Light pollution is increasingly confirmed as negatively affecting human health, the health of various animal, insect and plant species, and the science of astronomy. It… Read More »Light Pollution By Mono Lake On Track To Increase
In March 2020 I was out a couple of nights doing my normal thing shooting night photography and time-lapse sequences. On these two nights I… Read More »Will Low Earth Orbit Satellites Take Over the Night Sky?
The Bodie Foundation has announced the images for their 2021 calendar on their Facebook page. Selected for the September image is this night Milky Way… Read More »Bodie 2021 Calendar Images Selected
I’ve been reading reports that the moon will approach and cover Mars for about an hour and a half early tomorrow morning. EarthSky quotes the… Read More »The Moon Occults Mars February 18 Before Dawn
Some of my favorites on Flickr in 2019: 1. The Sunset That Wouldn’t End, 2. Oak and Granite, 3. Milky Way and Sunrise Light, 4.… Read More »Top 10 Travel Photos 2019
Many photographers are taking up night photography, but with increasing population and development comes more light pollution. Truly dark nights, and dark places, are becoming… Read More »Dark Night Skies: Endangered Resource?
The image above was a perfect calm fall day in Yosemite Valley. The clouds were just right when I arrived, but much less photogenic moments… Read More »Yosemite Fall Colors Photography Workshop 2018 Results
I visited Death Valley in late September this year to see what it might be like to run a fall workshop in 2019. Guess what…… Read More »Death Valley in September – October
What would it be light to shoot night photography in a snow storm in a ghost town at nearly 8400 feet in elevation? It was… Read More »Snowy Storm Night Photography in Bodie
I’ve shot in Bodie at night nearly 40 times. The Bodie workshop season typically runs late May through mid-October when any storms tend to be… Read More »Stormy October Night in Bodie