“Elk grazing under a stormy sunset, Yellowstone National” I think I’ll end the night with this photo. After a long day of doing field research in Yellowstone National Park, I was driving back to camp around the northern entrance of the park, took a second to look out my window and immediately found a place…
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/13dec_geminids/ The Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight. Make sure to take some time and be patient and you might see some meteors or fireballs despite the full moon. Look to the upper left of Orion to find the Gemini constellation. You can even get the app MeteorCounter and collect some data for NASA!
I took this one just outside of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming on a warm summers night. Wyoming never fails to give you a sense of vastness with each sunset. What this picture doesnât show is the wicked winds that ripped and tore through our camp that evening!
This is an image from about a year ago that I took in August while in Grand Teton National Park. Taking photographs of the Cathedral Group of peaks (Teewinot, Grand, and Mount Owen) never gets old. This particular image has the Grand to the left, its highest peak with clouds clinging to it, and Mount…
I realize now that what I could have done better, like not stop and put on another layer so that I could have had a regular spacing of the progression of the moon, but I’m overall pretty satisfied for a first try at a photo like this… and even without any coffee! The eclipse was…
Have you picked out your spot to look at or photograph the blood red moon tomorrow morning before dawn? Trust me, I’ll be worth it. Set you alarms early, have a bag with coffee, food, and warm clothes packed already, and roll out of bed to see it! The moon already looks larger than usual….
Yesterday morning was a low of -25 F and warmed up to -4 degrees, dropped to -20 again last night and now this morning its warmed back up to -15 degrees. Its days like these when the bitterly cold sun is shining that it amazes me how plants and life survives a climate like this!
For my spring break instead of going to someplace warm, I decided to head to the Tetons for a few days. Photographing the tetons in winter is a totally different experience than photographing them any other season. The bitter cold and snow brings a whole new dimension to the environment, and seeing all the animal tracks in…
As the new year kicks off, I spent some time looking through my archives of all the photos I took in 2009. I had some great trips to Yellowstone and the Tetons a few times, and spent the summer at geology field camp exploring Utah for 6 weeks. Although I didnt have much time to…