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Salt and Fire by Kurt Lawson, on Flickr Sunday night's sunset was crazy. I thought it might be a good one and scouted out locations with water to shoot. I ended up chasing this band of clouds as they slowly drifted south before stopping at these brine pools and watching the entire show from...

On a windless spring night in Yosemite Valley lit by half a moon, I sat on the boardwalk in Cook’s Meadow in the dark and just listened to the roar of the falls and the symphony of frogs inhabiting the flood waters around me. Aside from a few people that passed by on foot and on bike very...

Superbloom at Night by Kurt Lawson, on Flickr The forecast was for a "mostly cloudy" night. After discovering this location, I was trying to figure out how I could sneak away during the work week when the forecast became clear in order to capture a night image here. But, as I looked up at the...

Watched Sunrise Have you ever had the feeling you were being watched? At sunrise high up in the Temblor Range of mountains in the California Desert, a stone face watched over me as I watched over the spectacular scene among the vibrant blooming slopes of these young mountains. In the morning...

The Best Way to View the Superbloom by Kurt Lawson, on Flickr A7r3 with Canon 100-400 @ 278mm. It's so sharp the individual cords between the wing and the glider are resolved at full rez. Edit to add second image that I uploaded earlier than usual for inclusion in SFGate article. With and...

Jumbo Cloud Rays by Kurt Lawson, on Flickr Two minute exposure smeared the clouds into an unexpectedly radiant pattern

Each of these is a single shot, no exposure blending or focus stacking or whatever. No compositing of any kind. The cloud that was blocking the moon parted at the last minute (still causing a little glow around the moon). I planned this for weeks and it actually worked out! A random car far away...

New Scan of the 97 Switchbacks at Night by Kurt Lawson, on Flickr The 97 switchbacks of the Mount Whitney Trail - at night. On a whim in September 2018 I decided to get this image re-scanned. I had originally scanned it using my Nikon LS-9000ED, but wanted a better result. So I sent it out for...

I've been thinking a lot about our National Parks lately as they have in the news for bad reasons. Here are two of our nation's jewels. The first is my first photo to reach Explore on Flickr since March 2015, and it's from Joshua Tree National Park just a few weeks ago. The second is from last...

Lasing the Universe by Kurt Lawson, on Flickr On a summer night, the W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes Keck I and Keck II beam their powerful lasers up into the atmosphere. These lasers, combined with the deformable surface of each telescopes’ 10 meter mirrors, allow for the optical equivalent...

Fall in the Alabama Hills by Kurt Lawson, on Flickr I first discovered this tree last year over Thanksgiving break. Over a month ago, I drove by this tree and noted it was changing color already and figured that this year it would be past peak color by the time I returned, but I was wrong. It...

I've been harboring serious desire to see lava in person for the last decade. I missed several episodes of interesting lava ocean entry in Hawaii due to my inability to escape the day job in time to go. That threat was very much in play as this latest episode started happening in May. All though...

Before sunrise I hiked up the Zion Canyon Overlook Trail for this view looking out over the highway and into the main Zion canyon beyond. The moon is a day and a half past full and shortly direct light of the sun will hit the peaks and start walking down the walls. 8 Seconds for the main...