Photo blog from Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois
Shawnee National Forest
Blue at Altitude
Sometimes you don’t have to go far for beauty. I mounted my tripod right outside my door at the Far View Lodge and clicked away for 4 hours at 8200 feet. The 10.5mm lens captures the blue waves of long duration star trails – reminding me of a ripple of water across a still pond. […]
Cortez’s Gold
8500 feet – my highest altitude star trail to date! The road up to the mountain top was gated off, so I had to hike it to the top. It was only half-a-mile and 600 feet up from where I started walking. Let me tell you, first day at altitude, that was the toughest half […]
The Making of a Dream
Taken from the high desert Chaco Canyon ancestral pueblo people site in northwest New Mexico. May, 2019. I don’t take a lot of selfies in my work, but I bucked the norm with this piece. I wanted to capture something inspirational. To incorporate a story into some of my compositions. Here I stood inside a […]
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