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Where I trail run sometimes, has a lot of cool cactus and a few neat looking paths. This is one of them, it's about 2 miles in and a few hills to this point. I had carried my camera in my smaller trail running backpack, and then took it out and just carried it on my way back, making a few quick...

Somehow it feels a bit funny that everything has to have a name now. I look back and when I was young it we just called it a full moon. :) This was out in Joshua Tree National Park during the Eclipse last week. The moon popped out briefly between the clouds along the horizon, I spent maybe 15...

As you all know I had driven out to Joshua Tree for the Super moon and the Eclipse. As the moon was rising to the East, I had a crazy color show to the West. I was alternating shooting the rising super moon before it disappeared behind clouds, and then this crazy light show to the West. I don't...

This was from last week in Joshua Tree. It was a new moon, so my goal was Deep Space Astro with my tracker and long lens, but as mentioned in my Timelapse, I also set up 2 cameras to shoot timelapses all night long while I was working the Deep Space. This shot is taken from just one of the...

I was in Death Valley photographing for a few days with the main goal being Deep Space Astro along with Wide Angle Star/Milky Way timelapses. The weather for the third evening was forecasted to be totally cloudy, so I looked around and found that at the Trona Pinnacles the forecast was just for...

While I was doing a timelapse of the moon rise the other night, I took the time and grabbed a few still images also. This is one of them. Don't forget to check out our Video section where most of the timelapses are placed. Also if you can Like them and even more importantly Subscribe and the...

This was one of those last minute ideas 2 days ago. Thank goodness they don't still have food samples at Costco (where I had been) or I would never have gotten there in time at all :) Another work in progress, I see plenty to improve for next time but I like the general idea of timelapse with a...

As the name implies it's a park on a peak by the coast. :) Although it's not really a peak, it's just where the land rises up away from the beach. There are trails that run just outside of this going into the hilly area down to Laguna Hills (by Laguna Beach) and also connects in the west with...

This is from last night (Sunday) out at Joshua Tree. Besides wanting to get some usable timelapses, I still had a bit of experimenting I wanted to do. So first off, I outsmarted myself with this one.... :rolleyes: I went vertical with this one because I wanted to catch more stars above the...

A week ago Alan had mentioned he was getting 17 foot swells up on the Oregon Coast, well further down the coast here along Big Sur I was getting 12 to 17 foot swells too. So it was fun to watch as the waves and water would explode at times. I needed to get up the coast some more for sunset, but...

This is from last Sunday evening up at Pfeiffer Beach along Big Sur on the coast of California. I already did a tighter shot of it and a timelapse that I posted, this is now a wider shot at 24mm on a Full Frame showing the whole rock that the beam is going through. It's kind of amazing to me how...

**** Don't forget to visit our Video Forum where many of us are posting really cool video's and timelapses. Make it a daily part of your viewing to encourage us by visiting the Video's each day to see what's new. ***** From Sunday evening at Pfieffer Beach in Big Sur. It was a fun day of...

This is from 2 nights ago as I went to visit Laguna Beach California to work some more on Timelapse video's. The sunset went pretty nuclear at one point. My only problem was working with the 2 camera's I had set up for the Timelapse I didn't have much time to shoot stills with my D850. Once I...

Well, a Poppy sunrise that is. After a long night of Milky Way and Deep Astro shooting, this sunrise was a welcome gift. The Poppies are still closed because the sun isn't up yet, but I still think they look cool as when they are closed up they look like orange tulips to me. :) This was taken...

In the local hills that I run in, I have been watching the wildflowers slowly pick up and make their display. These are not very impressive flowers, nothing exotic, but they do cover an area really well. So on Friday when I ran, though it was still a bit stormy out, I made sure to run with the...

This is from a few weeks back in Joshua Tree National Park, it's Arch Rock. After a night of Deep Space photography with no clouds, there was just a slight bit of clouds along the horizon, not much at all but enough to give me hope for sunrise so I ran over to where Arch Rock is and got this...

It was a wet night at Bambino's in Anaheim, California! Another glorious rain filled day and the rain continued on into the night. So I went out camera in hand to capture some local city scenes that had gotten wet. I had a blast! :) All comments are welcome, Jim

This is a kind of large Sea Cave, but not a very deep cave at Woods Cove in Laguna Beach. I didn't use any lighting in this, the Nikon D850 is just really great at Shadow Recovery which makes it so useful for these shooting locations. Due to the higher tide there wasn't anyone congregating in...

This is from last night at Woods Cove in Laguna Beach, California. We have been having rainy weather lately, and with that the clouds will break up a bit at times, and they looked like they would be scattered around sunset along with a nice tide. So I ran down there for sunset. The actual best...

This is from a few years ago from Joshua Tree National Park in California. It’s an archive shot that I tweaked a bit, so hopefully it looks good as my edits have to be quick. All comments are welcome, Jim