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This is the most complete listing of night photographers on the web. If you know of one that's missing, I'd love to hear about it.

NEW! Joe freekin' Reifer rawks!

NEW! BURNBLUE is Toby Keller's gorgeous shoreline-based night work. There's some really pretty stuff there.

NEW! Kevin Nye Night Photography.

NEW! NightHawks is Mark Interrante's photoblog specializing in nightwork at the flickr.com site.

NEW! Riki Feldman rocks. Thanks for letting me tag along to some killer new locations dude!

Wireheadarts.com is another Bay Area night shooter. A great experimenter.

No Traces. Bob's killer photo site. Another night shooter, inspired by Lost America.

Blake Gordon. Some nice night work.

Astronomical & Night Photography by Chris Cook.

Jason Mullins Photography Beautiful black and white work.

Hours of Darkness

Cambridge in Color.

Ketterman Photography

Carl Root's got some absolutely killer light painting work about 1/3 of the way down this page. Amazing saturation.

29 Moons, John Connor's got some nice wide-angle light painting. Keep Shooting!!!

Tony Howell has a nice page with lots of trees shot at night.

Check out David Duchan's work! Great abandoned cars shot with extreme wide lenses and light painted like crazy. Where have I seen THAT before!?! Really nice work.

Chris Cook's Astronomical & Nightscape Photography site has some beautiful Very long exposures and aurora images.

Blake Hines industrial night work bears a striking resembalance to my brother Tom's work. Nice stuff!

The Road to Zzyzx. Warren Bate's work is back online. Used to be the Asphalt Empire (still a favorite name) until he let it lapse and a domain-name speculator stole it out from under him.

UK Nights. Just like what it sounds like. 2 British guys shoot industrial England. Nice tones.

Michel Corbin's crazy French lightpainting is spectacularly over the top. I love it.

Willaim Lesch. An important early influence on my night shooting. Stunning.

Lucas Chilczuk. So. Cal based shooter using colored light in junkyards at night. Says he never saw my work before he started shooting. Our brains must be wired the same.

Sterling Davis's page has some nice night work shot in and around Los Angeles. I like the one of the palms on page 3 the best

Another new night shooter, Arin Ahnell's work is getting better and better.

One of the true masters of night photography, Michael Kenna

LunarLight Photography. Kit Courter's night images taken in the So Cal deserts. He's been doing this a looooong time!

Enlight-10 is the page for Lorran Meares' fantastic light painted night images. His specialty is natural American places and evidence of ancient man.

Black and White Dreams is the home of Ed Deasy's night work. I love "The Car Series".

Darksky Dreams. Jerry Day's oddly familiar feeling night photography site. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery . . .

Anthony Roach's Australian Landscape Photography has some wonderful night images shot on the coasts of Australia.

Brooklyn 01 is a fantastic Flash site with some great night images of Brooklyn mixed in with lots of day images. Elegant interface. And if you like that, try his home site, Subterranea for some cool subway animations. Quality stuff.

Here is the recent night photography show, The Color of Night that was juried by Larrie Thomson and I. Lots of great work in here.

Lance Keimig's night photography site is finally on line! Lance is one of the founding members of the Nocturnes and he does exquisite and poetic B&W night work.

The Nocturnes A San Francisco based collective of night photographers offering classes and support to night photographers everywhere. Good people. Good how to section. Oh, look! I'm in their gallery with a bunch of new work that you can't even see on the Lost America site.!

Nightphotgrapher.com Excellent Canadian night shooter Larrie Thomson is a regular chip off the old block. All around great guy even if he does like to throw toilets out of the back of his old school bus on the freeway. Love that tractor pic, wish I had shot that, ya bum!!. Always KILLER NEW WORK!!

Lab-Wan photography. Colorful and interesting night work of abandoned trains in Belgium.

Artificial Daylight. Seattleite, George Ciardi's industrial night work site. Really buttery stuff. That shot on the splash page is outstanding!

Still one more young European night shooter! Black Norway has some wonderful night work from the cold part of the world. Some great Aurora shots. Nicely put together site as well.

2AM Photography Outstanding black and white night work. Vance Lessard's site is dark, sinister and stylish.

Chip Simons is my hero. Take a look at this guy's stuff if you don't look anyplace else. Back in the late 80's, he had the most influence on me when I was starting night photography.

This is the back door way into Dan Heller's frighteningly big website. This page is some awesome work done in Bodie, CA at night. Search from there for tons more night work on his site.

Michael Frye Photography Wow! This guy is amazing. His work is impeccable. Sophisticated and awesome desert night shooting. One of the best night shooters I've ever seen.

Bill Schwab.com Really juicy black and white night work of Belle Isle and other locations in the Detroit area. Beautifully polished work and site.

Night Photography- from About.com A very well researched general piece on night photography. Excellent encapsulated history of night shooting and a useful how to section.

Andy Frazer's Nighttime Photos. Andy's doing night shooting mainly in the San Jose, CA urban area. I only wish my first tries at night shooting were this good. Constantly updating.

Zeropoint. Kip Praslowiczs' outstanding new site showcasing his abandoned location and night photography. Really nicely put together site.

Bruce Clendenning's Landscape Imaging by the Light of the Full Moon. EXCELLENT how to page on night photography. Scarily similar to my how to page yet with lots of subtle differences. An indispensable resource.

Not really night photography, but Lightning Boy's site of all lightning shots is incredible! What a psycho!

Rolfe Hornes f45. Very cool B & W photography. His wrecked freeway images are spectacular.

Motels of the Southwest Doug Towne is selling this really cool poster of old motel neon. Check it out.

Tim Acock's Photo Gallery. A few really nice, colorful night shots. Do more man!

Luminere photo and design site has some nice night work from Australia.

Willow Creek Photographic Works has some great Aurora Borealis photos.

David Baldwin Night Photography. David's site was off line for a while but is now back and updated. Beautiful English countryside night work.

Completely rebuilt yet again, Midnight Exposure is Doug Miller's new night photography site. Doug's new work is looking great, especially that killer splash page shot.

Eric Beldowski's night motion studies. Nice stuff using creative handling of motion and flare.

Photolinks Photography Directory. Bill Atcheson's comprehensive photography site refers a bazillion people a month to Lost America.com. Excellent resource for anything you need or want in the photographic world. Thanks Bill!

On the Road Photography. Dean's site has a few nice night shots. Hope to see more soon.

 

Abandoned Places and Things

NEW! High Desert Drifters is a comprehensive site about CA and NV ghost towns.

NEW! David Verba. We shoot some of the same locations. Nice B&W stuff

NEW! The Center for Land Use Interpretation loads of interesting locations ideas for night shooting and urban explorer types.

NEW! It's in French, but this site has some amazing underwater images of sunken treasures.

NEW! Surreal Cocoanut Urban Ruins, Atoposes and Poetic Spaces.

NEW! Tim Edensor's British Industrial ruins

NEW! Abandoned.RU. Russian abandoned industrial sites.

NEW! Abandoned but not Forgotten.

Weird NJ working with these guys is a lot of fun. I'm involved with several of their "Weird" books, currently. Maybe even more in the future.

Gunkanjima- Battleship Island in Japan. Utterly staggering.

Roadside Australia. What I do, down under.

Undercity. Urban exploration, New York style.

Nostaligic Glass. Abandoned Russia.

Lost Destinations Kinda like what I do, but not really. Lotsa haunted and weird places.

New England Ruins

Chernobyl. Never have I had so meny people tell me about one specific link.

Ohio Trespassers sure has found some evocative locations. What is it about abandoned asylums?

The Hospital. A stunning Flash-driven site taking place in an abandoned hospital. Truly exceptional!

Forgotten Places. A Dutch site of abandoned buildings in Northern Europe

Dubtown Industriekultur is a German site depicting abandoned factories and industry. It's in German, so I have no idea what they're saying, but the photography looks real nice!

Amazing photography of "Ship Breaking" by Edward Burtynsky. Spectacular location!

Motelsign.com has some beautiful photography of . . . guess. Nice work, nice site.

The Airchive of Vintage and Scrapped Planes is packed with not very good photography of stunning relics. Like junk planes? You'll love this.

Absolutely fantastic is this site called Sleeping Giants about the military's aircraft disposal site at Davis Monthan AFB in Tucson. Mesmerizing flash animation shows the scale and solitude of this gigantic facillity.

The Photographic Journey of Phillip Buehler This guys site is terrific! Abandoned New York City- Worlds fair, Ellis island, Factories, railyards- a little of everything. The best "modern ruins" links. Period.

The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit Almost overwhelming, this incredible site depicts the decay and blight of the Motor City. There must be hundreds of photos in here of factories and residential neighborhoods. The Brush Park and other "19th Century gilded Age" sections of town are so sad and yet, so interesting. Wow.

Abandoned Places. Henk Van Rensbergen's GREAT site of abandoned European factories, hospitals and churches. Great work, don't miss it.

Photo Essays of Industrial Age Ruins. Shaun O'Boyles lush, evocative images of abandoned places and things. The "Boatyard"section is absolutely stunning.

Lost Indiana is just that. A solid site dedicated to the stuff that used to be there. There needs to be a site like this for every state!

Gone for a while, but back again is the Ghost Town of the Month site. This one pertains to Arizona towns only, but it's still a great resource.

Ghost towns in Canada. Great site with lots of info on Western Canadian ghost towns.

Forgotten New York Great images of New York City in decay. Kevin Walshes photographic record the painted billboards from the beginning of the 20th century is very important work.

Ghost Town Gallery. German website devoted to American ghost towns. Great links page.

Ruin Japan is filled with . . . pics of Japanese ruins obviously. Can't read a word on this site. But the locations are sure cool!

Nice black and white images of coldwar relics can be found in Coldwar Leftovers.

Car and Road culture Links

NEW! Autos as Art. James Clay's site devoted to automove and car culture imagery.

NEW! I'm probably socially retarded, but I think the mid '70s AMC Matador is one of the best looking American cars of all time.

Blastolene Special. Some of the most innovative modern hot rods out there

Legends of America is a handy site filled with American road folklore and ghost towns.

Planning a road trip? Roadtrip America will haelp you with each and every minute detail and give you more ideas than you'd ever imagine.

Visit The International House of Zzyzx for a dose of strangeness about sleepless nonstop solo drives for long distances. Funny stories that I can relate to. Great logo.

Stuck on Stuckeys is a tribute site to the blue roofed home of the Pecan Log Roll..

Drive-ins.com is a great new site. It's the most comprehensive drive-in site on the net. More information than you can ever look at! Not to mention a 7 image (some exclusives too) show of my work.

Roadside Architecture Society An organization trying to preserve roadside America. Great links page.

Los Angeles Conservancy. Dedicated to the preservation of mid century modernism in the LA area.

The National Historic Route 66 Federation. Good historic website about the Mother Road. This non profit organization is dedicated to the preservation oath remains of Route 66.

In Our Path A very interesting and educational site about the design and construction of the LA freeway system. Lots of great historical photography of this never ending project.

Old Gas Station Collectibles - Primarily Petroliana Everything you could possibly want to know about gas station stuff.

DesertUSA The best place to go to learn about the great American outback.

Out West Newspaper Online version of this great "on the road" magazine. .

The Peterson Museum LA car museum. One of the best in the country. Great way to kill an afternoon.

HISTORIC POSTMARKART OF ROUTE 66: The only Route 66 Artwork that actually traveled the entire length of Route 66. Home to other Postmarkarts of state regions and Two Lane Highways in America. Excellent Route 66 links section.

Retro Design Links

NEW! Classic Las Vegas is a historical site about that city's short, checkered past.

NEW! Transportation Futuristics

GoogieArt.com is a site packed with glorious repros of 50's architectural renderings of coffee shops. Gorgeous stuff.

Lotta Livin' is an excellent general moderism preservation site.

The Recent Past Preservation Network is another site dedicated to the preservation of mid-century modernism.

You'll find all sortsa refereences at the City of Tomorrow

317X is a site packed with obscure LP cover art. If you like that sorta stuff, you'll be here for hours.

Popcult Magazine is packed with fuzzy stuff from the back of your brain.

Lets go flying with Norman Bel Geddes!

Mildered's House of Signs. Great, weird stuff.

John Lautner. One of my fafvorite arcitects, Lautner was a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright and took FLW's theories to new places. Lautner has designed many buildings which should be familiar to fans of Googie, in fact, the term "Googie" was coined from one of his buildings.

Space Age City is a site with sections on Googie and Tiki architecture. Informative and useful.

Predicta. A small WI company that is actually building modern versions of those cool 50s TV sets with the freestanding screen. Fantastic new designs with amazing modern colors.

For all your Tiki supplies and needs visit Aisle Tiki. Make mine a Planters Punch please.

Ephemera Now! Fantastic site filled with old advertising art.

House Industries. Home of the most interesting retro fonts available anyplace. Yeah, they are expensive, But it's quality stuff.

CoolRockets.com My old pal and ILM model maker, Jeff Brewer has made a cottage industry out of scratchbuilding beautiful scale model art deco era sci-fi rockets for display. These things are beautiful.

Googie! An excellent page on the history of Googie (space age, Jetsons, Atomic age, Populuxe, whatever you wanta call it) architecture and design. It's about as complete as you can get on the subject. Great links page too.

Modern Design of the 20th Century: retromodern.com A great source for your 20th century design needs.

Roadside Peek. Very comprehensive googie / tiki architecture site

World Wide Retro. Great link resource to all things retro. Like dig?

Bud and Betty's. Online vintage stuff store. Lotsa cool stuff to buy here.

The Gobbler Motel and Supper Club. Fabulous late period Googie style facility in Wisconsin. Full color imagery taken from a excellently illustrated brochure.

And while you're there, visit The Institute of Official Cheer. The Gobbler's home site for all kinds of seriously weird retro stuff.

Tiki Gardens. Dedicated to Florida's fabulous Tiki Gardens, a Polynesian restaurant complex, now destroyed.

Echoes Site for the retro architecture magazine.

 

Artist Links

Glenn Barr. One of my favorite painters. Seedy, dark and yet playful and fun.

Jim Fong.com is the online portfolio of an old coworker of mine from my toy biz days. His site has all sorts of clean and fun work.

Crackerpacks.com is a site devoted to firecracker label art. Beautiful and stylish 3rd world art.

The Authorized Syd Mead Site This guy is the design benchmark. He is what I want to be when I grow up. Wish he saw fit to put more images on his website.

Roger Dean Gallery When I was about 12, I got Roger Deans book "Views" for my birthday. That was my first exposure to what the life of an artist / designer was about. It put a profound zap on my young brain. His logo designs made me see type in a completely different way. Some people say his work is dated. I say, eat me.

INTERESTING IDEAS Great roadside and outsider art. Good weird. Spend all day in this guys goofy ass links.

Hugh Ferriss One image from this guy. He was an architectural delineator from the 1920's to the 50's. This guy deserves his own web site. If you know of the definitive Hugh Ferriss site, let me know!

More Hugh Ferriss here at the loggia, an excellent architecture site. Ferriss's work is incredibly dramatic and exciting. The very definition of chiaroscuro.

Rooting out Ralph Everything you'd ever want to know about gonzo caricaturist, Ralph Steadman. Infamous for his illustrations in Hunter Thompsons great 60's books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".

Mark Ryden What an exquisite painter. Weird and subtle.

Shag Mega-cool cartoon style paintings of hepcat, shriners, spies, jetseters and all that 60's fun stuff. Great style.

Dreams of Space. Space Art in Children's Books. Fantastic scans of illustrations from children's books from the 40's to the 70's.I have a pretty good collection of this stuff but this is the largest collection I've ever seen. I love this futurism for kids. And I *still* can't vacation on Mars . . .? What happened?

 

Music Sites

NEW! Your Band Sucks Rockandrollconfidential.com Make sure you check out the "Hall of Douchebags". Hours of fun.

 

Animation Sites
(Only recommended for users with fast connections and strong stomachs)

NEW! The Exorcist . . . with bunnies. Make sure you watch all the other films too.

Underground Online is the home to Happy Tree Friends" and a bunch of other socailly irresponsible Flash animations.

Bulbo Black and white flash animation in a kind of edgy Steamboat Willie vein. Weird idea, but it works. Make sure you visit the "More Mish Mash" page which is filled with tons more animation links.

Nasty and twisted animations here at Killfrog

Joe Cartoon. Home of the "Frog in a Blender". Gross and funny.

Go to Rustboy to see some great films of a weird little sad robot. Beautiful 3D animation. Very Tim Burton.

Fun Stuff. . .

NEW! Ding Fries are Done Merry Christmas.

NEW! Bubblewrap. Not as tactile as the real thing, but still, pretty satisfying.

NEW! Zoomquilt. Wow!

NEW! The hideous video for Bilbo Baggins. the film Leonard Nimoy wants to supress. May be the best video for a song ever made.

NEW! Air Guitar! Rock on.

NEW! 5ives, from our brains to yours.

Every ACME product featured in every Roadrunner Cartoon.

Fabulous art created in an Etch-A-Sketch. Has to be seen to be believed.

Can you beat the computer at 20 Questions?

The Potted Meat Museum

Extreme Ironing. Just like what it sounds like.

About a zillion quotes from Frank Zappa can be found here. He was a funny and strangely articulate man. And Vanilla Ice lives on . . .

Ever wonder how many fries come in a Large vs. a Super Size? Cockeyed.com will have the answer to that and a thousand more questions. The section on refilling printer cartridges is hilarious. Great site to kill a few hours.

Here's something for all you deep thinkers out there . . .

Japanese Engrish is a great site that lists images of bastardized english words on Japaese products. Ours of fun from to the happy friendly. That is hour wishness!

The infamous Laid Off animation.

Encyclopedia Fakebandica is a site that lists all the fake bands trhat ever appeared in any pop culture media. Frighteningly comprehensive.

Eugene Mirman, the crooning child. Mildly annoying . . . .

E-TICKET Magazine The definitive magazine of the history of WED, the industrial design arm of the Disney empire. No cute talking animals here, but a real history of how and why the Disney theme parks happen.

Night Owl books and posters An excellent resource for classic sci-fi and horror movie posters.

A Visit to Yesterland - The Discontinued Disneyland The best of the sites that cover the attractions which are gone from the Disney parks.

War Bird Videos Is where you'll find real player downloads of WWII aircraft training films. Totally useless, but fun.

The Malkovich Mediator This is hilarious. But you have to have seen "Being John Malkovich".

Cruel.com Site which showcases a twisted new website everyday. For hours of really good, clean fun.

Amy Grant's Mandible This was why the www was created? Right?

CAT SCAN CONTEST! Scans of cats. Uh, yeah. . .

The Home Of The Celebrity Dead Pool Think YOU know who is going to die? Put your money where your mouth is!

The Airsickness Bag Museum. Yeah, just like what it sounds like. Hundreds of scanned barf bags from planes, trains and movies (my favorites).

That DAMN Phone!

Hello? --A pointless Exercise in Telephony Weird story about a payphone in the Mojave desert and what eventually happens when you call it every day.

The Mojave Phone Booth Mission- Hang it up. More on the above phone booth and the 250 mile trek to fix that busy signal.