schoolbus needing a Texaco break.
As a kid, I loved Indiana Jones movies, and so I was excited to photograph the Aeropuerto de Nazca fuel truck used in one of those movies, now rusting away in a decommissioned WWII airfield, photographed on a cold February evening. I believe this is a 1937 Ford truck. This is a long exposure night photo which shows the movement of the stars over long periods of time. I illuminated the truck with a ProtoMachines LED2 handheld flashlight from camera right while the tripod-mounted camera's shutter was open. This will likely be featured in my next night photography book, which I'm working on now. Until then, my new book "Abandoned Southern California: the Slowing of Time" is out!
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.
