An abandoned shop decays by the side of the road in the remote desert ghost town of Orla, Texas. Night, full moon, natural flashlight and green-gelled strobe. As a night photographer, I shoot almost exclusively by the light of the full moon.  One of the things I enjoy most about photographing after dark are all the latent details, those things which reveal themselves only when you take the time to let the... More

An abandoned shop decays by the side of the road in the remote desert ghost town of Orla, Texas. Night, full moon, natural flashlight and green-gelled strobe. As a night photographer, I shoot almost exclusively by the light of the full moon.  One of the things I enjoy most about photographing after dark are all the latent details, those things which reveal themselves only when you take the time to let the moonlight tell the story. I love the calm and tranquility of a peaceful night scene, as well as the eerie feeling one can get when shooting an old desert ghost town under a full moon.  Since all of my images are created at night, my exposure times are measured in minutes rather than fractions of a second, and because of this, I often use a technique called "light-painting", which is the use of portable, handlheld light sources to add supplemental light to a scene.  While this light tends to create a mysterious, surreal look to a shot, it also often creates a tension within the viewer by rendering familiar subjects in a most unfamiliar light, drawing them into a vision of our world most have never seen or imagined before.