This is a 33-second exposure from the east side of Death Valley (south of Badwater) looking west towards the Panamint Range. Besides the… [Read More]
April 4, 2015 Lunar Eclipse at Malibu
Another lunar eclipse and blood moon this morning, and skies were mostly clear here in the L.A. area. So, I rose early and drove… [Read More]
January 19, 2015 Comet Lovejoy from Panamint Valley
I made the 3.5 hour drive to dark skies on the 19th in order to photograph Comet Lovejoy 2014 q2 one last time. The… [Read More]
January 18, 2015 Comet Lovejoy
Another Comet Lovejoy is gracing our night skies —- that Lovejoy comet discovery guy sure knows how to find ’em! Comet Lovejoy, the January… [Read More]
August 27, 2014 Malibu coast and night sky
I took more than 500 images along the coast on my Wednesday outing. And, no, I don’t do those silly automatic “clickclickclcickclickclickclick-in-four-tenths-of-a-second” shots… [Read More]
June 28, 2014 Milky Way Skies Along I-70 in Utah
It was a no-brainer to stop along the Interstate in central Utah and to set up the tripod on this very dark night.
April 15, 2014 Lunar eclipse
A lunar eclipse was to occur late on the night of April 14th and into the first hour or two of April 15th. Southern… [Read More]
February 20, 2014 A Hollywood Moonrise
There hasn’t been much weather to shoot locally this winter, but the city skyline is always around…if it isn’t obscured by haze. Who knows… [Read More]
December 14, 2013 Comet Lovejoy from WLV
The big comet event of the century (Comet ISON) was a dismal flop, but there is another comet currently “visible” in the northeast before… [Read More]
December 3, 2013 Night Skies at the Trona Pinnacles
I wound up at the Trona Pinnacles at dusk on my jaunt into the desert to shoot lenticular clouds. The pinnacles and the dark… [Read More]
November, 2013 Trees and No Birds
Above and below, a tree near Chatsworth Reservoir in the western San Fernando Valley. Below are some shots of the night sky at a… [Read More]
October 7, 2013 Milky Way shoot at Mount Pinos, CA
I asked for Monday, October 7, off from work to join my buddies Tom, Rook and Cori up on Mount Pinos to enjoy the… [Read More]
August 10, 2013 VLA and AZ sunset
Today was the final chase day for the monsoon tour. We began in Moriarty, NM, and needed to be closer to Phoenix, AZ. I… [Read More]
August 9, 2013 Cuervo, Willard and Vaughn (in that order)
Our chase day on 8/9/13 began in Vega, TX, and my target area was to the west in NM, somewhere around Vaughn. My motto… [Read More]
June 11, 2013 Nebraska Panhandle Supercell
Following our Northern Lights shoot north of Scottsbluff on the 9th, we chased northeastern WY on June 10th. Moisture was in rather short supply,… [Read More]