The Racetrack, Death Valley
I'm in the mood to continue posting night images, so here is another shot from a Death Valley trip in January. This was taken at the end of blue hour. Light painting was added to help accentuate the textures in the playa and give emphasis on the rock.
Abandoned mine camp, Death Valley.
A few weeks ago, I got to experience an amazing fog morning from the Marin Headlands. Within moments of getting out of the car, I understood first hand why +Joe Azure spends so many mornings up here.
Not only was it incredibly beautiful, but it was also peaceful and quite surreal. An entire city exists under this fog blanket; a place where hundreds of people are commuting to work, taking their kids to school, going for a morning run, all unaware of the beautiful show that was taking place a few hundred feet above their heads.
Babcock Building, South Carolina Lunatic Asylum
Much of this wing is in decent shape, but this particular restroom experienced years of decay and finally gave in. The ceiling was crumbling and the floor was collapsing between the beams. It was beautiful.
Last night, I scanned images from the former Marine Hospital one last time before moving the folder onto another drive, the drive where images go once I'm done posting from a particular place.
I had previously felt as though I had processed all the images from this hospital that I found interesting, but another look revealed a few other photos I feel are worth sharing.
The Mare Island Naval Shipyard was in operation from 1854 until 1996, when the 'Base Realignment and Closure Program' shut down many military bases across the United States. It was the first west coast shipyard and was responsible for the construction of nearly one hundred ships and submarines during both World Wars.
Woke up to a beautiful fog morning today. I didn't make it out for sunrise, but here's a shot from sunrise a few weeks ago at Hawk Hill.
Skull, likely that of a deer, found in the basement of a crumbling house in Sonoma, California.
Patient mattresses piled in a day room of the Babcock Building at the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum.
This is a mining cabin from a Death Valley Mine, which opened in 1917 and was was known to have the largest body of proved commercial-grade ore in the region. During the years of operation, this mine produced 16,000 tons of crude ore, which yielded 5 million lbs of lead, 100,000 ozs. silver, 1,500 ozs gold, and 146,000 lbs of copper.
Sunrise at the Mesquite Dunes, Death Valley
January 2013
The view across Topaz Lake, Nevada on a foggy, brisk January morning.
I recently had the opportunity to photograph the St. Joseph's Church in San Francisco, a beautiful, magnificent church, in use from 1913-1989.
Read my historical essay here: http://bit.ly/StJosephsChurch
Pictured here: The 99 year old church organ.
I was going to hold off on posting these photos, but I'm too excited not to share. This morning, I experienced my first sunrise with fog at the Golden Gate.
Last night, I saw the low fog rolling over the hills on my way home and decided to wake up at 5am to check the webcams. +Joe Azure and I exchanged a few text messages and decided we were going to give it a shot, even though there was only a bit of fog on the webcams.
When I parked my car in Marin, this was my surreal view. In fact, this was also the first shot of the morning, so it felt fitting to post the first image of the first fog morning at the beautiful Golden Gate.
The St. Joseph's Church was constructed in 1913 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. The building experienced minor structural damage in 1989 during the Loma Prieta quake and the church never opened its doors again.
