Commercial and Fine Art Photographer Stephen Wilkes takes photos off the Santa Monica Pier from a crane for his new “Day to Night” Series on Sunday, Aug 19, 2012.

For more than two decades Stephen Wilkes has been recognized for his fine-art and commercial photography. He has won numerous awards and has had five major exhibitions in the last five years. His photographs can be found in magazines such as Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, TIME and The New York Times Magazine as well as in the permanent collections of The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film, Library of Congress, Dow Jones Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Jewish Museum, New York. Wilkes is based in Westport, Connecticut, and is represented by Bernstein & Andriulli in New York City, Monroe Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica, California. He has won this award for his series "Day to Night." In this series Wilkes photographs a scene for a minimum of ten hours, from the same perspective, capturing a fluid visual narrative of day into night within a single frame.