A movie set in the Mojave Desert
Photo: "Thermal Lives"
Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming
During our second day in Yellowstone, we drove from Lewis Lake up to Mammoth Hot Springs, making one large 250 mile loop through the park. We stopped at the Mud Volcano, Upper/Lower Falls, Hayden Valley, Mammoth Hot Springs and Old Faithful among a few others and even made it back to our campsite at Lewis Lake in time for dinner.
We drove past this spot and I hollered for my Dad to turn the car around and go back so I could capture the steam glowing in the early morning light. Shooting directly into the sun gave this image a natural monochromatic feel.
Photo: "Blast Lock, No.3"
Blast doors for Launch Silo No.3 - Beale 851-C Titan I Missile Base
To me, these types of images are really fun to create. This space was pitch dark, so to get this shot, I set up an LED panel at the camera, shining towards the blast doors to get a composition. Once the framing was set, I took a LED panel and placed it beneath the walkway on the right. I also placed a panel behind the ajar door. Lastly, during the exposure, I light painted the circular section of the tunnel, near the camera, with a flashlight.
Photo: "Which Way You Do Not Choose"
Doorway to a patient room inside the female wards at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey.
Photo: "Grand Prismatic Spring"
I took two steps and felt like I had been submerged into a living painting.
My dry skin danced while being steamed by the heat of the spring beneath the dry summer sun.
My eyes began to flutter one hundred miles an hour, faster than my heart could keep up.
I had waited years to see this and it was more grand than I ever imagined...
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.
Photo: "Female Ward Patient Room"
Looking towards the corridor door from inside a non-violent patient room in the female ward.
Photo: Panther Creek Falls II
I had seen a dozen photos of these falls before I finally got to see them in person earlier this year, but even the best photos don't do these falls justice.
There's just something about the smell of the damp ground, the gorgeous blanket of water caressing the rocks and how the mist hits your face when you're standing here.
Photo: "Sunset Tea Time"
Bronty and Rex watch the sunset from Treasure Island in San Francisco.
Photo: "Essex Cell Block"
The Essex County Jail in New Jersey was constructed in 1837 and designed by architect John Haviland, who also designed Eastern State Penitentiary.
The building served as the primary jail until 1970, when a new facility was constructed.
Most of the structures on the property were badly damaged during a fire in 2001, but many of the cell blocks were still in tact.
Photo: "Antenna Terminal"
This tunnel, leading away from the launch silos, leads towards the antenna terminals for the Titan I ICBM base. At the end of the junction are two 65 foot tall cylindrical structures that once contained the inflatable radome, responsible for tracking and guidance, for the underground site.
Photo: "Iris"
Sunset through drapery in one of the Administration Offices at Hudson River State Hospital in New York.
Photo: "Under the Night Light"
Bronty climbs Oldmstead Point in Yosemite National Park, by the light of the full moon.
Photo: "Basking Rays"
Front facing office in the Administration Building of the Hudson River Psychiatric Hospital in New York
The wings of the Hudson River Psychiatric Hospital in New York have decayed and collapsed beyond compare over the last few decades, due to weather and a lightning fire, since the asylum was abandoned, but the roof of the Administration Building was properly covered when vacated, which has left that section of the Kirkbride building in tact.