New Work - May 2012
I have posted a collection of newly released photographs from February through May 2012. Included are many night photographs including some from Yosemite, Joshua Tree National Park, Los Angeles and the ancient bristlecone pines of Inyo National Forest. Please take a gander: New Work - May 2012. Thanks for looking!
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| Downtown Los Angeles at night, street lights, buildings light up the night. |
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| Half Dome at sunrise, viewed from Glacier Point. |
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| Juniper and star trails. |
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| Stars and the Milky Way rise above ancient bristlecone pine trees, in the White Mountains at an elevation of 10,000′ above sea level. These are some of the oldest trees in the world, reaching 4000 years in age. |
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| Yosemite Falls reflected in a meadow pool, spring. |
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| Yosemite Falls and star trails, at night, viewed from Cook’s Meadow, illuminated by the light of the full moon. |
Juniper, Rock and Star Trails, Joshua Tree National Park
I made a brief trip up to Joshua Tree National Park recently with Garry McCarthy to do some night photography. In Southern California it is difficult to find night skies that are clear enough for productive night photography and heading east to the desert with its dry air and relative lack of light pollution is usually the answer. We arrived about midnight. We had previously decided upon this composition of a standing rock and small juniper, so the challenge was not where to go in the dark park but rather to figure out how to compose the two elements in such a way that the passage of the stars across the night sky would be revealed in the image. I elected to combine several elements: the foreground tree and rock painted with a small light, trails created by stars transiting the sky above, a faint static star field illustrating some of the countless stars over us, and a bit of lightening blue in the sky hinting at the coming dawn. If you liked this, please take a look at more photographs of Joshua Tree National Park as well as my growing collection of nightscapes and astrophotography landscape photographs. Thanks for looking!
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| Juniper and star trails. Image ID: 27720 Location: Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA |
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