Dreaming with my Camera
Mark Warren
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When I found night photography, it wasn’t a perfect fit. With an almost ADD personality, night photography required time and patience. Exposures lasting between 8 to 12 minutes meant that 4 photos of the same subject could take almost an hour. I soon learned that my camera was capturing the universe as we cannot see it. Waves melt into foam; clouds streak across the night sky as long, smokey trails. Time has no beginning or end. In one sense, neither do these photographs Alone in the dark, time had no meaning. My thoughts became dreams. I was dreaming with my camera. All images were shot with medium format film.
Before the Rain Alameda
Absolution San Francisco
Marina Salton Sea
Pigeon Point Pescadero
Up Bombay Beach
Vacancy San Francisco
Bird Island Marin Headlands
Holocaust Memorial San Francisco
Three Trees Salton Sea
Midnight Chat San Francisco
Conservatory of Flowers San Francisco
In this silence I believe San Francisco
Training Center San Francisco
Fire on High Fort Baker
Pac Bell Palms San Francisco
Golden Gate San Francisco
Arrival San Francisco
All images Copyright Š 2003-2006 Mark Warren.