We thought it a great idea to reach out to our talented Goldpaint Photography Alumni and ask them to send us their favorite image from 2016! After traveling the country and teaching full workshops, we found that our students captured some VERY impressive and inspiring images this year. Their artistry helps feed our passion and desire to promote the preservation of our disappearing night skies. They too, were inspired to get out there and explore some magical places, often conquering their own fears of the dark to capture its mystery and beauty.
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It's always hard to pick just one image for the year but this image has to be the one just beca ...
Quiver Tree Forest, Namibia
Reflecting on 2016, this image brings me back to several nights in the Sierra Nevada mountains. ...
I have a hard time picking a single image to be my favorite for the year. I go back and forth ...
Mono Lake felt so other-worldly. We traveled from Lake Tahoe and started the night with stron ...
This image was taken during my first backcountry multi day hike. There is always a element of r ...
Beauty and beast at Crater Lake - While visiting Crater Lake a forest fire started and grew to ...
Trona Pinnacles
This is my favorite photo because of the view you have of the vast sky totally surrounding you! ...
Here is my favorite photo of 2016. Why? It's difficult to articulate, but a big part is I enj ...
This is my favorite image from 2016 because it has so many compelling elements, in my opinion. ...
I have been wanting to take ancient pine trees aligned with the milky way for quite a few years ...
Panoramic image of the three sisters in Goblin Valley State Park
While experimenting with the Nikon 10mm OP Fisheye, a Perseid meteor fell through the comp righ ...
This is a photo of the Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone with the Milky Way pe ...
Greenland has been a place I had wanted to see my entire life. On the evening that it as taken, ...
I've selected this image as it has always been a location that I and on this one evening I rea ...
I stopped by Palouse Falls on the way back from Palouse rolling hills shooting in late May. It ...
Taken at 3:25AM on June 10th at Mono Lake. I was supposed to take an accompanying exposure for ...
Here is my favorite image of 2016. It was take in the Tombstone Park in the Yukon in September ...
This photo is my stars trail from the Mono Lake Workshop Brad held last June. This was my very ...
Milky Way over Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, July 29, 2016.
Time-lapse composite of a saguaro at KOFA NWR was shot with a Canon 5D Mark III and Rinon 24mm ...
From Hunting Island State Park in southeastern South Carolina, I shot this during the first wee ...
My husband Drew and I to a photo of us taking the ultimate selfie as some of the dinosaurs atta ...
I picked this photo because it was the most challenging. I did not realize it at the time, but ...
Mono Lake is a location that is always harder and pushes me a bit further than I expect. But d ...
Carol Zychowski s
I choose this photograph because I had a few things to deal with one was the moon was to the ri ...
Old gnarled trees are my favorite foreground for a milky way nightscape. Being among trees tha ...
I can't say this image compares with all the wonderful work I've seen, but I keep coming back t ...
This is my favorite image from 2016 as Century Lakes Highway was still closed in May when this ...
An amazing night with Brad at Mono Lake