Photog Adventures Podcast: A Landscape Photography and Astrophotography Podcast

Announcing the Astro Photog Podcast! The Photog Adventures show entirely focused on Astrophotography! Every Thursday Aaron King will bring you an Astro-centered episode to help make those 7-days between Photog Adventures Podcasts a little less boring! Beginning each podcast with the Astro Primer, Aaron will talk about what the night sky is doing so you have a quick 5-minutes or less place to hear...

After getting forced from Yosemite early due to weather, we make the most of the drive back home by making stops at Death Valley National Park and Nevada's Valley of Fire State Park. We test Canon's 70-300mm lens out at Badwater Basin and then discover a stupid rule at Valley of Fire State Park while trying to capture the sunset. Here is the Goal Zero Yeti 400 Aaron was talking about: Goal Zero 23...

Hanging out with my Brother-in-Law Travis Eggett, we talk about the hike to Donut Falls back in January. Up Cottonwood Canyon, Donut Falls is a short hike which makes it crazy popular in the winter. Despite being surrounded by deep snow we didn't require our snowshoes and then we complain about the crazy high dynamic range of a white waterfall and black cave.

Jeff Harmon of Photo Taco fame guest hosts to discuss with us the expectations and things learned as a Presenter or Participant of the recent Improve Photography Retreat. We share funny stories from the retreat and what we all learned from our 4-day adventure in Phoenix. Come learn what you can expect from a photography conference like this or photography workshop. That is, what you can expect fro...

We share the remaining untold photog adventures from our trip back home through Zion National Park. Returning from the Improve Photography Retreat, we hang out in Zion with Rusty Parkhurst and do one last hike with him up to Kanarra Creek Falls. We go over our successes and missteps hiking Kanarra Creek Falls and capturing sunsets from the Canyon Overlook in Zion and the Cedar Breaks. We also anno...

After a whirlwind week down in Arizona for the ImprovePhotography.com Listener Retreat, we hang out in Zion National Park with Rusty Parkhurst on way back home. Recording from an ironing board in our hotel, we take time from our Grand Finale adventure to Zion to recap what we learned from the retreat. Plus we tell stories from EIGHT different Photog Adventures between Arizona and Utah where we had...

In a whirlwind trip we drive all night to get as many nights in Yosemite as we can over President's Day weekend to capture the Firefall Phenomenon. We have three nights and four days to make this newly discovered but definite bucket list dream come true! Fighting through flooding, holiday weekend crowds and car troubles we have a valuable weekend in Yosemite National Park meeting many new friends...

We get the awesome opportunity to visit with Ian Norman of LonelySpeck.com and pick his brain for brilliant ideas on how to work with light pollution using his Pure Night filter, why we should all be using a 50mm lens more in our Astrophotography, and more tricks of the trade to do with stacking, panoramas and how to record a seamless Day-to-Night Timelapse. Pure Night can be ordered here: http://...

Brendon and I have the privilege to hangout with Dr. Bryony Richards and have a blast sharing Astrophotography adventure stories from all over the world. From her time in Namibia, South Africa and New Zealand Bryony always loved the stars but it wasn't until a sleepless night in Utah when she found her love of photographing the crazy cloud in the night sky, the Milky Way.

We sit down with Rusty Parkhurst and talk about his success of getting an image of his noticed by a Tourism agency in Missouri that ultimately used one of Rusty's images for the 2017 Official Missouri Travel Guide! Rusty shares with us how his image was found and received by the agency and his top tips for having the same success with your photography. See more of Rusty's work on his website at: R...

Hanging out & talking Winter Landscape Photography in Southern Utah with Photographer Nathan St. Andre. We go over many tips on Winter Photography in that area from locations to smart clothing to survive the temperatures and remain comfortable without going out like the kid from the Christmas Story where he couldn't put his arms down. Link to the awesome map Nathan talked about that has all of the...

Extra Podcast episode where we share the 25 mins we spent talking about Royce's fascinating film and photography background. If you like the idea of getting into the weeds on aspects of how film for movies was edited, color corrected and hear about it from the perspective of a photographer who greatly enjoyed the transition from Film to Digital. Then you will enjoy this bonus excerpt about Royce B...

Back in July Brendon and I ran into Astrophotographer and Author Royce Bair out at Mirror Lake. Ever since we have been fortunate to call ourselves friends with the great man and great photographer! We sit down with Royce and ask listener Astrophotography questions while adding our own for an awesome hour of night photography advice! We go over how to overcome the challenge of a slow lens f3.5 or...

We join listener Dan for a Photog Adventure out to Fifth Water Hot Springs. The blue pools of water and flowing streams were a fantastic Landscape Photography setting! The weather was perfect but the ride on the hard packed snow in fat tire bikes was miserable. We talk about the challenges of using Fat Tire bikes in the wrong situation and the awesome opportunity it was to go out with fellow Photo...

We complain about the challenges of winter photography but discover a website to help with that. Plus share a few untold stories from our adventures in 2016. The logistics of getting out in the winter turned out to be greater than Aaron anticipated but a website he discovered called TheOutbound.com looks to fix that! Then the guys talk about trips to Notch Peak, Payson Temple and the Silo from 201...

Here at the end of 2016, we look at most of the gear and equipment we used in our Photog Adventures for Landscape Photography and Astrophotography throughout the year and share the PROS and CONS of each piece of equipment. Learn what we liked, what we thought needs an upgrade and wasn't worth having this year. Thanks for following our Adventures this year! Have a Happy 2017 and if you haven't alre...

Looking for hidden gems in Utah, we travel to Francis Peak, the Strawberry Pinnacles and Guardsman Pass to scout photogenic locations. Join us as we talk about our July scouting experience up on the frigid mountain top at Francis Peak, the towering but annoying red rock pinnacles near Strawberry Reservoir and the perfect Sunday drive location Guardsman Pass.

Brendon and Aaron recap the major and minor things about Landscape and Astrophotography they learned throughout 2016. Following through on our commitment to get out with our cameras more, we ended up getting out twice a month or more! We went to awesome locations with our cameras and tried many new techniques. We sit down before Christmas and look back on what we learned from all of it and share w...

Jeff Harmon the host of the Photo Taco podcast joins Brendon and Aaron to talk about photography, shooting in Utah and best practices of a Landscape Photographer. Jeff is the tech guru and host of the long running Photo Taco podcast over at improvephotography.com/phototaco/ a podcast dedicated to the beginner photographer and tip needing enthusiast photographer. Photo Taco is the perfect podcast f...

Brendon and Aaron talk about the challenge of capturing the bright SuperMoon out in the Salt Flats of Utah. Once they arrived they were immediately faced with two obstacles that threatened to ruin their shots. The Salt Flats were completely flooded and clouds were building on the Eastern horizon!

Thanks to a collaboration with ExtremeSpaceAdventures.com we send a GoPro Hero4 Black and a GoPro Session up into the Stratosphere! We really put the adventure into Photog Adventures when the Balloon and its payload housing our GoPros falls off the GPS radar at 10,000 feet up! Brendon and Aaron spend the next three weekends hunting the Mud Flats west of the Great Salt Lake for their GoPros.

Our first Astrophotography trip to Zion National Park and we loved it! Already an amazing place in the day, it is fantastic at night! Following Jim Harmer's blog post "Photographer's Guide to Zion National Park" Brendon and Aaron make the most of their September weekend in Utah's best location, Zion National Park. Brendon and Aaron talk about all the locations they were able to visit and their suc...

We hike two-hours up Dry Canyon trail looking for a location to capture the beautiful changing fall colors of the mountains of Utah Valley. Brendon and Aaron discuss the challenges of finding your great composition when overwhelmed with good options. Aaron gushes over the ease of using an L-bracket and why it's speed is quite critical when the light is changing and Brendon shares details on his Ma...

Brendon and Aaron get in two Astrophotography nights in a row at two completely different locations. Goosenecks State Park and Goblin Valley in Utah back in June. We discuss the challenges we faced capturing the large landscape of the Goosenecks compared to the intimate, in-your-face foreground of Goblin Valley. NOTE: Apologies for this podcast being a week late. There was a funeral in Canada that...

In order to capture the Perseid Meteor Shower in an epic location with good weather, Brendon and Aaron travel down to Bryce Canyon National Park.