- Sudden Brilliance
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA Profound overexposure as the limb of the sun reemerges from behind the moon. - Shining city on a hill
Badlands National Park - Scene while stopped in traffic for road construction
Badlands National Park - Pronghorn doe and fawn
Badlands National Park - Pronghorn doe
Badlands National Park - Passing Cloud
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA - Munch, Munch
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA Partial phase, just before the sunspots get eaten. - Moonrise over observation point
Badlands National Park - Last Sliver
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA - ISS transiting the sun
Composite of 4 exposures showing a solar transit of the International Space Station. Photographed from Gallitzin State Forest, Pennsylvania, USA at 2015-08-29 14:12:42 UT. The duration of the transit was 0.8 seconds. The distance to the ISS was approximately 616 km and its angular size was about 45 arcsec. Planning for the transit was done using CalSky.com. Pentax K-5 II, Pentax DA* 300mm f/4, Tamron 1.4x teleconverter, ND 1000x filter. Exposures were 1/6000 second with the lens set to f/8 (for an f/11 effective aperture with the teleconverter). - I like big buttes
And I cannot lie. Sunrise, Badlands National Park. - George Washington
Mount Rushmore National Memorial - Extreme corona
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA This is from my longest single exposure. I pushed this one as far as I could, to the point of excessive noise and artifacts, to reveal the extended coronal structure and earthshine on the moon. - Diamond Ring
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA - Detail of solar prominence
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA - Corona, prominences, and Regulus
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA With this version of my second-longest exposure, I've tried to balance the structure in the corona with good detail in the large prominence. - Butterfly on Joe Pye Weed
- Bison
A massive bison. I named him "Higgs." Badlands National Park. - Bald Eagle
Yellow Creek State Park, "Lagoons by Pontoons" event.