The Night Sky

Moon Blaze

The warm bronze sunlight was swallowed by the horizon. Its bright desert day engulfed in darkness. A darkness where my laughter lines illuminated and seemed to turn from creaks to craters as I smiled back at a blazing lunar eclipse. Total Lunar Eclipse over Bisti Wilderness, New Mexico, taken on May 15, 2022.

Late Bloomers

Alpine blooms were moonlit with more purple hues than have ever been named, yet not so much that I could not appreciate them all at once.

Somewhere in the Middle

Songs for the Eyes

Moonrise over the badlands of Central Utah.

Blanketed

Twilight casts light on Mount Shasta after a snow storm passes.

Transport the Soul

Overall Winner & People and Space Winner of the 2018 Astronomy Photographer of the Year Interested in adding a 'human element' to the image, once the quarter moon rose and revealed the vast landscape of the shale hills below the viewpoint, the lone photographer stood motionless while I captured this photograph. The Andromeda Galaxy, quarter moon, Milky Way Galaxy, and position of the photographer all combined to create a harmonious portrait of a night sky photographer at work. Moab, Utah, USA, May 20, 2017. This version has been modified for 2:3 aspect ratio prints (24x36 inches).

Stone Cold

This panoramic image was taken in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and includes Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter.

Flash Encounter

Isolated high atop a lake basin, crystal clear snowmelt reflected a starry sky overhead. A sudden flash from the heavens bathed the darkness with blue green radiance and abruptly illuminated the past.

Curtsey to her Majesty

Moonlit Surge

Lunar Eclipse Over Castle Crags

Pre-dawn lunar trifecta: ‘super blue blood moon’ rising over Castle Crags, located in the far Western region of the United States. The Earth’s shadow slowly wandered its way across the Moon to form the mesmerizing color of totality above its towering spires. January 31, 2018

The Mask and the Mirror (Revisited)

Metamorphose

Myriad Spirits

Nocturnal Florets

A rare, miniature bloom in the deserts of the Southwest.

Sudden Magnitude

Clouds spill over mountain peaks as the moon sets in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.

Brooding Divinity

Swirling patterns of history carved within the sandstone of these unearthly objects provide a meandering foreground element to the distant canyon of hoodoos and galaxy.

Stars and Spikes

Paradoxical

Secrets Inside

Inferno of Light

It was an inferno of lights and long leaping shadows.