In the last blog post, I showed three images from Bodie that were taken late in the evening (after 10pm)—out of the five set ups I shot. The reason for doing so few views was that the digital camera was busy from twilight until almost 10 pm that evening doing a time-lapse sequence. Here is …

Last week Lance Keimig, along with Scott Martin and Tim Baskerville held a Night Photography Festival at Mono Lake, CA in honor of the Nocturnes 20th anniversary.  It was a big success with warm balmy weather, making the night shooting that much more pleasant.  There was even an evening at Bodie, the California State Park ‘ghost town’. …

This blog post I wanted to mention a few items coming up over the next few months.  Here are some upcoming workshops: => The first will be at Mono Lake, CA, where I will be a guest lecturer for the Night Photography Festival on June 12-15, speaking on the 13th. => Andy Frazer and I …

A few weeks ago, one of my railroad contacts gave me a heads up on an upcoming train that was coming to San Pedro from Oakland on the way to New Orleans.  It was a road trip for three rock bands, doing one night stands in several cities on the way to New Orleans. The …

Before I share some new images, I’d like to mention that last week I  had a chance to go to a lecture and meet one of the key contemporary influences of my photography back in the 80s, Richard Misrach.  He is a long time 8×10 photographer and is also one of the early modern color …

As many of you might know, I have been shooting the construction of the new Eastern Span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge for the past two and a half years.  Because of the monumentality and historic significance of this project, early on I decided to shoot it in large format 4×5.  As with most …

Most people hole up and hide on rainy weekends, especially here in LA.  Normally, I would too, but I had to go out anyway and noticed our local “concrete river”, Ballona Creek, was a raging torrent.  Typically, this is a very placid trickle of water of run-off from watering lawns and folks washing their car, …

A few weeks back, I tagged along on my wife Lee’s business trip to Colorado Springs, with the enticement of an inexpensive airfare, it being the winter.  These trips give us some needed time together from our hectic schedules and of course, I brought a camera, this time my digital SLR, one lens and tripod.  …

Back in my January 15th blog post, I showed images shot at a major oil company’s Long Beach fuel dock.  A couple of weeks ago, I got access a second time, but knew I wanted to explore deeper into this vast tank farm rather than to stay on the dock. This facility is very clean …

Recently I have attained access to one of the largest recycling centers in the US here in Los Angeles.  They recycle almost anything, including home appliances, autos, big-rig trucks, buses, railroad cars and locomotives, heavy equipment and steel of all sorts.  It is a “green” business, but a multi-million dollar business just the same.  The …