Carpe Diem By Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Website, Instagram, Facebook Carpe Diem: Sometimes It’s Best

Joshua Tree and Milky Way Panorama by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: This is a panorama of Joshua Tree National Park at Night, in an attempt to capture to feel of the park at night. This is a panorama of combined vertical images, taken with a Canon 1Dx camera, and a Nikon 14-24 mm lens at 14 mm, f 2.8, 20 sec. exposures and ISO 6400. there are 2 small lights hidden among the rocks and a larger light approx. 40 - 50 meters to my right. There a a considerable amount of light pollution around Joshua Tree. This creates aa background ambient light so the park does not seem "pitch black", and actually helps to light the foreground somewhat. This ambient light is a very "flat" light however, and does not create a very pleasing look. The added lights create shadows and create some depth to the photo. Thanks for looking. All comments are appreciated. Hope you enjoy! 

Mountain Lake by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Website, Instagram, Facebook Mountain Lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Stacked image in Starry Landscape Stacker, 16 light frames, 1 dark frame.

Hoodoos in the Badlands of New Mexico by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Bisti Badlands, New Mexico Thanks for taking the time to look. Hope you enjoy! Big thanks to the wonderful Flickr family out there. Please join me at: Website Facebook Instagram Blog

Where the Hoodoos Have No Names by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Website, Instagram, Facebook Where the Hoodoos Have No Names. Sometimes the Low Level Lighting (LLL) works out just the way you desire. My goal is typically to have the light come in at an angle to accentuate the surface features, and in this case it brought out the texture well. The location was constrained by rock on both sides so I bounced the light off a rock wall to the left. This usually makes the night less harsh and diffuses the light more. The LLL was done with a single Cineroid LED light panel. Stacked image, 18 light frames, 14-24 mm lens at 23 mm, 15 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 10,000.

Partition Arch by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: The Milky Way shining Partition Arch in Arches National Park, Utah. Nikon 14-24 mm lens, f/2.8, 30 sec., ISO 6400. There is a constant light used, an LED light panel with a warming filter turned down low and left on. Thanks for taking the time to look. Hope you enjoy! Big thanks to the wonderful Flickr family out there. Please join me at: Website Facebook Instagram Blog

Night on Fire by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Anasazi Part 4: The Anasazi were a Pre-Columbian Indian people that lived in the SW region of North America. This is the Anasazi or ancient Puebloan ruin called House on Fire or Flaming House ruin in Mule Canyon, Utah. The name comes from the appearance on the rocks just above the ruin. In the morning at a certain time the rock takes on a color that looks like flames. I wondered just what it might look like at night, and found that the warm lights on the rock did reproduce the appearance, perhaps even better. I shot the standard close up views of the ruins but liked this wide view as well, which is a bit more unusual. The ruins are tucked in below a large rounded or elliptical rock dome with the arching Milky Way overhead. Disclaimer: No rooms or ruins were touched or entered in the making of this photo. The lights were placed in the rooms using a fishing pole and string. (No fish were harmed in the making of this photo either!). This is a panorama of multiple vertical images combined in Lightroom. Nikon 810A camera, 14-24 mm lens, at f 2.8, 14 mm, 30 sec., and ISO 8000. If you visit these sites please treat them with respect and care. Thanks for taking the time to look. Hope you enjoy! Your time, faves, and comments are much appreciated! Please join me at: Website Facebook Instagram Blog

The Aged and the Ageless by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Website Instagram Facebook This is a Bristlecone Pine encompassed by the Milky Way. One is the oldest individual species on earth, and the stars are the oldest thing we can see. For perspective, a human generation is estimated to be the average time between the birth of a mother and the average birth of her children, approximately 25 years. Bristlecone Pines are the longest living single multicellular species on earth, living up to and beyond 5,000 years. That is basically the length of recorded human history, 200 generations. The Milky Way above is estimated to be 13.21 billion years old, and the universe 13.77 billion years old, so the life of the Bristlecone Pines are but a blink of the eye. Since the light from the stars and galaxies can take millions or billions off years to reach us, when we look at the night sky we are looking back towards the beginning of time. Thanks for all the kind comments! Hope you enjoy! A big thank you to the wonderful Flickr family for all the support and encouragement! Cheers, Wayne

Wandering in the Badlands by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: This is a panorama of one of the flatter areas in the Bisti Badlands in NW New Mexico. A few photos back I downloaded a view of a small wash or ravine surrounded by steep stony hills or ridges. www.flickr.com/photos/pinks2000/22455038082/in/dateposted... This badlands are a mixture of both broad flat areas (with many moderate to small hoodoos), mixed with long areas of water cut ravines and ridges. Both have their own unique beauty. It's certainly easier to walk around in the flat areas, and the flatter areas have most of the named hoodoos, but to get to these areas you usually have to negotiate the hills and ravines. It's a fun but lonely and desolate place at night. The first night I went there a German couple was trailer camping in the parking area and I parked near them. I was going out a little before sunset, and he said, "You're going out there? Now?" The chances that you will be alone out there at night are just about 100%. After all, who is crazy enough to go out there at night? This is a series of single vertical exposures combined in Lightroom. BTW, this was taken on May 18, not April. Thanks for taking the time to look. Hope you enjoy! Big thanks to the wonderful Flickr family out there. Please join me at: Website Facebook Instagram Blog

The Baobab by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Website, Instagram, Facebook This is a huge, majestic Baobab Tree. It can be hard to capture the enormity of very large objects in a single image. We had several people with us that posed in front of the tree for reference, but they were dressed in camouflage clothing and pretty much disappeared in those photos. (Note to self: Camouflage clothing is not good for photos at night in the brush 😂). Anyway, I tried this vertical panorama, multiple horizontal photos moving upwards. That helped a little. There is Low Level Lighting (LLL) with 2 Cineroid LED light panels, set on a relatively neutral color temperature of around 4000-4200K. One is a primary light and one is a fill light. 14-24 mm lens, 14 mm, f/2.8, 15 seconds, ISO 6400. A big thanks to @worldpix for arranging the tour. WorldPix is a charity organization that used photography to raise money for charitable causes.

Hoodoos in the Bisti Badlands by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: This photo was taken in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico, USA. This is an area of severely eroded rock formations creating a wonderland of small to medium sized Hoodoos and a number of small arches. Bisti is part of the Bisti/De-Na-Zen Wilderness, with Bisti being on the western side. The concentration of Hoodoos is some areas is amazing, with scores of small Hoodoos clustered together. Some Hoodoos are so small you have to avoid tripping on them, others up to 4-6 meters tall. After seeing other locations it's like "Honey, who shrank the Hoodoos"? The variety of shapes is very diverse, with Hoodoos looking like wings, birds, tables, golf balls, pillars, mushrooms, golf tees, dinosaur eggs, animals, etc. The moderate size makes the Hoodoos much more accessible, and actually easier to photograph. It's like nature went out of it's way to show us just how inventive it could be. These hoodoos are about 3-4 feet (1-1.3 m) tall. This is a single exposure. Oops! Just realized I uploaded the wrong file format, distorting the color.. This was corrected 10 pm EST July 9. Hope you enjoy! All comments are welcomed. Please join me at: Website Facebook Blog Twitter