Night at a California bus maintenance yard.
Night. 45 seconds. Lit by ambient light, incandescent (on the tires) and LED flashlight (on side of bus and barrel).
Photo: "Midnight Sunset"
Can I kiss your lips
and watch you light up the sky
with fireworks of infinite colors
like a sunset parading across the night
a dance in slow motion
syncopated in your eyes
the only way to run from the world
escaping the madness in life
and if only for a moment
nothing else matters
you erase the sense of time
I become swallowed by the beauty
in your eyes.
Photo: "Streaming"
Morning light inside the first floor hallway of an early 1900's era U.S. Marine Hospital in Tennessee.
This hallway consists of mostly patient rooms, but a few storage closets are also scattered about. The large room at the end of the hallway appears to have been a dayroom or common space.
Photo: "The Climb"
It had been raining all day, for the first time in 3 months, when I visited this nuclear power plant in Oregon. As you can imagine, I was pretty disappointed when I found out I was unable to climb the tower that day due to the weather.
I knew the plant would be incredible regardless, but climbing a cooling tower has been at the top of my bucket list for a while.
Guess I'll just have to go back...
Photo: "Spilt"
An empty room in the North Annex at Mayview State Hospital, a Pennsylvania asylum constructed over 100 years prior to its demolition earlier this year.
Photo: "Lost in Light"
Dawn sneaks into the bottom floor of a patient wing in the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum.
Photo: "Interlaced"
An upper floor at the former Waldo Hotel, a Beaux-Arts style hotel constructed in West Virginia in the early 1900's.
Photo: "A Wet Sunset"
Sunset, Santa Cruz County
I shot this image last night on a quick trip south to meet up with a few friends for a sunset shoot. This image was shot moments before getting drenched by wave spray as it snuck out of the crack in the foreground.
Photo: "This Became Their Home"
While walking down the corridor in a tubercular building at Mayview State Hospital, this particular scene caught my eye. On this patient door, plastic flowers had been affixed with scotch tape near the crooked name placard. I couldn't help but wonder when they were put there and by whom...
Photo: "Spies"
View of nurses quarters from a patient room inside a former U.S. Marine Hospital in Tennessee.
Photo: "Night Approaches"
Night approaches inside a dayroom of the North Annex Building at Mayview State Hospital in Pennsylvania.
Sadly, this complex is being demolished after over 100 years of service to the mentally ill.
Photo: "Zig Zag"
Overcast skies. 55 second exposure. Shot with a 10 stop ND filter.
During my trip to Portland last weekend, a few of the local photographers took me up to one of their favorite spots, Zig Zag Falls. As a California native, who hasn't been to the Pacific Northwest sinceI was a kid, I can honestly say I immediately fell in love with the greenery and the stunning fall colors.
Photo: "Cooling Tower"
In 1977, the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) began construction of two nuclear power plants. It was the largest nuclear power plant project at the time and would contain five nuclear reactors; two 1,250 megawatt pressurized water reactors would be constructed at the Satsop plant.
After the project began, construction costs were nearly tripling the original budget and would end up costing around $24 billion, so in 1982, $3 billion into the project, construction was halted. One reactor was 75% completed; the other 16% done.
Exploring a Nuclear Power Plant
Today, I had the opportunity to explore a new type of site, one I have been longing to explore for years.
The construction of this nuclear power plant was halted in the 1980's, due to a lack of funding, and was never completed.
This is an iPhone diptych from the site.
Photo: "Blushing Seaweed"
An old bus sits on a trailer at a Northern California bus maintenance yard.
(Night. Full moon. Lit by ambient light, flashlight in the interior as well as the exterior.)