Mare Island Naval Museum

I spent last night (and most of the day) over at Mare Island, near Vallejo, after being invited to an Alumni event for a group called "The Nocturnes" by fellow Flickrite SouthPaw42. The group, not surprisingly, specializes in Night Photography and this Mare Island Navy facilities, abandoned about 10 years ago, was the locale for this particular evening's shoot.

The island is pretty cool, but is in the transition from old Navy facilities to residential community, so a lot of these sights will be converted soon.

The building on the left is currently the museum for the island and was basically the starting point for the evening of night photography.

The color here came from two shots out of the camera. The sky originally came out a little dull since it was shot on AUTO white balance, so I used the in-camera color-balance adjustment to add back some blue. I blended the two exposures to sort of average them out before uploading.

I haven't segregated my night shots very well yet here on Flickr, but if you'd like to see more of my night/long-exposure shots click here.

Nikon D40 | Nikon 18-55@35mm | f/7.1 | 101s | ISO200 | Tripod