stars

This one is from Zion and the bridge looking towards the Watchman. Fortunately at 2am in the morning there was no one to kick me off. It was super windy, so the trees and leaves definitely lose definition in this one. I could use a twilight shot with more leaf definition, but I really prefer 1...

A Timelapse from Temple of the Sun and Moon at night. This is a short 3 second Timelapse, I wish it was longer now, but it's something I usually forget to do even. All comments are welcome, Jim

More playing around with Luminar sky replacement. I'm going think of this when shooting, good to look for trees against a bald sky, which is what I used here from the hike into The Wave. I always try to find such an element when shooting stars, but that is very difficult when trying for the MW...

This one is from last week out in the area by Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve. While waiting for the Milky Way to rise up over the hill I had a camera set up in the opposite direction to capture the Crescent Moon. With shooting at night, even if the moon is small and crescent shaped any exposure...

This is from out by the Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve in California. I was envisioning the Milky Way rising and crowing a hill with a road like this going up it. So while the moon was still up to light the hill (moon was behind me), I shot this with just stars as I thought it could look cool...

The Sea Ranch Chapel at night

This was from a month ago out in Joshua Tree National Park. I have a favorite little spot to set up there that has almost the whole sky open to shoot. I gave up on processing this one at least twice over the last month. It's a super faint Nebula, it's one you can't see by eye or see in the...

Inspired by Jim S's wonderful star shots he's recently posted I went back into my folder from Bad Water. I walked out to some nice salt formations very early in the morning, but had quite a bit of moon taking away from the stars. I decided to work with that inspired by Jim Fox's wonderful touch...

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...

The Devil's Backbone is a structure that I have seen what seems like hundreds of times as I drive up into the Rocky Mountain NP on HWY 34 from my Daughters house. Always in too much of hurry I zip by it, but when Alisa had bought some new lenses when I was in Colorado and she needed help in...

Well, actually the tree isn't moonlit, but the title sounded cool... :) The tree is lit by dozens of cars zipping by at 55mph just about 20 feet behind me. So the mood wasn't exactly tranquil, but the end result felt that way. Besides it did feel awesome to get out and shoot! Being at my...

This was from a month ago in Rocky Mountain National Park, after I got back hiking in the dark from Sky Pond so I could shoot the sunset there, the stars were up and just as I got to the Glacier Gorge Parking lot, the moon was beginning to rise. So I quickly set up to shoot the moon rise because...

This was from a month ago up at Dallas Divide in SW Colorado. It's getting late in the Milky Way season with the Milky Way being more vertical then horizontal, which to me is my least favorite position for it. In this case with the partly cloudy sky and liked how they interacted with the Milky...

From a few days ago in Arches National Park in Utah. This is Wall Street. It's a bit tougher of a shot for me since I had to shoot it with my 16-35mm f4 lens instead of my normal 14mm f1.8. I also had to deal with a drunk guy who started to wander around with a flashlight shining it around and...

This from the beginning of August when Alisa and I went to American Basin to shoot wildflowers, and we got tons of awesome wildflower photos from there with the bloom being a week or two later then normal due to the extreme snow this year. The major road into it got taken out by landslides the...

When Monika and I started shooting off Trail Ridge Road in RMNP on Sunday night for the stars and Milky Way, I set up initially to shoot with the moon at my back to light up the hills and ridges opposite it. There was still some clouds in the sky which I was really liking, but they ended up...

This was from this last Friday night in American Basin in the Alpine Loop in Colorado. Alisa and I went there to shoot wildflowers but we also wanted to shoot the stars and maybe the Milky Way too. On this night there was a thin layer of clouds blocking the Milky Way a bit and some of the stars...

When I was up in the Grand Teton's camping with 5 grandkids, I snuck out of the tent about midnight to go and capture the moon rise as it first light shines and lights up the peaks of the Tetons. I was fortunate that I got a cool meteor in this image too, it's one of the first as the peaks were...

Here is a rework of the sky a bit from a trip out to Arch Rock in Joshua Tree National Park last April. This is 3 horizontal shots for the pano. There is no stacking in this, it's a single image for the rock and Milky Way for each section of the pano. The Arch is lit up by the light of the just...

I need to have Tim come and give me cool names for my photos like he does for his. :) This is from last month in the Black Canyon. Amy came by and met me about midnight I think to shoot the Milky Way, but this was from before she got there while the Milky Way was lower in the sky. It's a 3...