Photog Adventures Podcast: A Landscape Photography and Astrophotography Podcast

In this CRAZY EXTRA LONG EPISODE we cover our adventures from Sunrise out at famous Thor’s Well, awesome but frustrating sunset at Yaquina Head Lighthouse, great sunrise at Yaquina Bay Bridge, an AMAZING and highlight of the trip Sunset out at Cape Kiwanda and then an equally amazing sunrise out at Cannon Beach to finish out our trip along the Oregon Coast in November. We are joined by listeners John Henry Maurice and Kyle Kephart throughout this podcast and at times it happens suddenly. Despite my best efforts editing them in, some transitions will be sudden. Apologize for that and the length of this podcast but there is just too much good stuff to get stingy in episode 64! 1 hour and 26 mins into this podcast listen as Brendon finally reveals that he has possibly FOUND his lost memory card that carried thousands of images from his entire first half of the Oregon Coast trip! Again thank you to all of you who joined Brendon and I on this Listener Adventure to the Oregon Coast! We really had a blast out there with listeners Drew Armstrong, Kirk Keyes, John Henry Maurice, Kyle Kephart and new friends Michael Shainblum and Serena Ho. Not going to be an adventure soon forgotten and definitely worth the extra long feature on the podcast. So many amazing places out in Oregon! If you haven’t been there yet, start planning to join us next year for the November Listener Adventure 2018! Check out Drew’s photography at DrewArmstrong.com and Kirk’s at KeyesPhoto.com! Follow Kyle Kephart on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/compellingimaging/ or follow his blog at http://www.compellingimaging.com/theblog/ Follow my Canon camera body cap guardian angel Casey Cooke on his photography adventures here: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caseycookephotography/ Website: http://caseycookephotography.com/ Follow Josh Riggs on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/joshriggsphotography/ Follow Rafa La Madrid on his instagram at https://www.instagram.com/rafatheperuvian/ Here is a link to the NRS Boundary socks: https://goo.gl/csk5Xc Link to Drew’s NRS Zephyr Inflatable PFD fanny pack life-preserver: https://goo.gl/VtVa1a GAIA GPS Maps: https://www.gaiagps.com/

Second Part of our Oregon Coast 2017 Listener Adventure and this time we are in Bandon, Shore Acres State Park and at the Heceta Head Lighthouse! This trip had been fantastic but a day of rain moved us from the Brookings area up to Bandon with hope that the skies would clear by sunrise the next day and boy did the skies change! We talk about our working hard to take advantage of the gap in the cloudy skies at Bandon and later on Shore Acres on our way up to Heceta Head Lighthouse. We ended up barely catching a short-lived mostly clouded out sunset from the road at an overlook across the bay from Heceta Head Lighthouse and then hike up to the lighthouse to capture it at night while the lights are shining. It was a stunning adventure from Bandon to Heceta Head and was made even that much better with another day of hanging out with Michael Shainblum and Serena Ho! Again thank you to John, Kirk and Drew for joining us on the podcast to share their what went wells and challenges! Here is a link to the NRS Boundary socks: https://goo.gl/csk5Xc Silver Sharpie for labeling your memory cards: https://goo.gl/KzDPNK AirBNB: https://www.airbnb.com/ Really Good Photo Spots: https://improvephotography.com/rgps/

We had an amazing Listener Adventure out in Oregon back in November and there are a LOT of stories to tell. To help us discuss the challenges of Wave Photography along the Oregon Coastline are listeners Drew Armstrong and Kirk Keyes who join us for three straight podcasts! This first podcast of the three focuses on the first days of our trip where wake up for the sunset in Northern California for Redwoods photography and then spend the evening out in Samuel H. Boardman's at Secret Beach and coincidentally meet Michael Shainblum and Serena Ho! Peak Design Capture Clip: https://goo.gl/RcLkd6 Peak Design Capture Pad: https://goo.gl/UP596v Peak Design LensCapture Kit for Canon: https://goo.gl/yus1BN Check out Drew's photography at DrewArmstrong.com and Kirk's at KeyesPhoto.com!

When you need something really different and very cool, Steel Wool Photography is a fantastic option! AS LONG AS YOU ARE SAFE! We talk about two separate trips where we go out to do Steel Wool Photography With Jeff, Melanie and Corey who teach us why it is so easy to be addicted to this type of Night Photography. Heading out to a place nearby called "Little Moab" we almost start a fire on our WAY there and then risk Brendon's Mercedes once again traveling to places we probably shouldn't be and then find ourselves enamored with the chaos and beauty of Steel Wool Photography. Follow these guys' awesome Instagram Feed: Jeff: @Uncle_Egghead_Photography Melanie: @MamoJeep_Photography Corey: @WhatISeeFromHere YouTube video on "How To: Steel Wool Photography" https://youtu.be/injY1GbbBY4

World Famous Australian Landscape Photographer Serena Ho joins the podcast to share her near death experience in Iceland, the power of story in your photography, inspiration in nature and inspiration for all of us working to make a name for ourselves in Photography. Serena has had amazing experiences worldwide these last few years thanks to her brave approach to following the dream of being a Landscape Photographer. Inspiring us to be better and live the dream the way we ALL wish we could! See more of Serena's work at her website: http://www.serena-ho.com/ Follow Serena's World Travels at her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/serenavsworld/ Or Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/serenavsworld/

We hang out with ultra popular and world renowned Milky Way and Landscape Photographer Michael Shainblum! We get an awesome opportunity to learn from Michael and get a chance to pick up some tips and tricks while hearing stories of his adventures out in places like Alabama Hills and unsuspecting amazing seascapes off San Francisco. We get a priceless experience to breakdown the creation, process and decisions behind two fantastic Ocean Landscape Images of his The Phoenix and The Rapture and get his advice for how to do more quality landscape images for new photographers like us! See Michael's images we talk about in the Show Notes at PhotogAdventures.com/Ep59 Follow Michael Shainblum at his website at ShainblumPhoto.com Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/shainblumphotography/ Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/shainblumphoto/ MyTracks App for iOS only iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mytracks-the-gps-logger/id358697908?mt=8

We go out with Daniel Lindhardt for some late season Milky Way Photography over the Sand Dunes of the Little Sahara here in Utah. Looking forward to enjoying the peace and quiet of cold October temperatures out at the Sand Dunes but instead we find that there are hordes of people out there! We talk about the challenges of lighting the dunes with only one light, staying safe amidst all those Can-Am and ATVs flying all over the place and difficulty with composition over light polluted spots and the 1-hour visible only Milky Way Core. THIS IS NOT A RECOMMENDATION JUST INFO: http://amzn.to/2kn0ocg We have optimism this light will work great but until we give it some real tests we can't recommend it.

Invited by Larry Petersen from the Pocatello Photo Club to join them at Bryce Canyon National Park for a day, we got the opportunity to capture a beautiful short sunrise at Inspiration Point, a sunset from the top of a mile hiking trail in Losee Canyon and hang out roadside capturing Star Trails over Red Canyon's famous drive through arch on a night of a Full Moon. We discuss the challenges of meeting up with a group we have never met in person in the pre-sunrise pitch black morning, getting a room for a few hours of shut eye mid-day, how we don't remember hikes being as hard as they end up being, seeing the awesome cliffside tree at Losee Trail, more afterglow amazement and then end the day the best way possible with some Astrophotography doing Star Trails in Red Canyon. This week's Listener Photog Adventure features Kevin Bell's shot at Bassi Falls near Lake Tahoe in California. See his image and more of his story at the Show Notes at PhotogAdventures.com/ep57! Didn't win a Carson Lumiloupe to help get perfect focus for your Milky Way Photography? Go buy one for $5 here at Amazon and help support Photog Adventures! https://goo.gl/rKxrLk

We share the successes and failures of our photog adventure up Dry Canyon. Hiking almost two hours to get to this amazing view from a rocky outcropping on the side of this Rocky Mountain foothill is such an amazing setting for some fall colors and Landscape Photography. The Sunset was potentially going to be blocked by a thick layer of clouds but optimism and perseverance won the day as the clouds opened up and bathed the magical, colorful landscape in amazing light.  SHOW NOTES Photog Adventures Storefront: http://photogadventures.com/store/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/photogadventures Use code "Adventure10" to get an extra 10% off at LensProToGo.com #LPA Listener Photog Adventure: Ryan Luna The wife asked if we could go away camping to the Grand Canyon last weekend. A bit different Thanksgiving, but who was I to say no? So...I was able to book a site at Mather Campground on Tuesday after spending a couple days constantly refreshing the website to see if one would become available. Lucky!!! Drove the family 7ish hours from Orange County Thursday morning and arrived to the campsite at 3PM. I have a lot of images over the 2 days we spent there, but here is one from Friday morning at 5AM trying to get the opposite side of the Milkyway core. Canon 6D Rokinon 24mm F/1.4 Sky = single image Terra Firma = 3 image stack.

On this Cyber Monday, I talk about the behind the scenes of recording my first upcoming Milky Way Photography Online Course for Beginners that is coming out Dec. 26th. Stories of recording at locations of Salt Flats, Goblin Valley, Goosenecks, Natural Bridges, Knolls, Crater Lake and Mirror Lake. Expiring tonight at Midnight East Coast Time, get the $50 OFF deal right now at BlackFriday.PhotogAdventures.com https://blackfriday.photogadventures.com/blackfridaydeal_storefront The Course will not be on sale again until Dec. 26th when it launches at $67 which is still $30 off the final price of $97 that will be what I continue to sell the course at from Feb. 1st on.

We talk about our first ever Workshop and how challenging, fun and crazy it was hanging out with Rafael Pons from PhotoPills fame and our 30 new friends who joined us for the weekend! From the challenging logistics of getting 30 people safely and successfully to our Dark Sky Sites driving themselves and how we battled with red lights from people's headlamps as a mixed group of skill and camera familiarity were all jammed into a spot meant for 12 or less at MOST! We also share our Black Friday Announcements about the discounted offerings we have available along with Aaron's huge announcement of his upcoming release of a Milky Way Online Course! Listen to the major discounts being offered over Friday and Saturday THIS WEEK and take advantage of the ones that make sense for you! Current pricing at Photog Adventures Storefront: http://photogadventures.com/store/ Support us at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/photogadventures Pelican Case for keeping your Memory Cards safe: https://goo.gl/7E5rkQ

We hang out with the ONE and ONLY Nick Page! Landscape Photographer extraordinaire and all around great guy, Nick Page joins us for a Photog Adventure Podcast to share the behind the scene stories of three amazing images. His awe-inspiring Aurora capture out in the Palouse earlier this year in May, his shot from Oregon Coast where seagulls were right on top of an incredible wave and won him #5 Landscape Photographer of the Year in the US with it and shared his experience and stories from capturing the Aurora out in Iceland. As Nick shares his story and perseverance to get out there and get his camera to these amazing locations we pick up tips on how to prepare yourself for awesome aurora, crashing waves and how not to sleep when you really want to because the conditions are just right for an amazing night sky. SHOW NOTES Wave Apps Magic Seaweed: https://magicseaweed.com/ Surf Line: iOS Windy: iOS Google Aurora App & Website Aurora Pro: iOS Google AuroraNotifier.com Check out Nick’s Landscape Photography Podcast here: https://www.landscapephotographypodcast.com/ Check out Nick’s Tutorials, Work and Workshops here: http://www.nickpagephotography.com/

In one of our longest podcasts yet, we recap our fantastic week long trip out to North Carolina where we hang out with Jordan Younce of PictureMonk Fame and SleekLens.com notoriety. We muse on the discomforts of airplane travel, preparing for a photog adventure correctly, Brendon's famous waterfall break dance, challenges of sunrises and sunsets in a land with a lot of tall trees, being too early for fall colors, sunrise with fog at a nearby lake, the beaches of North Carolina and the crazy apes we met at the Linn Cove Viaduct. In short, we saw ALL of North Carolina with Jordan and Roger Younce from the Blue Ridge Parkway all the way to the beaches south of Wilmington and had a blast out there! See Jordan's YouTube video about the trip here: https://youtu.be/y4QpWZyxEGI Hear his PictureMonk podcast here: http://picturemonk.com/pmp085/ Sign up for our Listener Adventures here: http://photogadventures.com/listeneradventure/

The weekend before our first Photog Adventures Workshop we hang out with Rafael Pons and Joshua Snow at their Workshop at Arches National Park. Making new friends and having more time in the weekend to kill, we went out to Dead Horse Point for sunrise, spent the day taking the scenic route in Canyonlands National Park and then blitzed down to Natural Bridges National Monument to take in one of the last opportunities for Milky Way Photography in Utah's First Dark Sky Park under the ever photogenic Owochomo Bridge! Sign up for our upcoming Oregon Listener Adventure here: https://listeneradventures.photogadventures.com/listeneradventuresignup Check in regularly at this page for news of our next Listener Adventures: http://photogadventures.com/listeneradventure/

To celebrate hitting 50 podcast episodes we hang out with our Admins from the Facebook Listeners Group Daniel Lindhardt, Darrell Harrington, Rob Ryan and Dean Vinson. These guys have become our best friends on the Facebook Group as they have been a part of the Photog Adventures team since December last year! Their hard work on keeping the Facebook group from sucking and being really fun guys to work with deserved some recognition so Brendon and I spend an hour hearing about their beginnings in photography, their scariest adventure this past year, where they love to go close to home for photography and the one thing they have learned this year that they want to pass along. If you don't mind a bunch of dudes ribbing each other, laughing loudly and hanging out giggling like a bunch of 14-year-old girls you will enjoy this podcast. Special thanks to our other two Facebook Admins who unfortunately couldn't make it this episode: Brent Huntley and Josh Moore.