Hot, steady, and ever ready.

Palm Desert, am, 2026

Changing my shooting times form evening to morning this past month, mainly due to the heat, often changes the way I think, and approach a subject. In the AM it always feels like a race before the sun comes up, but with that comes a sense of closure, and the thoughts of breakfast. In the PM there is always the idea of shooting into the night where you either get too tired and can’t think straight, and then fall off a rock, or, your battery runs out, or, very often all three which happened several times during my Convergence work. I should also add, that shooting in the evening means things, and excuses, can happen in the day and you end up not shooting at all. Either way both have their drawbacks, but whether it’s watching the sun come up, or going down, there is still that magic moment when everything comes together.

Untitled, 2026

Its not often I shoot in the middle of the day. The last time was probably photographing derelict interiors in the Salton Sea some 20 years ago. Back then, the reason was to stay out of the sun until the light was right, even though the air temperatures inside where higher, but it meant I didn’t get heat stroke. As it was so bright outside, I was able to make photographs in the dark interiors on an 8/10” using what light was available. Last week I discovered an entire housing complex built in 2007 and abandoned in 2008 due to the financial crash. The real interest lies in the interiors of these once beautiful potential homes frozen in a state of new-abandoned-melancholy, decaying, but still new. And so, thinking back to ‘Thursdays by The Sea’, I began photographing the interiors in the middle of the day. Due to the long exposures, its a slow difficult process and very uncomfortable in the extreme heat, so much so, my camera kept overheating. But then again, I wouldn’t want things to be too easy..