An Ancient Bristlecone Pinetree's Milky Way and Moon

If you scroll down to my photo I uploaded on September 20, you will see my photo of the Milky Way over Bonsai Rock in Lake Tahoe, California (USA). That photo was taken the night of Sept. 17.

The next night, Mario Marez and I drove down to the Bishop area in the Eastern Sierras with the intent of photographing the pine tree you see here as I light painted it with the Milky Way in the background.

The thing about this photo is that it was taken with a waxing moon which went below the horizon about an hour or so after sunset. So my point is this, while you can take great shots of the Milky Way over the new moon under the darkest possible night sky, you don't need absolute dark skies to get nice Milky Way night sky photos when you have the moon around and I used it to my advantage in combination with the unique lamp I used for light painting.

In early March of 2016, I have a 4 night Milky Way (MW) night sky photography workshop in Arches National Park in Moab, Utah.

I am now going to have a second 4 night MW photography workshop immediately after the first one is over. And with this one, we will also use the moon and it's light to our advantage during that workshop.

During each workshop, I will conduct two 4 hour Photoshop post processing sessions where I will step everyone through the process of bringing out the best in their raw Milky Way night sky photos. It will be like a "Deep Dive" MW processing session. Having conducted post processing sessions in the past during a workshop, I find that 4 hours is just not enough and I want to make sure you understand how to bring out the best in your MW photos.
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