Send in the Clouds

Greetings from New Zealand. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that New Zealand is my favorite place to photograph the Milky Way. Because I only get down here once a year, I always choose June, when the Milky Way is up all night and New Zealand nights are longest. The New Zealand workshop Don Smith and I each year follow pretty much…

Looking Up Down Under

Are you as thrilled as I am by the mesmerizing images we’re seeing from the James Webb Space Telescope? There’s nothing like a heaping dose of perspective to remind humans of our insignificance in the grand scheme things, and these images deliver perspective in spades. I think my favorite Webb image is the view deep into a seemingly tiny black region of sky that…