My good friend Bray standing under Delicate Arch and the Milky Way! We used a long exposure, 15” of headlamp light on the other side facing up at the arch, and a tracker for a Milky Way shot all taken on scene and blended together. Unfortunately light painting like this is banned here now, for better or worse. We even cowboy camped up here, which is probably also banned. It’s still the Wild West to me.
The Milky Way rising over the otherworldly rock formations in the Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness
Chamber of Stars, Utah.
Night hiking Wall Street, Bryce Canyon, at night with my good friend Michelle
A creative blend of Sunset and Milky Way at Bryce Canyon.
Desert arches and the Milky Way, a great combo for astrophotography!
Chamber of Stars, Utah… Winter Milky Way edition! A tracked and stacked image of Orion (I had to move my tracker out of the cave to shoot the sky for polar alignment on my tracker) while cowboy camping with my girlfriend in the sand.
The unique faulting of plates here has uplifted at an angle, displaying a series of ancient low tidal flats and changing saltwater swampy environments during chaotic volcanic periods of the earth hundreds of millions of years ago. As the layers at this fault line are uplifted, the bentonite layers oxidize and make a beautiful rainbow displaying millions of years of geology.
A window into the cosmos.
Somehow among the vastness of our cosmos we have the perfect conditions for life here, Utah.
Tracked and stacked shots of Cygnus taken with a modded camera, mixed with a sunset caught earlier in a desert valley, Arizona
Orion, my friend, and a Joshua Tree posing during a winter night in the desert.
Trona Pinnacles, California.
Twilight in the back country of Lake Powell, Arizona.
A sunset and starry blend of a camping trip out in the Eastern Sierras, California. You can see the California Nebula and Pleiades rising over these rocks.
Strange hoodoos around Lake Powell. Vibrant airglow saturates the sky and I keep the tones in this image warmer- a twilight shot and a a single tracked sky. I find my full spectrum modded camera picks up more airglow than my regular ones!
Off road to catch a sunset in Sedona.
The Trona Pinnacles, and Cygnus constellation full of rich hydrogen alpha reds.
A couple selfie with my girlfriend in Sedona. To pull of a clean image like this we shoot two separate images on location but at different times- one during twilight and one later on that night with a tracker!
The Milky Way rising over the Sky Islands of Southeastern Arizona.
Framing up in Arches.
Astrophotography can be a lonesome endeavor, but sometimes you share these sacred spots with others! My friend Bray and I captured a pic of a group of friends who happened to want to watch the Milky Way rise over Turret arch just like we did- we coordinated a shoot with them and the light (before it was illegal) and got a pretty memorable shot for all of us!
The Milky Way core and bizarrely wonderful rock formations of White Pocket, Utah.
Water pools up at white pocket during monsoon season. There is very little water in the area, but tanks, protruding rock formations, often capture precious water for animals and cattle. They also make for amazing for amazing compositions!
White Pocket has it all- dark skies, amazing geology, seclusion, and often dramatic conditions for sunsets, sunrises, and stars. A somewhat rugged place that takes 4x4 to get to, it rewards those who take the pilgrimage.
Air glow and the Milky Way over the “Brain Rock” of White Pocket, Utah.
The Milky Way core over the badlands of Death Valley, California.
You have no idea how many photographers I had to fight to get a shot of my girlfriend here at Sunrise. Tripods swinging, batteries flying. Mesa Arch, Utah.
Turret Arch, Arches National Park, Utah.
Sunset turns into Twilight at the Watchman, Virgin River, Zion, Utah.
The Virgin River carving Zion, Utah.
Strolls through Zion, Utah.
The Milky Way over the Watchman, Zion, Utah.
Night hiking around the Sky Island of Chiricahua, Arizona.
Desert Magic in the Superstition Mountains, Arizona.
Superstition Mountains, Arizona.
