Landscape Astrophotography

Vanishing Point

Lighting up an abandoned railroad station building with some LED panels. This is a blend of 4 shots: two for the building lighting, one for the train tracks and one for the sky.

Single exposure using an LED panel to light the foreground - taken at the end of our Acadia National Park workshop in June 2018.

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.

Noctambulism II

The Milky Way at Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah. The foreground was lit with an LED panel.

Throne

The Alien Throne rock formation in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico with the north end of the Milky Way. The Andromeda galaxy is just to the left of the Throne.

Night reflections at Hunters Beach in Acadia National Park

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.

The Valley of Dreams area of the Bisti Badlands in New Mexico has unlimited potential for Milky Way photography.

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.

5 Minutes at Shiprock

The Shiprock volcanic rock formation under the moonlight and clouds during a long exposure.

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.