Insomnia 3/25/11

    For my fourth photo shoot for insomnia I was leaving work after closing up the building and that's when I recognized my inspiration for these images. The empty parking lot aglow with a tungsten hue is a prime example of what insomnia is to me; being awake when everything around you is not.
    This last week was crazy, I'm talking about the weather of course. On Saturday the temperature was in the 70's, and on Monday, the first official day of Spring, it snowed! When the inspiration for these pictures struck, I had my camera and tripod, but not my gloves and scarf. This project has made me discover the lack of "T" setting on my camera, meaning when I do long exposures I have to hold the shutter release on "Bulb" the entire time. With no gloves this posed a challenge exposing my bare skin. This particular night was cold with an intermittent gust of wind. I took an image, sat in the car for a minute to warm up, and then we back out for the next shot.