by Alan Stenback | Apr 8, 2026 | Travel
A quiet shift from night sky photography to morning light in the Jemez Mountains Some plans you push through. Others you know when to let go. After turning back from the Valley of Dreams and Alien Throne area in Bisti, we pointed ourselves toward Albuquerque and made...
by Alan Stenback | Apr 1, 2026 | Travel
A first-hand experience photographing the Milky Way in Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, with practical tips for astrophotography, navigation and night sky shooting Some places feel dramatic the moment you arrive. The Bisti Badlands feel something else entirely. It feels...
by Alan Stenback | Feb 15, 2026 | Travel
Each winter, when harsher winter conditions settle into the Rockies, or our tolerance for them quietly dwindles, we start looking south. Twice in the past few years, that pull has brought us to Florida. I spent a large part of my adult life in South Florida before...
by Alan Stenback | Jan 24, 2026 | Tutorials
Seeing and photographing the aurora from home in Colorado still feels a little surreal. Twice recently, strong geomagnetic storms pushed the northern lights far enough south to become visible from high elevation here in the Rockies. Subtle at first to the naked eye,...
by Alan Stenback | Sep 21, 2025 | Travel
If you’ve ever tried to perfectly time the peak autumn colors in the Rocky Mountains, you know each year is a gamble. With luck on my side and perfect weather in the forecast on a mid-September weekend, I made a snap decision to travel south to the San Juan Mountains...