Spiderweb Arch, Hunts Mesa By Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Website Instagram Facebook This Is Spiderweb

Solitude in the Bisti Badlands by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: This is a small a wash or small valley,ravine in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico, located in the NW section of N.M. near Farmington. I took this in a attempt to give a representation of what most of the landscape looks like. There are numerous small valley-like washes like this, intermixed with flat areas with numerous small to medium sized Hoodoos. Many of those ridges are steep enough to be tricky to climb over, and so you go around and around to get by them. It is impossible to walk in a straight line. There are no paths and so it is easy to get lost. A GPS device is a must! It beautiful and erie scenery though, and well worth a visit. This was taken with a Canon 6D, and a Nikon 14`24 mm lens at 14 mm, f 2.8, 30 seconds, and ISO 6400. This is a single exposure. Thanks for taking the time to look. Hope you enjoy! Your time, faves, and comments are much appreciated! Please join me at: Website Facebook Instagram Blog

Nankoweap Overlook, East Rim of the Grand Canyon by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Website Instagram Faceb ook Nankoweap Overlook on the East Rim of the Grand Canyon. This is an remote undeveloped area along the western margin of the Navajo Nation and along the East Rim of the Grand Canyon. There are many miles/km of dirt roads and tracks to reach this site, but most of them are flat and in good condition. In 3 days of scouting and 3 nights of shooting I encountered 0 people. You do need a Navajo permit to travel in this area. This is a blend of 2 images taken back to back from the same spot, a 240 sec. image of the foreground at 14 mm, f 2.0, and ISO 2500 with long exposure noise reduction (LENR), and a sky image taken at 20 sec., 14mm, f 2.0, and ISO 12,800 and blended in PS. In my opinion the river views along this part of the canyon are much better than on the South or North Rims. The light pollution is from the South Rim and tourist area many miles away. One perplexing note - the area is on the edge of the Navajo Nation which uses Daylight Savings Time, and Arizona which does not use DST. If you are using your smartphone for planning Milky Way shots (example TPE, Photopillls, PlanIt) and you leave your phone on "Auto Time Zone", strange things will happen. You can walk 10 ft., 3 m, and your time zone will change, and sometimes the time and time zone will change back in forth standing in one place. You start wondering "what time is it really?", and "just what time zone did I plan for?". I marked times to be in certain spots and then had no idea what time it really was, lol. Advice: pick a time zone and take your phone off auto before you ever get there! Cheers, Wayne For more images like this please take a look at Wayne Pinkston Photography . Thanks for all the kind support! Hope you enjoy! A big thank you to the wonderful Flickr family. It's a pleasure to post here.

Perspective and a Time to be Thankful by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: There is a petrified tree in the foreground lying horizontally on a small hoodoo, located in the Bisti Badlands on New Mexico. 70 million years ago this was a wet and swampy area along a river delta emptying into an inland sea. The area was eventually covered with sandstone, mudstone, shale, and coal. The sea receded, and was left undisturbed for 50 million years. Water from the last Ice Age helped to erode the layers and create hoodoo and expose petrified trees and fossils. This petrified tree is older than the entire history of humanity. The dinosaurs walked the earth in the time of this tree. Great seas and rivers and ice ages have come and gone in that time. The shape and coastlines of the continents have come and gone, and the continents have moved. Mountains have risen and fallen. And then humans showed up, virtually yesterday, in the big scheme of things. Some of the simplest things we take for granted have taken eons to create. The planet we live on is a wonderland of beauty. This is one of the many things to be thankful for. Cheers, Wayne Pinkston Thanks for taking the time to look. Hope you enjoy! Big thanks to the wonderful Flickr family out there. Please join me at: Website Facebook Instagram Blog

Echos of Long Forgotten Times by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Website Instagram Facebook Valley of Dreams, New Mexico Badlands, USA. Hope you enjoy! A big thank you to the wonderful Flickr family for all the support and encouragement! Cheers, Wayne

Aztec Priestess by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Website Instagram Facebook Single Exposure, Aztec, New Mexico. 24 mm, f 1.6, ISO 6400, 15 sec. For more images like this please take a look at Wayne Pinkston Photography . Thanks for all the kind support! Hope you enjoy! A big thank you to the wonderful Flickr family. It's a pleasure to post here. Cheers, Wayne

The Totem Pole, Monument Valley by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Website, Instagram, Facebook The Totem Pole in Monument Valley. You need a local guide to visit Monument Valley at night. I can recommend Majestic Monument Valley tours if you are interested. I am planning something different and new that I hope will be a lot of fun. I am planning Fantasy Nightscape Workshops during the July new moon. There will be 2 three day workshops, in July 2018, July 8 through 10, and July 11 through 13. Photographer Eric Gail will also be an instructor. The workshop will be in the New Mexico Badlands. This area has multiple “Otherworldly” locations. This area gives us multiple sites that will be suitable for photographing fantasy scenes. This workshop will be different in that we will compose the photos with Fantasy Figures. It will be like Comic Com under the Milky Way. We will first capture the composition in a standard fashion without a person and then with one or more fantasy figures in the photo. We will provide costumes including an Astronaut (full spacesuit), Alien, Predator, Lord of the Rings (Aragorn-Strider), Conquistador, Star Wars (including Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Obi Wan Kanobee, Jango Fett), Witches, and Wizards, Steampunk, and Medeival figures, Conquistador, etc. If that is not imaginative enough you can bring your own fantasy outfit! We will be shooting in an Otherworldly setting so costumes or figures that fit the setting would be best. Suggestions are welcomed! There will be lectures in the late afternoons for about 2 hours depending on group interest. We will cover and practice Landscape Astrophotography, Low Level Lighting, and Composition, in addition to planning, and scouting for Astrophotography. Additionally we will cover using smartphone apps such as TPE, Photopills, True DoF (Depth of Field) and Gaia GPS, and Google Earth, etc. These are instrumental in my planning and scouting. If you are interested please mail me here at Flickr. Thanks for all the kind support over the last year, it is much appreciated! A big thank you to the wonderful Flickr family!

Madagascar Cathedral by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Website, Instagram, Facebook Panorama 12 frames, 14 mm, f/2.8, 15 sec., ISO 12,800 This is the shell of an abandoned Cathedral in Madagascar. I've added a crop from the center section. The red on the horizon is from fires. The local people burn the field and multiple fires could be seen at any one time. The glow from the fires could be seen from long distances at night. A big thank you to @worldpixorg and @ryanplakonouris for arranging this trip. @worldpixorg is a charity organization using photography to raise money for charitable causes. Hope you enjoy, Wayne Pinkston

Questions and Answers

Rattlesnakes!

Q: Do you worry about rattlesnakes in the desert at night?

A: You can bet I do keep a lookout for rattlesnakes at night! I am very conscious of where I step, and wear really high boots. It's not what most people think of with night photography, but I try to make sure I come back alive! It's a different world out there with limited vision (darkness), but a really beautiful world. I love it! In a more general sense you have to pay attention to where you and walking and what you are doing, and generally move slowly and carefully. A bigger danger is climbing on large rocks and boulders at night. When you turn the lights off you really need to know where you can move your feet.

Questions and Answers

About how to start a web site:

Question: My question is do you have any advice on website set up, online stock image banks, etc.? I see that someone can order one of your prints in a variety of sizes,etc.  Do you physically print them and mount them?  Maybe I don't know enough to even know what are the right  questions to ask.  regardless and advice would be appreciated 

Answer: I use SmugMug to host my personal website. I previously used Photium to host my website, but it was more trouble, and they did not promote the website in searches as well as Smugmug. SmugMug also makes it easier to upload or delete photos. 

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I pay them about $150 USD a year to host my website, If I remember correctly. You can get a more robust Business site for about $300 a year. With that package they will design custom packages for mailing to your customers, etc., very fancy. With SmugMug, the setup is pretty easy.There are some You Tube Videos that show you how to do  it. You can customize your website quite a bit.There are other vendors that allow even more customization of your site, but the process gets more complex.I wanted a site that simple and clean, and not too distracting or difficult to navigate. I looked for a host that make selling photos simple, and most importantly, I wanted a host that did a good job of getting your web site noticed in searches on Google, etc. i did some reading, and it seemed that Smug Mug was one of the best at that.You pick a vendor to print your photos. I picked Bay Photo, which is the vendor I use to print my personal photos. There are excellent, one of the best. When someone buys a photo on the site, SmugMug sends the file to Bay Photo and Bay Photo prints it and sends it directly to the customer. It is “hands free” for you. You determine the price of your photos like this:  If Bay Photo charges $10 for a large print, then you determine the markup. For example you can chose 200% and the price of the photo would be $20, and you would get $10, or whatever after taxes. You could choose a 100% markup for a paper print and a 50% markup for a metal print, or whatever you want to do.Hope this helps, Cheers, Wayne

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Lost in a Dream... by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Hoodoo in the Valley of Dreams East, in the Badlands region of NW New Mexico.