milky way

This is the timelapse from the Alabama Hills I captured 2 weeks ago. The place was packed with people camping, so I had to do a bit of driving back and forth, a lot of getting out with my compass to see how the Milky Way might line up with various rocks while trying to avoid the light from...

I couldn't come up with a fancy title this morning. :( This is from the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine California along Hwy 395 from 2 weeks ago. A single image taken from a series I shot for a timelapse. All comments are welcome, Jim 25 sec ISO3200 f2.0 Nikon D850 Sigma 14mm f1.8

This is the timelapse from about 10 days ago up in Mono Lake. I had the opportunity to meet @ProCaliberTraveler (Michael) that day. The clouds were awesome with a Lenticular off in the distance, and it was really windy with the clouds just racing by in the sky. So I set up my tripods and...

Mono Lake is a fun place to capture the Milky Way. The myriad of tufa's make for lot's of composition choices. This is from about 10 days ago, there was some moonlight, but the moon had been set for hours at the time that I captured this. It's a single shot with the Sony A6400 and Samyang 12mm...

This was the first of 4 nights of Milky Way photography in 5 nights that I did this week. I started in Arches National Park as I worked my way back to California. Since I had just captured the Milky Way a month earlier at Balanced Rock and the The Windows area, I was looking for something...

Here is the Timelapse that the photo I posted this morning was a part of. It's the Windows area in Arches National Park. You can see the South Window and Turret Arch. In addition you can see lot's of lights from planes and satellites, and the flashlights of the people who came about every 30...

With Turret Arch on one side at Arches National Park, I was aiming to get the early spring Milky Way which rises very late in the morning. It first starts peeping up about 3am when I shot this 2 weeks ago. This is a single image using the old technique of Double Processing the Raw Image. Once...

It was cold, very cold with snow all around in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison as I set up to capture the night sky. Clouds were forecast to roll in about 3am, which was the time the Milky Way was set to rise about the same time. Which would win? The Clouds or the Milky Way? Or would it be a...

We had a clear night around Kalispell last night, so I made my way to a spot I'd figured could be a nice place to capture an early season Milky Way. This was also my first attempt using the fancy Benro automated head for tracking a nightscape. Setup was easy and the skies cooperated even at 3°F...

Montrose, Colorado Canon EOS-R Full Spectrum Converted Camera 14mm Rokinon f2.8 lens, 3200 ISO, 30 seconds. 3rd Milky Way shot of my photographic career, with at least a year in between each. But this time there was no messing around, I new exactly the settings I needed, set up was quick and...

This is a timelapse from Factory Butte in Utah! I was out there with @Amy Nelson and we got there in the dark and set up in the dark with no real stars showing, just some clouds. A storm started up with some cool lightning. Most of the strikes were just so bright though, they were difficult to...

Any suggestions for a title, I am open. :) This was from last September at Factory Butte in Utah. Amy had met with me there for a few days, and one of them we spent the night shooting a storm and then the Milky Way over Factory Butte. This is one of the frames. It's a single image, despite no...

This was from the Perseids Meter shower last year. I was in the Grand Canyon at the time and I already posted one image from it and a timelapse from it. With this one, I was pointed away from the center of the Perseid Meteor shower, and in all of the several hundred frames I captured that night...

The Milky Way will serenade you as it spins above the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Please sit back and enjoy, and Please Subscribe to the YouTube Channel. This was taken last summer when I was capturing the Perseids Meteor shower (I posted a still of it taken with my Nikon D850 in another thread)...

This is from last July at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. I am still working feverishly going backwards through the folders of photos I have from last year to process some of those that had simply gotten missed due to all of my traveling. So this one I just processed a few days ago, it's a 2...

I drove over Logan Pass Saturday evening, hoping to take advantage of the early moonset and forecasted clear skies to do a little night photography in some popular spots. I started at the Wild Goose Island lookout and there were more clouds than expect and plenty of wind to churn up the trees. I...

The Bay Area has been roasting for the past week, we got some nice clear coastal nights, I dashed out to the Davenport piers for a few nights. The pier columns are crumbling down slowly, there are only two left. Oliver DavenportPiersGate45FB by Black Rock Art

Hello Focal World friends, This is my second Milky Way photo. Taken at the same spot this year (previous post). Unfortunately the tree died in the meanwhile. Same exif. You can download this photo in HD

This is out at Goblin Valley in Utah. It's one of the images in my sequence of shots for the timelapse I created. Milky Way in Goblin Valley | Focal World The moon had just set, so the goblins got darker and the sky got darker and the Milky Way showed up a bit more. Single image ISO 1600 25...

I drove into Glacier last night to take advantage of some (finally) clear dark skies. I had a pretty good idea that the Milky Way would be stretching above Bird Woman Falls so I set up near Haystack Creek at a spot I'd scouted with a relatively clear view. Here are three takes on the scene. I'm...