The Great Tripod Debate: Twist Locks or Lever Locks?
You've noticed that tripods come with two basic kinds of locks: twist locks and lever locks....
Behind the Shot: How Do You Even Go About Photographing Radio Telescopes Under the Milky Way?
How do you photograph something like this? Two enormous radio telescopes, the Milky Way rising...
Feeling Stuck? Here’s How to Jumpstart Your Creativity in Photography
Have you felt burned out? Stuck? Lacked motivation? Had a fear of failure or felt silly? I will...
What Happens When You Let Photoshop’s AI Assisted Editor Edit Your Milky Way Photos? More Than You’d Expect
You write a prompt. Adobe edits your photo accordingly. The AI Assisted Editor, released August...
The Night I Hiked Three Miles in the Dark to Find Joshua Tree’s Hidden Treasure
Some of the best photography locations don't have a trailhead. Samuelson's Rocks—seven massive...
The Secret No One Tells You About Lighting Great Night Portraits
Want to photograph portraits that don't look like deer caught in headlights or someone telling...
A Tale of Two Coasts: Night Photography Made Easy From Cape Cod to Cambria
Night photography along the coast: it's evocative, eternal, calming—and surprisingly easy. While...
Kill Your Cable Clutter: JOYROOM PODIX 140W GaN Charger Review
The JOYROOM PODIX 140W 5-Port Desktop GaN Charger is designed to eliminate your desktop's cable...
Photographing the Perseid Meteor Shower: A Practical Guide
The Perseid meteor shower is often the most spectacular meteor shower in the Northern Hemisphere...
How to Stop Your Timer Remote From Dangling: Ruggard RTC-10 Review
If you shoot long exposures at night, you know the frustration — your intervalometer dangling from...
They Didn’t Show, So I Went Into the Bisti Badlands Alone at Night Anyway
Speeding down Highway 371, I received a call. The two photographers who knew the way around Bisti...
Why Every Night Photographer Should Own a Nifty Fifty
The humble "Nifty Fifty." Many of us own a fast 50mm. However, for some reason, we almost always...
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...
