North Edwards, CA
Abandoned gas station along SR 58, across from Edwards AFB

Kramer Junction, CA
A collection of aviation equipment by the airstrip at Kramer Junction,  located at the desert crossroads of US 395 and SR 58

Inverness, CA
The old abandoned fishing boat in the mudflats of Tomales Bay

Bay Area Peace Lantern Ceremony, Berkeley Aquatic Park
Remembering the 66th anniversaries of the world’s first atomic bombings, and those impacted by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and ongoing nuclear power crisis in Japan.

Coming in August - an exhibit of night photography on Mare Island, once a historic naval shipyard and now a mixed use development including heavy and light industry, housing, education, a shoreline preserve and many acres of land still unsafe for public access after the Navy’s exit.
I will have a few images in the show, including the one above, featuring the sail of the submarine USS Mariano G. Vallejo, which is undergoing restoration for a memorial on the island.

Details:
August 3 through September 15, 2011

Mare Island Historic Park Foundation Museum
1100 Railroad Avenue, Mare Island [map]

Reception:
Sunday, August 14 from 2 to 4 pm

Mare Island Nocturnes features fine art photography, done at night, utilizing long time exposures, by photographers from all over the SF Bay Area, many on return nocturnal “tours of duty.”  Chris Rasmussen, a member of the Save Our Sail Advisory Group, and one of the Jurors of the exhibit, has described the exhibit as “A marvelous array of images demonstrating the stark beauty of Mare Island, its industrious past now locked up in a great stillness.” We hope the public will come see these images of a seldom-seen side of the former Mare Island Shipyard, and help celebrate The Nocturnes Twentieth Anniversary - and five years on Mare Island!

The exhibitors are:
Harvey Abernathey
Tim Baskerville
Mike Browne
Tamara Danoyan
David Dasinger
Andy Frazer
Lenny Greenwald
Alan Grinberg
Ed Hamilton
Amy Heiden
Steve Jackson
Kim Kulish
G Dan Mitchell
Shawn Peterson
Joe Reifer
Deb Rourke
Greta/Manu Schnetzler
Marla Showfer
Richard Stough
Cassandra Wright

tele-present water from david bowen on Vimeo.

This installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy Station 46246 (49°59’7” N 145°5’20” W) on the Pacific Ocean. The wave intensity and frequency is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure installed at The National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland.  The result was a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from this distant location.

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11,000 floating lanterns are released into the sky at a Polish summer celebration. They are made with biodegradable sugar paper and compacted hay to minimize environmental impact and hopefully they didn’t start any wildfires.

The first hospital was built during WWII to support the Pacific theatre and later expanded with this 11 story building in 1968. The collapse of Lehman Brothers brought demolition and development on the site to a halt, and left this Oakland hills neighborhood with a huge fire and environmental hazard spread over 50 acres.

This image was taken during a period when there was no security or maintenance at the complex and scrappers, squatters and urban explorers had free reign, during the fall of 2009.
By the end of that year a bankruptcy judge granted relief to the neighbors and resumed demolition and fire abatement.

→Other images, including an alternate take of this shot

Sub Zero - winter night timelapse from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.