Going way back in time are reviving some old negatives for this Thanksgiving day, Thursday throwback....A pair of A-6E Intruders from VMA(AW)-332, Moonlighters, over one of the many Western Pacific airfields we visited (I believe this is Saipan) during the 10-month deployment in 1991.

This image captures the Moon fully eclipsed just before sunrise as seen over Lake Ashby near Warrenton, Virginia.

Fifth floor balcony provided the perfect spot to catch some people watching as the sunrise takes place in Ocean City, Maryland.

Back to Joshua Tree for one more. Wasn't sure how this one was gong to turn out. The Station was showing up not long after sunset, so chose to shoot 1/2 second exposures to avoid the bright sky from washing out the reflection. Ended up with well over 300 exposures to stack together to create this image of the more than 3-minute trek across the sky.

Thought it was time for a critter shot. I shot this group of seagulls from the park in La Jolla, California.

One of the most easily recognizable and my favorite constellation, Scorpius traces around an iconic Joshua Tree in Joshua Tree National Park as the Milky Way extends above in this 30-second exposure on September 17, 2022.

Playing a little catch up here. On my first night on the west coast, took the opportunity for a late night excursion to Laguna Beach. It was quiet and pretty empty, as compared to what it looks like during the day. The largely full Moon was rising, which gave the clouds some particular shimmer in these 20 second shots.

The girl child recently got engaged and during a trip to the west coast, we took engagement photos on the beach in La Jolla, California. Click here to see a gallery of photos from the shoot.

While in Rehoboth Beach, DE, in support of a high school friend and attending the Walk to Defeat ALS, I got up early to catch the Moon and Jupiter setting as viewed from the Rehoboth Bay Sailing Association. I used a remote interval timer to begin shooting while I walked onto the dock and position in the image.

The Milky Way is captured from outside the main gate of Sky Meadows State Park in Delaplane, VA, on August 31, 2022, in this 2-minute exposure. Click here for another shot as viewed through some trees.

We met Scarlett at The Wild's Craft Apothecary & Herbal Elixir Bar (I highly recommend the Mushroom Honey) at the Uncommon Market in the River Arts District of Asheville, NC. She was kind enough to indulge me in taking a few photos and this mural of Clint Eastwood was just too good of a backdrop to pass up. The mural colors were overwhelming, so Photoshop to fix that. Click here to see a close up of Scarlett and her amazing blue eyes and here for a full color shot.

Took me some time to get this one to work out the way I thought it should be, but.... Four and a half minutes of the ISS trek across the eastern skyline from right to left. This image is comprised of 18, 15-sec exposures as seen from Centreville Sod farm in Bristow, VA, at about 10 pm. The nearly full Moon is just out of the frame to the right and Manassas Airport is to the left brightening the sky.

Shot from the World War II Memorial and across the Reflecting Pool as the Moon was setting toward the Lincoln Memorial on The Mall in Washington, D.C.

Sunrise at Battery Heights in the Manassas Battlefield, Virginia, as the fog rolls across the scene on July 24, 2022.

The Calla Lilies in my front yard garden simply exploded this year. Although the color version was nice, I thought it was much more majestic and bold in black and white.

We visited the Biltmore House on June 25, 2022, and I shot a photo of this sculpture, Woman Reading with Dog, through the concrete railing on the Library Terrace. The statue is a reproduction by Asheville artist Alex Irvine after the original terra cotta sculpture produced by Gossin Frères of Paris had become unstable due to heavy deterioration. Read all about it here.

I had my Tamron super zoom tuned up and took this shot from my backyard to test it out.

Views of the southern sky and Milky Way Galaxy from outside Sky Meadows State Park in Delaplane, Virginia. The constellations of Scorpius, Sagittarius, and Aquila (clockwise from bottom right) are outlined.

As viewed from Wakefield School in The Plains, Virginia, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn are seen in the early morning sky with Jupiter and Mars making a close approach. The inset, shot with a different lens, provides an upclose view of Jupiter and Mars with Jupiter's Galilean moons visible.

In this 4-minute composite of 12, 20-second shots, the International Space Station is captured rising from the western horizon of Lake Ashby near Warrenton, VA, before disappearing in Earth's shadow as it passes to the left of the Big Dipper. The near vertical visual aspect is the result of the Station flying directly at and over where I was on the Lake's dam.

While visiting some friends in Tampa, Florida, I shot this crane feeding in the grass near a pond behind their yard in the early morning. These things are crazy big and it let me get scary close.

For those of you needing your critter fix, caught this Brown Paper Wasp feeding on our Holly bush in the front yard on the morning of April 29, 2022.

The International Space Station rose out of the Earth's shadow from the west (left) heading towards the north (right) and passing through the handle of the Big Dipper just after 5 a.m. on April 27, 2022, as seen from The Nokesville School in Nokesville, Va. This is 3 minutes of the trek comprised of 9, 20-sec exposures.

Venus, Saturn, and Mars are seen just before sunrise on March 21, 2022, as viewed from behind The Nokesville School in Nokesville, VA

A quiet Saturday afternoon and had been thinking about putting together a shoot centered on some dried roses, old wine bottles, and photographs. Sometimes you just feel like being creative and this was the result today.

Mercury, Venus, and Mars as seen from The Nokesville School in Nokesville, VA in the early morning of February 9, 2022. Click here for a higher quality, unlabeled version.

Looking to the southeast from the entrance to Sky Meadows State Park in Delaplane, Va., I captured the last 4 minutes of the Station as it passed near the constellation Orion (click here for a labeled version of the image) on its way to the horizon and completed a 10-minute trek across the sky that started from the northwest. This image is a composite of 12, 20-second exposures.

Close up view taken a few minutes before the family portrait to the right.

This evening was the clearest of the few days I was able to see the comet. And Saturn (center top), Venus (super bright object lower right), and Leonard (just above and between the first and second poles from the left) formed a very nice triangle portrait. Click here for a labeled version of the photo.

I was able to photograph the comet a few more times before it began its departure away from Earth and our solar system for ever. On this day, it was actually visible to the naked eye for a shot period of time--not that you could tell it was a comet, but it was brighter than the nearby stars as it approached the horizon about an hour after sunset.

Nothing like last year's Comet Neowise, Comet Leonard is now in our solar neighborhood for the next few weeks. Only about as bright as Jupiter's Galilean moons, the comet is seen here near the star, d Boötis (center of image). This is a 30-second exposure using my equatorial/star tracker and fully zoomed in on my Tamron 600 mm lens.