Dawn light on Pitchoff, from a magical snowshoe hike this past winter... Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday time with family and friends! Safe travels if you're on the road! Merry Christmas! Happy Hannukah!

Urban light pollution Around 4:30 this morning I noticed the short term aurora forecast was showing some potential so I set up and shot a few frames over frozen Brant Lake to see what I might capture. All I got was light pollution on the high clouds that were moving in over the northern Adirondacks.

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Morning light over Elk Lake by the Elk Lake Lodge on 10/2/25 during my 5 day workshop.

At the Elk Lake Lodge, during the 5 day fall workshop. It sure is a wonderful location for an Adirondack chair loveseat, and even more special to be sitting in it!

November at Connery Pond... This is from a number of years ago of photos I had prepped but had never posted. A calm morning after a fresh snowfall at the end of November 2011.

The Geminid meteor shower peaked over this past weekend. Since it was cloudy here, I thought I'd repost a composite I did of the 2023 Geminid shower on a beautiful clear night when we also had a subtle northern lights display.

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Another angle on the light and clouds over Rocky Peak and Giant from Iron Mt last weekend.

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Cloud and tree detail from the top of Iron Mountain this past Saturday.

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The full Cold Moon rising over Lake George last evening. 12/4/25

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This evening's full 'Cold' supermoon, rising just before sunset behind a shoulder of Black Mt. , standing tall above the waters of Lake George. The name sure is appropriate with temps in the low teens as polar air is moving into the region tonight. 12/4/25

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A soft, misty, dawn view of Lake Luzerne. One of my first photos of the morning during the 10/12/25 Dawn Photo Tour for the Adirondack Folk School

Over the river, and thru the woods... Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving Day with family and friends!

Morning sun over Lake Luzerne during my 10/12/25 dawn photo tour for the Adirondack Folk School

Stepping back a few weeks again, here's another angle on the Adirondack chair along the shore of Edgecomb Pond taken during the 10/18/25 Lake George area photo tour.

Morning sun on icy white birch and small trees 11/19/25

Golden hour light glowing on the ridges and moutaintops on Wed morning, 11/19/25

A sunlit view from my vantage point over Keene Valley on Wed. morning.

A 360 degree view of sunrise light over the Keene Valley / Cascade Lakes area in the beautiful, crisp, clear weather we had yesterday morning.

Early morning light over Mount Colden, and Algonquin Peak at 7:21 this morning.

Sunrise this morning over the Keene Valley area, lighting up ice coated trees on the overlook I was on.

Morning light over Lake Luzerne during the 10/12/25 Adirondack Folk School dawn photo tour

Another photo from the Boreas Ponds - different light and clouds...

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Another angle on the clouds and early light over the Boreas Ponds and High Peaks on the morning of Nov 3, 2025

Another photo from the 11/11/25 aurora I experienced at Crown Point. These are all from around 11:30 to 11:46 when things got quite active for a short while and pretty well filled the entire sky. Note the moon rising along the horizon.

It was cloudy in Brant Lake last evening, so I headed to Crown Point where I had reasonably clear skies, and caught the amazing full sky display of northern lights from around 10:30 to 11:45 last evening.

The reflections didn't quit, but the clouds and light kept changing so I shifted my Hornbeck Boats Inc Blackjack canoe around to get some different angles, light and clouds on the morning of 11/3/25. And a fourth!

The reflections didn't quit, but the clouds and light kept changing so I shifted my Hornbeck Boats Inc Blackjack canoe around to get some different angles, light and clouds on the morning of 11/3/25. Here's a third

The reflections didn't quit, but the clouds and light kept changing so I shifted my Hornbeck Boats Inc Blackjack canoe around to get some different angles, light and clouds on the morning of 11/3/25. Here's another

The reflections didn't quit, but the clouds and light kept changing so I shifted my Hornbeck Boats Inc Blackjack canoe around to get some different angles, light and clouds on the morning of 11/3/25. Here's one of them

Adirondack magic... Another angle on the stillness of a frosty November morning scene with the High Peaks reflecting in the still waters of the Boreas Ponds

November reflections... Mount Marcy (center), NY's highest peak, reflecting in the calm waters of the Boreas Ponds, along with Allen, Skylight, Haystack, Basin, Saddleback, and Gothics

First light over the snow capped High Peaks on Monday morning 11/3/25

Dawn colors over the High Peaks and Boreas Ponds from a Hornbeck canoe on Monday morning, 11/2/25.