I took this image on my own at the Very Large Array of radio telescopes near Socorro, New Mexico. It is my favorite because it was the first time that I was able to independently envision a nighttime picture and have it come out exactly like I had envisioned.  As a side note, the illumination of the telescope was provided by the headlights of the security vehicle that had come out to check up on me. The security person let me stay to take more pictures.

I am a bit obsessed with Northern Lights and they are incredibly hard to capture here in Vermont. Planning ahead, I had this area mapped out just 10 min from home and facing due north. As the lights ramped, we headed out just hoping for a break in the clouds. This spot had no pull off (a narrow unpaved backroad), so I had my husband watching for the occasional car while I triggered and blocked the light from the tail lights and attempted to get faint foreground wisps of weeds

Summers at my grandparents farm in Iowa were always magical. I spent many nights down in the hay field watching lightning bugs and the Milky Way drift across the sky.
40 years later, “progress” has hidden much of the magic of the night sky above the farm.
A month after attending the Arches workshop I found myself in Northern Iowa about as far away from the bigger cities as you can get in Iowa before entering the light pollution of another city.
It was here that I was taken back to those warm Iowa summer nights of my youth.

Taken during the Goldpaint Photography Alumni Workshop in Central Utah.

Star Trails at Barker Dam in Joshua Tree National Park, March 2017. The reflections of the stars in the water make this a favorite of mine. I’m proud of this picture because it was my first star trail photo I ever took.

Here is my favorite night-sky image of 2017. This image was taken at Little Molas Lake, CO during our honeymoon return from Ketchum, ID where Doug and I experienced the total solar eclipse and got married on Aug 21, 2017. What a day!

It was a difficult choice, but this was my favorite image from 2017, which was taken in May at Toroweap, a remote area of the Grand Canyon. I like the way the Milky Way lies over the canyon, where the walls are 3,000 feet to the Colorado River below.

This image is my favorite for 2017 because I had the startlingly good fortune to have the valley entirely to myself. Sweet solitude with these ancient formations under the stars.

Taken during the night photography workshop at the Madeline Island School of the Arts with Goldpaint Photography.

I wanted the Milky Way to showcase this unique abandoned grainery in the Palouse area, Washington, so I waited an entire year for the perfect clear early summer night.