Astrophotography Basics: Picking A Suitable Site
While doing astrophotography from your backyard can result in lovely pictures, I think doing it out in the wilds is a whole different beast. In this post, I want to spend some time discussing how to pick out an appropriate site. It may be more accurate say that this post is how I end up…
Read More…Useful Astrophotography Accessories AKA You Should Probably Take this With You When You Do Astrophotography: Light Sources
I can say that I have done astrophotography for about 2 years now. In that time, there has been a great amount of trial-and-error. I came into this hobby knowing nothing. While I have gained some knowledge, I can readily admit that there is still a lot I do not know about. So many things…
Read More…The Basics of Landscape Astrophotography AKA How Do I Do Astrophotography?
I fell off this blog! Work has taken up a great deal of my time. While that is not an excuse, this might be a good chance for a reset of sorts. I have written about a couple of my own adventures, but let’s just start with the basics of astrophotography. When many people think…
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A Visit to Great Sand Dunes National Park And Preserve
Over the holiday period, I decided to travel to Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. You see, this particular national park is on my bucket list, specifically, it has always been a bucket list goal of mine to take a picture of the Milky Way with the dunes in the foreground. Great Sand Dunes…
Read More…Alone With My Thoughts…The Appeal of Astrophotography.
While many people appreciate the products of astrophotography, i.e. beautiful photos of the celestial heavens, far fewer people are really interested in the process that leads to said photos. Honestly, that’s okay. To be fair, driving to the middle of nowhere so that you can be in the middle of nowhere to take pictures of…
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A Visit to Pawnee National Grasslands
Once I got that first astrophotography picture, I was absolutely hooked. I wanted to go out, wanted to go to different locations, wanted to try to photograph different things, wanted to try to capture as many celestial objects as I could, etc. I believe I went up to that same location outside Idaho Springs a…
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My First Real Attempt At Astrophotography
I got into astrophotography in earnest right as the COVID-19 pandemic was about to hit parts of the United States. When the pandemic happened, I was living in Colorado. I still live in Colorado. I moved there for work, i.e. I left grad school, needed a job, and Colorado provided said job. The fact that…
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My Relationship With Cameras
I used to see photographs of the night sky, celestial bodies, or even galaxies and wonder at how people were even able to take those kinds of photographs. I remember showing a college friend a picture of the Milky Way rising over the horizon and she thought it was fake and photoshopped. In hindsight, I…
Read More…How it all started…?
I just happened to come across a photo of the night sky taken somewhere in the desert. It might have been right as I was nearing the end of high school or maybe right before I started college. I had a habit of going through deviant art profiles because I loved the heavily photoshopped images…
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