Photographing life on Earth, our home on the outer rim of the Milky Way
Some inspiration for venturing out in the cold and the dark to photograph the Milky Way.
Coming to the 2016 Lonely Speck Meetup? Join Lonely Speck creator Ian Norman for a 2.5-hour session of astrophotography post-processing, group photo sharing, and Q&A.
Continue reading “Lonely Speck Post-Processing Workshop: July 31, 2016”
This July, we’ll be traveling to Trona Pinnacles National Natural Landmark in California for a night of camping and astrophotography. Won’t you join us?
Continue reading “Announcing: July 30th, 2016 Lonely Speck Meetup at Trona Pinnacles, California”
These are a few of my favorite things that I learned about astrophotography in 2015.
Continue reading “8 Things I Learned About Astrophotography in 2015”
Some believe that smartphones will never replace “real” cameras like DSLRs or mirrorless cameras. This article is about providing evidence to the contrary. It’s about making some amazing images with limited equipment. I anticipate the day that our slim pocketable smartphones will be more powerful and capable cameras than the the top-of-the-line DSLRs and mirrorless cameras available today.
This is my account of shooting my first smartphone images of the Milky Way with nothing but my OnePlus One smartphone and a tripod.
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We’ve been working on a second photography website to live alongside Lonely Speck. It’s called The Photon Collective and it’s launching on February 10th on photoncollective.com.
Continue reading “The Photon Collective: A New Photography Community by Ian Norman of Lonely Speck”
For me, photography is a way to slow things down, to hold on to moments that I recognize as being otherwise impossible to possess.
Continue reading “The Night Sky on Film: A Salute to the Photographic Process”