joshua tree

My wife and I are just finishing up a month long trip in our new truck camper. We started in Lake Stevens WA, stopped in Bend OR for a bit of X-skiing, then headed down to Death Valley with a couple days in The Alabama Hills. More adventures in AZ and UT followed. I haven't had time to process...

Last week after 2 long nights of shooting Deep Space Astro in Joshua Tree National Park, I had planned to leave mid morning to head home after a bit of scouting around out in the desert. By the time I was done running around including trail running up 1500 feet up Ryan Mountain, I noticed that...

Joshua Tree's have very long life spans, and it's always interesting to see them shepherding over the rest of the desert. This is from last week and how I spent my morning hours after having spent the previous night doing Deep Space Astro. All comments are welcome, Jim

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...

After a long night of Deep Space photography, I took a quick 45min nap to get up to shoot the last of the stars with my 14mm which then turned to sunrise. :) I haven't processed my 14mm star shots yet, because I really liked the way the sunrise turned out. Not too long before sunrise there...

Well... somewhere between Utah and Death Valley last June I shot this. Maybe Alan can narrow it down with his hawk eyes! :) There was a storm, and somewhere there was a road, and somewhere I just started driving and exploring and found this. :rolleyes: All comments are welcome, Jim

I went out to Joshua Tree on Saturday to set up and do my first Deep Space Astrophotography. Things went pretty well, it was learning steps throughout the night, but I was able to capture the Orion Nebula and I was really happy in the end. The quality of it wasn't enough to finish processing and...

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...

Here's one I took during the last new moon cycle in Joshua Tree. This is the first time I attempted to take two exposers and blend them. I used the built in astro tracer in my Pentax K1 to track the sky. The tracker allowed for a 90 second exposer at ISO 800. Then took a second image for the...

Some more wildflower super bloom shots from a week or so ago from the Northern upper desert part of Joshua Tree. This time some closer more intimate landscapes. All comments are welcome, Jim #1 #2 #3

This was a week ago in Joshua Tree National Park here in California. As the Milky Way faded from the soon rising sun, I turned 180 degrees and saw the last vestiges of the night skies with the stars holding on for dear life. All comments are welcome, Jim

This was from a week ago at Joshua Tree. While Arch Rock is super cool, I find the area around it to be very fascinating with lot's of cool shaped rocks and formations. This is one of them, with Arch Rock basically being behind the rocks on the left side of the photo for reference. The Milky...

This was from a few nights ago as I ran out to Joshua Tree to shoot the Milky Way. The moon was setting about 2:30 so that gave me until 4:30 to get some nice moon shots. I ended up spending a majority of that time helping someone else out, so I couldn't focus too much on shooting the Milky Way...

A continuation of the surprise I was given on my recent trip a few days ago to Joshua Tree. I had gone out there solely with the intent to shoot the Milky Way that night, but I was totally surprised by the welcome I got from the wildflowers in the upper desert. So here are a couple of more...

As I mentioned in my Wildflower post I went out to Joshua Tree with the intent to shoot the Milky Way at Arch Rock with the Wildflowers being a little bonus. This one is from the new Sony A6400 and an even newer Samyang 12mm f2.0 that I picked up so that I could use the Sony as an emergency...

So I ran out to Joshua Tree National Park on Thursday mainly to shoot the Milky Way. The moon was getting larger and staying out longer, but there was going to be a 2 hour window from 2:30am to 4:30am where the Milky Way would still be very bright. What I didn't expect was wildflowers to be out...

A very tight and close up view of the Lupines out in Joshua Tree from a week ago. This was shot with the new Sony A6400 at f4.5 and 28mm on the kit 16-50mm lens and at ISO 100. All comments are welcome, Jim

Another wildflower image from last week in Joshua Tree National Park in California. The wildflowers were everywhere and ran in every direction. This was at sunset. The clouds didn't last long, it had been a pretty cloudless afternoon and these clouds were gone by the time the sunset was over...

This is from almost a week ago out in Joshua Tree National Park. Once I had woken up to a clearing of the snow storm around 3am and shot the classic rock and Juniper in Jumbo Rocks until 4am, I decided to run over to Arch Rock real quick and see what it looked like. It was about a 15 to 20 min...

I perhaps should have embraced the almost full moon sooner. I had spent an hour composing so that it was just out of the frame, and by the time I had decided to include it there was a rather large cloud on the one side. But still, the end result seemed pretty cool. This was out at Joshua Tree...