Great 2025 night photography events in Mojave Desert
We’ve compiled a list of not-to-be-missed night photography and dark sky events for 2025! Come out...
Defying crazy winds: Chasing Comet C/2023 A3
“The winds are crazy! That last gust almost knocked me over!” This was the first radio...
Night Photo Summit 2025: Virtual event for night photography!
We are super excited to announce the fifth annual Night Photo Summit! I will be offering a...
Kicking the tires on the new Radiant Photo V2
We tried out the freshly-released Radiant Photo V2. We wanted to see how it would do while...
EBL Smart Rapid Battery Charger: One battery charger to rule them all
EBL sent us their Smart Rapid Battery Charger for Rechargeable 3.7V/3.6V Li-ion IMR Batteries. It...
Tiniest AA battery recharging system for traveling photographers?
If there’s a smaller, more convenient recharging system for batteries, I don’t know about it. EBL...
How I got the photo: Alabama Hills Eastern Sierra at night
How did I create this night photo in the Alabama Hills, near the foothills of the Eastern Sierra?...
Star trails made easy: A beginner’s guide to StarStaX
The easiest star trails ever, using StarStaX. Here’s a very simple beginner’s guide for using...
Is it okay to take a single exposure of the Milky Way?
We constantly hear about people tracking and stacking to create Milky Way photos. Is it okay to...
How to add auto captions to your video easily (no, really!)
How do you add auto captions to your video easily? Here’s one way that worked for me in a matter...
Light painting at night: Giving direction to light
Unsure of which direction to light paint your subject? Sometimes, your environment can offer a...
Review: Manfrotto BeFree Advanced GT XPro aluminum tripod
The Manfrotto BeFree Advanced GT XPro is a four-section aluminum twist-lock travel tripod. It...
Featured Stories
Premiere of the beautiful new ambient music of Eleven Shadows!
Today is the premiere for my Eleven Shadows album "The Seahorse in the Center of Your Mind", full of beautiful deep ambient music. You may listen to or download the entire thing! This is the first Eleven Shadows since probably about the year 1791, haha! I had eye...
My night photographing an eerie haunted abandoned water park
I had just driven to the front of the post-apocalyptic looking abandoned water park. This was a high-profile abandoned location. After all, you could easily see it while traveling between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Sure enough, there were several cars circling around,...
My strange adventure photographing at night in an abandoned mental hospital
My friends Tim, Mike and I were on a trip, photographing abandoned areas at night. We met up with John, whom we had contacted via Flickr. I had to work my way through some sharp vines to look the outside of these windows at an abandoned mental hospital. Walking in...
