Behind the Photo: Desert X at Night With Star Trails
An unusual Soul Service Station in the desert. Long streaking stars. Surreal light painting. We...
Three Easy Steps for Creating Star Trails in Adobe Photoshop
Star trails are magical. They show the apparent movements of the stars over a long period of time,...
Power anywhere: EBL Portable Power Station 500 review
EBL sent us their rugged EBL Portable Power Station 500. We used it on a quick night photography...
Review: The ultra-rugged EBL BRC 18650 Rechargeable Batteries
EBL sent us their rugged BRC 18650 Rechargeable Batteries 3000mAh – Protected Button Top. We took...
Light painting 101: A barn glowing from within
Ever want to light paint a building such as a barn so that it glows magnificently from the inside...
Best way to focus your camera for great star trails
Where should you focus your camera when photographing star trails? The answer might surprise you!...
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...
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...
