joshua tree national park

If you look close you can see the winter Milky Way in Joshua Tree National Park. This is just a short timelapse, 45 secs of the stars from a night in January. All comments are welcome, Jim PS. Please Share, Share and Share. :)

This is from this last summer as I was making a run through Joshua Tree as I was self isolating on my way to Colorado. My intent was Deep Space Astro, but as the sun was setting on this day I walked out into the desert a bit to set up and shoot with some nice golden light in the sky. All...

This was from a month ago or so, from below Joshua Tree National Park which was closed. This is an area of BLM land with the city of Indio not too far off. It was over a 100 degrees that day, but in the early morning after shooting Astro and Milky Way all night, I walked out into the desert a...

After a night of shoot Deep Space Astro 3 weeks ago I enjoyed running around Joshua Tree looking for new spots or subjects that grab my eye. In this case I was looking to find a cool Joshua Tree and the way the clouds were radiating out from the horizon this one grabbed my attention. All...

From the Bowels of the Earth come forth! This is from Joshua Tree National Park. After a night of Deep Space Astrophotography I then went to the Arch Rock area and I liked how the rock shapes were playing with the incoming clouds at sunrise. This is pretty much how it looked as shot. Of course...

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

Joshua Tree's have very long life spans, and it's always interesting to see them shepherding over the rest of the desert. This is from last week and how I spent my morning hours after having spent the previous night doing Deep Space Astro. All comments are welcome, Jim

In between shooting Deep Space objects for most of the night and Sunrise, I wanted to shoot some wide field stars with my Sigma 14mm f1.8 lens at Joshua Tree NP a few days ago. I composed this wide to include the bush on the left. Most often that's composed out, but I wanted to go wider and so I...

After a long night of Deep Space photography, I took a quick 45min nap to get up to shoot the last of the stars with my 14mm which then turned to sunrise. :) I haven't processed my 14mm star shots yet, because I really liked the way the sunrise turned out. Not too long before sunrise there...

I went out to Joshua Tree on Saturday to set up and do my first Deep Space Astrophotography. Things went pretty well, it was learning steps throughout the night, but I was able to capture the Orion Nebula and I was really happy in the end. The quality of it wasn't enough to finish processing and...

This was from a week ago at Joshua Tree. While Arch Rock is super cool, I find the area around it to be very fascinating with lot's of cool shaped rocks and formations. This is one of them, with Arch Rock basically being behind the rocks on the left side of the photo for reference. The Milky...

This was from a few nights ago as I ran out to Joshua Tree to shoot the Milky Way. The moon was setting about 2:30 so that gave me until 4:30 to get some nice moon shots. I ended up spending a majority of that time helping someone else out, so I couldn't focus too much on shooting the Milky Way...

A continuation of the surprise I was given on my recent trip a few days ago to Joshua Tree. I had gone out there solely with the intent to shoot the Milky Way that night, but I was totally surprised by the welcome I got from the wildflowers in the upper desert. So here are a couple of more...

So I ran out to Joshua Tree National Park on Thursday mainly to shoot the Milky Way. The moon was getting larger and staying out longer, but there was going to be a 2 hour window from 2:30am to 4:30am where the Milky Way would still be very bright. What I didn't expect was wildflowers to be out...

Another wildflower image from last week in Joshua Tree National Park in California. The wildflowers were everywhere and ran in every direction. This was at sunset. The clouds didn't last long, it had been a pretty cloudless afternoon and these clouds were gone by the time the sunset was over...

This is from almost a week ago out in Joshua Tree National Park. Once I had woken up to a clearing of the snow storm around 3am and shot the classic rock and Juniper in Jumbo Rocks until 4am, I decided to run over to Arch Rock real quick and see what it looked like. It was about a 15 to 20 min...

I perhaps should have embraced the almost full moon sooner. I had spent an hour composing so that it was just out of the frame, and by the time I had decided to include it there was a rather large cloud on the one side. But still, the end result seemed pretty cool. This was out at Joshua Tree...

It was truly amazing to see the southern end of Joshua Tree so completely carpeted with wildflowers, so much so I drove out there 3 times to shoot them with this being from the final evening last Sunday. The wildflowers were so thick that even as I took extreme care as I moved about in them my...

This is the end of the day on my 3rd trip out to Joshua Tree in a week, and it was a productive day. I drove out there in time for sunrise on only 3 hours of sleep, but I wanted to get there for sunrise as there was clouds in the forecast. I haven't processed those yet, because this one really...

With the rare snowfall in Joshua Tree as described in my previous post I had found the clouds opening up and allowing the stars to shine through. This classic composition kind of felt like it was a gateway to the stars for me. While I never mind sharing a location with someone, it was pretty...