This post is where I will put my favorite local photos of the sky, and I will update it from time to time. Photos of deer and other critters from the area can be found on this page.
The sky during the day
I’ve always been obsessed with clouds, and it’s actually amusing how many photos I have of them. Here are my favorites (so far) of day-time sky photos from our home in Clatskanie. Or you can skip to the night-time sky photos.
I’ve taken many time-lapse videos of the clouds and mist since I’ve been here. I’ll put just two of them here.
The sky at night
While this area is definitely not free from light pollution, this is certainly a much nicer place than the suburbs to take out the camera and point it upward at night.
The first photo, from Dave, is from when we tried to photograph the Milky Way in August 2024, but ran into the limitations of our camera. As a plus, we accidentally captured a meteor in one of the photos.
These next few photos are from when the aurora was visible here in October 2024.
This last photo was taken by Dave with his DSLR camera, which gets much nicer results than my iPhone (15x Max Pro). It was too nice for me to crop any of it out.
And here is a time-lapse video of the aurora.