One-Room Schoolhouse - Leroy Oaks Forrest Preserve

This image was taken with a DJI Mavick Mini drone. It features a one-room schoolhouse that was in use at a naer-by location in the 1800s.

Rainbow After a Storm

A view to the east after a summer thunderstorm passed. Image taken with a DJI Mavic Mini drone.

Chicago Sklyine from 33 Miles West

Captured from Wilson Hall at Fermilab about an 35 minutes before sunrise. Vertical panorama of three horizontal frames with 400mm lens on full frame camera.

Fermilab Campus & Chicago Skyline in Pre-dawn Twilight

Fermilab Campus & 25 miles of suburbs with Chicago's skyline on the horizon.

Chicago - Streeterville Neighborhood at Twilight.

John Hancock Tower is the most recognizable building in this part of the city. Locals know the Water Tower (not visible) that survived the Great Fire of 1871 that resides a bit to the south of the JHT.

Chicago: Northside Represent

Neighborhoods visible from south-to-north; left-to-right: Streeterville, Gold Coast, Lincoln Park, Lake View, Uptown, Edgewater, Rogers Park

CTIO Sunset Panorama from Blanco Telescope Dome

The Northern view spanning West-to-East. There are more than 20 working telescopes atop Cerro Tololo.

Chilean National Humbolt Penguin Reserve Isla Choros - Seascape #1

I like this view very much; in it one can see Choros Island in the foreground, On the point are thousands of cormorants. In the mid-ground is Isla Damas, the middle of three islands in the Humboldt Penguin Reserve; it is also accessible to people and has two beaches. In the distance, is the Chilean mainland several KM away with fog blanketing the coast. On the right, is a tour boat with about a dozen passengers - this will give a sense of scale...

Chicago Skyline from 35 Miles West

Framing Her Shot in the Badlands

Chilean Andes Mountains Under Stars & Thunderstorm

Foothills of the Andes illuminated by light from a full moon, and lightning from a storm.

Southern Star Trails Over the Dorm at Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory.

This is a second pass at a star trail shot using a technique that fades the trails and uses a single image to punctuate the end of the trail.

Elquis River Valley

If you look closely you can find the Elqui Reservoir along with lots of little vinyards.

Eta Corinae Nebula Rising Over Cerro Pachon - Chile

I've made about five or six different versions of this shot, but none of them fully satisfied me until this one. To make the sky I combined 20 15-second exposures and layered that against a single foreground image from the set. The aspect ratios are preserved as well as the orientation of the sky with respect to the horizon. In this image one can find the constellation Crux (aka Southern Cross), the Eta Corenae Nebula, various open star clusters. The massive fuzzy patch rising above the horizon from bottom right to upper left is the Perseus Arm of our Milky Way galaxy. The two bright stars above the lower right horizon are Beta-Centuri (aka Haden) and Alpha Centuri (aka Rigel Kent). The dark splotches in the sky are not photographic imperfections; they are clouds of dust so dense they block the light of stars behind them. Every star in this picture belongs to our own Milky Way - just like our Sun. On the ridge at bottom left one can see the silhouettes of the Southern Astronomical Research Telescope (SOAR); the Southern Gemini Observatory, and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which is under construction at the time of this image (2016).

Sunset #2