Big M Auto. Williams, California.
Night. Full moon. 240 seconds. Lit by moonlight.
I Love G+
I was one of the lucky people who was fortunate enough to get an invite (thank you +Cody Bratt) to Google+ within the first week of Beta testing. Immediately after joining, I was discovering and conversing with a number of new photographers I found to be fun and inspiring.
A few months later in November, +Thomas Hawk organized a Death Valley trip on Google+. I drove my tired little Honda 1,200 miles round trip with +sly vegas (whom I had never met) to meet a bunch of new photographers in a place I had never been, while shooting something somewhat unfamiliar and it was one of the best trips I've ever taken.
Following the Death Valley trip, I used G+ to keep in touch with those I met on the trip, to meet even more photographers online and participate in a handful of hangouts until the early hours of the morning.
Then last weekend, a bunch of the photographers from Death Valley reunited in Big Sur because +Tony Payne sent out a post on Google+ mentioning that he would be up in the area and wanted to see if anyone would be interested in camping in Big Sur. About 10 of us jumped on the opportunity to shoot together and hang out again and of course, it was another great trip.
Next weekend, I will be going to Yosemite with some of the same people for a 3-night full moon photo walk.
For those of you who still don't believe there's a reason to join or be active on Google+, I can say without hesitation that joining Google+ has made such positive impact on my life and I am so thankful for and inspired by the people I have met there.
Photo: "Erosion"
Sunset at Zabriskie Point, Death Valley.
Photo: "Reel"
Reels left behind inside Noble Hall, an early 1900's state psychiatric hospital theatre.
Photo: "Mercury"
Big M Auto. Williams, California.
Night. Full moon. 135 seconds. Lit by moonlight.
Photo: "Cyan"
Bowling balls left inside the bowling alley of a former New York Psychiatric Hospital.
Photo: "Life Aquatic"
Hallway inside the Forst Building, used as a patient building or nurses quarters, at a New Jersey State Psychiatric Hospital.
Photo: "Safety Rail"
Construction began on this rural New York psychaitric hospital in 1927. At the time, the hospital was known to be the best of its kind in the country. It contained a working farm, power plant and industrial shops. Portions of the hospital are still in use, but buildings such as this one have been abandoned for years.
Photo: "UBD602"
Big M Auto. Williams, CA.
Night. Full moon. 180 seconds. Lit by moonlight.
Photo: "Asbestos"
Dawn inside Noble Hall, an East Coast psychiatric hospital theatre built in 1908 in the Colonial Revival style.
Photo: "Mesh"
Isolation cell door inside Salmon building at Norwich State Hospital.
This building was home to the male criminally insane, deemed "not guilt by reason of insanity" and the violent patients that had to be transferred out of the other hospital wards.
Photo: "Medicine Room"
Building 17, a patient housing and treatment building, at a Pennsylvania State Hospital was abandoned in the 1960's. Since then, it has been used for a number of fire department exercises, which has left large holes in the walls and a portion of the building charred.
Photo: "Dry Docked"
Cruise Ship docked at Pier 70 in San Francisco.
Photo: "amf"
This bowling alley is part of a rural New York Psychiatric Hospital founded in 1927.
Photo: "Impeccable Timing"
Big M Automotive. Williams, California.
Night. Full moon. 210 seconds. Lit by moonlight and incandescent flashlight.