Goldpaint Photography Alumni: Favorites from 2019
This year we again asked our workshop alumni to submit to us their favorite personal image along with a short blurb about why they chose it. Each year, the bar is set higher and higher with amazing photos from around the globe. We are so proud to see such great work being produced because their submissions are improving year after year! Thank you GP Alumni for reminding us about the importance of preserving our wild spaces under the stars by exploration, artistry, and continuing to support our mission.
Click on the images to read their stories and visit their websites to see more of their fantastic works. Like what you see? Share in the comments below!
“An evening spent capturing a starry night creates an unmistakable bond. This connection could be formed by the shear brilliance and magnitude of gazing into the endless universe or maybe the realization of how infinitesimal we feel in that moment. These connections have remained with me throughout my years of teaching. Each person, a unique experience, a distinct approach, and a single, apparent commonality: to reconnect with the beauty of the night.
It has been an honor to witness the evolution of these artists and the development of their works.”
Evie UrbinaThis image was taken at 13,000ft at my favorite run out and shoot spot because I have clear skies (mostly). I had planned of shooting the Milky Way archin ...
Christine RudkinI chose this picture because even though this lighthouse in the Outer Banks has been shot many times I really liked the composition and the fact that it wa ...
Rob HazzardThis scene was captured not far from my hometown in southwest Colorado. I live in Ohio now and don’t get back often. I miss the mountains. I had the loc ...
Kevin RailsbackThe challenge of combining multiple techniques in both shooting and editing this image makes it the most complex image I’ve ever created. The beauty of the ...
Diane RamthunLast August, we were sailing in Northern Lake Superior in a Canadian wilderness marine sanctuary. We anchored at Battle Island with the intention of photog ...
Richard TaftEmerald Lake was the first location we stopped at during the August 2019 Lassen Volcanic National Park Night Photography Workshop. The frogs were very noi ...
Yoshiki NakamuraThis is from Mt. Rainier when the moon began shedding light on the mountain top.
David BeckemeierBest photo of 2019, Raven's nest Maine. Foreground in the blue hour; sky is a stack of 10 exposures 20 seconds each, in sequator. Did it the night before m ...
Stuart FabeI took this image of the Milky Way over Willow Bend in late autumn. There was a bright light positioned on another barn about 200 yards away, and although ...
Howard GoldmanSony Ar7ii late at night after dinner at the tip of the Sibley Peninsula, Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, Ontario. Light pollution from Thunder Bay on the ...
Carol ZychowskiIt was such a surprise to climb down the hill and find these beautiful flowers in bloom. On top of that a meteor streaked through the scene when the moon w ...
Jeffrey LovelaceThis may not be my best image of 2019, but it is my favorite. This was the first shoot in which I took full advantage of my astro modified A7 III. It shows ...
Carol GauppThis doesn't match the nighttime photography theme, but is the shot of the year for me. While canoeing in the BWCA in Northern Minnesota this past Septemb ...
Gloria CropperI grew up in Kansas where storms were common and came with assertiveness. Living in Seattle now for twenty years I have greatly missed thunderstorms like i ...
John WatkinsThis image was taken in late summer at Yellowstone National Park. It was really dark that night with the Milky Way vertical and bright in the sky, with Jup ...
Lynn ClauerLynn Clauer See more of Lynn’s work by visiting her sites: Homepage | Facebook Page
David WilsonThis is a picture take on a tour in Armenia to the Garni Temple at night. The Garni temple was built in the first or second century and was destroyed by a ...
Christine WhittenThis is a composite panorama shot at Yosemite national Park October 2019 at about 11 pm. The rest of the photography group I was with had tired after a lon ...
Terri BarryThis is the Mongla Stupa in the Khumbu Region of Nepal. This is my 2019 favorite because I took it while my husband and I were on a 15 day trek from Lukla ...
Chris MarlerThis is a composite shot taken in November at Skogafoss Falls in Iceland. It’s my favorite of 2019 because I’ve been trying to capture the northern lights ...
Kristin ArlettKristin Arlett See more of Kristin’s work by visiting her Homepage & Instagram
Tim HerringThe dark skies of SE Oregon were my go to location in 2019, with four visits during the year. Several of the trips were to experiment with new gear combin ...
Nancy FormanNancy Forman See more of Nancy’s work by visiting her website.
Keith LiskThis image was taken on March 31, 2019, along a stretch of the Dalton Highway north of Fairbanks, Alaska, nicknamed ‘The Enchanted Forest’. While I got man ...
Ian JonesThe aurora borealis over the Great Slave Lake. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. This image was taken during a solar storm and while there were numerous ...
Bill MickleThis is a shot of another surreal landscape, similar to Bisti, yet unique. It makes me feel like I am relaxing on a Martian landscape, listening to "Shine ...
Thomas PiekunkaHere is my favorite image from 2019. It is titled, "Death and Life".
Kelly DavenportThis star trail is a composite of 75 individual images I shot at Deam Lake State Recreation area in Borden, Indiana. I used a Nikon D7500 with a Rokinon 14 ...
Esther FlemingI took this in Arizona during monsoon season. I liked the starry sky with the thunderstorm below. After a long day of storm chasing, we were headed to th ...
Michael DuncanThis is my favorite picture from 2019 because it represents a new level of capability for me. It was taken in moonlight and used focus stacking techniques ...
Wonderful set!!