I took this photo this summer in the Wissahickon at 11pm with only slight moon light. It's a 30 minute exposure.

http://www.fow.org/sstatue.php

THAT is really impressive.

Your photos are so cool. I'm curious, with the ever-expanding use of PhotoShop in photography including magazine ads and such, do you think the science of photography is a dying art? I'm sure many people could reproduce a photo like that using PhotoShop, but not know how to produce it naturally like you did using lighting and exposure time.

All photography has to start with an image and most principles are the same in the digital dark room and the wet dark room. I think of "digital photography" as just a different format of photography like lith, cyan, gum or polaroid. The stigma that photoshop is a bad word has almost died as anal photogs become less afraid of something new. There will be darkroom photographers up to the day that the chemicals and paper run out. Most of these have used the same equipment for decades and can't stand the thought of upgrading their camera, printer and software every other year and that's fine and most have accepted digital as a legit form of photography, it's the ones that don't that will keep photography second rate to painting. Most of these people still think that all fine art photography should be black and white and shot with medium or large format cameras.

Interesting. Thanks for the insight. Keep posting your photos!