Once you click on the image it may take 15 seconds or more to render! What some have come to call the Rainbow Mountain is at Old Paria, or Pahreah, which is a ghost town on the Paria River in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in central Kane County, Utah, United States. It was inhabited from 1870 to 1929, and later used as a filming location. it’s on Highway 89 between Kanab, Utah and Page, Arizona. Although a regular vehicle can make this drive rather easily do not attempt it if rain is in the forecast or if it has rained recently. The road turns into an impassible slime pit for ..read more

***CLICK on the Above Image to go to Flickr and see options for up to a 10,000 pixel version*** Tuweap also known as Toroweap is at the far western edge of the Grand Canyon National Park. It’s a really rough drive out to the edge. 65 miles off pavement and the last 7-8 miles you need 4×4 to make it. This is a huge panorama 80 separate images. Stitched on their edges. 40 for the sky and 40 for the ground. Standing on the edge of a 3,000 foot drop 6″ from death in total darkness is a bit unnerving, especially since the ground exposure was about 30 minutes. Hence the detail of a very realistic ..read more

On a pleasant evening at White Pocket Arizona during the new moon in April 2018, the zodiacal light reappeared over the desert southwest. Venus, which had been burning brightly in the sky after sunset dropped to just over the horizon after astronomical dark. The strong wind of the previous day had died down to an occasional cool breeze. Some dust still lingered in the atmosphere as evidenced by the ruddy horizon, but the Zodiacal Light showed forth with great effect. It was surprisingly pleasant for April in the Southwest. Temperatures drifted in the low 50s and there was jus ..read more

Once upon a viewpoint dreamy. As Jimmy and I crested the hill that led to this Lake Powell overlook I was on the handsfree phone discussing some matter of import. I explained that I was driving up to the edge of a cliff. As the landscape in this image popped into view before me. I gasped and let out a cry, “Oh My Gawd! Holy Sh#t!!” Convinced I was about to fall to my death the reply “Should I call 911?” was answered with “No, OMG what a view!” It was hard to parse and describe in the English language. It was as if some watery Martain scene had just popped into existence ..read more

Victor Colorado Star Mine The Victor/Goldfield Colorado Star Mine Jimmy and I were headed home from out west after 9 days of shooting images. In case you have missed it I really find mining and specifically the buildings and mechanisms to bore holes miles into the ground extremely interesting. I managed to find this little area with a really cool walking trail through half collapsed building remnants, and just a bit away from the scattered lights of Goldfield a very small town of maybe 20 houses. This area was also behind the hill on the right from Victor Colorado (far right glow.) This wa ..read more

 Scouring Orion from Barnards Loop to the Orion Nebula. 2-Image Mosaic Click Image below for a much larger version Barnard to Orion nebula Focused to Perfection with the Astro Products Reveal Focus Filter!   Whats better than Orion in the Winter sky? Nothing that’s what! In Kansas, we had a rare clear night with the temperature above 5 degrees F, wind below 40 mph and just a tiny sliver of moon. It was a perfect night to go out and hunt Orion the Hunter! I captured two different images and put them together to form a mosaic. In the first shot, I managed to bag the Horseh ..read more

  <img class=”wp-image-3551 size-large” src=”https://i0.wp.com/www.davelaneastrophotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/M78-HH-Barnard-Final-1-1-flat.jpg?resize=1024%2C674″ alt=”Horse Head Nebula M78 Barnard’s Loop” width=”1024″ height=”674″ data-wp-pid=”3551″ srcset=”https://i0.wp.com/www.davelaneastrophotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/M78-HH-Barnard-Final-1-1-flat.jpg?resize=1024%2C674 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.davelaneastrophotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/M78-HH-Barnard-Final-1-1-flat.jpg?resize=300%2C197 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.davelaneastrophotography ..read more

Focused to Perfection with the Astro Products Reveal Focus Filter!   Cygnus Pelican to the Veil   Cygnus is such cool area of the sky. There are so many cool areas of Hydrogen Alpha Emissions (called Ha) in this region. These are that areas you see as pink in the image. The HA emission is 656 nanometers which is a bit above the color red on the light spectrum. Here a bit from Wikipedia on H-Alpha emissions. H-alpha (Hα) is a specific deep-red visible spectral line in the Balmer series with a wavelength of 656.28 nm; it occurs ..read more

Dinosaurs! Actual Photograph – What?!? I call this image “Look at the Pretty Light in the Sky!” the last of my 10 image series. Ever wonder what a dinosaur looked like at night? Wonder no more! This is a real photograph, well actually its about 40 some photos stitched together. The foreground is a life-sized pair of dinosaur models filmed at night on location. So yes, this is an actual panoramic photograph. I combined this with my image I took of the Comet Lovejoy in Kansas along with a winter Milky Way / Orion shot over Moab (the dinosaur models are in Moab).  I spent a lot of tim ..read more

Pathway to the Milky Way through the Badlands     The Badlands are an interesting place, sometimes when quite dry they appear nearly colorless, sometimes after some rain, they sprout color and have a completely different look. This night was after a recent rain and the colors were much more interesting than the last time I went bay here. I was on my way back from my western travels and it appeared I could make the Badlands before nightfall. I was wrong. It was pitch black out by the time I arrived at Panorama Point. I climbed out of Jimmy and the wind was quite stout, probab ..read more