Seattle at Night

The Wreck of the Peter Iredale

A terrific view of the Milky Way in the night sky over the shipwrecked Peter Iredale on the coast near Astoria, Oregon in Fort Stevens State Park. A simple headlamp was used to light paint the right side of the wreck, and the lights of Seaside, Oregon can be seen on the horizon. This photo was taken at 11:50 PM the night of July 27th as part of a month long solo photography road-trip through the Pacific Northwest. I had spent nearly the entire day photographing the wreck and the beach in changing light conditions from 2 PM to sunset. After the sun disappeared over the horizon I waited until the stars shown brightly and the tide came in high enough to pass the buried hull. I set a timer on my camera and stood in ice-cold water up past my knees to light up the wreck in temperatures in the mid 60's. Shot at 24mm 1600 ISO f/2.8 for 30 Seconds. Canon 5D Mk III. The ship was sailing to the Columbia River channel from Mexico and encountered a storm on October 25th, 1906. The crew battled huge surges and strong winds in the last stretch past the Tillamook Lighthouse nearing the channel. Finally, she ran aground only four miles from her destination. Everyone on the crew (plus two stowaways) all survived and were commended for their efforts to save the ship. Most of the wreck was later salvaged and sold as scrap, but a large section of the hull remains buried in the sand

The Wreck of the Mary D. Hume

An expousre of over 3 1/2 minutes smoothes out the waters of Gold Beach in the small harbor where "Jerry's Rouge Jets" begins their boating tours of the Rouge River. A simple headlamp was used to light up the side of the remains of the Mary D. Hume ship. The vessel was built in Gold Beach, Oregon in 1881. She hauled cargo between Gold Beach and San Francisco for ten years, then used as a whaling vessel, and later an ocean tugboat. The Mary D. Hume was returned to Gold Beach in 1978 with the record for most years in service of any boat on the West Coast. Now she sits only a few hundred yards from where she was constructed, slowly sinking into the mud. The Patterson Bridge and Highway 101 appear in the background. The long exposure shows streaks of light across the length of the bridge where cars and a large truck and trailer passed over the river.

Inside a Mine

An old hoist and several other pieces of old worn-down mining equipment inside of an abandonned mine in Tooele County, Utah. The hoist would have been used to pull loaded mine carts up a nearby steep sloping shaft before the were pushed out of the mine to process the ore.

Helmet with Headlamp Hanging

I hung my helmet on a rusty nail jutting out from the walls of an old mine in Tooele County, Utah.

Above Kennecott Copper Mine

A five minute exposure looking down into Kennecott Utah Copper Mine, an open pit mine up Bingham Canyon on the West end of the Slat Lake Valley. The Bingham Canyon Mine is the largest man-made excavation on Earth, at 2 3/4 miles across at the top, and over 3/4 mile deep. Inside are over 500 Miles of roads, driven by an army of trucks each capable of carrying up to 320 Tons of ore. Several of these trucks' headlights illuminate the road to the in-pit crusher and the road from the inside the mine to the top. Here, the trucks are relocating debris from a landslide that happened back in January, 2014.

Lightfall

This artificial waterfall was actually light-painted using an open shutter (about 6 minutes) and three glow-sticks repeatedly dropped down the side of a rock. The effect is something that looks lie a waterfall, but there is no water involved, and everything was achieved in-camera in a single exposure.