This is an image that I captured in late May in the authentic Wild West ghost town of Bodie, California. Using a brighter white LED light paints the Standard Mill with a more cool, blue-toned light resulting in a bluish-gray tone to the buildings, and the brighter light on the buildings helps them stand out while making the sky seem darker. The brighter light however was harder to control, as it required just a quick "flash-and-pan" motion to quickly and evenly light the structures without blowing out the night sky exposure.
We have room in our July 25 and October 4 night photography workshops at Bodie if you want to come play with lights and cameras in an authentic 1880s mining town!
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Milky Way over Standard Mill, captured during one of our night photography workshops in Bodie State Historic Park.
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Beautiful!
Just awesome!
Wow! beautiful!
Fantastic
Beautiful stars!
Wow. Awesome image. Very surreal.
Although I am not a photographer but still I would love to be there just to enjoy the view and your work. I really admire your work. +10000 for your work.
beautiful
Looks unreal! Very pretty.
Great work! In all my times visiting Bodie.. They have always kicked us out before sunset! Amazing!
Where is Bodie
Very good work
Wonderious!
The park still closes at 6 pm +Jennifer McIntyre, but we pay a large fee (and carry enough liability insurance) to get assigned a monitor to watch us from 6 pm – 1 am. Often we return the next morning for sunrise and access to building interiors. The money goes towards building stabilization, and so far we've raised about $20,000.
+Gloria la Tejana _"Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. It is located 12 mi (19 km) east-southeast of Bridgeport,[5] at an elevation of 8379 feet (2554 m).[1] As Bodie Historic District, the U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes it as a National Historic Landmark. Also registered as a California Historical Landmark,[2] the ghost town officially became Bodie State Historic Park in 1962, and receives about 200,000 visitors yearly.[6] "_
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodie,_California
It's definitely an interesting place to explore +Sunny Kumar. On our last workshop for interiors we had a small class, so we were able to walk around and say "I wonder what's in here?", then go in and find out. We went in buildings that probably no one had been in for years, and some which were in such bad shape, we probably wouldn't want to go back in ourselves.
When people left the town they simply left, and often couldn't take a lot with them, so in most buildings there's some abandoned furniture and there are pots and utensils in the kitchen. Sometimes the ceiling was just cloth stretched between the ceiling joists, and that has fallen in dust-covered decaying shrouds which you have to walk around and duck under, trying not to dislodge decades of dust. One bed in a very dark room still had a comforter on it, and I swear it was growing… probably mold, but in the dim light it looked green to me, like moss. I didn't stick around to figure it out because I didn't want to breathe in the vicinity of whatever it was.
There's a story behind each of the houses, and each item in them: toys, clothing… stories which at this point we can only wonder about.
So cool to see that stars at night
Awesome work.
Really nice stuff. No pollution there.
Thank you +Jeff Sullivan for the brief tour…
Muchísimas gracias por estas fotografías tan maravillosas, muchas gracias de verdad!
Love the perspective on this +Jeff Sullivan!
hallucinant… <3Bodie