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Description: The sky just after this rapid moving winter storm was intense. The cloud tops were acting as light filters and providing interesting tone changes and depth. The challenge was keeping up with the varying lighting. I kept wanting to to try different angles but the sky was changing so fast that you have to just take it as it comes.

Description: Cool fence on the Zaca mesa.

Description: This image was illuminated with green chemsticks resting in the headlight bezels that were mounted backwards and upside down and a red LED headlamp inside the cabin. The outside area light was illuminated with a red chemstick hanging off the bottom of the tripod.

Description: Another light painting image of the Fairlane Skyliner. This is a 20 Second image with a white light bounced off the ground in front the car.

Description: The Central Coast of California is a beautiful place any time of year but sometimes when we get weather and the light is right it becomes somewhat surreal. This is just one of a few images taken from he back roads of Santa Barbara County after a rare rainy afternoon.

Description: I do believe I could sit on top of the hill in a rocking chair and watch the world go by. Might just be a good place to set up a telescope as well. Mayhap's I will. laws yes.

Description: Another junkyard light painting shot; this 30 second exposure is using a green chemstick inside hanging on the dash with one red stick hanging under the tripod while bouncing white light of the palm of my hand toward the ground.

Description: Light painting the Skyliner against the light pollution of LA in the distance.

Description: This 20 second image was illuminated with chem sticks and a red headlight.

Description: This long exposure image was taken in the Los Padres National Forest after the recent spring rains. The image was taken without any filters. It was imaged a ISO100, f22, .6 seconds @44mm. It was truly just an opportune shot and I wasn't planning on shooting anything like this that day. A few filters could have made this even more fun...next time.

Description: Persied Red

Description: This sunset was shot with a Nikon D7100, 55mm 1/3 with a Marumi 100000 ND filter.

Description: This image of the M42 Orion Nebula was captured on a Nikon D7100 attached to a Celestron CPC1100 SCT. This was imaged on my back porch with no filters.

Description: This is an uncolored image of the Orion Nebula through an 80 mm refractor with a Nikon DSLR.

Description: Having fun with a good flashlight, a tripod and a 30 second exposure. I shot this with a Nikon D810a on tripod with a 14mm lens.

Description: 1957 Ford Fairlane Skyliner

Description: Carl Sagan once gave a brilliant monolog titled "The Pale Blue Dot" and it really puts things into perspective. Often humankind makes a lot of drama where none is warranted. I think Carl would say, "stop, stop thinking small, there is so much more to be amazed by."

Description: This image of the Lagoon Nebula was shot on my back porch with a Celestron CPC 1100 SCT and a Nikon D7100.

Description: This is part of a series of lightning images taken of a 1957 Ford Fairlane Skyliner hardtop convertible parked in a friends classic car junkyard. The night sky never stops providing interesting backdrops to shoot in this eclectic collection of machina

Description: Light pollution from Santa Barbara illuminates the horizon in this single frame, 30 second exposure from Figueroa Mountain.

Description: The Andromeda Galaxy, 2.5 million light years away making the light gathered in this image is at least 2.5 million years old. Andromeda is also our nearest galactic neighbor and visible to the naked eye with out a telescope on clear nights in dark skies.

Description: The haze in the horizon of this Milky Way image is courtesy of the summer California WildFire season.

Description: This is a single 30 second exposure of the M8 Lagoon Nebula and M20 Trifid Nebula, imaged with a Nikon D810a and Explore Scientific 80mm Apochromatic Refractor.

Description: The Dumbbell Nebula or M27 is also sometimes called the Apple Core Nebula due to its obvious appearance. It is a planetary nebula located about 1360 Light years away. This image was take with an eleven inch Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope and Nikon D7100 DSLR.

Description: This is a winter image of our home Galaxy, the beautiful Milky Way along with our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy is over 2.5 million light years away and is so large it can be seen without a telescope, as visible in this image between the Milky Way and the Windmill. Look for the angled light colored disc just to the right of the blades of the Windmill.

Description: The Trifid Nebula

Description: This a Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Test flight launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. This photograph was taken 22 miles from the base on private property. The image is a 3 minute exposure that shows all 3 boost stages of powered flight.

Description: This single exposure image of the Milky Way was taken on Alisos Canyon road in Los Alamos CA with Mars putting on a show in the left side of the frame.

Description: A Minuteman III ICBM is test launched from LF-10 on Vandenberg AFB, CA. Photograph taken in Los Alamos CA 20 miles east of the launch facility.

Description: Cletrac Celestial Transporter

Description: McWay 001

Description: McWay 002

Description: This a Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Test flight launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base. This photograph was taken 22 miles from the base on private property. The image is a 3 minute exposure that shows all 3 boost stages of powered flight.

Description: Goldfield 4

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Description: Goldfield 6