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Petro-Foam

            The sky completely closed up at Harper Dry lake, so I rolled west, thinking the rest of the night would be scrubbed.  30 miles later the sky opened up!  I had suddenly popped into a circular gap in the clouds.  I knew I had a short timeframe to work with before the storm closed in from the west, so I hopped off the highway to shoot something, anything.

The North Edwards exit has this long abandoned gas station and a few other buildings, so I set up in the steady wind and got to work.  The last time I shot this gas station it still had pumps . . .

Facing east, back towards the storm I had just left.  Night, 4 minute exposure.  Full moon, distant sodium vapor lights, red and lime-gelled strobe flash.

Reprocessed and replaced, May, 2024.

Taken on: November 19, 2010

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