A photo of an ebony jewelwing damselfly I took some years ago while I was still loving in Arkansas, where damselflies and dragonflies are everywhere due to the humidity and abundant water.
I took this with a Canon T3i DSLR and Sigma AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG lens in macro mode.
This photo of a Stellar's jay was taken at a ghost town near Mt. Princeton, a couple hours west of Colorado Springs.
Closely related to the blue jay, Steller's jays live at higher elevations here in Colorado. I see them sometimes while hiking the foothills on the western edge of Colorado Springs.
I took this photo with a Canon 70D DSLR and Sigma AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG telephoto lens.
This surly looking rabbit was out just before sunrise on a cold March morning out on the high plains of eastern Colorado. Rebekah and I had been up all night imaging star trails and stuck around to watch these sunrise when we were joined by this jackrabbit. Jackrabbits are much larger than the desert cottontails we have in the suburbs of Colorado Springs, and much faster.
I took this photo using a Canon 6D and a Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM telephoto lens.
The Milky Way stretching across the sky from a cattle farm in eastern Colorado.
Rebekah and I took this photo a number of years ago while trespassing on a cattle farm after driving east in the hopes of finding a dark site to shoot the Milky Way. We stepped in more than a few cow patties that night.
Taken with a Canon 70D and a Rokinon HD8M-C 8mm f/3.5 HD fisheye lens.
This photo shows the one day old moon setting above the silhouette of Pikes Peak.
I took this photo a number of years ago from atop a small bluff behind my old townhouse complex in Colorado Springs.
You can see earth shine on the moon, the phenomenon in which the light of the sun is first reflected by the day side of Earth and back on the otherwise dark face of the crescent moon, illuminating it, too, allowing us to see detail on its surface.
I used a Canon 70D and a Canon EF-S 17-55mm lens to capture this image.
This was my second ever attempt at photographing star trails, and the first from a dark site. This image is a composite of two photos, one for the foreground and a second for the sky. Rebekah light painted the rocks with a flashlight to add some interest to the photo.
This was taken at the Paint Mines Open Space in Calhan, Colorado, with a a Canon 70D and and a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X116 Pro DX lens. There's an airport nearby, so you can see a few planes passing through the shot despite my best efforts to Photoshop most of them out of the photo.
The Lagoon Nebula, otherwise known as Messier 8, a bright emission nebula in the constellation of Sagittarius. The brightest nebula visible in the summer, the Lagoon Nebula can just be seen with the naked eye under dark skies and is easy to spot with a small pair of binoculars.
I took this photo with a TMB92L refractor telescope, a Hutech-modified Canon T3i DSLR, an Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, all riding on a Celestron AVX mount.
I took this photo a few years ago, the day after a big snowstorm hit Colorado Springs. This was relatively early in the morning, when the snow was just beginning to evaporate in the sun. By the afternoon, most of it had melted away.
This was taken from the Mesa Overlook near the entrance to the Garden of the Gods park with a Canon 70D DSLR and Canon EF-S 17-55mm lens.
A beautiful lake hidden away in the foothills of Rocky Mountain National Park on the edge of Estes Park, Colorado.
I took this late in the day with a Canon 70D and a Rokinon HD8M-C 8mm f/3.5 HD fisheye lens, after a long hike upward to the lake.
This is my best ever image of Jupiter, taken in February 2014 in Fayetteville, Arkansas on a night of incredible seeing. If you look closely, you can see Jupiter's volcanic moon Io to the right of the planet.
Taken with a Celestron C6 SCT, Celestron AVX mount, a 2x Barlow, and a ASI120MC planetary/lunar imaging camera. I recorded several minutes of video using the ASI120MC and then stacked the sharpest of the resulting still frames to produce this composite image.
