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A couple of times a year I give up the quiet beaches and dark skies for a weekend and embrace the noise and chaos of the racetrack....

The hype over Adobe's new Adaptive Color Profile for Lightroom and Camera Raw got me to thinking about how it would work with landscape...

One of the most common questions I get is "what settings did you use to get that shot?" I'll happily share but what works for me may not...

Newest Adobe Lightroom update adds landscape masking and changes the way we can target areas of nightscape images for post processing....

I put together a short tutorial on using luminosity masking to really enhance your dodge & burn layer for nightscape image post...

Sometimes I capture an image that I know is good but no amount of tweaking in post can tease that magic out of it. Eventually I give up...

What's in the Night Sky for May 2025 Meteor over Kure Beach, NC With rapidly rising temperatures May offers a variety of celestial events...

Early in my nightscape photography journey I learned a technique that has been a core part of my shooting ever since. I took a series of...

Photographing the aurora has been a bucket list item for me for some time now. I had done research on locations, techniques and the best...

Most of my creativity begins with this simple question, how can I do that? Typically I will see an image that really catches my...

Spring is a great time to get out and view the night sky. The nights are warming up but the bugs aren't out in full force yet. The moon,...

It's been a slow start to the year so far, I've have yet to find a morning I could go out to shoot. The weekends have either been cloudy...

It's that time of year once again. Time to charge up the batteries, wipe the memory cards and clean all the lenses and sensors. The core...

I was doing a little fall cleaning this weekend and realized that I had a few extra prints that I had managed to collect over the past...

Like most photographers I have a speciality, I shoot nightscapes. I can do portraits, headshots, prom shoots and I've even done a wedding...

A tutorial for post processing Milky Way Nightscape images using Photoshop. In the previous video go through my workflow from Lightroom...

A tutorial for post processing nightscape Milky Way images using Lightroom and Starry Landscape Stacker. I go through my workflow from...

As I began to process this image I experienced a flood of memories from the weekend in early June my youngest son and I spent at Cape...

"Why don't we leave the top off Dad?" Was the question I go from my youngest one evening last summer as we were setting up our tent at...