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
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 […]
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. […]
Cortez’s Gold
8500 feet – my highest altitude star trail to date! The road up to the mountain top was gated off, so I had to hike it to the top. It was only half-a-mile and 600 feet up from where I started walking. Let me tell you, first day at altitude, that was the toughest half […]
The Making of a Dream
Taken from the high desert Chaco Canyon ancestral pueblo people site in northwest New Mexico. May, 2019. I don’t take a lot of selfies in my work, but I bucked the norm with this piece. I wanted to capture something inspirational. To incorporate a story into some of my compositions. Here I stood inside a […]
Pixie Dust
I left a background shot at a higher ISO in the mix in order to create a ‘pixie dust sky” effect with some single stars shinning through into the final exposure. Cloud cover was a major challenge in this shoot. Also, I was running up against sunrise. The last 60 or so images of this […]
The Four Flames
Polaris is nicely framed above the tree tops in my first stacked 4 hour long shoot. While I am proud of this photo, the cloud cover did not always play well with me during this shoot, leaving me to heavily edit many shots in this stack in order to preserve the star trail. My principal […]
Proof Of Stars In The Big City
This was a proof in concept experiment for me on two fronts: 1. Can I successfully take star trails using the stacked image method? 2. Is it possible to take a star trail pic inside a major metro area like Chicago? Both questions were answered with a resounding yes, opening the doors to me to […]
California Dreaming
My first star trail from a mountain top. This was a treat to edit. A long exposure singe take does give you a lot of background light to play with, even in a very dark space – allowing me to nicely bring the salt flats and mountain range into exposure.
On A Dark Desert Highway
A single car cruised through my shot, streaking a break light video through my shot. I laid on the salt flats and looked up at the stars at some of the most beautiful stars I’ve ever seen. It’s so crystal clear in Death Valley, there’s absolutely the most minimal light pollution. Yet, even here – […]
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