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Live Oak and Rocks, Milky Way Galaxy, Joshua Tree National Park
Milky Way Galaxy, Live Oak and Rocks, Joshua Tree National Park at Night I have spent many evenings photographing the landscape and night sky at Joshua Tree National Park. The terrain is harsh and...
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Venus, Milky Way and Arch Rock at Astronomical Twilight, Joshua Tree National...
Things are always better at astronomical twilight. Venus was often referred to as the “Morning Star” by ancient civilizations (and as the “Evening Star” as well). On this day, it was indeed the morning...
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Lunar Eclipse Blood Red Moon Sequence over Joshua Tree National Park
This is the first of my photographic efforts shooting the lunar eclipse the evening of April 14/15 2014. I spent the entire night out under the stars in Joshua Tree National Park, where I often shoot...
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Lunar Eclipse Sequence over Arch Rock, Joshua Tree National Park, April 2014
The lunar eclipse of April 14 and 15, 2014 was a wonderful event to see. I went up to Joshua Tree National Park to photograph it for two reasons. First, the weather forecast in the high desert was for...
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Lunar Eclipse Sequence, Juniper and Standing Rock, Joshua Tree, 2014
For the eclipse of April 14/15, 2014, I wanted to depict the course of the eclipse across the sky with some recognizable landscape features in the foreground to anchor the composition. As the day of...
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Lunar Eclipse April 4 2015 from Joshua Tree National Park
I went up to Joshua Tree National Park to watch the lunar eclipse of April 4, 2015. Photographically, I was not sure what I was going to do. I’ve made a series of lunar eclipse sequence images (lunar...
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Perseid Meteor Shower over Arch Rock, Joshua Tree National Park, 2015
The Perseid meteor shower occurs each August, peaking on the evenings of August 12 and 13. It happens because the Earth is plowing through the trail of dust left behind by comet Swift-Tuttle. The...
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Perseid Meteor Shower over Joshua Tree National Park, August 2015
Each August the Perseid meteor shower takes place. This year it peaked during a new moon, which offered prime conditions for seeing many meteors. I photographed the Perseid meteor shower in Joshua Tree...
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Blood Red Moon Madness! A Tetrad of Total Lunar Eclipses
Lunar eclipse sequence, showing total eclipse (left) through full moon (right). While the moon lies in the full shadow of the earth (umbra) it receives only faint, red-tinged light refracted through...
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Photographs of Southern California’s Spring Wildflowers — the 2017 Super Bloom
During March and early April of this year I was chasing the wildflower bloom around the southernmost parts of California. The wildflower bloom was indeed spectacular and went on for weeks with vast...
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Joshua Tree National Park Sunrise
On Thanksgiving morning I made a quick sunrise run into Joshua Tree National Park. Fortunately the Starbucks near my mom’s in La Quinta opens at 5am so I was fully caffeinated for the drive. I got into...
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Star Field and Joshua Trees
I got a new camera that is rumored to have very good low light performance. So I took it out last night to test it on the Milky Way Galaxy. While the skies were not as clear as I would have liked, I...
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Merry Christmas!
A hiker wandering the desert on Christmas Eve thrusts his arms skyward, praising the brilliance of God and Creation.Image ID: 22203Species: Joshua tree, Yucca brevifoliaLocation: Joshua Tree National...
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Infrared Joshua Tree National Park
I shot these this morning during a quick trip to Joshua Tree National Park. I was totally uninspired for “regular” photography this morning, and the light was not that great anyway due to high winds...
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Natural History Photography with Infrared Light
I have recently taken to shooting infrared photos while I am out on photo excursions. The motivation for me is that, if I can easily and inexpensively produce a different type of photo from what I...
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Heavenly Arch on EarthShots
I made a spur-of-the-moment trip with Garry McCarthy to do some night-time photography. We were pretty sleep-deprived by the time we were done, jacked up on coffee and then having to drive several...
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Nature’s Best Windland Smith Rice: Giants Marbles at Dusk, Joshua Tree...
Giant’s Marbles, Joshua Tree National Park, California. This is the second of three images I had that were Highly Commended in this year’s Windland Smith Rice photography competition.* I made this...
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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...
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Milky Way Rising Over Joshua Trees
Joshua Tree National Park is the closest National Park to my home, so I visit it several times each year. It is a desert park, arid and sometimes quite hot, and given its proximity to Los Angeles it...
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Milky Way and Moon at Night, Shooting Star, Comet Panstarrs, Panorama, Joshua...
Joshua Tree National Park, Milky Way and Moon, Shooting Star, Comet Panstarrs, Impending Dawn. This panorama of Joshua Tree National Park was made at astronomical twilight during International Dark Sky...
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Photo of Joshua Trees at Sunrise
We went out to La Quinta last weekend to visit our new baby niece. A big storm system was passing over California but the Coachella Valley got very little rain from it. I made a sunrise run out to...
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