Just Do the Thing

The winds took a break and the clouds parted to give us a beautiful show!

This photo was my first successful Milky Way photo of the season. We’d spent three days out, and every day was windy and every night was cloudy. It was still early in the season, so the Milky Way wasn’t up until passed Midnight.

We spent all day hiding from the wind in our rigs, and we really weren’t that hopeful for this shoot. But we set our alarms for 2am and got up anyway.

And it was perfect.

Photography is an artform that I picked up in High School and I’m so glad I let it take me places. It taught me that it’s hard, in fact it’s hard most of the time, and probably half of the time the effort gets wasted. I have endless files of photos that will never see the light of day. But when you pull it off, it makes everything worth it. Every frozen night, every bug-infested day, every time you forget to take off the lense cap, it all goes away when you pull off a really satisfying shot. And somewhere along the way you look around and realize you made a lot of really cool friends.

It’s hard, but it’s fun.