Experience the magnificence of Big Bend National Park through your lens with me during my “BIG BEND ~ Night Skies & Landscapes Photo Tour ~ 2020.”
By day we’ll create photographs of those famous Chihuahuan desert landscapes. And by night we’ll blaze digital star trails through this International Dark Sky Park.
Includes a Welcome Dinner at the famous Starlight Theatre Restaurant in Terlingua.
LIMITED to just six (6) photographers
MORE INFO AT: https://exploreinfocus.com/joinme/big-bend-photo-tour/
The following Showcase images have been selected to appear on the NANPA home page for the week beginning Monday, March 4, 2019. To view all of the top 250 photographs from NANPA’s 2019 Showcase competition, see the photo gallery on the NANPA website.
The following Showcase images have been selected to appear on the NANPA home page for the week beginning Monday, January 21, 2019. We recently began highlighting the best photos from NANPA’s 2019 Showcase competition. To view all of the top 250 photographs, see the photo gallery on the NANPA website.
The following Showcase images have been selected to appear on the NANPA home page for the week beginning Monday, January 7, 2019. With these images, we begin highlighting the best photos from NANPA’s 2019 Showcase competition. To see all of the top 250 photographs, see the photo gallery on the NANPA website.
Why is the reflection of a full moon in the Snake River a stretched-out oval and not a round disk?
An interesting question came up during a recent NANPA webinar on “Chasing & Photographing the Aurora Borealis” presented by Carl Johnson. Why is it that the reflections of stars, moon or sun in bodies of water always seem to have elongated shapes? After all, when doing night photography, with a short enough shutter speed, the moon will be sharp and round; the stars will be tiny, sharp, points of light. So why do they seem to stretch out when reflected in a lake, stream or pond?
If you look at a satellite photo taken at night of the United States, you’ll see a recognizable shape. The coastlines are outlined in light. Major cities are clearly defined. Yet, out in far West Texas, there is a dark area void of major manmade lighting.
This huge dark area is being preserved thanks to a major dark sky preservation movement by local entities.
