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Swept Away

            With the loss of Pearsonville as a viable location to hold Night Photography workshops, Joe and I spent the winter searching for a new workshop site.  We found Paul's Junkyard, a functioning recycling yard that is also a storage facility for movie prop vehicles.  It's one of the most interesting junkyards I've ever seen, containing many unusual cars, trucks and aircraft.  I'll be uploading images from Paul's over the next week or so, as I ramp up for the already sold out (in just a few hours, from just our mailing list, without advertising it anywhere!) workshop starting April 15th.  Want to get on the workshop mailing list and shoot here yourself?  E-mail me: paiva@designshed.com

I loved how this school bus seems suspended in a tidal wave of debris.  Since I shot this in January, everything in this image has been recycled and replaced by even more piles of junked vehicles.  I had to crawl under the precariously perched bus during the exposure to add the red light painting.  Creepy.

Night, 2-minute exposure.  Full moon, natural xenon flashlight and red-gelled strobe.

Taken on: January 19, 2011

Tags:

night

full moon

star trails

junkyard

recycler

nocturnes

school bus

crash

wreck

debris « less

Sets appears in: • The Somethingest • Paul's Junkyard

Groups appears in: • Night Images • Amsterdam Blog Associates - Urban Creatives more » • Bric-à-brac photographique. • Los Lobos Nocturnos « less

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