August 2, 2024
Once I settled in at the City of Rocks State Park campground, an unsettled sky darkened the distance. Thunderstorms with bolts that illuminated and crackled beautifully but worried me. I sat them out in the tent wondering if the tent was a careless place to hang out in a thunderstorm. Read more…
June 6, 2024
There aren’t many National Parks east of the Mississippi River. We don’t have the magnificent land formations born of the Colorado Plateau. But we got the the Great Lakes. Indiana Dunes National Park is right next to the gorgeous Lake Michigan. It would be my day and night destination as Read more…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
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…
February 19, 2023
Mid-winder recess always aligns with peak wanderlust, a breaking point where draining daily life in New York City grows to a frustration level that pervades and my soul needs a deep spring of wonder, nature and night. Respite. This trip I escape to the desert, a place I assumed would 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 1, 2022
I found a nice spot next to the lake to shoot for hours undisturbed. Sure, there were plenty of passing cars, but they illuminated the tree tops nicely as they were high above a hill. These clouds look really nice with the Milky Way. I am learning to embrace them Read more…
November 27, 2021
After some discussion of star trails in my astrophotography Zoom class, I decided I’d include a star trails mission in my long holiday weekend.. . at the best place for star gazing in my vicinity, Montauk Point. Having gone to Camp Hero State Park just last week but forgetting my Read more…