milky way

On my way back from Colorado to California, I went by way of New Mexico, Arizona and then California. I managed to stop by in Sedona just as Jeffrey was meeting with Doug, so I had an hour or two to hang out with them by Red Rock Crossing before I left to go up to the Grand Canyon for my first...

Here's a view of Mt. Oberlin and Bird Woman Falls with the stars lining up overhead. This is at a lower elevation than my recent Hidden Lake photo, so the smoke is a little thicker - especially on the right side of the image. I'll have to try this again when/if we get some clearer skies. Any...

I went out camping with the 6 grandkids and my daughter to Dowdy Lake in Northern Colorado. It's a lake by an area called Red Feather Lakes. I had never been there before so it was all new to me. We were able to get a campsite right next to the lake and I found that it had this very cool rock...

The Black Canyon of the Gunnison, the south rim is where 95% of all visitors go from my guess. I have been there dozens of times now, and have posted photos from their previously. It's a super cool place! You guys know I love night skies whether it's just the stars or the Milky Way too. While...

I did some backpacking in the Eastern Sierra above Silver Lake this week. I didn't make it as far as I wanted (physical condition along with too many hills and lots of elevation) but enjoyed the area. We spent one night at Gem lake and I managed to capture some stars there. I averaged two...

Hello, this is my first post. picture taken in May 2020. You can watch the video version And you can download this photo for free

I finally was able to get this processed and compiled. As most of you know I am pretty buried with grandkids here in Colorado, so my free time is not very free, and there is always several kids where every I go. So while I enjoy them greatly, it makes long projects like this hard to do. This is...

This is from a week or two ago in the San Juans at Dallas Divide in SW Colorado. My goal and focus was doing Deep Space Astro with my long lens and tracker, but of course I still set up cameras for timelapses. I haven't gotten any timelapses done since I am back at my daughters and the 6...

Here is my version before I removed the stars. Technically most people remove the stars early on in the processing so that they don't get bloated by the processing itself. I did it just as I was almost done with the processing because that was when I thought about it. :) So in this with the...

Though it was 96 degrees during the day out at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, it cooled down to a very blissful 70 degrees at night. I totally enjoyed as I had 4 cameras setup and clicking away as I sat back in my beach chair just enjoying the blissful moment. This image is almost a free...

This is another one from last week in Joshua Tree National Park last week. My focus was Deep Space Astro, but once my Star Tracker was set up and shooting Deep Space, I ran around with my other cameras. I had the D810 and Sony A6400 set up in different locations to shoot timelapses, and then I...

This was from last week in Joshua Tree. It was a new moon, so my goal was Deep Space Astro with my tracker and long lens, but as mentioned in my Timelapse, I also set up 2 cameras to shoot timelapses all night long while I was working the Deep Space. This shot is taken from just one of the...

I was out at Joshua Tree National Park last week with the goal of shooting Deep Space Astro, but had also planned on setting up a couple of cameras so I could do timelapses of the night sky. Having car headlights on the rocks at night has been something that keeps happening and I have been...

In Death Valley a few weeks ago, while I had 1 camera pointed West doing a timelapse and I had 1 camera pointed East doing a timelapse, I also had 1 camera pointed up at the sky doing a timelapse. This is from the one pointed up. I started this one later, so it's only got 500 some frames in it...

Well, actually I guess it was the sky and not the stars, and actually it went more psychedelic and not psycho... But once I titled the timelapse and had uploaded it to YouTube, I wasn't going to modify it since it takes too long. :) So this was from just leaving Furnace Creek to the North in...

This is from the location of the original Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley National Park. This is from about a week ago and I had to deal with the same issue Ben had with no moon to light up the ground layer. The light pollution you will see comes Furnace Creek. Part of the reason I picked this...

This is from 2 weeks ago. After visiting with Ben, I detoured up to Grand Teton National Park to explore it in the winter and ended up spending a couple of nights enjoying the night skies. This is the 2nd night. I was going to include scenes from a 3rd camera, my D610 that was doing some...

With clear skies, calm winds, and no snow on the roads I decided to visit Lake McDonald last night (or I guess early this morning) for a few shots. In addition to the mountains, stars and like I appear to have gotten some aurora glow as well. Here is my wide (14mm but slightly cropped)...

Trona Pinnacles in California is such a cool place. It's west of Death Valley and it's basically Mono Lake without the lake. :) This is one of the frames I used for the timelapse and afterwards edited it by itself. This was late, close to when the sun was going to start brightening up the sky...

This is from last year in Zion National Park, from the Watchman bridge. It was a really windy evening and night, so the trees and leaves are not well defined. On top of that it was totally dark with no moon, so that valley area along the Virgin river was pitch black. So the end result is a bit...