The traditional beginning of “Milky Way season” in the northern hemisphere is March. This early in the year, the “galactic core” starts to come up over the horizon — but just barely. The arch remains fairly low in the sky. But Milky Way season is just too exciting to pass up! At 2:30 in the…
Sometimes in photographing nature, things work out. The lighting is incredible, the shadows fall just as we want them. The sky has just the right amount of cloudiness, and all of the stars align. But more often than not, that doesn’t happen. Like during the April 2024 solar eclipse when we traveled hundreds of miles…
This is the first part in a series about Watkins Woolen Mill. It was on a chilly Friday in mid-February that I found myself wandering alone down the gravel paths of Watkins Woolen Mill State Historic Site north of the visitor center. No power lines were in sight as sheep grazed in a field fenced…