Going through my archives, I ran across this wonderful Milky Way photo that I previously shared on Flickr but not here. I took this in July 2014 on a trip to visit family in Pagosa Springs, Colorado at a spot I’ve returned to several times. On this particular night, I got incredibly lucky with finding a location that so neatly captured the Milky Way in such a great orientation.

I love going back through my photo archives and finding things I haven’t shared on this website before, including this photo from a trip to Disney World in 2012. My wife and her family were Disney Vacation Club members, so we got to stay in a lot of great places near the parks when we visited. On this trip we were staying in either Boardwalk or Beach Club (I forget), and I brought my camera along to capture some evening Disney light magic. The blue hour light was perfect, and I was able to get a fantastic framing back towards the lighthouse and boardwalk with the yellow lights contrasting the blue sky.

In 2022, I took a short overnight backpacking trip to the Highland Mary Lakes in the Weminuche Wilderness near Silverton, Colorado. I didn’t have a lot of time, so I did a shorter loop with just a single night in the wilderness before hiking back out. But in that short trip, I was hit by a crazy afternoon monsoon and then treated to a beautiful, soft sunset that you only see on those days when there’s a lot of moisture in the sky. Perfectly Colorado!

I have a backlog of unpublished photos, including this gem from a prolific trip I took to Europe in 2018. On this same trip, I took a lot of favorites including several from Paris and a panorama of Stockholm. However, a folder of images remained untouched. Finally, I revisited them, and this one stood out. But where was it taken?

In 2019, I took a couple of wonderful sunset photos of Seattle’s West Point Lighthouse while on a business trip. I wrote about one of them in 2020, including details about how and why I ended up in this location. But I’ve long had this second version of the photo in my archives, and I’m happy to share it now.