Tasting Date: 1/26/2025 Notes: Starts with an oak note and quickly leans into a sweet fruit middle. Finishes with a playful minerality ending on crisp. Oak isn’t overwhelming. The wine is both crisp and buttery making this is an extremely balanced Chardonnay. Pairings: I paired it with lemon pepper chicken and it worked well. This […]
Tasting Date: 1/19/2025 Notes: Heavy, almost smokey oak flavor. Deep red fruit flavor. Tannin finish that goes on for miles. No minerality. A complex, full-bodied red with a lot of different notes when playing on the palette. Pairings: Attempted to pair with ribeye chop – not the best pairing. Might work with a smoked cheese, […]
I captured this star trail from the AirBNB I was staying at in Sedona, AZ. The night skies over Sedona are particularly clear and lacking in light pollution with minimal city light on the horizon line.
I revisited this Single Take Startrail captured from Dante’s Peak in California. The view overlooks Death Valley including the salt flats of Bad Water through furnace creek, the populated resort town inside Death Valley. I improved exposure on the foreground and fixed some of the fisheye lens effects in this re-edit of my December 2018 […]
I captured this star trail from Indiana Dunes national park, which sits on the southern shores of Lake Michigan. Polaris is nicely framed above the waters of Lake Michigan. To the left or west is the city of Chicago and to the right or east are the vacation town shores of Michigan state. Chicago’s bright […]
This composite shot is a Darth Revan cosplay image captured at Star Wars Celebration in April of 2019 in Chicago juxtaposed with a 2 hour star trail taken under the dark New Mexican skies at Chaco Conyon in May of 2019.
I’ll be the first to admit, I don’t have the correct equipment (a telescope rig) to capture things like comets. I’m also not great at finding them, I had to test shot various patches of the night sky where I thought this comet would be located before I happened to capture a corona. This was […]
I drove out to Missouri for a quick star trail trip. After my initial campsite was washed out due to heavy rains, I ended up in Mark Twain’s hometown shooting from a city park that overlooked the Mississippi. In the little town of Hannibal, MO the spirit of Mark Twain is very much present. I […]
This was taken in Hannibal, MO in a city park called “Lover’s Leap”. The park is a top a hill with a lovely view of the Mississippi River, the town of Hannibal, the I-70 bridge, and the distant lights of the more populated enclave of Quincy in Illinois. I took my foreground shot at dusk […]
My July Star Trail journey took me to Missouri. I had planned on shooting at Apple River in Illinois, but the weather worked out better for me to shoot a bit further south in order to get around some scattered thunderstorms in northwest Illinois. Unfortunately, the rain we’ve had washed out my camp site, so […]
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