A Couple Stars From The Hood

On this year's road trip from Boulder, CO to Hood River, OR, I finally got a good week of black sky and milky way ops. This was one of my first nights, doing my classic truck-and-me-self-portrait, though I luckily had my buddy Pierce along to do some light painting in the foreground. I've always been pretty stymied by taking good night shots. Nothing really seems to get the Milky Way and foreground subject with the right illumination, detail, perspective etc.

zachd1_618So I'm still pretty novice but am becoming more and more addicted to this hobby of photography. I bought a DSLR completely on a whim one day. I had never really taken any pictures before I saw this shotk on the cover of a ski magazine.