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Friday, September 26, 2014

Eastern Sierra Fall Colors Report September 2014

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Fall colors near Bishop, CA Saturday, September 20, 2014 Fall colors are getting underway in the Eastern Sierra.  These are some of the ...
Friday, September 19, 2014

California Landscape Photography Guide Book

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Draft cover for my upcoming guide book to Southern California landscape photography This is the draft cover for my upcoming guide book t...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

What Lights Are in Your Light Painting Bag?

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What's in your light painting bag? A lot of my lights are re-purposed from camping, backpacking, cycling, astronomy, and so on.  A l...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Chrome Extension Shows Klout Scores in Your Twitter Feed

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Sometimes when new people start interacting with you on social media you don't have a lot of context.  Or with people you may have bee...
Saturday, September 06, 2014

Mars, Saturn and Moon Conjunction Over Bodie's 1937 Chevy August 30

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Mars, Saturn and the moon over Bodie's 1937 Chevy on August 30 I wrote a blog post last week about the opportunity to capture the mo...
Monday, September 01, 2014

The Redemption of High Dynamic Range (HDR) Software

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Joshua tree in Hidden Valley, Joshua Tree National Park When I captured the image above in early 2009, I used a Canon EOS 40D.  Althoug...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Racetrack "Sailing Stones" Witnessed... Mystery Solved!

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"Sailing stone" on the Racetrack, Death Valley In one of the enduring mysteries of the world, people have long wondered how ro...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Plan Your Moon, Mars, Saturn Conjunction Photo August 30 & 31

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Shooting the moon, Mars and Saturn over Bodie's 1937 Chevy at 9 pm, Saturday August 30, 2014 Last weekend offered the opportunity to...

Photos of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter Conjunction August 23

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Jupiter, moon and M44 Beehive Cluster rising yesterday, August 23.  A short while later Venus joined them, below Jupiter. The Internet, ...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

Venus Jupiter Conjunction August 18 to Add Moon August 23

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Venus plus Jupiter with four of its moons before dawn August 18 Venus - Jupiter Aug 18 The Venus -  Jupiter Conjunction was a rare e...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014 Video Released Today

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Moon Over Half Dome, Yosemite National Park Thanks to the  +Royal Observatory Greenwich  in London for including my image in your video ...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Perseid Meteor Shower 2014 Continues as Moon Rises Later

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Perseid meteor over mining ruins, Eastern Sierra I set up my camera Friday night to take a sequence of shots so I could make a composite...

Venus - Jupiter Conjunction at Dawn Today

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Venus and Jupiter put on a show in the sky this morning as sunrise approached.  As seen from earth these two bright planets appeared to p...
Monday, August 11, 2014

Perseid Meteor 2014

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Perseid meteor 4:19 am August 11, 2014 Yes, it is possible to get Perseid meteors in spite of the full moon.  This one was at 4:19 am, r...
Saturday, August 09, 2014

Transit of Venus in Front of the Sun, June 2012

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The planet Venus (black dot) passes in front of the sun, as seen from earth When the planet Venus was scheduled to pass in front of the ...
Friday, August 08, 2014

Viewing the Perseid Meteor Shower in 2014

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Viewing the Perseid Meteor Shower in 2014: http://t.co/RmDO4k7IdK American Meteor Society @amsmeteors pic.twitter.com/e4idrbp7im — Jeff ...
Monday, August 04, 2014

Guaranteed Delivery Photo Sharing Networks: Flickr, Instagram, Twitter

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A crate originally containing blasting caps, explosive charges used to set off dynamite, sits in an abandoned house in the historic minin...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

2014 Perseid Meteor Shower Begins

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The annual Perseid meteor shower is ramping up, but the moon will increasingly interfere with viewing as the shower's peak approaches....
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Delta II Rocket Image Sequence from OCO-2 Launch

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Four minutes during NASA's OCO-2 satellite launch from Vandenberg AFB, California NASA sent the OCO2 satellite up on a Delta II ro...