I captured this panoramic shot while looking for places with interesting landscape to capture the milky way. This is three photos combined in order to capture the full glory of the milky way. I used lightroom to edit and to stitch the three photos together. It was a perfect new moon night with no clouds and only slight light pollution from the city in the distance. It was a pretty cold night, cold for Arizona anyways but nothing like what others are experiencing with snow and ice. Canon EOS 6D 30 Second Exposure ISO 3200 Edited in Lightroom 14 mm Rokinon

I always enjoy cloudy days especially when I am out taking photos and get the chance to capture sun rays through the cloud while rejoicing with the plants and animals in the desert.

I spend quite a bit of time driving around looking for different locations to take pictures of the Milky Way with the least amount of light pollution. Often I will stop right next to the road to try out a test shot to see how much light pollution interfears with the location of the photo. You can see the light pollution from the city below the Milky Way, but overall its not a bad spot for more shots in the future. 30 SECOND EXPOSURE ISO 16000 14 MM ROKINON

Here is a shot off I-10 in Arizona, the Milky Way had not yet moved to a location over Pichacho peak so I figured I would see if I could capture the Milky Way even though I had some light pollution in the shot. The best time to see or photograph the Milky Way is during a new moon.