Nature is stochastic, every changing… Plan in advance, and more often than not, nothing is as you planned… Astronomical events may occur like clockwork, but nature often intervenes, throwing a thick blanket of clouds over the proceedings. From time to time, though, everything falls into place, and though the scene before me was visible for only a handful of minutes before twilight washed away the stars and the Milky Way, to see our island of stars slowly appear as the Moon’s brilliance faded was an incomparable experience. Photographed May 26, 2021, at Boot Arch, Alabama Hills, Eastern Sierra, California.
The Milky Way rises over Barney Lake, Hoover Wilderness, Eastern Sierra, California. Photographed August 2016. Selected as a Nominee in the Nature category at the 12th Annual Black and White Spider Awards (2017).
The Milky Way at Leo Carrillo State Beach, Malibu, California. Photographed September 2017.
