Michael Ford

Photograph at night of Mount Lassen, a volcano in northern California. The Milky Way Galaxy spans the night sky to the left of the volcano.

I'll bookend this with another photograph of the Milky Way. For over a decade now, I've visited Mt. Lassen every summer with my wife and her family. Undoubtedly a CA treasure. #darksky

A landscape photograph of a canyon. The sun is setting in the horizon below a storm. A bolt of lightning is captured in the photograph.

On that same cross country summer road trip, we stopped in Utah at Cedar Breaks National Monument. Summer storms would pass through most days we were in Utah, and on this one, I caught some lightning in the sky. #stormysky

A tipi on a river is alit from within. Remanent of the sunset are in the sky, but the sky is mostly a dark blue as daylight ends.

On another camping trip - one of my favorite spots that I've been - we camped on the Yellowstone River in a furnished tipi. Fittingly for this thread, this photo was taken during the blue hour #bluesky

A photograph of a hiking trail on a gloomy morning. The sun is rising and sits just above the horizon. A spiderweb is wet with dew and is prominent in the foreground.

The skies were gloomy the next morning; a spiderweb collected dew and reflected the sunlight nicely #sunrise

Photograph of a sunset on a beach at the blue hour. The photograph is taken from under a highway overpass. A trail of sand leads toward the ocean, and a sliver of orange from the sunset is visible with clouds making up the rest of the sky.

Also on the same trip - made it to the beach to check out the sky just before the sun went down #sunset

Starting my bluesky journey with some photos of skies. Found some dark skies on a recent camping trip. #milkyway