Landscape Astrophotography

Circumpolar

Wood Island Lighthouse in Maine. This image consists of 200 frames of star trails manually blended in PS.

Planned Serendipity II

Check out a Behind The Scenes graphic of this image on our Processing page. This vantage point for photographing the Milky Way through a sea cave on the coast of Maine only lines up in the beginning of the calendar year. We've been trying to get this shot for a few years now and we finally got to do it after some meticulous planning - the time of year, the moon phase, the tide phase and of course the weather. After seeing a few other shots from this location where the cave was very dark, we wanted to make sure we captured as much detail inside the cave as possible so we used an LED panel to light it up. A total of 5 photos were blended for the finished image.

Determination

Check out the Behind The Scenes graphic for this image on our Processing page under Workshops.

Illusory Looking Glass

Illusory = based on illusion; not real Looking Glass = mirror This panorama of the full arc of the Milky Way and the moon rising was captured at Loon Island Lighthouse in NH. The "clouds" emanating from the center were added in post and the image was flipped to create the mirror effect. This image is one of our best selling prints and looks incredible on metal at almost 5 feet wide.

Somniloquy V

Somniloquy is the term that describes the act of talking while asleep. All of the images in our Somniloquy series have to do with exposure blends and creativity: day shots for the foreground and night shots for the sky, processed and blended via Lightroom & Photoshop CC with a dream state in mind.

Full Moon at Whaleback Lighthouse

Photographed from New Hampshire, Whaleback Light is 59 feet tall and approximately 1 mile from this vantage point. Taken in November 2016.

Picket Fence Aurora

Photographed in September 2016, this is the only time we have viewed and captured a "Picket Fence" aurora display - shot in Acadia National Park at Jordan Pond.

Moki Dugway at Night

Having never seen any night shots from the Moki Dugway, we decided it was a must-do opportunity when we were visiting the area last month. The Moki Dugway is an amazing graded dirt switchback road carved into the face of the cliff edge of Cedar Mesa. It consists of 3 miles of steep switchbacks at 11% grade which wind 1,200 feet from Cedar Mesa to the valley floor near Valley of the Gods. The dugway is part of the Utah section of the Trail of the Ancients, a National Scenic Byway. This image consists of 6 shots to capture the sky and the foreground. We waited for the Milky Way to get in the right position while experimenting with different long exposures for the foreground. Big thanks to my buddy Michael Wood for clicking the cameras while I drove up and down the switchbacks to get decent car light trails.

Abandoned

A blend of 2 images captured in Pittsburg, New Hampshire. Check out a Behind The Scenes graphic with EXIF of this image on our Processing Instruction page.

Under the Milky Way at Moosehead Lake

A beautiful clear night under Maine's dark skies at Moosehead Lake in mid-September 2017. We used some static lighting techniques off camera left and right for foreground lighting. Nikon D750 | 14mm | f/2.8 | 20 secs | ISO 4000

Mesa Arch at Night

The Milky Way rising behind Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park.

Sandman

Night at Dead Horse

Dead Horse State Park, Utah.