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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...

From last Sunday night, it was a very pleasant evening in Joshua Tree National Park. I already posted a vertical timelapse taken on my Sony A6400. This one was taken on my D810. It is made from Raw files converted to tiffs and then compiled. All of that was done in Photoshop. Now sadly there is...

This is a still capture from last Sunday night when I was doing timelapses in Joshua Tree. One of the advantages of shooting timelapse as Raw stills to compile later is you can pick an image out of it and still process it as a raw image at full resolution. All comments are welcome, Jim

This is the same timelapse I posted earlier, a vertical timelapse from Joshua Tree. This time with a still image for an intro section. I wanted to test if it could then occupy the viewer for 11 secs while the video would render into High Def, instead of the video being all pixelated like had...

This is from last night (Sunday) out at Joshua Tree. Besides wanting to get some usable timelapses, I still had a bit of experimenting I wanted to do. So first off, I outsmarted myself with this one.... :rolleyes: I went vertical with this one because I wanted to catch more stars above the...

Monday evening... Christmas Star or the conjunction Saturn and Jupiter.... cc welcome.star,

This is another one from Dec 13th when Alisa and I went out to Abbott Church in Eastern Colorado to capture the Geminids Meteor shower. This is the view to the NW which is the direction from where the Geminids originated. I shot this with the Sony A6400 as I was using it and moving it around a...

On my way back to Colorado and beyond for fall color I knew I had a night or two where I could do some Deep Space Astro photography. It wasn't a huge window since the moon was at 2/3rds to 3/4 full. So the sky at night didn't get dark enough until about 1am on this night and by 5am it was...

As some of you know, I was kind of following the Comet Neowise all over. It wasn't intentional really, but it just sort of happened. :) I shot it in Arches NP, the Tetons, and several times in Rocky Mountain NP. This is one of those times were I shot it up at RMNP and using this cool wall area...

A few weeks ago I went up to the Devil's Tower to capture Perseids Meteor shower and also the Milky Way. I took my oldest Granddaughter along who is 9 for the quick overnighter. It was a lot of fun and she had a blast. She only has a P&S so she couldn't capture the stars, but she had fun...

Two views looking down the length of little Raven Lake toward Mt. Pugh and Sloan. 5ish a.m., still pretty dark other than some moonlight. Dawn.

I've already posted a version of this scene in the landscape forum, but hadn't processed this one. Like Jim said in the first one it would have been nice to include the whole mountain in the reflection, this one does. Two images stacked, sky 25 sec., earth 79 sec., ISO 3200, Sony A7rII + Batis...

Just 5 hours earlier my tent was covered in hail and the ground was covered in an inch of it, so much so that it looked like snow, so I made a snow man. But it melted fast and by the time the stars came out, there was no sign left from that sudden and unexpected storm. This is up at Ice Lake...

I hiked up to this little lake/tarn on the side of White Chuck mountain hoping to find a relatively easy place to take my wife for a nice night. I've looked down on this spot from the summit a couple of times and thought it would be cool to get over there sometime. With the crowds on the well...

Colorado has been impacted by four fires and all four w/out any containment.... the one in Grand Junction has about 7%. Last night I went with a friend up RMNP. this is the glow from one of the 4 fires. While they have made for some cool photo ops we need rain so bad! One of CO beloved area...

A week ago I ran over to Arches National Park for the night as I have mentioned already. My hope was that I could get Comet Neowise passing through an arch. It sounded like an easy task since there seems like there are so many Arches in Arches NP that it should certainly be easy! Well, after I...

I decided to chase Comet Neowise over to Arches NP in hopes of getting it with a something different. I got to Arches about 3pm and spent about 3 hours driving and hiking around with my compass in my lap looking for objects that would line up with the comet, and ultimately I wanted to see if I...

This is one of the wide angle shots I got of Comet Neowise. I had shot it with 3 cameras, 1 at 350mm, 1 at 155mm and this one a crop body Sony A6400 with a 12mm. Again, this was up in Trail Ridge last Saturday morning in Rocky Mountain National Park. I thought that a Wide Angle would render the...

It is usually so quiet and peaceful at night, one can almost hear the night whispering. This is one of my takes on the Milky Way at the Temple of the Sun and Moon with the Moon being the Temple closest. Ben and Alisa were out shooting it with me. It was genuinely a fine time to spend with 2...