A working gallery. Shooting the night sky is a major challenge for me - how to get away from light pollution to actually see the night sky, trying to manage my camera and all the gadgets in the dark, and last but by no means least - staying up late enough for the sky to actually get dark (usually ~2 hours past sunset). I'm a morning person - the last one's tough . . .

These shots are from a late August trip to Mount Evans. Touristy and a bit cliche - check; however, it is one of the two 'fourteeners' in Colorado you can drive up. It's just over an hour from my home, and the wealth of wildlife always makes this a wonderful after work foray. Mountain goats, mountain sheep, fat marmots, pika; amazing wildflowers; water and reflections; beautiful skies. It's a slice of heaven.

We played a lot. Beautiful rainbows, water reflections, and mountain goats on the way up to the top. Once on top, the sun set and it's a waiting game for the sky to turn dark - we were hoping for glimpses of the Milky Way rising. We played with ambient light, car lights, head lamps, LED lamps, and flashlights with a variety of colored gels for light painting. And suddenly we noticed that not had the sky gotten dark, but the Milky Way was indeed a part of the night sky. In spite of the proliferation of light from Denver.

Awesome.