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Comet on the Rocks
Comet Lovejoy glows above the granite spires of City of Rocks State Park. With clouds forecast for the rest of the week I made the best of it tonight and headed out to my favourite local spot for...
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The Old Hearst Church in Moonlight
The Big Dipper and the Pole Star shine above the moonlit historic Hearst Church. Tuesday was a productive evening of shooting in the moonlight. One of the best from the night pictures the Hearst...
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Moonlighting at Monument Valley
The Full Moon rises behind the famous Mitten buttes at Monument Valley. I spent a fabulous weekend capturing sunsets and nightscapes at the iconic Monument Valley on the Utah/Arizona border, the...
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Nightscapes at Double Arch
The iconic Double Arch looks great under dark skies, moonlight, or painted with artificial light. Last night, I returned to the Double Arch at Arches National Park, to capture a star trail series,...
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Evening Stars Over the Red Deer River
Mercury and Venus shine as “evening stars” over the Red Deer River in southern Alberta. What a fine night this was for nightscape shooting. Mercury and Venus are both now about as high as they will...
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Night of the Space Station
The Space Station is now continuously lit by sunlight, allowing me to capture dusk-to-dawn passages of the ISS. On the night of May 31/June 1 I was able to shoot four passages of the International...
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Waterton Lakes in the Twilight
Happy Canada Day! From one of the most scenic places in the country. I spent a wonderful four days and nights last week at Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, with near perfect weather conditions....
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Waterton Lakes by Moonlight
Mountain scenes take on a new look when photographed by moonlight. Last week I spent four wonderful nights shooting the landscapes of Waterton Lakes National Park under the light of the waxing Moon....
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Moonlight on the Prairie
I present a short time-lapse vignette of scenes shot under moonlight on the Alberta prairie. The movie linked below features sequences shot July 29 and 30, 2015 on beautifully clear moonlit nights at...
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The Lunar Eclipse, to True Scale
My multiple-exposure composite shows the complete September 27, 2015 total lunar eclipse to true scale, with the Moon accurately depicted in size and position in the sky. From my location at...
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Dawn Dance of Planets Concludes
The gathering of planets at dawn is coming to an end as Venus meets Mars. This was the view this morning from home in southern Alberta of the trio of planets in the moonlit morning sky. Venus is the...
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Astrophotography Video Tutorials – Free!
Learn the basics of shooting nightscape and time-lapse images with my three new video tutorials. In these comprehensive and free tutorials I take you from “field to final,” to illustrate tips and...
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Orion Star Trails in the Moonlight
Orion ascends into the sky on a clear autumn night, with its stars drawing trails behind it as it rises. Only on November nights is it possible to capture Orion rising in the evening sky. Here, I used...
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Mars in the Moonlight
Mars is approaching! It now shines brightly in the midnight sky as a red star in Scorpius. You can’t miss Mars now. It is shining brighter than it has since 2005, and is about to come as close to...
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Halo Around the Moon
On the night before the solstice Full Moon, the sky added a coloured halo around the Moon. On June 19 I was at Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta to teach a workshop on night photography, as one of...
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The Perseids Perform
It was a great night for shooting meteors as the annual Perseids put on a show. For the Perseid meteor shower I went to one of the darkest sites in Canada, Grasslands National Park in southern...
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Harvest Aurora
With the harvest in full swing, the aurora and Moon lit the fields on a clear September evening. This night, September 19, showed prospects for a good display of Northern Lights, and sure enough as it...
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Arc of the Low Summer Moon
The summer Full Moon arcs low across the southern sky, mimicking the path of the winter Sun. This is a project I had in mind for the last month, and hoped to capture at the July Full Moon. A clear,...
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Winter Stars over the Badlands
The clouds cleared to present a magical night under the Moon in the Badlands of southern Alberta. At last, a break in the incessant clouds of November, to provide me with a fine night of photography...
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Moonlight in the Badlands
Clear nights and a waxing Moon made for great opportunities to shoot the Badlands under moonlight. This has not been a great spring. Only now is the last of the snow melting here in Alberta. But some...
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Banff by Moonlight, a 25-Year Challenge
For two magical nights I was able to capture the Rockies by moonlight, with the brilliant stars of winter setting behind the mountains. I’ve been waiting for nights like these for many years! I...
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Shooting Moonstrikes at Dinosaur Park
It was a magical night as the rising Moon lit the Badlands with a golden glow. When doing nightscape photography it’s often best not to fight the Moon, but to embrace it and use it as your light...
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Marvelous Nights in the Mountains
In mid-October 2022 I enjoyed a rare run of five clear and mild nights in the Rocky Mountains for shooting nightscapes of the stars. Here’s a portfolio … and a behind-the-scenes look at its making....
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Nights at World Heritage Sites
I present a selection of new images taken at local World Heritage Sites, along with some advanced nightscape shooting tips. I’m fortunate in living near scenic landscapes here in southern Alberta....
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The Great Comet Chase of 2024
A plan to shoot the promised bright comet of 2024 paid off, with fine views at dawn and at dusk of the best comet since 2020. Comets are always a gamble. Any new comets discovered, the ones that...
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