My work from the After Hours project evolved during my trespasses of the land and my discovery that there is life at night.  After hours, there is no such thing as complete darkness.  Light paints the landscape either naturally by the moon and stars or unnaturally with fluorescent, sodium, or mercury vapor lights. As the hours pass and the sky gets darker, what we perceive during the day is transformed with light.

The landscape becomes something mysterious, haunting, and beautiful all at the same time.  There is a physical and emotional presence that takes over after hours. Under different atmospheric conditions, the skies turn into gradations of color and a dreamlike world takes over.  We are now accustomed to this fabricated world and the artificial is now seen as natural.

I concentrate on a formal level when taking pictures.  I look not only at light, but also line, shape, and form.  As I approach my subject, the placement of my lens plays a pivotal part in the structure of the frame.  Leaving the light source out of the frame has the viewer wondering what exactly it is illuminating the land.  It is not important what, and where these places are, but what they have become.

My work is done with a FujiGW690II medium format film camera. I print traditional chromogenic prints also known as C-Prints on Kodak Supra Endura glossy paper.