I realized there was a lunar eclipse when I saw my son Daniel looking at it through his telescope. By the time I got my camera stuff set up the eclipse had past full and was starting to uncover. This is about as close as you can get to having the eclipse and the bright …
My daughter Ella went out to take some photographs of the full moon a couple days ago. This motivated me to get my Nikon 500mm prime lens out to take some photos as well. For a little more magnification I added my 1.4x teleconverter for a total lens focal length of 700mm. Camera settings for …
My son Daniel got a telescope for Christmas, so when there was going to be a lunar eclipse Taunya woke him up at 5:30 am to look at it. Unfortunately, with slight haze from light clouds and a very dim moon, it was difficult to see much detail with his telescope. I then thought I …
One of the activities we did as a family when we were in Utah for Thanksgiving was take the train into downtown Salt Lake City to Temple Square to see the Christmas lights. ISO 200, 24mm, f/4.5, 1/8 sec Our younger children had never been to see the lights at Temple Square at Christmas time. …
ISO 3200, 14mm, f2.8, 30sec These natural events really need to only occur on weekends 🙂 Being a Wednesday night and Thursday morning really didn’t help me getting up for work the next day when I was out photographing until roughly 4am! ISO 4000, 14mm, f2.8, 30sec Shooting a meteor shower can be a frustrating …
The Saturday after thanksgiving, I went with my brother Jon and his family, to Temple Square to see the annual Christmas lights in downtown Salt Lake City, UT. it was a warm evening and only the second day the lights were turned on. This made for some huge crowds. As I was trying to photograph …
On August 4th I was out visiting with my sister Jolene and her family. As I went to leave we noticed it was lightening over on the mountain by her house. We decided to hurry and set up and take some photographs. Unfortunately, the storm was moving away from her house and out over the …
Many evenings here in Eagle, Co, we get an afternoon thunderstorm. I have wanted to take some photographs of the lightning that occurs with these storms, for a few weeks now. Last night at about 10:30pm, I decided that even though I couldn’t get anywhere good to photograph the lightning, I would take some photos …
“Blood Moon” 12:49am MDT Monday night and early Tuesday morning the 14th and 15th we witnessed the first Lunar Eclipse of four over the next year and a half. I have never photographed an eclipse before so I was excited to have this opportunity. I was unfortunately thinking the eclipse started an hour later than …
Sunday evening David England and I went up Dead Indian Road out of Ashland to photograph the Perseids Meteor shower. Since we went straight up from a church priesthood meeting I was still in my church clothes and with out a jacket. Fortunately, David’s son Nathan had a jacket I could borrow so I didn’t …
It had been on my photographic bucket list to photograph the Milky Way. The key I believe to a good Milky way photograph is the foreground and the setting in which you take the picture. I knew from my research on how to photograph the milky way that in the northern hemisphere in the springtime it …