Collis P Huntington Park

Collis P Huntington Park Live

Collis P Huntington Park Cirrus clouds come in four varieties: intortus, radiatus, vertebratus, and duplicatus. The clouds in this photo are cirrus clouds. I took this photo while I was hiking around the lake at Collis P Huntington Park. This park spans 1,017 acres in Redding, Connecticut. It was donated to the state in 1973 […]

Golden Colorado Clouds

Golden Colorado Clouds Live

Rocky Mountain National Park Lookout Mountain provides a scenic view of the town of Golden, Colorado below There are very few views that are more spectacular than a landscape view of a mountain range. I took this photo the winter that I was living in Denver, Colorado. My soon-to-be wife was visiting, and we drove […]

Bourn Pond

Bourn Pond Vermont Live

National Weather Service The Long Trail was constructed from 1910 to 1930 by the Green Mountain Club. This photo was taken during a hike around Bourn Pond in Vermont. I had been hiking the loop trail for Bourn Pond and Stratton Pong that is accessed via the Long Trail. This hike is of particular note […]

Milky Way

Milky Way Live

Big Bend National Park This photo was taken far from light pollution in west Texas This photo was taken far from light pollution, out in west Texas. I took this photo in Big Bend National Park, which sits right on the border of Mexico and the United States. This area is remote. We camped in the desert a […]

Moon

Black and White Moon on Haleakala

Moon – No Conservation Status I took this photo from the top of Haleakala in Maui I took this photo of the Moon while on top of a dormant volcano in a national park in Hawaii before sunrise on my wife’s birthday on our honeymoon. (That’s a lot of prepositions!) I believe this is the […]

Bamboo in Haleakala

Bamboo in Haleakala

It grew dark as we entered the bamboo forest As Jill and I hiked along the Pipiwai Trail in Haleakala National Park, it suddenly grew dark as we entered the bamboo forest. We knew that there would be this forest of bamboo, but what we did not expect was the density and height of the […]

Hurricanes

Tropical Depression

74+ mph is when we start calling them hurricanes Before we get to hurricanes, you should be aware of tropical waves, tropical depressions, and tropical storms.  A tropical wave is an elongated area of showers and storms that typically moves from east to west across the Atlantic Ocean, along the tropics, near the equator.  As […]

Flash of Lightning Out at Sea

B&W Sirena

I was out on a “blackwater night dive” Capturing a flash of lightning in a photo can be pretty challenging, even in Florida (the state with the most lightning strikes every year, ~1.45 million strikes).  This photo was taken about 5 miles offshore of West Palm Beach, Florida. I was out on a “blackwater night […]