jupiter

After coming back from taking the kids to an afternoon Christmas service and running some last minute errands, we got back to my daughters a bit after sunset and I spotted our friends Jupiter and Saturn in the sky. So after unloading the kids from the van, I grabbed my D850 which still had the...

So on the 21st I went out and met Alisa at Abbot Church out in Eastern Colorado. There was about 10 other fun loving photographers there and it made for a fun time. I set up 2 camera's, 1 with a long lens and one with a wider lens to shoot the church with the Christmas star conjunction of...

This was my 2nd day of going after the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. This day was better then Saturday night as the wind was calm and not shaking the camera all over and causing the windchill to feel like it was in the teens. The 28 degrees I was shooting in felt rather warm tonight...

Our solar system’s most massive planet, Jupiter, was slipping towards the western horizon when I captured this scene at around 12:30 am on July 14 of this year. There was a stiff breeze blowing across the top of this man-made pond, causing the water to be anything but smooth, and so diffusing...

The farmer who owns this property, located in the hills southwest of the rural town of Nowra, Australia, happened to come home as I was setting up my camera and tripod. Seeing him move toward the gate, right near where I was lurking in the dark, I uttered “hi there”, but it went unanswered...

Yalwal Camping Area, New South Wales, Australia. Despite having planned to get to this spot when Venus was higher in the sky, I ended up arriving just as the “evening star” was close to the horizon. By the time I lined up my camera and tripod to shoot this vertical panorama, the trees on the...

Another dam fine view Thank you to Jim Fox for inviting me to post in focalworld.com About three weeks back I visited this location, the Bamarang Dam, located on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. Arriving at the dam’s carpark a little before the orientation of the sky had the Milky...