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Not Your Normal Night
By The Flash Nites
In Exploration Stories
Posted January 2, 2024

Not Your Normal Night

Here’s a little preview of the posts we’re writing over at our Substack, Not Your Normal Night. If you dig it, please subscribe! Whatever we post there will get delivered right to [...]

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Twin Arrows Trading Post
By The Flash Nites
In Route 66
Posted October 10, 2020

Twin Arrows Trading Post

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”  ― EROL OZAN . . . The biggest blow to Route 66 — 2,448 miles of highways and byways from Chicago to LA — was in the mid-20th [...]

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Night in the Life of a Night Photographer
By The Flash Nites
In Exploration Stories, Light-painting
Posted December 9, 2018

Night in the Life of a Night Photographer

Totally bummed out, we reluctantly climbed back into the van. The place was locked up solid, total bust. Little did we know . . .

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The Lost Bus
By The Flash Nites
In Adventure Soundtracks, Exploration Stories, Light-painting
Posted February 8, 2018

The Lost Bus

“Ah ha, hush that fuss, everybody move to the back of the bus.” ~OutKast Sometimes a little adventure into the frigid winter turns into some Knowledge Dropped. Such was the case when [...]

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Owanka: Good Camping Ground
By The Flash Nites
In Exploration Stories, Light-painting
Posted January 18, 2018

Owanka: Good Camping Ground

“Owanka the City of Promise • Near where the Box Elder Flows We hope someday will be famous • Who can tell? Nobody knows.” ~ “Boost for Owanka,” Lottie Gorman CHAPTER TWO It’s an oddly warm late [...]

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Go West Find Clouds
By The Flash Nites
In Exploration Stories, Light-painting
Posted January 4, 2018

Go West Find Clouds

“Prairie wind the chatter of the corn husks on the old school road” ~Haiku, Michael McClintock CHAPTER ONE It’s Halloween night. Chris and I pull into Mitchell, South Dakota, wrapping up our [...]

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Pulling Back the Curtain
By The Flash Nites
In Exploration Stories, Light-painting
Posted January 18, 2017

Pulling Back the Curtain

“If this isn't Photoshop, then how do you do it?”

We get a lot of questions about our work, but this is the most asked, by a landslide. We answer with [...]

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Majestic Theater of East St. Louis
By The Flash Nites
In Exploration Stories, Light-painting
Posted January 4, 2016

Majestic Theater of East St. Louis

To many, East St. Louis is synonymous with the likes of Detroit, Michigan, and Gary, Indiana. Often the butt of a joke, these midwestern blue-collar cities have reputations that precede [...]

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I’m Looking for a FreePort
By The Flash Nites
In Exploration Stories
Posted March 22, 2015

I’m Looking for a FreePort

In the vast reaches of rural America lie boarded, abandoned farmsteads and homes - more than one could possibly imagine. How did they get this way? Why are we actively seeking them out?

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Enchanted Highway
By The Flash Nites
In Exploration Stories, Roadside Attractions
Posted April 6, 2014

Enchanted Highway

Did you know there truly is an Enchanted Highway? I like to think that, metaphorically, the highway we travel to escape our ho hum, day-to-day life is enchanted, but there is only one truly by [...]

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