We’ve compiled a list of not-to-be-missed night photography and dark sky events for 2025! Come out and experience some Mojave night magic underneath the stars. Sky’s The Limit If you’re visiting Joshua Tree National Park, consider stopping by the Sky’s The Limit Observatory and Nature Center in Twentynine Palms, California.
How did I create this night photo in the Alabama Hills, near the foothills of the Eastern Sierra? It involved star trails, light painting, long exposure and more. Creating those star trails in the night sky I set a Pentax K-1 and a 28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 on a Feisol tripod and
California is a large, gorgeous state with varied terrain and a large percentage is big, open, beautiful desert. There’s many places to go out to photograph and enjoy the fresh air. Regardless of whether you visit the desert during colder or hotter months, your body will need plenty of fluids.
I explored Hog Farm, an abandoned hippie commune located on top of a mountain, at night. This is the long, strange trip along the way. The Hog Farm The Hog Farm is likely the longest running hippie commune in the United States. Activist Hugh Romney, more famously known as Wavy
You don’t have to light paint everything in a scene. Sometimes, keeping parts in the shadow is emotionally more powerful. What is light painting? The term is often used loosely to describe any addition of light to a night photograph. Really, though, light painting is a technique that uses a
What are some of the behind-the-scenes in creating a museum exhibit of night photography? This is how the “Abandoned Planes Trains and Automobiles” museum exhibit at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum in Yucca Valley, CA came together. The museum is situated close to the entrance of Joshua Tree National Park, which
What do Route 66, star parties, historic stagecoach routes, gold mining and camels have in common? All these and more collide at Goffs, an almost-ghost town where the Mojave Desert Heritage and Cultural Association is located. Sure, there’s history and a museum, but there’s also so many cool events that
How did I illuminate this dinosaur from the back? By hiding! Read on and I’ll explain! But first … what is this? It’s a velociraptor. Or rather, a sculpture of one created by master sculptor Ricardo Breceda. It is located near Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. There in Galleta Meadows in
California has much more than its famous coastlines. It’s a large, gorgeous state with the towering Sierra Nevada Mountain range, forests, glaciers and dramatic vistas. There’s many places to go out to photograph and enjoy the fresh air. Yosemite National Park There are two main ways to enter Yosemite by
Recently I went to Los Angeles with my husband to attend a one-day music festival. We took a few extra days to do some exploring. Equipped with my two-page list of architecture and sites I wanted to photograph, I quickly realized there was no way I was going to see
Santa Cruz Island in Channel Islands National Park offers an opportunity to photograph unique animals and plants close to Los Angeles in California.
My last day in Death Valley was a mix of spectacular, dramatic light and a wind storm that kept intensifying. After my stop at Artists Palette I headed south to Badwater Basin. The National Park Service placed a sign here saying that it’s the lowest point in North America. What’s
