In this one, I dive into what went well nailing Aurora shots even with low-KP activity and what could’ve gone better waiting for that perfect light to hit. You’ll get my first impression favorite spots, stories on dealing with Lofoten’s fast-moving clouds and the reality of Lofoten Islands' limited pathways & parking. This podcast is all about scouting this jaw-dropping Arctic spot, chasing the Aurora Borealis and seeing some unreal landscapes celebrating the wondrous look of Norwegian Fjords. Think near-misses over Hamnoy Bridge’s iconic red buildings balanced with pure wins like stumbling on the green grass water pools off Havveringen Road. This episode is packed with the highs and lows of photographing in a place that DEFINITELY needs to remain on your Bucket List!

I’m counting down my top five favorite Milky Way shots of all time - up to now at least. Each one’s a story of what went well and what could have gone better chasing the stars at these brilliant locations. Sometimes an image is in my Top Ten because of my work nailing the perfect frame and learning from the times I totally botched it. But sometimes these images are in the Top Ten just thanks to where they are and how easy it is to get something amazing there! From the wild southern skies of New Zealand to the rugged canyons of Utah, these locations have shaped how I see the night sky through my lens. You’ll get the highs and lows of each shoot, plus some solid tips to help you snag your own killer Milky Way pic. Oh, and if these spots get you stoked, my upcoming eBook "Photog Adventures' Milky Way Field Guide has ALL of my favorite locations and helpful tips on how to get there. Tune in for the full scoop or click here when ready to grab your copy: https://bit.ly/45YC4FL

Utah's 2026 drought turned a road I have driven many times into a completely different beast. In the first half I tell the story of what happened out there and why after a dry winter you probably should double-check conditions before deciding to drive dusty roads you maybe have driven JUST LAST YEAR which may have changed entirely. This road was mostly a medium challenge six times in a row...not this time! Here are the DOs and DONTs of sandy driving that kept me from getting stuck in the middle of nowhere. After the break I walk you through my favorite steps for capturing a portfolio worthy image at the Sand Cave. From picking your position around the dune, to getting your sky before the important stars leave the window of the cave and then finally the foreground captures that bring the whole image together in post. You will also get the honest truth about my opinion on stacking sky images again but this time I will explain the two situations where it actually makes a difference versus the one where you are just wasting your time.

PSA: Anyone planning a trip to Devil's Garden in Escalante. Hole in the Rock Road is now getting paved! It already has ten miles and goes nearly through to Devil's Garden. It's so amazing to experience the drive out there being so incredibly smooth. It's a million times better experience than it has ever been. If you have been putting off this trip, your excuse just got a lot weaker! In today's episode I talk about last week's night out at Devil's Garden and how I could have better planned for the moon and why going impromptu on moon photography is a lesson you only need to learn once. You will also be reminded about mastering your camera's quirks! These issues only reveal themselves when you are standing under the stars at 2am. Get out often to help you find yours BEFORE your next big trip rather than during it. In the second half I share my absolute favorite compositions at Devil's Garden from my favorite Adventure Pinnacles to Metate Arch and its very specific window of opportunity you need to nail the best composition at the Arch. With a smooth ride all the way to the Devil's Garden parking turnoff, you don't have any excuses to get out there and have an Escalante Adventure asap!

Phil Sisto joins me to talk Milky Way Photography in the less-mentioned Capitol Reef National Park here in Utah where he was the 2020 Artist In Residence! Phil shares how he got the gig and the secrets to a good application. While also dishing on the great situation he had there with the amazing house they gave him to use while working there! From amazingly deep mud cracks around Cathedral Valley to making a 45-minute hike THREE HOURS LONGER, Phil shares his successes and misadventures while being the Artist in Residence. Phil uses Star Trackers in his Milky Way Photography and shares his best tip for post-processing the masked blend of your foreground and sky in photoshop. If you are seeing the podcast cover art I used from Phil, you are NOT getting the full glory of that image and will need to go Phil's Website to see this amazing image from the beautiful Milky Way at the top and the incredible hyper-foreground of the deeeeep cracks in the mud! It is an amazing shot! Check out Phil's Work right away! Website: PSistoImages.com https://psistoimages.com/ Instagram: P.Sisto.Images https://www.instagram.com/p.sisto.images/

We spend a week in Death Valley with Jeff Pedersen and Tim McGowen doing Landscape Photography and Milky Way Photography over cracks, Badwater, Mesquite Sand Dunes, Charcoal Kilns and Racetrack Playa. In classic Photog Adventure style the curse lives on. February Milky Way Photography turns out to be fantastic just crazy brief and over the distant light bloom of Las Vegas. We talk about the challenges of really near foreground subjects in Milky Way Photography and remembering to focus stack! Show notes coming to PhotogAdventures.com/ep70 soon! But I wanted to get this podcast out ASAP so I will have to beg your patience as I add it later today! Check out our upcoming Workshops here: http://photogadventures.com/adventures/

Going out on a Saturday to the mini-Grand Canyon of Utah - the Wedge Overlook - for some fun location scouting and filming with the drone should be an easy going uneventful day. Well our trip with Daniel Lindhardt a couple Saturdays ago reminded us why some of you think of Photog Adventures as a Laurel and Hardy act or enjoy it because we are a couple of boneheaded photographers having a blast and you just enjoy our comedy of errors! This Photog MISAdventure starts out with some fun driving through Buckhorn Wash enjoying the Petroglyphs and Pictographs of the Archaic and Fremont Indians in the Barrier Canyon Style panel. But soon it turns into the panicked realization that we just flew our drone out beyond our reach, well at least not without a long hike! Come listen to how that 13-mile hike went and how the search turns out! GEAR TIME Tracker options: Tile Mate: https://goo.gl/eY8ciC TrackR Pixel: https://goo.gl/4A5bhV SHOW NOTES at http://photogadventures.com/ep69/

To start on 2018 really well, we joined Jeff Pedersen, Tim McGowen, Drew Armstrong & Kirk Keyes out in Moab to enjoy never sleeping and lots of Photography! We just missed Ed Shanahan out here, it was really too bad we missed him on this trip but he got an AMAZING sunrise at Mesa Arch that Monday. Jeff and Tim bragged about it allll week long as we never had that amazing of a sunrise at any location but some really great sunsets where the sky just blew up with pink afterglow! We capture the Windows area in Arches National Park both for Landscape Photography and Milky Way Photography as well as Star Trails at Balanced Rock one night. Then Mesa Arch, Deadhorse Point and the Gossips for sunrises. Other than being crazy sick with Bronchitis, it was an amazing trip! See images and videos in the show notes at PhotogAdventures.com/ep68

Andrew Marr is one of the top Landscape Photographers from Australia and we had a chance to hang out with him and talk the unique challenges of Perth, Australia area and the one thing you wouldn't expect from a coastal city like Perth. No clouds! Often, he can't even go out in the summer because there just are zero clouds in the sky let alone a quality and dynamic sky! We go over some of his favorite nearby locations in Perth, one of the crazy cool places he goes in his winters that is 17 hours away from him and we get a chance to hear about the behind the scenes of his trip to the UK where he hung out with Adam Karnacz of First Man Photography and a BONUS trip to Iceland! Follow Andrew's Work at: http://andrewmarr.com.au/ Or his YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSviZyZi6hJLDr5qpqpWEGA

The FOURTH episode of Astro Photog to get you excited about the newly returned Milky Way Core and next week's Lunar Eclipse! Get your long lenses ready to go for an awesome Blood Moon on the LOW horizon in the United States right before Sunrise! Article on Lunar Eclipse: https://goo.gl/SChbyL More on Lunar Eclipse: https://goo.gl/4E6dai

We talk with James Kelly about our upcoming Faroe Islands Workshop that is going to be a tremendous experience that we couldn't have imagined and really hope twelve of you will want to join us this September! James talks about his connection to the Faroe Islands, his years of experience there, the weather, culture, awesome potential for Landscape Photography and the blast we are going to have from Sept. 10th through 17th out there! Learn more about the workshop here: https://goo.gl/oe5BB3 The Faroe Islands are an archipelago of eighteen islands half way between Scotland and Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean. We have created this workshop for you to experience photographing some of the most breathtaking scenery on offer with steep sided mountains that rise out of the sea to almost 1000 meters making them the tallest cliffs in Europe, small fishing villages with grass covered roofs, huge cascading waterfalls that flow strong after the smallest rainfall, deep like fjords and black sand beaches with tidal pools scattered all around. Each location we visit will offer a new adventure and we will even make the drive into the heart of the mountains of Vestmanna, Spáafelli on Suðuroy and to the summit of Sornfelli that stands almost 2500 feet above. The Islands are a true source of inspiration to anyone who visits. With the constant changing weather making every photograph unique.

Enjoy this Christmas Morning episode talking about our Goals for 2018 and recapping some of the "bests" we had in 2017. We begin the podcast talking about Jordan Younce's new adventure and the end of a chapter in his life. Then we go over his awesome recommendation on Picture Books, the best challenges, moments and images from 2017 and what we plan on doing in our Photography business goals for 2018! Sorry for the delay on this podcast causing all the Christmas Morning talk to be three Mondays too late, but a couple weeks of illness and crazy difficult time-sucking edits on the Oregon podcasts made it impossible to get this one out. Argh

In this second to last episode of 2017 we go over some of the major things we learned through more practice in our Landscape Photography and Astrophotography. Some of these can be obvious and are things we all know, but until you are out there enough and recognize when you are NOT doing them DESPITE KNOWING them or when you realize you are doing them just a little wrong it can make a big difference to your photography. After a year of going out to over 65 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS for photography in 2017 Brendon and I have learned a LOT about where our strengths and weaknesses lie. Thanks for being a part of this adventure in 2017 and we can't wait to report that we are practicing what we are preaching in this podcast!

In this CRAZY EXTRA LONG EPISODE we cover our adventures from Sunrise out at famous Thor’s Well, awesome but frustrating sunset at Yaquina Head Lighthouse, great sunrise at Yaquina Bay Bridge, an AMAZING and highlight of the trip Sunset out at Cape Kiwanda and then an equally amazing sunrise out at Cannon Beach to finish out our trip along the Oregon Coast in November. We are joined by listeners John Henry Maurice and Kyle Kephart throughout this podcast and at times it happens suddenly. Despite my best efforts editing them in, some transitions will be sudden. Apologize for that and the length of this podcast but there is just too much good stuff to get stingy in episode 64! 1 hour and 26 mins into this podcast listen as Brendon finally reveals that he has possibly FOUND his lost memory card that carried thousands of images from his entire first half of the Oregon Coast trip! Again thank you to all of you who joined Brendon and I on this Listener Adventure to the Oregon Coast! We really had a blast out there with listeners Drew Armstrong, Kirk Keyes, John Henry Maurice, Kyle Kephart and new friends Michael Shainblum and Serena Ho. Not going to be an adventure soon forgotten and definitely worth the extra long feature on the podcast. So many amazing places out in Oregon! If you haven’t been there yet, start planning to join us next year for the November Listener Adventure 2018! Check out Drew’s photography at DrewArmstrong.com and Kirk’s at KeyesPhoto.com! Follow Kyle Kephart on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/compellingimaging/ or follow his blog at http://www.compellingimaging.com/theblog/ Follow my Canon camera body cap guardian angel Casey Cooke on his photography adventures here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caseycookephotography/ Website: http://caseycookephotography.com/ Follow Josh Riggs on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/joshriggsphotography/ Follow Rafa La Madrid on his instagram at https://www.instagram.com/rafatheperuvian/ Here is a link to the NRS Boundary socks: https://goo.gl/csk5Xc Link to Drew’s NRS Zephyr Inflatable PFD fanny pack life-preserver: https://goo.gl/VtVa1a GAIA GPS Maps: https://www.gaiagps.com/

Second Part of our Oregon Coast 2017 Listener Adventure and this time we are in Bandon, Shore Acres State Park and at the Heceta Head Lighthouse! This trip had been fantastic but a day of rain moved us from the Brookings area up to Bandon with hope that the skies would clear by sunrise the next day and boy did the skies change! We talk about our working hard to take advantage of the gap in the cloudy skies at Bandon and later on Shore Acres on our way up to Heceta Head Lighthouse. We ended up barely catching a short-lived mostly clouded out sunset from the road at an overlook across the bay from Heceta Head Lighthouse and then hike up to the lighthouse to capture it at night while the lights are shining. It was a stunning adventure from Bandon to Heceta Head and was made even that much better with another day of hanging out with Michael Shainblum and Serena Ho! Again thank you to John, Kirk and Drew for joining us on the podcast to share their what went wells and challenges! Here is a link to the NRS Boundary socks: https://goo.gl/csk5Xc Silver Sharpie for labeling your memory cards: https://goo.gl/KzDPNK AirBNB: https://www.airbnb.com/ Really Good Photo Spots: https://improvephotography.com/rgps/

I am back! It has been a long seven months while I have been focused on finalizing my Divorce and I am VERY HAPPY to report that I am 100% completely done! I am fully divorced! I am a single man again! In this episode I update you on my move, my 3-week girlfriend who went crazy on me, my goals for the future and the upcoming workshops which will be my LAST photography workshops for a very long while. I am so happy to be back in the saddle again without any of the weight of the divorce challenge looming over me anymore that I record THREE NEW EPISODES of the podcast that will all be released soon! I am really enjoying being back at it! I hope you enjoy it too!

We had an amazing Listener Adventure out in Oregon back in November and there are a LOT of stories to tell. To help us discuss the challenges of Wave Photography along the Oregon Coastline are listeners Drew Armstrong and Kirk Keyes who join us for three straight podcasts! This first podcast of the three focuses on the first days of our trip where wake up for the sunset in Northern California for Redwoods photography and then spend the evening out in Samuel H. Boardman's at Secret Beach and coincidentally meet Michael Shainblum and Serena Ho! Peak Design Capture Clip: https://goo.gl/RcLkd6 Peak Design Capture Pad: https://goo.gl/UP596v Peak Design LensCapture Kit for Canon: https://goo.gl/yus1BN Check out Drew's photography at DrewArmstrong.com and Kirk's at KeyesPhoto.com!

When you need something really different and very cool, Steel Wool Photography is a fantastic option! AS LONG AS YOU ARE SAFE! We talk about two separate trips where we go out to do Steel Wool Photography With Jeff, Melanie and Corey who teach us why it is so easy to be addicted to this type of Night Photography. Heading out to a place nearby called "Little Moab" we almost start a fire on our WAY there and then risk Brendon's Mercedes once again traveling to places we probably shouldn't be and then find ourselves enamored with the chaos and beauty of Steel Wool Photography. Follow these guys' awesome Instagram Feed: Jeff: @Uncle_Egghead_Photography Melanie: @MamoJeep_Photography Corey: @WhatISeeFromHere YouTube video on "How To: Steel Wool Photography" https://youtu.be/injY1GbbBY4

World Famous Australian Landscape Photographer Serena Ho joins the podcast to share her near death experience in Iceland, the power of story in your photography, inspiration in nature and inspiration for all of us working to make a name for ourselves in Photography. Serena has had amazing experiences worldwide these last few years thanks to her brave approach to following the dream of being a Landscape Photographer. Inspiring us to be better and live the dream the way we ALL wish we could! See more of Serena's work at her website: http://www.serena-ho.com/ Follow Serena's World Travels at her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/serenavsworld/ Or Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/serenavsworld/

We hang out with ultra popular and world renowned Milky Way and Landscape Photographer Michael Shainblum! We get an awesome opportunity to learn from Michael and get a chance to pick up some tips and tricks while hearing stories of his adventures out in places like Alabama Hills and unsuspecting amazing seascapes off San Francisco. We get a priceless experience to breakdown the creation, process and decisions behind two fantastic Ocean Landscape Images of his The Phoenix and The Rapture and get his advice for how to do more quality landscape images for new photographers like us! See Michael's images we talk about in the Show Notes at PhotogAdventures.com/Ep59 Follow Michael Shainblum at his website at ShainblumPhoto.com Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/shainblumphotography/ Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/shainblumphoto/ MyTracks App for iOS only iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mytracks-the-gps-logger/id358697908?mt=8

We go out with Daniel Lindhardt for some late season Milky Way Photography over the Sand Dunes of the Little Sahara here in Utah. Looking forward to enjoying the peace and quiet of cold October temperatures out at the Sand Dunes but instead we find that there are hordes of people out there! We talk about the challenges of lighting the dunes with only one light, staying safe amidst all those Can-Am and ATVs flying all over the place and difficulty with composition over light polluted spots and the 1-hour visible only Milky Way Core. THIS IS NOT A RECOMMENDATION JUST INFO: http://amzn.to/2kn0ocg We have optimism this light will work great but until we give it some real tests we can't recommend it.

Invited by Larry Petersen from the Pocatello Photo Club to join them at Bryce Canyon National Park for a day, we got the opportunity to capture a beautiful short sunrise at Inspiration Point, a sunset from the top of a mile hiking trail in Losee Canyon and hang out roadside capturing Star Trails over Red Canyon's famous drive through arch on a night of a Full Moon. We discuss the challenges of meeting up with a group we have never met in person in the pre-sunrise pitch black morning, getting a room for a few hours of shut eye mid-day, how we don't remember hikes being as hard as they end up being, seeing the awesome cliffside tree at Losee Trail, more afterglow amazement and then end the day the best way possible with some Astrophotography doing Star Trails in Red Canyon. This week's Listener Photog Adventure features Kevin Bell's shot at Bassi Falls near Lake Tahoe in California. See his image and more of his story at the Show Notes at PhotogAdventures.com/ep57! Didn't win a Carson Lumiloupe to help get perfect focus for your Milky Way Photography? Go buy one for $5 here at Amazon and help support Photog Adventures! https://goo.gl/rKxrLk

We share the successes and failures of our photog adventure up Dry Canyon. Hiking almost two hours to get to this amazing view from a rocky outcropping on the side of this Rocky Mountain foothill is such an amazing setting for some fall colors and Landscape Photography. The Sunset was potentially going to be blocked by a thick layer of clouds but optimism and perseverance won the day as the clouds opened up and bathed the magical, colorful landscape in amazing light.  SHOW NOTES Photog Adventures Storefront: http://photogadventures.com/store/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/photogadventures Use code "Adventure10" to get an extra 10% off at LensProToGo.com #LPA Listener Photog Adventure: Ryan Luna The wife asked if we could go away camping to the Grand Canyon last weekend. A bit different Thanksgiving, but who was I to say no? So...I was able to book a site at Mather Campground on Tuesday after spending a couple days constantly refreshing the website to see if one would become available. Lucky!!! Drove the family 7ish hours from Orange County Thursday morning and arrived to the campsite at 3PM. I have a lot of images over the 2 days we spent there, but here is one from Friday morning at 5AM trying to get the opposite side of the Milkyway core. Canon 6D Rokinon 24mm F/1.4 Sky = single image Terra Firma = 3 image stack.

On this Cyber Monday, I talk about the behind the scenes of recording my first upcoming Milky Way Photography Online Course for Beginners that is coming out Dec. 26th. Stories of recording at locations of Salt Flats, Goblin Valley, Goosenecks, Natural Bridges, Knolls, Crater Lake and Mirror Lake. Expiring tonight at Midnight East Coast Time, get the $50 OFF deal right now at BlackFriday.PhotogAdventures.com https://blackfriday.photogadventures.com/blackfridaydeal_storefront The Course will not be on sale again until Dec. 26th when it launches at $67 which is still $30 off the final price of $97 that will be what I continue to sell the course at from Feb. 1st on.

We talk about our first ever Workshop and how challenging, fun and crazy it was hanging out with Rafael Pons from PhotoPills fame and our 30 new friends who joined us for the weekend! From the challenging logistics of getting 30 people safely and successfully to our Dark Sky Sites driving themselves and how we battled with red lights from people's headlamps as a mixed group of skill and camera familiarity were all jammed into a spot meant for 12 or less at MOST! We also share our Black Friday Announcements about the discounted offerings we have available along with Aaron's huge announcement of his upcoming release of a Milky Way Online Course! Listen to the major discounts being offered over Friday and Saturday THIS WEEK and take advantage of the ones that make sense for you! Current pricing at Photog Adventures Storefront: http://photogadventures.com/store/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/photogadventures Pelican Case for keeping your Memory Cards safe: https://goo.gl/7E5rkQ

We hang out with the ONE and ONLY Nick Page! Landscape Photographer extraordinaire and all around great guy, Nick Page joins us for a Photog Adventure Podcast to share the behind the scene stories of three amazing images. His awe-inspiring Aurora capture out in the Palouse earlier this year in May, his shot from Oregon Coast where seagulls were right on top of an incredible wave and won him #5 Landscape Photographer of the Year in the US with it and shared his experience and stories from capturing the Aurora out in Iceland. As Nick shares his story and perseverance to get out there and get his camera to these amazing locations we pick up tips on how to prepare yourself for awesome aurora, crashing waves and how not to sleep when you really want to because the conditions are just right for an amazing night sky. SHOW NOTES Wave Apps Magic Seaweed: https://magicseaweed.com/ Surf Line: iOS Windy: iOS Google Aurora App & Website Aurora Pro: iOS Google AuroraNotifier.com Check out Nick’s Landscape Photography Podcast here: https://www.landscapephotographypodcast.com/ Check out Nick’s Tutorials, Work and Workshops here: http://www.nickpagephotography.com/

Using the data from my 2021 Milky Way Photography Almanac, I know exactly how many perfect nights there will be next year! Join me here or on Facebook where I recorded this LIVE today and I will share with you that answer! Also, I will teach about the unique differences of Southern Hemisphere Milky Way Photography and why they have a month-to-month advantage over Northern Hemisphere Milky Way Photogs. GET MY 2021 MILKY WAY PHOTOGRAPHY ALMANAC: https://aaronkingcreative.clickfunnels.com/2021-almanac-pre-order1607025017776 FACEBOOK VIDEO LINK: https://www.facebook.com/aaronkingsphotogadventures/videos/737515047162725 Link to MaryBeth's Awesome Winter Panorama: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIMdTAEnX7p/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

In one of our longest podcasts yet, we recap our fantastic week long trip out to North Carolina where we hang out with Jordan Younce of PictureMonk Fame and SleekLens.com notoriety. We muse on the discomforts of airplane travel, preparing for a photog adventure correctly, Brendon's famous waterfall break dance, challenges of sunrises and sunsets in a land with a lot of tall trees, being too early for fall colors, sunrise with fog at a nearby lake, the beaches of North Carolina and the crazy apes we met at the Linn Cove Viaduct. In short, we saw ALL of North Carolina with Jordan and Roger Younce from the Blue Ridge Parkway all the way to the beaches south of Wilmington and had a blast out there! See Jordan's YouTube video about the trip here: https://youtu.be/y4QpWZyxEGI Hear his PictureMonk podcast here: http://picturemonk.com/pmp085/ Sign up for our Listener Adventures here: http://photogadventures.com/listeneradventure/

The weekend before our first Photog Adventures Workshop we hang out with Rafael Pons and Joshua Snow at their Workshop at Arches National Park. Making new friends and having more time in the weekend to kill, we went out to Dead Horse Point for sunrise, spent the day taking the scenic route in Canyonlands National Park and then blitzed down to Natural Bridges National Monument to take in one of the last opportunities for Milky Way Photography in Utah's First Dark Sky Park under the ever photogenic Owochomo Bridge! Sign up for our upcoming Oregon Listener Adventure here: https://listeneradventures.photogadventures.com/listeneradventuresignup Check in regularly at this page for news of our next Listener Adventures: http://photogadventures.com/listeneradventure/

To celebrate hitting 50 podcast episodes we hang out with our Admins from the Facebook Listeners Group Daniel Lindhardt, Darrell Harrington, Rob Ryan and Dean Vinson. These guys have become our best friends on the Facebook Group as they have been a part of the Photog Adventures team since December last year! Their hard work on keeping the Facebook group from sucking and being really fun guys to work with deserved some recognition so Brendon and I spend an hour hearing about their beginnings in photography, their scariest adventure this past year, where they love to go close to home for photography and the one thing they have learned this year that they want to pass along. If you don't mind a bunch of dudes ribbing each other, laughing loudly and hanging out giggling like a bunch of 14-year-old girls you will enjoy this podcast. Special thanks to our other two Facebook Admins who unfortunately couldn't make it this episode: Brent Huntley and Josh Moore.

Photog Adventures has turned 1! September 8th marks the day we went live on YouTube and on the podcast back on September 8th 2016! We join you live on Facebook and YouTube to celebrate one year of awesome work and fun! Podcast Episode 50 coming Tuesday along with the bonus VIDEO PODCAST interview with Nick Page. Enjoy!

Hangout with us from Brendon's vehicle as we share untold stories from previous trips, an attempt at the Full Moon rise from Guardsman Pass, talk with Daniel Lindhardt about his text "And....I blew it" and hear how testing the Sigma 14mm f1.4 went for Brendon in his Gear Time videos that are coming next week! Untold stories include car troubles from Oregon, crazy wind and awesome astrophotography at the Salt Flats, Hanging with Nick Page or was it Nick Cave...and excitement as Brendon and I are only days from our ONE YEAR mark at the time of recording this podcast back in September.

We finally get a chance to hang out with our friend Landscape and Astrophotographer Joshua Snow and talk with him about his crazy trip to Reflection Canyon and how he got the shot to look amazing with his Stacking Technique he uses in Starry Landscape Stacker. Listen as Josh explains in great detail how he does his stacking images and get tips and tricks for your own Milky Way Photography.

Join us for a Photog Adventure! Ever wanted to join Brendon Porter and Aaron King on a Photog Adventure? 2018 is going to be your chance to join us and learn how to do Milky Way Photography! Starting in March we will have workshops in Utah at Goblin Valley State Park, Natural Bridges National Monument, Goosenecks State Park, Bonneville Salt Flats, Knolls Recreational Area, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Oregon's Bandon Beach area and Crater Lake National Park, Mirror Lake, an abandoned Silo, Trestle, Delta Sand Dunes as well as potentially Zion National Park! Brendon and I are very excited for next year and hope you guys want to come join us!

Quick update for all of you who don't follow the Facebook Live or YouTube Live videos we have done the past few weeks so you know about the technical issues of our current failing computer and how it has delayed our content lately. Plus the great news that a new computer is out for delivery today and that things are going to get back to normal along with celebrating our first anniversary as Photog Adventures turns 1 on September 8th. This is a short podcast episode just to update you guys but no worries more content to come all week long so stay tuned!

Join Aaron, Brendon & Brent Huntley LIVE from Idaho for multiple segments before, during and after the Total Solar Eclipse. Listen in on 3 mins of raw audio from the moment of Totality where Aaron can't get it together because of the awesomeness! Brendon joins Aaron and Brent through a phone call as he is in the Idaho Falls area where Brent and Aaron are over in Donnelly, Idaho above Boise. Laugh at how well-laid plans go to the wayside, scouting locations end up not even being used and how this experience turns the guys into Eclipse hunters! Remember to support Photog Adventures on your next lens rental by using LensProToGo.com with the 10% discount code "Adventure10"! Next Total Solar Eclipse stretches over Chile and Argentina on July 2nd, 2019. Feel up for an international Listener Adventure?! :D Would be awesome!

We are privileged to be joined by Adam Karnacz of First Man Photography fame on YouTube whose Landscape Photography vlogs take us to the Lake District and other beautiful areas in the UK. Adam discusses his typical approach to landscape composition, techniques and the challenges of keeping photography going being a family man with a wife and two daughters that depend on him. We also get to learn a lot about his method for Water Drop photography that is just beautiful and crazy enough is the highest selling thing of all his work! Link to Adam's website: https://goo.gl/yhsYcP First Man Photography YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/qZPWh9 Adam's awesome Water Drop Photography: https://goo.gl/uasVTo

If you want a great sunset and I want a great Milky Way and beg nature for clear skies, I am going to ruin your landscape photography. Skies. We constantly complain about them. We want the opposite sky than we are getting more often than not. Depending on our type of photography, we might benefit or lose. In this episode, I talk about the different conditions, goals, mindsets and challenges faced by Landscape Photographers vs. Milky Way Photographers. We all want light but there is this curious love we have of LIMITED light. We want the light we have to exist but also be uniquely limited in some way so that it looks even more awesome to us. Join me as I detail the differences in both disciplines of photography, share another story from the Upper Peninsula workshop and encourage all of us to get out there and enjoy the conditions coming up that actually gives BOTH types of photography really great skies!

Chris joins us from Belgium months ago to talk about his experience as an Olympus Visionary, traveling the world from the deserts of Namibia to the weathered rocks of the Faroe Islands and his recently announced short film about the Dreamwalkers Highlining team who conquered amazing heights at the Faroe Islands. Chris also shares with us his experience starting out working with Chris Burkard and why he uses the yellow jacketed or red jacketed model in almost all of his shots. See more of Chris' work at ChrisEyreWalker.com See Chris' DreamWalkers video trailer here: https://youtu.be/y9QFhORYOrM The Making Of videos: https://youtu.be/aTazWBBZmVs

Today's episode is not a normal episode. It is about inspiration. Many of us as we discover our love of photography dream about that day when your entire job is playing with a camera all day! But how can we do that? We are Landscape Photographers. We are Milky Way Photographers. So how are we going to win the photography lottery and make money doing those? You probably won't. You are probably like me and Brendon and will need to find a revenue stream that will support your lifestyle of going out doing your favorite type of photography and allow you freedom to travel with your camera at any time during the day. PictureMonk Jordan Younce joins us to reveal the two things he is doing to earn his paycheck: Sleeklens.com content creation and Real-Estate Photography. Sleeklens.com Discount Code - Jordan10 Contact Jordan@sleeklens.com for inquiries about working with SleekLens. Lightroom Presets Out of the Shadows (HDR and Landscape Presets) - https://sleeklens.com/product/hdr-lightroom-presets/ Superior Interior (Real Estate) - https://sleeklens.com/product/interior-lightroom-presets/ Above the Clouds (Drone and Aerial) - https://sleeklens.com/product/aerial-photography-presets/ Chasing Light - https://sleeklens.com/product/chasing-light-workflow/ Free Presets and Photoshop Actions https://sleeklens.com/product/the-starter-pack-lightroom-presets/ https://sleeklens.com/product-category/photoshop-actions/

We talk about the amazing dark skies at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon and the challenges of staying up nearly all night for Milky Way Photography only to need to try and get sleep in the heat of the day! Awesome timelapses, the dangers of traversing the crater in the dark of night and the brilliant benefits of using a star tracker system in Astrophotography. Special thanks to Kirk Keyes from KeyesPhoto.com for joining us on the podcast and for the whole Oregon trip! Can't wait to get out there again with him! #LPA Listener Photog Adventure comes from Kevin Jordan about his sunrise image from Acadia National Park. Link to Kirk's Timelapse Video: https://youtu.be/KCAETt5u4L8

Joined by Kirk Keyes, we talk about the challenges of beach sunsets, finding our way in a new place, the comforts of AirBNB and an awesome night with a fantastic Beach Milky Way! Stanley's image will be in the Show Notes at our website that is coming soon. For now, you can see his image on our Facebook Listeners Group. Gemtune DH-55 Panoramic Ball Head with Indexing Rotator https://goo.gl/oVUtA7 Link to Donna's AirBNB page: https://goo.gl/26ZVct

Taking a break from our travels on the road to Bandon, Oregon, we have the awesome opportunity to have a call with Thomas Heaton and talk about his success in YouTube, pick his brain for what he does right whether intentional or not and got to hear about some of his awesome Landscape Photography adventures. Learn why Thomas doesn't do Astrophotography, how he isn't interested in the analytics and strategies of YouTube but just likes to focus on sharing the story of getting out there with your camera. He brings us along to Zion National Park, talks a future trip to Antartica and explains how his perspective has changed as he has done Landscape Photography.

When a scheduled podcast is requested by the guest to be pushed back a couple weeks, we decide to go on a last-minute impromptu adventure and bring our podcast equipment along with us! We travel up Big Cottonwood Canyon to Guardsman Pass and then hike to a potentially perfect spot for the sunrise. We talk about the challenge of making the most of a cloudless sky, using PhotoPills to know where to set up the camera and push ourselves into a sleepless night just to make sure the podcast doesn't go out any later.

Rafael "The Bard" Pons joins us on the podcast & LIVE on YouTube to answer listener questions about the PhotoPills app. A MUCH DIFFERENT podcast than the usual as we take listener questions live and in my edit I skip over the questions. Most likely better as a video, see the live uncut presentation here: https://youtu.be/n0VUDOB9F8c With listener questions and our own, we learn many previously unknown shortcuts where a single tap or double tap can lead you more quickly to the next astronomical milestone. Rafael also explains to us how to use the Search tool from the bottom bar of the planner, what the column of blue bars are next to the circled Milky Way image on the Planner, how to best plan for Golden Hour light, how to be certain you won't be in the shadow of terrain and many other tips. Listener Survey Help us out by taking the 2-5 minute listener survey here: goo.gl/forms/CDIuPcidC2P4213Y2

We spend Memorial Day Weekend out at the Grand Staircase - Escalante area and experience crazy dust, beautiful clear night skies, terribly annoying washboard dirt roads, actually visible but partial Aurora and get lost walking in a straight path. All with our buddy and guide Jeff Pedersen. Astrophotography is usually a challenge, but out at Escalante there are photogenic setting on top of photogenic setting making the only difficulty waiting until the next nightfall so you can start capturing images again. What a beautiful place for Milky Way Photography. Sorry for the delay, the audio quality and the shortened Gear Time. We intended gear time to talk up the contest that would have been ending two days after the podcast was released but audio quality delays and flooding at Aaron's house delayed the podcast edit. Sorry all! Awesome watch Garmin Fenix 3: http://amzn.to/2re6h1G Listener Survey Help us out by taking the 2-5 minute listener survey here: goo.gl/forms/CDIuPcidC2P4213Y2

We decided to re-make our original Patreon video by hitting up classic landmarks of Southern Utah in one weekend. Between Friday evening and Saturday evening we hit Goblin Valley State Park, Monument Valley National Park, Natural Bridges National Monument and Balanced Rock up in Arches National Park while getting weathered out of stops at House on Fire Ruins and Goosenecks State Park. Then a few days later we added even more miles and hit the Bonneville Salt Flats to complete the full video. It was a tremendously fast trip with amazing sights! We talk about the challenges of the trip, the failures, our sunrise at Monument Valley along with news of our Listener Survey and PhotoPills contest. Note: adding Listener Photog Adventure image link here shortly! See the PhotoPills contest here where you can win 1 of 3 free copies of the PhotoPills app by simply posting an image to your own instagram: https://goo.gl/9wYbuj Help us out by taking the 2-5 minute listener survey here: https://goo.gl/forms/CDIuPcidC2P4213Y2

We hangout with world renowned Australian Photographer Mark Gee and talk about the incredible patience and planning it took for him to capture his famous video of the full moon rising on top of silhouettes of people enjoying the view at a lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. If you haven't watched the video yet, go to the link below and watch it right now! Everything was so well planned out and perfected over months of trial and error. It is awe-inspiring! We also go over the scary and the hilarious of getting out with your camera at night and absorb all the wisdom and info Mark is willing to impart for how he deals with noisy foregrounds, captures timelapses and when is best to travel to New Zealand for the best view of the core of the Milky Way. See Mark's inspiring 4-minute film "Full Moon Silhouettes" here: https://youtu.be/ehulHtKfpuM The Timelapse+ that Mark uses for Timelapse photography: http://www.timelapseplus.com/

With three napkins filled with the scrawls of locations and weather predictions strewn around her, MaryBeth announced the next likely location for the workshop. Copper Harbor! A discussion and a decision later. We were heading West! MaryBeth had woken up early that morning to find us an opening in the skies so we had a better chance of seeing the Aurora should the conditions arise. The evidence of her hours of meticulously checking multiple weather models & predictions filled the napkins with data written in a legibility only MaryBeth was capable of reading. As she gathered her nearly falling apart napkins she laughed to herself and commented aloud, "See what I mean about rather being a crack addict than an aurora chaser?" Implying that it might be even less crazy to be on crack than participate in the chase she loves best. In this podcast, I share some of the what went wells and could have been betters about last week's Upper Peninsula Aurora Workshop. From weather and aurora chasing, to the sights and waterfalls of the Upper Peninsula and my first chance using a Tiffen Fog Filter to capture Orion in the darkest sky most of us had ever been under, this past week lived up to the Photog Adventures motto of getting out there on an adventure! Image of the before and after of the Tiffen Fog Filter on Orion: https://bit.ly/3fcuOtM Tiffen Double Fog 3 Filter: https://amzn.to/35CNuj6 !! Be sure to pick up one that matches your lens !!

We go into the details on why we decided to start a Patreon, the options we have been trying to get us funded and the specifics of the many rewards we offer for those that join us. Then we go over our goals for the future of Photog Adventures and what getting properly funded will mean for the YouTube channel and podcast. Thanks for taking the time to listen to this episode and we really hope many of you will join us and become Patrons of Photog Adventures! SEE THE PATREON VIDEO HERE: https://www.patreon.com/photogadventures