Photog Adventures Podcast: A Landscape Photography and Astrophotography Podcast

Retired California Firefighter & lover of Photography in the Deserts of the Southwest, Jeff Pedersen, joins the show and shares stories and tips from his time doing Wildlife Photography in Africa and how to make money as a Photographer working in Art Shows selling your prints. We go over our hangout with Jeff out at Death Valley and then hear his stories of being in Kenya at a Photography Tour that gave him eight days and 14 Jeep Runs to capture the beautiful animals of Africa. Hear his success stories and about the one animal that got away that has him definitely going back to Africa again! Then lastly, Jeff generously shares his top tips for handling your prints, sales and booth in order to make the most money you can out of your weekend at the art show. While it can be a great way to pay for this awesome hobby, he warns us about the investment of time, money and sweat in order to be successful. Follow Jeff's work over at his Facebook page & Instagram through @RedCliffsPhotography. Or visit his website at http://redcliffsphotography.com/ ZAPP for applying to Art Shows nationwide: https://www.zapplication.org/ Pro Panels for Art Shows: https://www.propanels.com/

This year's International Dark Sky Week is from April 15th through the 22nd and with the New Moon just yesterday we have a great week ahead of us to celebrate dark skies worldwide! In this week's Astro Primer I summarize the hours the Milky Way Core is visible this week in several places through out the world, North America, Europe at London and Italy, Japan, Chile, South Africa and New Zealand. Get your quick fix on what the skies are revealing to us with planets and meteor showers as well. Read the full article here: http://www.darksky.org/dark-sky-week-2018-2/ A paper on Street Lighting and Blue Light: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/03/f34/Street%20Lighting%20and%20Blue%20Light%20FAQs.pdf Join the International Dark Sky Association here: http://www.darksky.org/ Join me April 21st and learn from the Star Tracking Milky Way Master, Eric Benedetti here: goo.gl/v5KPHq Join Photog Adventures at a Milky Way Workshop this year! MAY ESCALANTE WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: goo.gl/Ue6GWX JUNE CRATER LAKE & BANDON WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: goo.gl/8pq81i AUGUST GOBLIN VALLEY, GOOSENECKS & NATURAL BRIDGES WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: goo.gl/i7bhTk

To our surprise, we get contacted at the end of last week by a Travel TV Show out of Ukraine! This show is called “Heads and Tails” or in Ukrainian “Орел и Решка” is the number one travel show in Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and 11 other countries! Heads and Tails features new travel destinations to their audience and show the most interesting things to do and places to visit. All with a pretty cool premise of flipping a coin at the beginning of each adventure and the winner of the coin toss gets an unlimited budget to do things with while the other only gets around $100! They also have a YouTube channel which has 1.3m subscribers. Which is awesome of course, but their TV Show gets 60 Million viewers! Amazed and honored, their producers of the show found Photog Adventures and decided we were the right guys to work with to help one of their Hosts get a Milky Way Timelapse in the world-famous dark skies of Utah! We take Anton and his small filming crew out to Goblin Valley Sunday night for an amazingly clear and beautiful night! In this Podcast we talk about the fun of being on a Travel TV Show, the interesting challenges of having a producer manage the narrative and create scenes and orchestrate everything from when we hand an extra pair of gloves to Anton to when we walk down the hill to our location for Milky Way Photography. Check out the “Орел и Решка” YouTube channel here to see the show we are talking about: https://goo.gl/szb9Sn Join me April 21st and learn from the Star Tracking Milky Way Master, Eric Benedetti here: https://goo.gl/v5KPHq Join Photog Adventures at a Milky Way Workshop this year! MAY ESCALANTE WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/Ue6GWX JUNE CRATER LAKE & BANDON WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/8pq81i AUGUST GOBLIN VALLEY, GOOSENECKS & NATURAL BRIDGES WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/i7bhTk

In this bonus episode we share the stories of our Monday adventure back out to the Wedge Overlook and Buckhorn Wash area to look for our missing Inspire Drone. We share the fun and challenges of searching in this terrain, the beauty of this area, the dynamic clouds that made us weep tears of regret that we didn't have our cameras on us and you get to learn about Aaron's injury! Lots of fun in this quick podcast, enjoy! If you are considering any of our Milky Way Workshops there are three available to register for! Goblin Valley, Goosenecks and Natural Bridges Workshop: https://goo.gl/i7bhTk Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Workshop: https://goo.gl/Ue6GWX Crater Lake & Bandon, Oregon Workshop: https://goo.gl/8pq81i TWO MORE Workshop Dates are being set up for the Goblin Valley and Escalante Workshops and those registration pages will be setup soon! SHOW NOTES at: http://photogadventures.com/bonusdrone/

Needing a March Milky Way and some good stories for the podcast, we drive all-night to the Butte in Hanksville, Utah that Royce Bair told us about. This shot is best during an early season Milky Way so we made the sacrifice of getting out there Sunday night through Monday morning to try our luck at getting an awesome Milky Way Image like Royce Bair did last year. In classic fashion, the only clouds in the 10% cloudy sky were hanging low on the horizon South East of us and covered our Milky Way core for most of the morning and then traveled towards us making a window of opportunity crazy slim. Being forgetful these days, Aaron left his shoes and some REALLY important gear that may have ruined the morning more than the clouds did. Show notes at http://photogadventures.com/ep73/ MAY ESCALANTE WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/Ue6GWX CRATER LAKE & BANDON WORKSHOP REGISTRATION: https://goo.gl/8pq81i

Are you stoked to join us for a Milky Way Workshop this year? Hope you are crazy excited because our first one is only a month away on April 16th through April 20th! In this first Milky Way Workshop of 2018, we are taking 12 participants out to Goblin Valley State Park, Goosenecks State Park and Natural Bridges National Monument! If you have considered joining us for a workshop, seriously consider this one as we are selling it for 30% off the regular price and that price includes all travel and lodging! During the first 20 mins we share details of the four-night Milky Way Adventure and get crazy excited for the fun we are going to have with those of you lucky to join us in April!  After the first break we announce MilkyWayPhotographers.com an entertaining way for all of us Milky Way Photographers to keep up on our achievements and rank ourselves from Beginner to Master Milky Way Photographer! Check out more at http://photogadventures.com/milkywayphotographers/. We have been going out as Photog Adventurers to the Milky Way since March 8th, 2016 and we just barely hit the milestone of two years since our very first Milky Way! Stoked about the milestone, we go over all the places we have been to do Milky Way Photography since that morning on March and recount our a few of our biggest Milky Way Moments. Show notes are found at http://photogadventures.com/ep72/

In this episode we recap our first adventure out to Joshua Tree National Park and capturing a Milky Way Panorama over The Eye or Cyclops Rock and the amazing Joshua Trees on our way out to the LA area. With changes to our plans of getting out to the Yosemite Firefall we found ourselves in the area with lots of extra time so we booked a Day Trip out to Santa Cruz Island of the Channel Islands! We get to see pygmy Island Foxes and beautiful birds as they fly around the cliff faces of the Island coastline and enjoy a day out in a location we had no expectations of getting to see this soon! We talk about the challenges of getting your Milky Way low-level lighting right in a location you don't know especially when you get there in the dark and have to work fast with a quickly approaching Milky Way. Then we cover the experience out at the Channel Islands and how to best go about a day trip to Santa Cruz and make the most of your time there. We had a great time on this trip and saw a lot of different landscapes, people, wildlife and enjoyed the adventure with minimal hiccups. In the end of the podcast we talk about an amazing occurrence as we return to the mainland leaving the Channel Islands further and further behind we get to live through one of the most amazing experiences we have ever had in our lives!

We spend a week in Death Valley with Jeff Pedersen and Tim McGowen doing Landscape Photography and Milky Way Photography over cracks, Badwater, Mesquite Sand Dunes, Charcoal Kilns and Racetrack Playa. In classic Photog Adventure style the curse lives on. February Milky Way Photography turns out to be fantastic just crazy brief and over the distant light bloom of Las Vegas. We talk about the challenges of really near foreground subjects in Milky Way Photography and remembering to focus stack! Show notes coming to PhotogAdventures.com/ep70 soon! But I wanted to get this podcast out ASAP so I will have to beg your patience as I add it later today! Check out our upcoming Workshops here: http://photogadventures.com/adventures/

Going out on a Saturday to the mini-Grand Canyon of Utah - the Wedge Overlook - for some fun location scouting and filming with the drone should be an easy going uneventful day. Well our trip with Daniel Lindhardt a couple Saturdays ago reminded us why some of you think of Photog Adventures as a Laurel and Hardy act or enjoy it because we are a couple of boneheaded photographers having a blast and you just enjoy our comedy of errors! This Photog MISAdventure starts out with some fun driving through Buckhorn Wash enjoying the Petroglyphs and Pictographs of the Archaic and Fremont Indians in the Barrier Canyon Style panel. But soon it turns into the panicked realization that we just flew our drone out beyond our reach, well at least not without a long hike! Come listen to how that 13-mile hike went and how the search turns out! GEAR TIME Tracker options: Tile Mate: https://goo.gl/eY8ciC TrackR Pixel: https://goo.gl/4A5bhV SHOW NOTES at http://photogadventures.com/ep69/

To start on 2018 really well, we joined Jeff Pedersen, Tim McGowen, Drew Armstrong & Kirk Keyes out in Moab to enjoy never sleeping and lots of Photography! We just missed Ed Shanahan out here, it was really too bad we missed him on this trip but he got an AMAZING sunrise at Mesa Arch that Monday. Jeff and Tim bragged about it allll week long as we never had that amazing of a sunrise at any location but some really great sunsets where the sky just blew up with pink afterglow! We capture the Windows area in Arches National Park both for Landscape Photography and Milky Way Photography as well as Star Trails at Balanced Rock one night. Then Mesa Arch, Deadhorse Point and the Gossips for sunrises. Other than being crazy sick with Bronchitis, it was an amazing trip! See images and videos in the show notes at PhotogAdventures.com/ep68

Andrew Marr is one of the top Landscape Photographers from Australia and we had a chance to hang out with him and talk the unique challenges of Perth, Australia area and the one thing you wouldn't expect from a coastal city like Perth. No clouds! Often, he can't even go out in the summer because there just are zero clouds in the sky let alone a quality and dynamic sky! We go over some of his favorite nearby locations in Perth, one of the crazy cool places he goes in his winters that is 17 hours away from him and we get a chance to hear about the behind the scenes of his trip to the UK where he hung out with Adam Karnacz of First Man Photography and a BONUS trip to Iceland! Follow Andrew's Work at: http://andrewmarr.com.au/ Or his YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSviZyZi6hJLDr5qpqpWEGA

The FOURTH episode of Astro Photog to get you excited about the newly returned Milky Way Core and next week's Lunar Eclipse! Get your long lenses ready to go for an awesome Blood Moon on the LOW horizon in the United States right before Sunrise! Article on Lunar Eclipse: https://goo.gl/SChbyL More on Lunar Eclipse: https://goo.gl/4E6dai

We talk with James Kelly about our upcoming Faroe Islands Workshop that is going to be a tremendous experience that we couldn't have imagined and really hope twelve of you will want to join us this September! James talks about his connection to the Faroe Islands, his years of experience there, the weather, culture, awesome potential for Landscape Photography and the blast we are going to have from Sept. 10th through 17th out there! Learn more about the workshop here: https://goo.gl/oe5BB3 The Faroe Islands are an archipelago of eighteen islands half way between Scotland and Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean. We have created this workshop for you to experience photographing some of the most breathtaking scenery on offer with steep sided mountains that rise out of the sea to almost 1000 meters making them the tallest cliffs in Europe, small fishing villages with grass covered roofs, huge cascading waterfalls that flow strong after the smallest rainfall, deep like fjords and black sand beaches with tidal pools scattered all around. Each location we visit will offer a new adventure and we will even make the drive into the heart of the mountains of Vestmanna, Spáafelli on Suðuroy and to the summit of Sornfelli that stands almost 2500 feet above. The Islands are a true source of inspiration to anyone who visits. With the constant changing weather making every photograph unique.

Enjoy this Christmas Morning episode talking about our Goals for 2018 and recapping some of the "bests" we had in 2017. We begin the podcast talking about Jordan Younce's new adventure and the end of a chapter in his life. Then we go over his awesome recommendation on Picture Books, the best challenges, moments and images from 2017 and what we plan on doing in our Photography business goals for 2018! Sorry for the delay on this podcast causing all the Christmas Morning talk to be three Mondays too late, but a couple weeks of illness and crazy difficult time-sucking edits on the Oregon podcasts made it impossible to get this one out. Argh

In this second to last episode of 2017 we go over some of the major things we learned through more practice in our Landscape Photography and Astrophotography. Some of these can be obvious and are things we all know, but until you are out there enough and recognize when you are NOT doing them DESPITE KNOWING them or when you realize you are doing them just a little wrong it can make a big difference to your photography. After a year of going out to over 65 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS for photography in 2017 Brendon and I have learned a LOT about where our strengths and weaknesses lie. Thanks for being a part of this adventure in 2017 and we can't wait to report that we are practicing what we are preaching in this podcast!