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I'm cross-posting this here to keep the drone discussions going. Click through to view in full HD to really see it (esp. the stars). Starts off with some time-lapses shot with my Sony A7rII, then goes to video from a DJI Mavic Pro 2. Time-lapse shots prepared in Lightroom. Video edited in...

Looking down upon the Blue Valley from Skyline Overlook in Utah with Ben a few weeks ago. @ckcarr Craig had just left Ben and I to our own devices, so it was a bit of twilight shooting while waiting for the Milky Way to make her appearance. The valley area I ended up warming up so much, it's not...

This is one from shooting with Ben at the Skyline Overlook a few weeks back. I was shooting with my Nikon D850 and the Sigma 14mm f1.8 in a wider open area where I could work some pano shots of the Milky Way without issue from the foreground. But I had found this cool set of rocks that I thought...

Most everyone knows I love staying up at night to shoot the Milky Way and the stars. Once in a while I will play around after shooting the Milky Way and shoot some star trails too. This is more of a fun shot, as you never quite know what you will get. This is a 45min single exposure. Most often...

I have decided to think of Airglow as a Mini Aurora. :) It might be the closest I get to an aurora, and where I used to try and get rid of it when I process the photos now I have decided to embrace it. :rolleyes: This was when Ben, Jeffrey and I got together last week for a fun few days...

Manley Beacon is that iconic peak that is most often seen from Zabriskie Point. When thinking about shooting the Milky Way in Death Valley a week or so ago I was looking for something different as I have shot the Milky Way from Badwater and the Race Track a bunch of times, so as I was thinking...

Here is a Vertical composition from a week or so ago while I was playing out in Death Valley in the Mesquite Sand Dunes. This is from the Sony A6400 with the Samyang 12mm f2.0 that I set up to go vertical because the Milky Way is getting higher sooner in the sky. I was mainly shooting with the...

From a quick run last week in Death Valley. It was pushing it in terms of the Milky Way and the Moon, but I still had an hour or so of darkness to play with the Milky Way in Mesquite Dunes. Looking back on the pano, I am not totally happy now as I should have realized that the left side of the...

Driving in Utah late at night on the I-70 I stopped at my favorite little hidden gem Millers Canyon. The storm clouds were breaking up and the stars were starting to poke through, I had hoped for a glimpse of the Milky Way but it was still behind the clouds. There are 2 light sources here. The...

This is from last Thursday at the Skyline Overlook. Thanks to Ben for helping me to get there with directions good enough that I could find my way on a moonless night along a dim trail and still find it. :) This is a 4 shot blended pano due to it being a moonless night. The ground layer was...

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...

From last week, I made an early run from Moab up to Mesa Arch. It had snowed during the night so it was fun to hike in over the virgin snow with no foot prints but mine. There ended up being maybe 6 people there total, which worked out nicely and everyone cooperated well. I went to pull back on...

Once the moon had set last week when I was at the Grand Canyon, I turned my eyes toward the Milky Way. I was hoping at Lipan Point I could see more of the Milky Way over the canyon itself, as it was I could only catch the tail of the MW over a canyon wall when aiming East. It's amazing how much...

Earlier I posted a photo from the new Sony A6400 of the Milky Way shot in Monument Valley from the patio of my room at The View Hotel. This one is from my Nikon D850 with the Sigma 14mm f1.8. To me being able to finally look at both of them at 100% on my home computer, the Sony A6400 did a...

This is from a couple of days ago. Passing through the Grand Canyon I had hoped to use the moon when it got low in the sky to help light up the canyon and get some stars and perhaps the Milky Way in the process. The moon was getting to be almost full, so there was no seeing the Milky Way until...

I stayed last night at The View hotel in Monument Valley. Besides shooting the stars and later the Milky Way with my Nikon D850 I decided it was a good time to test Astro work with the new Sony A6400. The biggest obstacle with the Sony A6400 was that the kit lens, the 16-50mm doesn’t have a...

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...