The Night Skye website is named for my son Skye, the Isle of Skye in Scotland, and because I photograph mostly at night. I fell in love with the Isle of Skye on my first brief visit there in 1995, and have returned many times since. In 2003, I developed an itinerary for a 10 day photo tour to the Isle of Skye and Orkney, and have led groups of photographers on annual trips to Scotland ever since. My tours are open to photographers of all levels, and provide one on one instruction in the field for both film and digital photographers. These small group tours are always planned around a full moon, and we always photograph at night as much as during the day. In addition, I offer tours to the west of Ireland, which also feature night photography. I have been teaching photography since 1997, at the New England School of Photography, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, as well as leading night photography workshops across the U.S. Since 2005, I have been the curator at Harvard University's Three Columns Gallery.

My interest in Night Photography dates back to 1984 when I was first introduced to the camera. My earliest pictures were experimental in nature. Multiple exposures, long exposures, and light painting with a flashlight all intensified my interest in the possibilities photography had to offer. In 1989, I moved to San Francisco to Study with Steve Harper at the Academy of Art University. In 1997 I cofounded The Nocturnes Night Photography Workshops with Tim Baskerville, another former student of Steve Harper’s.

As a teacher and commercial photographer, I work with digital cameras and technology on a daily basis, but I prefer working with film and gelatin silver paper in the traditional darkroom for most of my personal work.
I do take advantage of digital printmaking to create carbon pigment Piezo prints in sizes up to 40x60 inches, and light jet prints for my occasional color work. I use and recommend Still River Editions for Piezo prints and Autumn Color for Lightjet prints. Paul Sneyd at Panopticon Imaging is an excellent printer, and when I need silver prints larger than I can print in my own darkroom, he's the one I turn to. Panopticon provides a full range of traditional and digital B&W photographic services.

After working with a number of different medium and large format cameras, I finally settled on an Ebony SW23 view camera for most of my work. It is light and compact, solidly built, and a work of art in itself. Ebony is a very small Japanese company that builds each camera by hand, often to order. I highly recommend their cameras. My digital work is done with Canon cameras and printers. My first camera was the venerable AE1, and I have used Canon equipment ever since.

My international Photo Tours are operated and administered by the fine folks at Strabo Tours. Strabo is an independent tour company that works with photographers to offer a wide range of exciting photo tours to many different destinations. It was my good friend Ron Rosenstock who introduced me to Strabo Tours, and invited me to run my first international photo tour at his house in Ireland in 2001.

I hope you enjoy the photographs on this website, but encourage you to see original prints if you have the opportunity. I welcome questions and comments, and respond to all as time permits.