Photog Adventures Podcast: A Landscape Photography and Astrophotography Podcast

Scouting locations with Google Earth, Aaron comes across an abandoned Train Trestle that looked perfectly aligned for Milky Way shots. Brendon and Aaron get out there on May 4th and discover one of their favorite nearby locations for capturing a beautiful Milky Way Nightscape!

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 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/

Photog Adventures has turned 1! September 8th marks the day we went live on YouTube and on the podcast back on September 8th 2016! We join you live on Facebook and YouTube to celebrate one year of awesome work and fun! Podcast Episode 50 coming Tuesday along with the bonus VIDEO PODCAST interview with Nick Page. Enjoy!

David Thompson - a Landscape Photographer who Nick Page recently called his favorite Post-Processor - joins the podcast and teaches us what "epic light" means, shares a truly amazing Epic Light moment and gets us interested in Swamp Photography! Hear Nick Page compliment David in this video here: https://youtu.be/Jo6xonIhAOo?t=2081 David is an expert hobbyist photographer whose reputation for beautiful images has landed him workshops & Skype calls teaching photography throughout the year while he keeps a full time day job. After David shares with us his three favorite Landscape Photography areas and tips for newbs on how to take the most advantage of these areas, we learn from David a great perspective on light. How to work with it, anticipate it and he names several situations that should be considered "epic light" even though it isn't the classic blown up sky. Then David completely turns 180-Degrees and shares with us one of the most envious tales I have ever heard about epic light out at Factory Butte! His image actually has a Rainbow perfectly symmetrical arching over Factory Butte with a sky crazy pink! Instagram link to that Factory Butte Image: https://www.instagram.com/p/BllUKc9Dgic/ What an amazing shot! Dang we really are jealous! Beyond the amazing image, David shares with us the juggling act he was going through while trying to capture this shot and the endurance and optimism required of him and his friend Paul Rojas to even STAY in the Factory Butte area; especially after what happened to them the night leading up to this sunrise! Lastly, I share the Instagram message attached to that image from David that talks about a principle that what we know as "epic light" is completely relative and will change as you gain more experience in Landscape Photography. Follow David Thompson on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/davidthompsonphotography/ David's Website: https://www.davidthompsonphotography.com/