March 12, 2024
I ventured into Old Florida to check out the dark skies. This was the highlight of my quick trip and most definitely well worth it. First, some scenic beauty in the daytime hours. See those tracks in the sand… well I got my rental car stuck in the sand, much Read more…
January 14, 2024
So I had this idea for a snow photoshoot, but wimped out about doing it outside in the frigid temperatures. So after getting all dressed up in the spare bedroom, a photoshoot with the extremely gaudy lamp I scored at the Salvation Army a few weeks back. Notice the lamp… Read more…
December 14, 2023
With finally a clear night, we headed to the Bluffs to capture them and perhaps some remnants of the Geminids Meteor Shower. With warm base layers on, we basked in the crisp cold, thankful the automobile traffic would be less so than in the summer. When another car pulled up, Read more…
November 18, 2023
With a finally clear night, we headed to the dark. But the effect of what amounts to a small ocean continues to alter forecasts. Though it is frustrating, we made the best of the clouds, manaing to capture plenty of stars and playing with his daughter’s Fisher Price red and Read more…
October 28, 2023
Time for the beautiful full moon to grace my page once again. I swear I will work on doing some composite images with some foreground next time. But I never grow tire of this image. . the moon in all its crater-y form beaming proudly. These shots were taken in Read more…
September 28, 2023
Another full moon on the porch in Rochester, NY. This one, September’s Harvest Moon. Regretfully, I took these shots using the auto-focus. I am now realizing it isn’t as sharp as when I use the manual focus. A lovely mistake to learn. Next full moon will be in October! Oh, Read more…
September 19, 2023
It always a shock to see how vibrant the stars are at Montauk. Sure, there is also a lot of light pollution at the horizon–but the Milky Way always says “Hi” to me. I like to blame my starry luck on my underwear which is always star-patterned. And in some Read more…
August 31, 2023
You may have heard… there is a super blue moon tonight! Super as in it’s closer to the Earth. And Blue as it is the second full moon in the calendar month. The next time this combination of super and blue moons will occur is 2037. I took pretty pictures Read more…
August 27, 2023
Even when the moon is big and bright, it goes down at some point. So the evening started shooting the moon, but turned into a series of intervals of sleep and picture-taking. This is the best footage from the evening. Day time activities include floating on a tube and drinking Read more…
August 20, 2023
Despite the all-day of trickling rain and a sky full of gray, I knew I’d see the stars in the evening. It’s not because I checked the weather, though I did. I just kind of knew. The stars had satisfied every evening I wanted to shoot them. Though I don’t Read more…
August 18, 2023
I’m finally in a new International Dark Sky Park… my 19th!! Great Basin National Park. Despite some clouds, I got some great astrophotography done as I laid in my tent. I have come to find the clicking of my intervalometer comforting as I am camping. The clouds then returned to Read more…
August 16, 2023
And night came at Cedar Breaks National Monument… along with its billions of stars. I spent most of the time of my night shoot in an empty parking lot near my campsite where it was a bit darker than my campsite. That’s my rental car up there. And a gorgeous Read more…
August 13, 2023
It was a gorgeous night with crisp stars… but some wispy clouds persisted to enter the landscape. Still, the night shoot went better than I expected, with the most beautiful Milky Way right outside the door pretty early on. It makes a case for how a gorgeous galactic core can Read more…
July 13, 2023
With news that the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute was predicting the Northern Lights could be visible in New York, we set out for a night shoot facing the predicted view line. And somehow, some way, I got to see the Northern Lights for a second time in my life. Read more…
April 22, 2023
It was a new moon; I had a car… and it was also one of the first recommended nights to see the Milky Way of the season. So despite having a full day under my belt I pulled myself up at 10 pm to drive two hours to the closest Read more…
April 14, 2023
It’s been several years since I visited the first place I ever shot the stars. Though that evening was clear, too many times my plans were thwarted by the mountain’s tempestuous clouds. But we would give it a shot anyway, staying in town to allow for an easy check on Read more…
April 13, 2023
After the mermaid shoot I had another photographic mission in Chimney Bluffs State Park: Star trails on a clear night looking out at Lake Ontario. The stars were crisp even though there was quite a bit of light about. Before my programmed sequence, some foreground shots standing on the bench Read more…
April 1, 2023
The New York City area’s five opulent Wonder Theatres all opened in the late 1920’s–during the hey day of vaudevillian performances and onward into the golden age of cinema. Though it sat abandoned for four decades, the fully renovated Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre would be my first stop on my goal Read more…
March 7, 2023
In the two full moons that have occurred since I got a new telephoto lens I wound up on my porch in my robe to see what it can do. Because full moon photography is one of the only dark sky photography that is gratifying in New York City, I Read more…
February 5, 2023
The first moon shoot with my new telephoto lens. Now I can’t wait for a crisp night with a full super moon. But for now, a micromoon, the only full moon in February:
December 4, 2022
Long overdue, another visit to Kings Park Psychiatric Center! I’m happy to report on some new interiors as access points continue to change. Building 90: Business Office & Personnel Office Though I have been inside these connected structures, this was a first venture to the upper floor. The hallways were Read more…
September 25, 2022
Dropping off a rental car early (Ok, really early), I got to see a carnival in Bellmore, Long Island in a beautiful state. The hushed and still amusements played wonderfully with dawn’s light. Also spied, the carnies trailers. I think I would like to be a carnie for a summer.
September 24, 2022
A gorgeous night shoot within one of the North Fork’s sunflower fields… … these beauties are like no sunflowers I’ve ever seen! With lots of petals in the center, they basked in the night sky illuminated by an iPhone. Even at this late hour, there were many bees getting their Read more…
September 11, 2022
Ok, I promise, dear reader, that next time I take a picture of the full moon I will take a different picture. One where I am compositing two shots to show you the foreground. One that doesn’t look exactly the same as every single one I have taken before. One Read more…
September 3, 2022
A long day ended in Wolcott, New York, where we’d settle in for Labor Day activities. But unfortunately the forecast called for clouds the next two evenings. So I set up to shoot right way to capture what I could… and it turned out to be a fruitful shoot with Read more…
August 23, 2022
At a certain point of my trip I realized how ideal weather conditions were for star gazing. Though I hadn’t intended to, having not brought my tripod, I decided I needed to do a night shoot. I had the time, the transport and Parc Natural del Garraf promised an escape Read more…