This is the first of eight images I made while giving a field tutorial in Haynes, just outside of Jerome. In the 1890s, the village of Haynes housed Jerome’s copper miners. Today it is a commercially operated ghost town. Its ramshackle buildings house an assortment of vintage industrial equipment, including old trucks such as this one. I have a deep interest in the past, and that comes through in my photographic style. I will often make images that take my viewers back to another time and place. In this photograph, I contrast then and now by incongruously juxtaposing a dimly illuminated truck, parked just inside a dark garage, against the bright leaves of foliage. The garage and foliage here provide critical context for the truck. If I had just photographed the truck, it would be an entirely different kind of image. A major part of my photographic style is creating interaction between subject and context. In this case, the foliage is very much alive, bringing vitality and energy to the ghostly truck in that dark garage. I am implying that this truck may someday be restored, allowing it to roll out of that garage under its own power. Implication is another element of my style – I want my images to act as triggers to thought, so I do whatever I can to engage the imagination of my viewers.