Sunset sneaks into a airplane cockpit at a private aircraft boneyard in Arizona.
Taken during a 2-night photography workshop taught by Mike Hows and Joe Reed.
Photo: "Landed"
Night. 4 minute exposure. Landing gear lit with a Protomachines LED2 light.
It’s hard not to feel so small wandering around these massive aircrafts.
Photo: "Nose Cones..."
10 minute exposure, f13, ISO 100
...stoic and peaceful, sitting in a private Arizona aircraft boneyard.
Photo: "Throttle Controls"
While in Arizona last weekend, I played with the ProtoMachines LED2 light and all I can say is damn!
This light has 9 different brightness settings, saturation control from 1-100% as well as RGB color control.
The image above was shot from two different angles at a low brightness setting, while using a blue and white color.
Photo: "Stare Down"
There is something about walking around aircrafts at night that makes me very happy.
Taken at an Arizona boneyard during Mike Hows and Joe Reed's night photography workshop.
(4 minute exposure, lit by moonlight.)
Photo: "It All Leads To This"
I miss adventures like this. It always feels so good to be out with my camera, beneath the full moon, with good friends as you're being stalked by a pack of coyotes.
Photo: "Tailed"
Beneath the moonlight, on dry desert soil, glistens the tail of a B-58A aircraft.
Photo: "Military Moonlight"
Photographing these planes was amazing, but walking amongst the giant metal parts of these bombers beneath the moonlight was even more incredible. I would love to experience that moment over and over again...
Photo: "In This Life"
B-52 bomber glistening beneath the moonlight in a California desert.
Photo: "Boeing B-52"
Boeing B-52 aircrafts
Sometimes the world makes you feel so small...
Photo: "119"
Night, full moon. Canon 5D Mark III + 17 TS-E. 5 minutes. ISO 160. f/11.
Tail section of a B-52 bomber used by General Electric in the 1960's to test their TF-39 engine.
Photo: "B-58A"
Night, full moon. Canon Mark III + 24-70 f/2.8L. 4 minutes. ISO 200. f/11. Processed with VSCO presets for Lightroom.
This B-58A was a test aircraft for a missile fire control system.
Photo: "B-52E"
Night, full moon. 7minutes @ ISO 160, f/11. Canon 5D Mark III + 17mm TS-E
This B-52E aircraft was used by General Electric in the 1960's to test their TF-39 engine and was disposed of in the desert after the tests.
Fast forward nearly 30 years later to 1991 when the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) was signed and 350 nuclear bombers were being destroyed as part of the agreement. The Russians saw this bomber on aerial footage and soon after, the US destroyed the aircraft by placing explosives in the fuselage.