Always the Night

No matter where I go, or what I photograph, there always seems to be room for Night Photography. It’s been with me right from the start when I managed to somehow produce an image by resting my Canon AV 1 on a railing and open the shutter overlooking a freeway. Some forty years later, the technique is pretty much the same, only the camera is bigger.

The night often hides distractions to an otherwise cluttered landscape, in turn spotlighting certain objects, like cars, signs, and the odd tree. When people see me out with a big camera, the reaction is always the same… What on earth is he doing. Sometimes I wonder if they are referring to the content, or just the making of the image. Chances are its both…