@elaterite I bet you could hack together an LED bulb with a built-in battery for short term use — and get the advantage of being able to set custom colors for unusual effects.

@elaterite

This sounds like a great guerrilla art project. I'd volunteer to help move the gear around to support powering some remote roadhouse sign for a few days or a month, before moving it to the next target. Unclear how long something like this would survive before being stolen...

In any case, I'm in SE CO, and have a light airplane. Can't cary much weight, but am fine landing on dirt roads, provided it's reasonably discreet, etc.

And, I might add, this abandoned trailer park near Paradise, Nevada, was the sometimes home of convicted killer Claude Dallas.

https://mail.murderpedia.org/male.D/d/dallas-claude.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Dallas

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@elaterite
Wouldn’t it be great if that old trailer park sign flickered just a little when you powered it up?

@TisTree Indeed!

@lolcat Oh, cool, you have an ultralight or an experimental plane? What kind? I appreciate the idea of doing a guerilla lighting project. But that could get expensive leaving portable power supplies lying around for people to steal. I guess one could get creative and tap into locked service equipment entrances at the sites, but that's a little further than I care to go (not that I don't know how to do it). I just want to light abandoned places temporarily for a photo. :)

@elaterite

I fly a plane in the Light Sport Category. It's a high-wing, tricycle gear plane similar to a Cessna 150.

With full fuel (4hrs with reserve), I can cary myself and >=200lbs. The cargo compartment is limited to < 40lbs (balance and structural limits), so I strap heavy loads into the passenger seat. Could also remove that seat if necessary.

Agreed, leaving power in place is also probably beyond my reach, but it would be cool!

@elaterite Toss a magnet on it, maybe a little charging port. Something close may even already exist.

@ryne Sure, something like that could be done. But I'm interested in the quality of the light. Incandescent provides that nice warm yellowish glow. With a backdrop of blue hour in the morning/evening & the pool of warm yellow light over an old abandoned gas pump island that would look pretty nice. Kind of pushing back the desolation & abandonment with warm lively light. It's a complicated idea, something that as a fine art photographer has been rattling around in my head for a long time. :)

@elaterite

I would absolutely love to see that. I remember taking a picture of my clients in the classroom at blue hour, the contrast between the warm, golden yellow inside and the cold blue outside was wonderful.

@ryne

@pascaline @ryne Nice! Ya, I have a thing about light both at twilight and at night. I just haven't figured out how to photograph it so it conveys the feeling I want it too. Like in a lonely abandoned place, how a lone light can push back the darkness.