Another is when we awake from sleep and dreaming - like a trapeze artist letting go of one rope and reaching for another rope in mid air, we are briefly in that intriguing but elusive place between the dream world and the conscious world. If is a door we pass through constantly but can't linger in. Therefore, I am drawn to that seemingly unknowable place and I look for beauty there.

Dusk and dawn and nighttime, are transition points that endlessly fascinate me and are at the heart of my work. Dusk, aptly and frequently called "magic hour" by photographers and cinematographers, is when I tend to do most all of my work. Aside from the beautiful light that often occurs, there is a certain seductive quality I feel at this time that I don't feel at any other time of day.

One of the compelling reasons for working at these times, aside from my fascination with transitional points and beautiful light, is that when I include moving objects within the frame, a blurring and streaking occurs due to the longer exposure times required. Real time events that would normally be "frozen" by a fast shutter are spread out, slowed down, and smeared like oil paint. I'm sure my many years as a motion picture cameraman, where I worked as much with the elements of time and movement as I did with composition and light, has a lot to do with the movement in my work. But much more importantly though, it's a powerful element tht has a profound effect on how the photograph works as a transition or door to somewhere else.