Brent Davis

Brent Davis

This is my favorite, for sentimental reasons as much as anything.  I try to include one or all three of my dogs in my travels, which quite honestly make night photography in the backcountry quite challenging.  For the Perseids I had a permit to go backpacking in the southern Sierras with one of my dogs but when we got over there the smoke from the Rough fire was really bad.  So I went to Plan B which entailed going home for my paddle board and heading out on a different adventure.  I paddled out to a small island in the middle of a lake in the Sierras, with my dog, camping gear, and camera gear.  We had the island to ourselves, and photographically I had the good fortune to have some campfires on the far shore to make the image a little more interesting.  The meteor shower was not as good as previous years, but it was still a great evening.  Any time that I can get out in the backcountry with the dogs in tow is good adventure. 

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