Photog Adventures Podcast: A Landscape Photography and Astrophotography Podcast

On our way back from the Faroe Islands, we spend four full days in Iceland trying to get the most Landscape Photography we can as choose Diamond Beach, the Icebergs of Jokulsarlon Lagoon & Kirkjufellvoss as our main destination points. We quickly discover that the tourists suck out most of the fun but highlights like diamond beach, glaciers, the amazing views on the road trip and the Kirkjufell ar...

Now back from the Faroe Islands Workshop, we wax poetic in our love of the unique beauty there! We can't emphasize enough how all Landscape Photographers should spend a week there! And definitely hope you will consider coming with us and James Kelly! Consider joining us for a Faroe Islands adventure here: https://photogadventures.com/faroe

We travel to the United Kingdom on our way to our Faroe Islands workshop and spend our entire Saturday at the amazing, incredible, beautiful Lake District! Hanging with listener, subscriber and fast friend Paul Thomson, we get to see some major landmarks of the Lake District all around the beautiful Derwent Lake! We talk about the woes and fun of travel to the UK, our challenges driving on the lef...

We are live tonight! Photog Adventures Podcast Episode #90 with Clarence Spencer! Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9D4CwXYlJqs We are talking Astro-Modified Camera bodies! Help your Milky Way Photography get more color without going for Star Tracking to get it! Join us as we hang out with Clarence Spencer to talk the benefits of a Full Spectrum or Visible + H-Alpha Filter cameras and other optio...

On the final day of our last Milky Way Workshop of the year, we are joined by our really fun group on the podcast to tell the stories from the 5 days we spent together. From our challenges with the rampant wildfires ravaging the west, to the really disappointing cloudy skies we survived one of the most skunked workshop weeks we have every experienced and hopefully will EVER experience.

For the first time, Brendon has taken Photog Adventures through the Slot Canyons in Escalante. Drew and Brendon hit up Spooky Gulch and Peek-a-Boo Slot. Sharing first impressions of the drive there and the challenges of hiking the area and how they definitely brought too much gear along with them on the hikes. They make Aaron jealous as they describe the many arches down there and a spot that woul...

Happy Perseids everybody! It is the week of the peak of the annual Perseid Meteor shower. This coming Aug. 11th. 12th and 13th mark the three mornings that will showcase the peak of the Perseids with as many as 50 meteors an hour often more! So how do you get the most out of this opportunity? Today on the Astro Photog Podcast, Aaron goes over advice for those WITH and WITHOUT plans to photograph t...

James Kelly from Photog Adventures UK joins us on the podcast to talk his recent adventures out in the Faroe Islands and get us all excited again about going to the Faroe Islands and even some of you lucky ones who join us in September for our 7-Day Faroe Islands workshop. Learn more about the workshop here: goo.gl/oe5BB3 James talks about doing Wedding Photography in the Faroes, the challenges of...

LIVE STREAM! with LonelySpeck's Ian Norman!! If you aren't following the Facebook Photog Adventures Page (PAGE not the Group) then you might have missed out on the opportunity of hanging with Ian Norman live. Ian is one of our ABSOLUTE FAVORITE Milky Way Master Gurus and the creator of LonelySpeck.com and many popular YouTube tutorials helping us all be better in our Milky Way Photography! In this...

We get a second opportunity this year to hang out with our favorite Milky Way Photography Master Guru Royce Bair along with all of you who could attend the LIVE Facebook Q&A! It is always a privilege to talk Milky Way Photography with Royce Bair and this hangout was no different! We begin hearing about Royce's recent trip to Palouse Falls doing Milky Way Photography on the dangerous cliff edges th...

We travel to Oregon and continue the #TheGreatMilkyWayChase. Follow us as we shoot the Milky Way and visit Bandon, Thor’s Well, Cook’s Chasm, the Sprouting Horn, Heceta Head Lighthouse, and Crater Lake National Park. Along for this Photog Adventure was Claudia Halbert and Kirk Keyes. We discuss what a great spot Bandon is for both the sunset and the Milky Way, why Thor’s Well is probably not a gre...

The Great Milky Way Chase of Death and Insanity continues as we get out Fantasy Canyon, farm land, Escalante, Silver Lake and Little Moab! Nights 7, 8, 9, 11 and 19 are shared in this week's podcast. We talk about the challenges of making the most out of the Fantasy Canyon weirdness, the awesomeness of simplicity at a farm, the serendipity of good timing at Escalante, taking a break at Silver Lake...

In today's episode Aaron and Brendon go back to the Salt Flats for Night 2 and re-discover the Red Ledges area up Price Canyon for Night 5. The Salt Flats in West Utah are just next to the Nevada border, near Wendover. It is a very unique area, super flat surface and when the water puddles up, it can make for some very cool photographs. In Night 2 of the Instagram Milky Way Challenge Brendon & Aar...

We hang out with Adventure Photographer and Fujifilm Ambassador Dan Bailey and in an extended 35-minute first segment we get a passionate and convincing argument why we all should be using the Fuji camera system, what he did to become a Fujifilm ambassador, what makes him an "Adventure Photographer" and then end with tales from his adventure out in Scotland at the Shetland Isles riding a bike thro...

To celebrate hitting a nice round number like 80 podcast episodes we do a LIVE Tech Test and Listener Q&A! Topics: Ukrainian TV Show has released the episode that we were a part of! https://youtu.be/YDk6ldgXtWA?t=27m41s AstroPhotog Podcast and changes coming up for the weekly AstroPrimer SLIK Milky Way Contest: https://goo.gl/uYy6Uu  Places we wouldn't go back to Brendon's only camera that he dunk...

White Pockets is a unique area of windswept sandstone near Kanab, UT. The sandstone there is not the typical red rock found in most of the Colorado Plateau – it’s not only white, but also yellow, orange, and even purple in places. And there’s Brainrock! It’s an amazingly interesting place for photographers. Jeff finds White Pocket to be more interesting than even another near-by location, The Wave...

We sit down with Kathy, Nicole and Venkat our Escalante Milky Way Workshop Participants and get their takeaways from this week of hanging out under the stars capturing the Milky Way in this amazing and beautiful place! We share our adventure of capturing the Milky Way at Devil's Garden, Dance Hall Rock and Sunset Arch. Our first Milky Way Workshop of the year and we get AMAZING dark clear skies an...

We go LIVE on Facebook for Podcast 77 and have a discussion about Rusty Parkhurst's recent article on https://improvephotography.com/ "9 Tips to take your landscape photography to the next level". In our Landscape Photography, we all get there where we are enjoying our progress and have put in our practice of getting our f-stop right, bracketing like champs exposing for the highlights, composing g...

Has Star Tracking made Single Image Milky Way Photography just a waste of time? The answer is NO! With Royce Bair in studio we get some pros and cons of both types of Milky Way Photography and hear from the Master Milky Way Photographer how to best take advantage of our time out there under the stars and get the most out of our images whether or not you do any star tracking. Royce shares with us s...

It is a Full Moon week, so it is even more crucial to learn what days are open for Milky Way Photography in today's Astro Primer and get reminded again why the Southern Hemisphere has a distinct advantage over the Northern Hemisphere for viewing the Milky Way Galactic Core year round! In today's episode I celebrate the FANTASTIC MOMENTS and confess the MAJOR FLUBS of my Eric Benedetti Star Trackin...

Retired California Firefighter & lover of Photography in the Deserts of the Southwest, Jeff Pedersen, joins the show and shares stories and tips from his time doing Wildlife Photography in Africa and how to make money as a Photographer working in Art Shows selling your prints. We go over our hangout with Jeff out at Death Valley and then hear his stories of being in Kenya at a Photography Tour tha...

This year's International Dark Sky Week is from April 15th through the 22nd and with the New Moon just yesterday we have a great week ahead of us to celebrate dark skies worldwide! In this week's Astro Primer I summarize the hours the Milky Way Core is visible this week in several places through out the world, North America, Europe at London and Italy, Japan, Chile, South Africa and New Zealand. G...

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 w...

In this bonus episode we share the stories of our Monday adventure back out to the Wedge Overlook and Buckhorn Wash area to look for our missing Inspire Drone. We share the fun and challenges of searching in this terrain, the beauty of this area, the dynamic clouds that made us weep tears of regret that we didn't have our cameras on us and you get to learn about Aaron's injury! Lots of fun in this...

Needing a March Milky Way and some good stories for the podcast, we drive all-night to the Butte in Hanksville, Utah that Royce Bair told us about. This shot is best during an early season Milky Way so we made the sacrifice of getting out there Sunday night through Monday morning to try our luck at getting an awesome Milky Way Image like Royce Bair did last year. In classic fashion, the only cloud...