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Blake Barrett
Tim Baskervile
Linda Fitch
James Miglian
Dan Mitchell

Blake Barrett
"I was born and raised in California's agricultural heartland, the Central Valley. I studied photography in high school and early college before giving it up in an attempt to, "Put away childish things." Realizing that a life devoid of expression is a life unfulfilled I returned to it with a passion in my late twenties. After buying a new digital SLR with the first bit of money I made from working a "grown up job" I felt liberated to shoot anything and everything that caught my eye. I mainly shoot digital because of the confidence you get with every shot potentially being disposable, which makes me appreciate it so much more when I return to film, where each shot has so much weight riding on it. Merging my loves of photography and science I started Space Bridge (http://spaceballoonproject.com); where we send digital cameras into the stratosphere via weather balloon. This has taken my approach to photography in an interesting direction and given it a different feeling. I feel more strongly about capturing the light of a scene than composing one." www.blakebarrett.com

Tim Baskerville
Tim received his BFA degree in photography and liberal arts from the University of San Francisco. He has been photographing for more than 25 years, teaching night photography at U.C. Berkeley Extension, U.C. Santa Cruz, College of Marin, the Cape Cod Photographic Workshops, RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco, Viepoint Gallery in Sacramento, and the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. He has written articles about Night Photography for Camera and Darkroom, the Friends of Photography with Nazraeli Press, and Photo Metro magazine. Baskerville founded The Nocturnes as an exhibiting / teaching group of artists in 1991, and the critically acclaimed Web site of the same name in 1996. TheNocturnes.com and Tim Baskerville Dot Com

Linda Fitch
"I am a black and white film photographer born and raised in Northern California having first been introduced
to photography in college. While my earlier landscapes were taken around the California coast, I prefer
traveling abroad to locations that transcend geography.

"While I did not start out as a night photographer, I now embrace it with passion. I am most attracted to the
night's solitude and unknown, where things move, forms are compressed, light comes from all directions and shadows create fantasies in space and time. I am constantly surprised by the magical transformation created
by the night. "

Visit her site: www.lindafitch.com

Satellite/Preview Shows - Various Nocturnes

Special Preview:
Friday October 12; 7:30 to 9:30pm - Fort Mason Center, Landmark Bldg. 'D' Ground Level

Other events by The Nocturnes include:
"A little Night Music" - Night Photography Exhibit, Juried by our own Tim Baskerville, co-curated with Richard Skidmore, and held at Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA from October 5 - 28, 2012. Details at www.gualalaarts.org

"Inside/Out: San Francisco's Historic F-Line" with Studio Nocturne participants Kevin Sheridan and Tim Baskerville; November 3 to December 6 at Harvey Milk Photo Center in San Francisco, CA. Celebrating MUNI's 100 year anniversary, this December - details at www.proect1006.com

Dan Mitchell
"I have photographed since childhood when my father introduced me to cameras and the darkroom, and I was fascinated in my youth by the work of the west coast landscape photographers such as Weston and Adams. Although my academic and professional life turned towards music, I continued to make photographs, primarily focusing on the natural landscape, but also exploring a wide range of other subjects.

Nearly a decade ago I began to make night photographs, entranced by the quiet and meditative nature of the work and by the ability to create photographs of things that cannot be seen with my own eyes - faint light in near darkness, transient subjects that move during long exposures, and the magical nocturnal transformation of ordinary things into things of mystery and beauty." www.gdanmitchell.com

Deborah Rourke
"I live and work in Northern California as a photographer/artist. I've been shooting color landscapes at night for ten years. Industrial buildings, structures and machinery are my favorite subjects. Their utilitarian design is graphic in shape, heavily textured and often ornamented with bold iron work. Graffiti, deferred maintenance and urban decay adds visual interest and sense of history. The security lighting on these buildings range from warm reddish-orange to cool bluish-green and can be very moody. Timed exposures capture these colors that often compliment the rich patinas of old brick, rusty steel and alligatored paint. By varying the exposure time you can see the range of color intensities, especially when the night sky is visible in the photo. Choosing to photograph at night also requires an investment of time for urban exploration, caffeine, sleep deprivation and a lack of fear and or common sense." www.deborahrourke.com

Greta & Manu Schnetzler
We have had a longstanding interest in night photography as reflected in the variety of subject matter and places depicted in our work. We see our night work as a good example of the continuing desire to explore our environment, to see common sights in a different way and to capture images that reveal the mystery of the everyday. We are struck by the transformative power of night lighting (whether moonlight or artificial) to create beauty and feeling in abandoned urban settings. We have an attraction to what has been left behind to be destroyed, to decay, or just to wait to be reanimated by human presence. Although our work is not documentary, we see our urban landscape transforming so quickly that we often feel a sense of urgency to photograph the scenes that we are drawn to before they fall to the steady march of progress.

We work collaboratively on our photography and show our work online at www.schnetzler.com

Kevin Sheridan
I first started viewing the world through a camera when I was in high school. I shot mostly B&W and began learning the mechanics of the darkroom. As time passed I found that I could merge my interest in photography and my lifelong passion for railroading into one artistic expression. Then I discovered night photography and embarked on a new adventure. Night photography gives me the ability to look at a scene with a completely different set of eyes. Night photography presents me the opportunity to take, for instance, a gritty urban environment, a place where there might not be a shot during the day, and turn it into something dynamic. I'm driven to document the ever changing world around me, and my guiding words are "photograph today, because tomorrow things may change."

Roxanne Worthington
"I got hooked on photography—fine art photography— the first night I spent in the darkroom, printing a roll of black and white film. My work is often about memory, dreams and longing. I make or create images that are an expression of personal sentiments intended to communicate universal themes.

In the years since that first day in the darkroom I have experimented with all sorts of photographic mediums and exhibited my work in various national venues and beyond. It is my pleasure to teach others the art and craft of photography in my studio, Last Avenue Studio and at the San Francisco Photo Center.

www.roxanneworthington.com

www.lastavenuestudio.com

NOTE: you can CLICK! on any of the above images for an enlarged view of the artist's work.