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With the rare snowfall in Joshua Tree as described in my previous post I had found the clouds opening up and allowing the stars to shine through. This classic composition kind of felt like it was a gateway to the stars for me. While I never mind sharing a location with someone, it was pretty...

Snow in Joshua Tree National Park! :) Who would have thought? I know it does snow there every 5 or 6 years, but it's been well over 20 years I think since I have been out there in the snow. It was a fun and fast overnight trip. As I already posted, I ran up there in time to catch the sunset...

I am glad that Kyle and I both talked each other into meeting at Joshua Tree to shoot the Milky Way on Saturday morning for several reasons. I got to meet @Johnny Chien which was really awesome. It's always great to meet new people who have a love for photography. And then of course I got to...

The Focus this Friday is on Stars! Please add your Star photos to this Thread. I will start out with a few. Jim This is from the Bristlecone Pine Forest, and is a very commonly shot tree. This is from the Philippines off the island of Bohol These next 2 are from the Bisti Badlands area...

I think this is one of my better light painting attempts, taken at The Devil's Garden, UT. While I like it, it doesn't feel as real as the non-painted version. Personally I don't like visiting a popular spot where a bunch of people are painting - obviously it intrudes on the experience of others...

This was from the first night of meeting up with some of the FocalWorld gang in the Tetons. Schwabachers Landing is known more as a sunrise location, but the conditions were good for a sunset here. This was after the sun had set and the moon was rising up and really lit up the ground layer. The...

The piece of land on which this church sits was donated by a local family in 1865, and a timber structure was then built for the district's worshippers, opening in 1866. The building was used as a school for 40 local children through the week and for worship services for up to 80 Christians on...

The limbs of these dead trees seem to be reaching up and grasping for the rich and colourful core of our Milky Way galaxy, and the planet Mars as well. Jupiter is about to be eclipsed by the trees on the left, while not far above it a pair of satellites reflects the light of the sun from their...

Last weekend (8 & 9 September 2018) I drove down to my family’s holiday shack at Tuross Head, Australia, in the hope of grabbing some more nightscape photos. Saturday night started out with the sky covered in clouds, so I read for a while then tried for an early night. A little after 11:15, I...

This is up at Upper Cathedral Lake in Yosemite NP California. The clouds continued to slowly dissipate as the stars came out, but it was a slow dissipation so after a couple of hours I climbed into my sleeping bag and slept for a few hours to look up and see the clouds finally gone, so I crawled...

Heading back from a visit up to Mt Evans in Colorado, the storm that was rolling in up there, hit full force as I got back down onto the plains. As I was driving up I-25 north of Denver, it was a lightning storm going off like crazy to the East. There was no real place to pull off and shoot it...

The farmer who owns this property, located in the hills southwest of the rural town of Nowra, Australia, happened to come home as I was setting up my camera and tripod. Seeing him move toward the gate, right near where I was lurking in the dark, I uttered “hi there”, but it went unanswered...

Most of you have seen Monika's recent star shots from Sky Pond in the RMNP in Colorado, here is one I took almost a month ago. To avoid going down the waterfall climb in the dark that Monika described in her Thread and to be able to shoot both sunset, the stars and sunrise I just stayed up there...

Another dam fine view Thank you to Jim Fox for inviting me to post in focalworld.com About three weeks back I visited this location, the Bamarang Dam, located on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. Arriving at the dam’s carpark a little before the orientation of the sky had the Milky...

This is from a few years ago at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. I went with a 4:5 format crop as I didn't like the bottom. It was early morning and I was able to catch some stars in this too. Perhaps a bit too movement in some of the stars, but this is from the archives so not much I can do...

Well, after I got back home I wasn't going to even process these Upper Yosemite Fall moonbow shots with the Milky Way in it. I met Kyle up there, and the shooting locations to avoid trees were very limited. Kyle and Alejandro got there first, and their spot was the best position to shoot from...

I shot this scene last year and decided I wanted to give it another try. I used photo pills to find a night with the moon a little less full and a little higher in the sky than my previous attempt so I could get a darker sky. I drove up to Yosemite Wednesday afternoon with my friend Alejandro...

Last weekend as I was out in Joshua Tree I had scouted around a bit before sunset and had found this area that is close to Arch Rock but a bit higher up. I liked the leading lines, and took some sunset shots from here, but also wanted to get back and shoot this with the Milky Way if possible. So...

I spent a couple of nights out in Joshua Tree this weekend so that I could spend a couple of nights shooting Arch Rock with the Milky Way. I wanted to spend more then one night there just focusing on the Arch so that I could really take it in, and also to get some slightly different comps with...

I hated to borrow Ben's Moonscape title, but he did inspire me to find this one, so hopefully Ben doesn't mind. It's from South Coyote Buttes one frozen winter where I spent some time shooting the landscape as the moon lit up the ground as bright as day. Since I focused on the alien feel of the...