NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)

It is with great pleasure I announce to you some very exciting news for Goldpaint Photography. My photo “Silent Effigy” was chosen by NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) and is displayed today, May 24, 2011 on its website http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110524.html. Each day an image or photograph relating …

Magic Hour: Chasing the Light

It has been some time since my last entry… To be honest, I can’t seem to stop shooting. For the past couple of months there has just been endless opportunities and beauty that seem to surround me without end. I’m not one to try the ‘picture a day’ …

Trails of Light in the Night Sky

Here are some new star trail images taken from Big Bend National Park.  These were part of the newest time-lapse video, “Breaking Point” that I uploaded last week.  Once again, I had a lot of images to choose from that were taken to produce the time-lapse video.  I …

Breaking Point

At first, when I set out to do another time-lapse video I knew it was going to be extremely difficult, maybe even impossible to beat the last one I did.  I was supposed to leave Dallas on a Tuesday, but due to the Arctic Storm that swept through the Midwest, I was delayed by 4 days.

Wiser for the Time

Time-lapse photography has always been an interest of mine.  Time-lapse photography consists of taking numerous still images to create a video clip.  Now, you might ask, “Why not just use a video camera?”  Well, video camera’s cannot create 30 second, single frame exposures.  In the time-lapse video above, …

4,000-5,000 photos are uploaded to Flickr every minute. That means that more than 7,000,000 photos are uploaded to Flickr every day. Flickr then takes 500 of the best/most popular photos throughout the day and publishes them into a section called, ‘Explore.’ “The Base of Two Worlds” by Goldpaint …