Iridescent Clouds over Monhegan Community Church
I spent a wonderful 4 days on Monhegan Island in Maine last weekend on a trip organized by the Vermont Center for Ecostudies. The main focus was birds, but on…
Iridescent Clouds over Sunapee Harbor
There are many times when the camera can see things the eye can't. Examples include freezing a very fast action, blurring moving water, the multitude of stars in the night…
Sun Dog and Iridescent Clouds
Returning home from a snowshoe hike with a friend, I spotted a sun dog. We were near his house in Lebanon, but we stopped briefly so I could get the…
New Years Eve Sun Dogs
A very colorful pair of Sun Dogs appeared in the sky above our yard this morning. They were associated with a faint 22 degree halo. The show lasted for over…
Iridescent Clouds in Etna
During an early morning walk with Jann today, I made a few photos of fog near a backlit barn. I then noticed some color in the clouds. I was seeing iridescence…
Milky Way in Motion
I got a new camera this year, a D500 -- the long-awaited successor to the great D300s. It has a nice time-lapse movie capability. I am starting to experiment with this feature. I…
Sunset over Lake Sunapee
There was a nice sunset over Lake Sunapee three nights ago. The image below is a composite of 5 individual photos. You can double click to zoom way in and use the…
22 degree halo over Sunapee
Last Saturday while on a hike with the Ausbon Sargent Land Preservation Trust on a newly conserved property in Sunapee, I spotted a 22 degree halo around the sun. The…
Sunsets, three nights in a row
I've been fortunate to be able to photograph three nice sunsets over Vermont the last two days of January and the first of February. If we get another nice one tonight…
Celestial Lights
This blog was first published in 2015, but I have kept adding new photos to it and will likely continue to do so. Look up. There are amazing light shows…
Sunrise, Sunset
The first five days of October featured some nice displays in the sky as the foliages was turning, slowly, slowly. The sunsets were viewed from New Hampshire. On the first…
Blood Moon and Milky Way
Last night I decided to try something different. The background image with the Milky Way is a 3-shot panorama. The bright "star" on the left is actually the moon near…