This is Part 2 of my lenticular cloud chase this day. Part One is here. From the Lone Pine area in Owens Valley,… [Read More]
January 12, 2016 Chuchupate Nights
On this Tuesday evening I joined a couple of buddies for a one-hour ride up north to shoot the night sky. We set up… [Read More]
December 8, 2015 Offshore Missile Launch from Malibu
I work as a weather observer at local Navy airports, so I had some inside information on an offshore missile launch this morning. It… [Read More]
September 25-28, 2015 Florida East Coast
I was in Florida during the last week of September, and there were a handful of interesting photo opportunities. One of these was the… [Read More]
August 13, 2015 Milky Way meteors from San Nick
On this evening I was stationed out on San Nicolas Island, during a week-long stint as weather observer at its Navy airport. This small… [Read More]
June 22, 2015 Lemmon, SD, Northern Lights/Aurora
I had NEVER planned a trip to the great outdoors to view the Northern Lights (or the Southern Lights, for that matter). I… [Read More]
May 26, 2015 Watonga OK storms
Our starting point today was Wichita, Kansas. My target area was western OK, somewhere from about Woodward to Watonga, I figured. After lunch in… [Read More]
May 6, 2015 Throckmorton, TX supercell
May 6 was a big tornado day for the central and southern Great Plains. The SPC log shows 59 tornados. Our Tempest Tours chase… [Read More]
March 14, 2015 Dusk at El Matador Beach
These are images post-sunset at El Matador Beach, Malibu, on January 5, 2015. The tide was on the low side and the waves were… [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]
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.
June 26, 2014 Nebraska Panhandle storms
Another High Plains day with a slight risk for severe storms — and we ambled southward out of Hot Springs, SD, with a target… [Read More]
May 20, 2014 Byers to Burlington, CO supercell
Tempest Tours enjoyed a spectacular and long-lived supercell on Tuesday. I led the group from Ogallala to Sidney, NE, where we had lunch. Most… [Read More]
May 6, 2014 Pine Bluffs, WY supercell
With moisture still in short supply on the High Plains, the prospects for a good storm seemed rather slim on May 6. But, there… [Read More]