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Metal Prints

Most of the images you’ll find below are available as metal prints. Metal prints contain a richness and depth that prints on photo papers simply cannot match. Nighttime photos particularly shine as metal prints. Shadows remain deep and rich, and the highlights pop. Metal prints are lightweight and come ready to hang, with hanging hardware built-in.

Redwoods

Gigantic Redwoods from the Avenue of the Giants and beyond in Humboldt County, California…

The Milky Way soars over Giant redwood trees across the meadow at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. If your mind bends thinking you recalled the road as straight passing this area, you are correct. Lines are warped due to the extremely wide field of view, which covers fully 180º from left to right. Standing at the edge of the straight road, the left end of the image shows the road leading straight toward the bright light at my left, while the right end shows the road leading directly away from the lights to my right (note the shadows of my tripod and myself on the road to the right, cast by the lights on the left). The Milky Way rose from one horizon, and stretched across the sky to the other. Optically, capturing all of this and displaying it in a rectangle necessarily warps straight lines. Photographed on June 10, 2020, at about 12:30 a.m. in Humboldt County, California. This image can be printed up to 30 X 80 inches, or anything smaller in that ratio. Due to its odd shape, Contact me.

North Coast

On the Humboldt County Coast…

Inland

In the hills of Humboldt County…

  • A bend in a rural road leads toward the Milky Way
    Night Flees the Dawn as the brightening blue overtakes the Milky Way. Kneeland Road, Humboldt County, California. March 17, 2019.
  • Stars labeled-Rural Road beneath Milky Way
    Annotated version showing three neighboring planets and a couple notable stars. The Core of our galaxy is the more detailed area of the Milky Way low on the horizon. [Note: This map can lead the aliens directly to us, so be responsible.]
  • Rural road beneath Milky Way
    One road may take you home. Another leads you away. And some will take you inside yourself. Where are you going today? Humboldt County, California. Pre-dawn, March 17, 2019.
  • Animation-Oak Tree beneath moving stars
    A moonlit oak tree watches the passage of the stars on their nightly journey across the sky near a country road in Humboldt County, California. March 2019.
  • A moonlit oak tree watches the passage of the stars on their nightly journey across the sky near a country road in Humboldt County, California. March 2019.
  • Animation of stars behind tree
    Animation showing about 15 minutes of star motion as a gnarled old tree stands silent sentinel through the long night as the world turns beneath the stars. Alderpoint Road, Humboldt County, California. August 26, 2016.
  • Dead tree with stars
    A gnarled old tree stands silent sentinel through the long night as the world turns beneath the stars. Alderpoint Road, Humboldt County, California. August 26, 2016.

And on the Humboldt Coast…

Trinidad and Trinidad Head beneath the Stars
Looking north from Houda Point Beach, the town of Trinidad lights up the night while the stars arc across the sky above. Humboldt County, California. February 22, 2019.
The stars wheel around the north star above the lights from the town of Trinidad. Photographed from Moonstone Beach, Humboldt County, California, this was a single 14-minute exposure.
The stars wheel about the north star Polaris over Moonstone Beach, Humboldt County, California. Lights from the town of Trinidad brighten the horizon. January 25, 2019.
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