In October of last year, a friend of ours, Mark Eric, took a landscape photography class in Lake Tahoe. He posted this pretty epic picture of himself standing on a rock underneath the Milky Way. After seeing that image, I was inspired to do something epic as well. It was this picture that convinced Nicole and I that Lake Tahoe was where we needed to go for our anniversary trip. While researching star photography, I came across something else that really caught my eye…star trails! I had grand ideas of Milky Way pictures and star trails but, unfortunately, it was cloudy every single night we were in Tahoe! So we came home with no star trails and no Milky Way pictures, but I still wanted to capture an epic star trail photo.

I recently emailed the head of the Shreveport-Bossier Astronomical Society, and the next night I was at the observatory working on my first star trail! I was very pleased with how my first star trail photo turned out. It is the first image you’ll see in this post. I was even happier when I got an email asking if my photo could serve as the background for the next Shreveport-Bossier star party invitation!!! Personally, I think these star trail images are pretty amazing, so let me know what you think!

I also thought that star trails would serve as a great advertising image, so I emailed one of our favorite Shreveport wedding venues, Los Paloma in Benton, Louisiana, and offered to take a few images for them. I took these next two images on the night of a full moon, which is why they look almost like daylight!

And finally, the star party invitation!

That’s it for today! If you live in or near Shreveport don’t miss the star party on April 20th!!!