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.
Sedona Star Trail
California Dreaming Re-Edit
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 […]
The Sky Between the Shores
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 […]
Neowise
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 […]
The Dance Above The Mississippi
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 […]
The Land of Fireflies
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 […]
Homeward Skies
Taken on a clear June night after I got kicked out of my primary shooting location by the police (apparently the harbor I was shooting at closes at 11pm – so early). I let my camera capture two hours of Chicago stars. As always, editing these is a challenge. I have to create a lot […]
A Far View
My last night at Mesa Verde culminated with this night time photo shoot at the Far View Observatory. After 3 days at altitude and long days of hiking, I was starting to get tired and was nervous that I wouldn’t have the energy to pull off one last star trail, but I was fortunately able […]
The Great American Eclipse: Re-Edit
This August 2017 shoot was one of the most challenging but rewarding of my life. The eclipse was entirely weather dependent. I shot this in a very rural part of IL – near the Ohio River – among throngs of other spectators and onlookers. There were some many people around that it almost broke southern […]
Blue at Altitude
Sometimes you don’t have to go far for beauty. I mounted my tripod right outside my door at the Far View Lodge and clicked away for 4 hours at 8200 feet. The 10.5mm lens captures the blue waves of long duration star trails – reminding me of a ripple of water across a still pond. […]
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