My personal favorite from this season as well as one of the most memorable nights shooting. Chilly night practicing focus stacking and corrupting fellow alumni students at Mono Lake! Thank you Brad & Marci both for putting together these incredible workshops and bringing fellow photographers together!

Here's my favorite image of 2018 taken on the morning of March 23rd outside my B&B cabin in Delta Junction, Alaska. This aurora display began at about 2:00am local, reaching a peak near 4:30am when the aurora danced with incredible beauty. Needless to say, the celestial show was too amazing to examine each image in "real time," but upon later examination this photograph really touched my spirit.

This image isn’t as beautiful as some of the great Milky Way astroscapes, but it’s my favourite because of the circumstances I was able to capture it. It was taken around 5:00 in the morning in early September in the Joshua Tree forest in the west end of Death Valley National Park.

Kalahari Plains in Botswana

The absolute magic of the aurora, at Charlie Dome, Alaska. The ancients believed this was the gods coming from the heavens to speak to them personally. And that it what it felt like.

With clouds mostly lifting, I took my brother who was visiting from North Carolina to check out Vermont's night sky. Using methods and tools Brad shared for finding a Milky Way shot, I took him to Baker Pond in Brookfield. This is a pano of I believe 8 shots.

Some weekends stand out a little more than others. I enjoyed the marriage of two amazing friends, beheld mountain and meadow views, waded through meandering rivers, soaked in hot springs, talked loudly to bears that may or may not have been around the next bend, and meditated to the illumination of this waterfall by the harvest moon.

I like this image because of the lighting techniques I used (thanks, Brad!) and because the Alabama Hills are such a striking place to photograph in.

This shot of the Milky Way at Two Jack Lake in Alberta, Canada is one of my favorite shots from 2018. I was able to use all the components of Nightscape Photography I’ve learned from Brad Goldpaint to plan and capture this shot. While I originally planned to have the Milky Way coming straight out of Mt. Rundle, I waited until Mars became visible, since there was very little wind allowing for a nice reflection.

This is my favorite night image I shot in 2018. I live in Kentucky in an area where there is a lot of light pollution. During the Perseids Meteor Shower I drove 75 miles away to Patoka Lake in Birdseye, Indiana. I captured a Perseids Meteor as it streaked between Mars and the Milky Way.