It’s no secret that one of the best stargazing spots in Southern California is Joshua Tree National Park. The park is an International Dark Sky Place — meaning that aside from some light pollution ...

As light pollution threatens our view of the stars the world over, the annual Dark Sky photography contest is here to remind us what we stand to lose. DarkSky is a non-profit that works to help ...

Photographer Brenda Tharp's new book, Expressive Nature Photography, is a guide for photographers to creatively photograph nature using a variety of techniques, exposures and filters. In this excerpt ...

The word "silhouette" comes from a mid-18th century French finance minister Étienne de Silhouette, whose hobby was cutting paper outlines of people’s profiles. Today, a silhouette can be a very ...

It isn’t often we ask our Photo Challengers to minimise the detail of their chosen subject to the greatest extent possible. But of course that’s just exactly what a silhouette is: a solid, featureless ...