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White Pocket Panorama
Just to prove I’m not completely useless during the day I decided to do a couple of panorama images after being clouded out at White Pocket. This is what I got on my 1st try. Here is a 100% crop of...
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Crown the Frog!
The Crown Prince Frog. The “Frog” as I call this unusual rock formation at White Pocket AZ appears as if the Milky Way is about to crown it with the Antares region. Included in the royal crown is...
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Mars Halo
Mars Dog. As many know Mars is really bright right now. I normally just discard images with much in the way of clouds but this one seemed interesting. It had what appeared to be a Mars Dog. It might...
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The Milky Way Mine.
The Milky Way Mine. I’m distracted by rocks. I really am. So when I have a chance to combine mining with the Milky Way, well you know I’m going to do it. This scene is set in Frisco Utah. Frisco is the...
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Milky Way Melt.
Milky Way Melt. Is the Milky Way melting into the ground? At White Pocket it always looks like things are melting, including the rocks themselves.This scene is the back side of the “Frog” at White...
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Melting the Milky Way. These are the 5 beehive smelters at Frisco, Utah
Melting the Milky Way. These are the 5 beehive smelters at Frisco, Utah (one is a little hard to make out as the top has collapsed.) These kilns are very well preserved for having been made in the...
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The Pink Cliffs
Pink Cliffs. The remote Pink Cliffs at Bryce Canyon is a bear to get to in a car. I have scratches all down the sides of my trusty Jimmy Envoy thanks to this trip. I also have a couple of videos, one...
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Homage.
Homage. No tree on earth is older than the Bristlecone Pines in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. Not a single living thing is older than the trees here. The trees here are almost 5,000 years...
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Peace.
Peace. In this world that is full of outrage and unrest, let me offer you Peace. There is peace in the world. There is beauty in the world. It’s almost everywhere. It’s in a lake, nestled in the...
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Saturn Peeking
Just to prove I can still do some sort of deep space astrophotography, I present Saturn Peeking. This was taken with my backup Canon 6D and consists of 78 1 minute exposures with a Nikkor 180 2.8 lens...
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ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP NEAR KANSAS CITY ON SEPT 2-3 2016
Learn to take images like these and make your images stand out in a increasingly crowded field. What you will learn: How to focus your images properly for the Milky Way How to combine images into a...
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RESULTS FROM: ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Here they are folks! Graphic illustrations of skill increase from students at the Workshop. We got 2 fantastic nights under the stars and one good night. I’m going to show the previous favourites night...
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RESULTS FROM: ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP PART 2
Here they are folks! Graphic illustrations of skill increase from students at the Workshop. We got 2 fantastic nights under the stars and one good night. I’m going to show the previous favourites night...
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Unsolicited Comments from the Dave Lane Astrophotography Workshop.
Unsolicited comments from the Workshop. Maybe a testimonial video or two later. Wow, the skies are SO beautiful, I think they are better than Utah.” I learned more in 1 day at this Workshop than I did...
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A Night with The Outlaw Josey Wales.
A Night with The Outlaw Josey Wales. Pahreah or Paria, Utah is one of the places where the Outlaw Josey Wales was shot. It’s also an amazing display of geology. It’s down a pretty tough road, but a car...
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The Dusty Scorpion. Messier 78
The Dusty Scorpion. This is actually Messier object #78 or for shorthand M78. But in this orientation, it looks to be a Scorpion in my mind. This object is in a straight line from the Orion Nebula...
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Inspiration.
nspiration. In June of this year, I wandered over to Bryce Canyon on a clear night. I typically avoid Bryce like the plague as it has long been overrun by noobs of the highest order. Those...
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Oh, what a night.
White Pocket, AZ. Oh, what a night. In June of this year, I wandered off to White Pocket. It was a wonderous evening, moderate temperatures in the 80’s that night, a very slight breeze blowing in from...
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Smoke on the Canyon.
Smoke on the Canyon. I was going to go with Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple reference for those over 40), but honestly, there isn’t any in the picture. In fact, the hazy bits on the stars are from a...
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Down in the Valley.
Down in the Valley, Valley so lowwwwww. Actually, this image should be titled PAIN!!! Uggh this one was really, really tough. I’ve shot from a lot of canyon tops and through arches but never from...
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