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While in the Eastern Sierra for fall, I stopped by Silver Lake to try capturing the scene by moon light. There were some thin clouds in the sky that produced a circular rainbow around the moon (moon dog). So I went with it... Any thoughts are welcome.

I don't usually shoot star trails, in part because I'm usually in a rush to do something or I just don't want to tie up my camera long enough to get good ones. When I went to Yosemite last April to shoot Tunnel View at night, I had a few hours between moon set (when I shot the ground) and when...

I shot this a couple of years ago at Mono Lake as I was passing through on my way to look for some fall color. I shot the sunset at Navy Beach and saw the crowds over at South Tufa. I headed over there once it got dark, and found it amusing that I was arriving while everyone else was leaving. I...

This was taken in April from Tunnel View. I took the ground image around 11:30PM with the moon lighting Bridalveil Falls. I waited a couple of hours for the stars to move into position and then took the sky image. Any thoughts are welcome.

What's my favorite way to avoid crowds and boring blue skies at a popular icon? Shoot it by the light of the moon. Here's the view from the bridge in Zion lit by a quarter Moon. Any thoughts are welcome.

A few years ago I attended a Starry Skies workshop with Michael Frye (one of my all time favorite photographers). We spent one evening at Olmsted Point shooting the various trees with the stars behind them. Michael showed the group this tree and many of them spent time taking turns having a go...

I took this in Yosemite during this time of year a few years ago. I probably got more "keepers" that evening than any other day in my photography experience. My original goal was to hike to Cathedral Lakes for sunset, but a recent snowstorm made that an impossibility. I ended up settling for a...

I shot this last fall, while the Soberanes fire was still burning just to the south. It was close enough that the actual park was closed, but I was happy with this spot along the road. The smoke along the horizon actually made it a little easier to blend my twilight shot of the cove with the...

This was one of my first night photos, and remains a favorite. I was in Yosemite Valley chasing moonbows and stopped at this flooded area near the swinging bridge to capture Yosemite Falls by the light of the full moon.

With a very low chance for auroras, and a high chance for smoke, I drove up to Glacier against my better judgement earlier this week..in hopes of getting lucky. When I got to the Flathead Valley the smoke was not too bad, relatively speaking, and I could see blue skies peaking through the haze...

Milky Way over Shark Fin Cove in Davenport, California

I was in Carmel for the weekend so I decided to take advantage of some clear skies and a sliver of moon to try some shots at Garrapata state park. I'm including both a portrait and a landscape and would be interested in finding out people's preferences. In both cases, the light on the landscape...