White Pine in the Dark

I was in a Milky Way Photography workshop, and we were fighting the clouds this night, so we focused on the foreground. This gnarled old pine stands guard over Crater Lake

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White Spire One

I have to wonder how long this ancient, now dead tree has been looking up at the Milky Way from the edge of Crater Lake

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Milky Way over Crater Lake

This is one of the first successful Milky Way pics I ever took. I lucked into a good location (there are no bad ones at Crater Lake), and used everything I had learned thus far to capture the entire MW.

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Gnarled Pine with Stars

On my third night at Crater Lake, the stars came out. The foreground is light painted with a flashlight, and you can see Wizard Island in the lower part of the frame.

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White Spire Two

As the night cleared, I spent a good amount of time photographing ancient trees on the edge of the cliff at Crater Lake

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Crater Lake Time Lapse

This is a frame from a time lapse I shot at Crater Lake. Wizard island is in the dark at the bottom, right. Crater Lake is one of the darkest places you'll find in the lower 48.

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Dark Was the Night

I love how the trees form a silhouette landscape in this shot. I was walking between two locations I wanted to shoot, when I took a look up in this small grove of trees just away from the crater's edge.

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Gnarled Tree

As the Milky Way was rapidly moving West, I caught its reflection in Crater Lake below. This tall picture is a pano, made up from several individual images.

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