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Alligator Goes for a Swim
An alligator moves through a brackish waterway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The center shares space with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. More than 330 native and migratory bird species, 25 mammals, 117 fishes and 65 amphibians and reptiles call NASA Kennedy and the wildlife refuge home.
5 hours ago
Hubble Captures a Tarantula
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a portion of the Tarantula Nebula.
12/08/2025
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Splashes Down in Pacific Ocean
Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, left, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft aboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON shortly after having landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025. McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov returned after 147 days in space as part of Expedition 73 aboard the International Space Station.
11/08/2025
Rare Type of Black Hole Snacks on Star
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes. Called NGC 6099 HLX-1, this bright X-ray source seems to reside in a compact star cluster in a giant elliptical galaxy.
08/08/2025
NASA’s Artemis II Crew Trains in Orion
The Artemis II crew (from left to right) CSA (Canadian Space Agency) Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; Christina Koch, mission specialist; Victor Glover, pilot; and Reid Wiseman, commander, don their Orion Crew Survival System Suits for a multi-day crew module training beginning Thursday, July 31, 2025, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Behind the crew, wearing clean room apparel, are members of the Artemis II closeout crew.
07/08/2025
Curiosity Looks Back Toward Its Landing Site
This view of tracks trailing NASA's Curiosity rover was captured July 26, 2025, as the rover simultaneously relayed data to a Mars orbiter.
06/08/2025
Second Lady Usha Vance, NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Celebrate Reading
Second Lady Usha Vance hosted a special Summer Reading Challenge event at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Aug. 4, 2025. She was joined by NASA astronaut Suni Williams to read a space-themed book to children in grades K-8 as part of her initiative to promote literacy.
05/08/2025
Perseids Meteor Shower
In this 30 second exposure photograph, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid and Alpha Capricornids meteor showers, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025, in Spruce Knob, West Virginia.
04/08/2025
Diminishing Returns? I Don’t Think So.
I came home from Zambia with a small handful of images I love.The post Diminishing Returns?I Don’t Think So.
03/08/2025
Crew-11 Launches to International Space Station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov aboard, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
01/08/2025
Sunrise on Crew-11 Launch Attempt
A NASA photographer captured the sunrise on July 31, 2025, ahead of NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 launch attempt. The Crew-11 mission will send NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9.
31/07/2025
Looking Forward to the Moon
NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems’ Program Manager Shawn Quinn captured this image of the Hadley–Apennine region of the moon including the Apollo 15 landing site (very near the edge of the shadow of one of the lunar mountains in the area).
30/07/2025
NASA Drop Test Supports Safer Air Taxi Designs
An aircraft body modeled after an air taxi with weighted test dummies inside is being prepared for a drop test by researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The test was completed June 26 at Langley’s Landing and Impact Research Facility. The aircraft was dropped from a tall steel structure, known as a gantry, after being hoisted about 35 feet in the air by cables. NASA researchers are investigating aircraft materials that best absorb impact forces in a crash.
29/07/2025
Hubble Spies Swirling Spiral
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 3285B, a member of the Hydra I cluster of galaxies.
28/07/2025
25th Anniversary Cupola Photo
The 25th anniversary logo is visible in the cupola of the space station in this July 17, 2025, image. The central astronaut figure is representative of all those who have lived and worked aboard the station during the 25 years of continuous human presence. In the dark sky of space surrounding the astronaut are 15 stars, which symbolize the 15 partner nations that support the orbiting laboratory.
25/07/2025
First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral
The Bumper V-2 launches from Cape Canaveral in this July 24, 1950, photo.
24/07/2025
NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim, Axiom Mission 4 Commander Peggy Whitson Conduct Research in Space
Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim from NASA and Axiom Mission 4 Commander Peggy Whitson work together inside the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory module setting up research hardware to culture patient-derived cancer cells, model their growth in microgravity, and test a state-of-the-art fluorescence microscope.
23/07/2025
NASA’s X-59 Makes a Move
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft taxis across the runway during a low-speed taxi test at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, on July 10, 2025. The test marks the start of taxi tests and the last series of ground tests before first flight.
22/07/2025
The Day Earth Smiled
On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA's Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow and turned to image the planet, seven of its moons, its inner rings, and, in the background, our home planet, Earth.
21/07/2025
Hubble Snaps Galaxy Cluster’s Portrait
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy cluster Abell 209.
18/07/2025
Space Station Crew Celebrates Milestone
NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Anne McClain shows off a hamburger-shaped cake to celebrate 200 cumulative days in space for JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi (out of frame) since his first spaceflight as an Expedition 48-49 Flight Engineer in 2016.
17/07/2025
Aurora Australis
The aurora australis arcs above a partly cloudy Indian Ocean in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above in between Australia and Antarctica on June 12, 2025.
16/07/2025
Hubble Observations Give “Missing” Globular Cluster Time to Shine
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dense and dazzling array of blazing stars that form globular cluster ESO 591-12.
15/07/2025
10 Years Ago: NASA’s New Horizons Captures Pluto’s Heart
This is the most accurate natural color image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.
14/07/2025
Change is Hard (At Least You Aren’t a Lobster)
Something a little different for you this morning. My heart stopped dead when I saw the black snake in my tent. Walking barefoot to the washroom in the middle of the night, my mind needed no time at all to jump to the certainty that what I was looking at was not just any snake but one of the most ...The post Change is Hard (At Least You Aren’t a Lobster) first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
13/07/2025
Putting the X-59 to the Test
Researchers from NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently tested a scale model of the X-59 experimental aircraft in a supersonic wind tunnel located in Chofu, Japan, to assess the noise audible underneath the aircraft. The test was an important milestone for NASA’s one-of-a-kind X-59, which is designed to fly faster than the speed of sound without causing a loud sonic boom.
11/07/2025
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Inspects Cat’s Paw
To celebrate its third year of revealing stunning scenes of the cosmos in infrared light, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has “clawed” back the thick, dusty layers of a section within the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334).
10/07/2025
Anatomy of a Space Shuttle
This illustration shows the parts of a space shuttle orbiter. About the same size and weight as a DC-9 aircraft, the orbiter contains the pressurized crew compartment (which can normally carry up to seven crew members), the cargo bay, and the three main engines mounted on its aft end.
09/07/2025
Stellar Duo
The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which has also captured a smaller companion star in the upper left of this image. Both stars lie in the Orion Nebula, a colossal region of star formation roughly 1450 light years from Earth.
08/07/2025
Working in Space
NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim works inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft completing cargo operations before it undocked from the International Space Station's Harmony module several hours later.
07/07/2025
Old Glory on the Red Planet
This close-up view of the United States flag plate on NASA's Perseverance was acquired on June 28, 2025 (the 1,548th day, or sol, of its mission to Mars), by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) imager on the turret at the end of the rover's Mars robotic arm.
03/07/2025
To the Spacemobile!
Three members of NASA's Lewis Research Center’s (now NASA’s Glenn Research Center) Educational Services Office pose with one of the center’s Spacemobile space science demonstration units on Nov. 1, 1964.
02/07/2025
Hubble Captures an Active Galactic Center
This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre).
30/06/2025
Check Your Composition
I gotta tell you, I have no idea how any of us ever managed to learn this craft well enough to make the photographs we do.There’s just so much to learn!The post Check Your Composition first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
29/06/2025
Astronaut Joe Engle Flies X-15
In 1963, Captain Engle was assigned as one of two Air Force test pilots to fly the X-15 Research Rocket aircraft. In 1965, he flew the X-15 to an altitude of 280,600 feet, and became the youngest pilot ever to qualify as an astronaut. Three of his sixteen flights in the X-15 exceeded the 50-mile (264,000 feet) altitude required for astronaut rating.
27/06/2025
Sparkling Andromeda
The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years. This new composite image contains data of M31 taken by some of the world’s most powerful telescopes in different kinds of light. This image is released in tribute to the groundbreaking legacy of Dr. Vera Rubin, whose observations transformed our understanding of the universe.
26/06/2025
Waning Crescent Moon
NASA astronaut Bob Hines took this picture of the waning crescent moon on May 8, 2022, as the International Space Station flew into an orbital sunrise 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of the United States.
25/06/2025
NASA Astronaut Zena Cardman
NASA astronaut Zena Cardman inspects her spacesuit’s wrist mirror at the NASA Johnson Space Center photo studio on March 22, 2024.
24/06/2025
A Martian Volcano in the Mist
Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet’s largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on May 2, 2025.
23/06/2025
Summer Begins in Northern Hemisphere
This full-disk image from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite shows the Americas at the start of astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere on June 21, 2012.
20/06/2025
NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge
More than 500 students with 75 teams from around the world participated in the 31st year of NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) on April 11 and April 12, 2025, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Participating teams represented 35 colleges and universities, 38 high schools, and two middle schools from 20 states, Puerto Rico, and 16 other nations.
18/06/2025
Training for the Moo(n)
A curious cow watches as NASA astronauts Andre Douglas and Kate Rubins perform a simulated moonwalk in the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Northern Arizona on May 14, 2024.
17/06/2025
Hubble Studies a Spiral’s Supernova Scene
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the barred spiral galaxy IC 758.
16/06/2025
Are You Good, or Just Lucky?
Every photograph I’ve ever made has been a lucky shot.The light was just right;The post Are You Good, or Just Lucky? first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
15/06/2025
“Cosmic Dawn” Screening at Greenbelt Cinema
Attendees line up to enter the theater for a screening of the new NASA+ documentary “Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope,” Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at the Greenbelt Cinema in Greenbelt, Maryland. Featuring never-before-seen footage, Cosmic Dawn offers an unprecedented glimpse into the assembly, testing, and launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
13/06/2025
Far Out
The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The gas below the stars glows through ionization caused by intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive young stars within the cluster.
12/06/2025
Portrait of a Bobcat
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a bobcat wades through one of the waterways near Launch Pad 39B.
11/06/2025
High Above the World
Astronaut Franklin R. Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during a June 2002 spacewalk – the first spacewalk of the STS-111 mission.
10/06/2025
Central Brazil Cerrado
Amid a patchwork of fields, towns, and winding rivers and roads in central Brazil stands a monolithic oval-shaped plateau. This conspicuous feature, the Serra de Caldas (also known as the Caldas Novas dome and Caldas Ridge), is perched about 300 meters (1,000 feet) above the surrounding landscape in the state of Goiás.
09/06/2025
Webb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-Infrared
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which shows dust from the galaxy’s outer ring blocking stellar light from stars within the galaxy.In the central region of the galaxy, the roughly 2,000 globular clusters, or collections of hundreds of thousands of old stars held together by gravity, glow in the near-infrared.The Sombrero Galaxy is around 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.
06/06/2025
Hubble Captures Cotton Candy Clouds
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a cloudscape in the Large Magellanic Cloud., a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
05/06/2025
America’s First Spacewalk
Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot of the Gemini IV four-day Earth-orbital mission, floats in the zero gravity of space outside the Gemini IV spacecraft.
03/06/2025
A Star Like No Other
Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects.
02/06/2025
Find the Contrast, Find the Interest
It takes a while to learn to use your camera like a photographer for whom the camera feels natural in the hands, to move your fingers across the buttons almost unthinkingly, with intent and purpose.It takes even longer to think like a photographer for whom thoughts about composition and the look and feel of the image come in a way ...The post Find the Contrast, Find the Interest first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
01/06/2025
NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Launch Fifth Anniversary
President Donald Trump steps onstage to speak following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
30/05/2025
45 Years Ago: NASA Announces Ninth Astronaut Group
Sixteen of 19 astronaut candidates named on May 29, 1980, and two European trainees as payload specialists pose for photographers in the briefing room in the public affairs facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
29/05/2025
Hubble Images Galaxies Near and Far
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the remote galaxy HerS 020941.1+001557, which appears as a red arc that partially encircles a foreground elliptical galaxy.
28/05/2025
Moon and Flag at NASA Michoud
The waning gibbous moon sets behind a flag at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans just after sunrise on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
23/05/2025
Preflight Flower
A flower is seen in the foreground with a Soyuz rocket on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 7, 2025. Expedition 73 crewmembers including NASA astronaut Jonny Kim launched aboard their Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft on April 8.
22/05/2025
Another Milestone for X-59
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen during its “aluminum bird” systems testing at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The test verified how the aircraft’s hardware and software work together, responding to pilot inputs and handling injected system failures.
21/05/2025
Sunset on Mars
On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This panoramic camera mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's 489th Martian day, or sol.
20/05/2025
Webb Finds Icy Disk
Webb has found crystalline water ice in a debris disk around a young, Sun-like star called HD 181327. Based on its presence in our own solar system, scientists have expected to see it in other star systems — but haven't had sensitive enough instruments to provide definitive proof until now.
19/05/2025
Real Photographers Do What?
Of all the prescriptive nonsense I hear about making photographs, the idea that “real photographers shoot on manual” has to be the most tiresome.As if burdening photographers with an even greater sense of obligation to the shoulds and the should-nots has ever led to greater creative freedom, less rigidity in our work, and more powerful photographs.The post Real Photographers Do What? first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
18/05/2025
Nancy Grace Roman’s 100th Birthday
Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, briefs Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on celestial objects in 1965 in Washington, D.C.
16/05/2025
Deimos Before Dawn
NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, the 1,433rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
15/05/2025
Pretty in Pink
The perfectly picturesque spiral galaxy known as Messier 81, or M81, looks sharp in this composite from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
14/05/2025
Lightning in Southeast Asia
Astronaut Don Pettit took this nighttime photo while the International Space Station orbited near the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia.
13/05/2025
Jupiter’s Turbulent Atmosphere
JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA's Juno, captured this view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes during the spacecraft's 69th flyby of the giant planet on Jan. 28, 2025. Jupiter's belts and zones stand out in this enhanced color rendition, along with the turbulence along their edges caused by winds going in different directions.
12/05/2025
25 Years of NASA Student Launch
Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad at NASA’s 2025 Student Launch launch day competition in Toney, Alabama, on April 4, 2025.
09/05/2025
NASA Astronaut Anne McClain Works on Space Station
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Anne McClain is pictured near one of the International Space Station's main solar arrays during a spacewalk to upgrade the orbital outpost's power generation system and relocate a communications antenna.
08/05/2025
A Glimpse of a Meatball
The NASA "meatball" logo mounted on the south side of the Flight Research Building at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, as seen through foliage.
07/05/2025
SPHEREx Starts Scanning Entire Sky
NASA's SPHEREx mission is observing the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, or wavelengths of light not visible to the human eye. This image shows a section of sky in one wavelength (3.29 microns), revealing a cloud of dust made of a molecule similar to soot or smoke.
06/05/2025
Hubble Images a Peculiar Spiral
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a peculiar spiral galaxy called Arp 184 or NGC 1961.
05/05/2025
Recalculating the Creative Life
I recently read of a 19-year-old football player, a goalkeeper for Real Madrid, who was in a serious car accident and left unable to walk for two years. The story caught my attention because it was 14 years ago this month that I had my own accident, which shattered both my feet, cracked my pelvis, and left me unable to walk with a long road ...The post Recalculating the Creative Life first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
04/05/2025
Back to Earth
The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is pictured backing away from the International Space Station shortly after undocking from the Rassvet module on April 19, 2025. The Soyuz crew ship would parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan about three hours later returning NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner back to Earth after a 220-day space research mission.
02/05/2025
Adding Dimension to Cassiopeia A
Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is a supernova remnant located about 11,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. It spans approximately 10 light-years.
01/05/2025
Saxophone in Space
Astronaut Ronald E. McNair, STS-41B mission specialist, used some of his off-duty time aboard the space shuttle Challenger to play his saxophone.
30/04/2025
Hubble Spots a Squid in the Whale
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy.
29/04/2025
Seeing the Cygnus Loop in a New Way
The Cygnus Loop (also known as the Veil Nebula) is a supernova remnant, the remains of the explosive death of a massive star.
28/04/2025
Hubble Visits Glittering Cluster, Capturing Its Ultraviolet Light
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster Messier 72 (M72).
25/04/2025
All Hands for Artemis III
A NASA spacesuit glove designed for use during spacewalks on the International Space Station is prepared for thermal vacuum testing inside a one-of-a-kind chamber called CITADEL (Cryogenic Ice Testing, Acquisition Development, and Excavation Laboratory) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Nov. 1, 2023.
24/04/2025
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson
The asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI).This is one of the most detailed images returned by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during its flyby.This image was taken at 1:51 p.m. EDT (17:51 UTC), April 20, 2025, near closest approach, from a range of approximately 660 miles (1,100 km).
23/04/2025
Sunshine on Earth
The sun's glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5, 2025.
22/04/2025
Fuzzy Rings of a Dying Star
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb shows its rings as intricate clumps of dust. It’s also easier to see holes punched through the bright pink central region.
21/04/2025
Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebula
This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in appearance for it. 9.5 light-years tall and 7000 light-years distant from Earth, this dusty sculpture is refreshed with the use of new processing techniques.
18/04/2025
Space Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off
The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its 51-D mission. The seven-member crew lifted off at 8:59 a.m. ET, April 12, 1985.
17/04/2025
Scrub Jay at the Vehicle Assembly Building
A scrub jay perches on a branch near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 22, 2020.
16/04/2025
Testing NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
On March 18, 2025, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for thermal vacuum testing at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF), which simulates the harsh conditions of space.
15/04/2025
Make It Different, Make it Yours.
One of the great photographic challenges is making a photograph that is different: different from what others are making and different from the images you’ve made so many times before.I want to go further, learn more, and get closer and closer to images that feel uniquely my own.The post Make It Different, Make it Yours. first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
13/04/2025
Over the Shoulders of Giants?
Years ago, I took my battered Land Rover Defender (that’s Jessie in the picture above) to the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley.This fascinating phenomenon of what are called “sailing stones” is explained ...The post Over the Shoulders of Giants? first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
30/03/2025
My Keeper Rate is Getting Worse
I have over 400,000 photographs on my hard drives.That’s a so-called keeper rate of 0.5% or less.After almost 40 years behind a camera, only half of one percent of ...
16/03/2025
What’s in My Bag?
The right gear matters.I love talking about gear.The post What’s in My Bag? first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
13/03/2025
Mwangaza: Light!
Lying in a mud hole, looking up at a white rhino snuffling just inches from my camera, I was having a tough time not giggling or wetting my pants.To be this close to a massive rhinoceros with no remote gear—just me and ...The post Mwangaza: Light! first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
02/03/2025
The Long & The Short of It
Among wildlife photographers, it is the long lens that gets all the glory.Less a tool than a symbol, sometimes, the bigger telephoto lenses telegraph to the world that we mean business.The post The Long & The Short of It first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
23/02/2025
It’s Not a Photograph. Yet.
My Land Rover pulled up just in time to watch the lions finish their meal.Whatever it was, it’s mostly gone now.The post It’s Not a Photograph.
09/02/2025
Packing For An African Safari (Updated)
The notes below are specific to Kenya but having done safaris in Zimbabwe and South Africa as well, most of these suggestions apply just as well to other places.I’ve been asked over the years, both by my safari clients and others, what and how to pack for a trip like this, so it felt like this might be a good time ...The post Packing For An African Safari (Updated) first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
26/01/2025
The Problem with Mood
I do a little moonlighting for a small computer and imaging company that rhymes with Snapple.They are under the mistaken impression that my nearly 40 years behind the camera means I know what I’m talking about.The post The Problem with Mood first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
26/01/2025
The Power of Mood
I’m not so much after eyes as I am hearts and minds.The mood of a photograph is its emotional tone—a ...The post The Power of Mood first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
19/01/2025
The Perfect Camera Bag
Spoiler alert: 15 years ago I found the perfect camera bag, and I’m giving one away.I am embarrassed by how many camera bags I own.The post The Perfect Camera Bag first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
05/01/2025
Are You Pushing the Right Buttons?
I have a confession: I only know what 5% of the buttons, dials, and menu items on my camera do.But I know that my first cameras only had the ability to focus, select the aperture, change the shutter speed, and specify the ISO.The menu options ...
15/12/2024
Blinded By What You Don’t See.
There’s a curse among photographers, if you believe in such things (curses, that is, not photographers), and it’s this: Sometimes what we do not see can blind us to what is in front of us.Go somewhere with a certain kind of photograph in mind and you might look so hard for that kind of image that you never see ...The post Blinded By What You Don’t See. first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
08/12/2024
Part 2: What Makes The Image Work?
On Sunday, I showed you one of my photographs and sent you to my blog to discuss it, asking questions about the decisions I made and the effect of those decisions.The point was to get you thinking about the all the many choices we make in order to create one photograph.The post Part 2: What Makes The Image Work? first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
06/11/2024
What Makes the Image Work?
My cousin James had a reputation as a kid for taking things apart.One Christmas he dismantled down to the wiring every gift he was given.The post What Makes the Image Work? first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
03/11/2024
My Remote Camera Set-up
This is a quick one but I’ve had some questions about the way I photograph bears and rhinos so close without frightening the animals or jeopardizing my own safety, so I’m posting this as a place to direct people interested in this.If you look at the picture above you can see two cameras, one is mine and the other ...The post My Remote Camera Set-up first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
14/10/2024
More Interested, More Interesting
A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting on a river, happily photographing grizzly bears.After a two-day drive and a quick turnaround at home, I was off to San Francisco to sign 1,000 copies of the hardcover special edition of my new book, Light, Space, & Time: Essays on Camera Craft and Creativity.The post More Interested, More Interesting first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
13/10/2024
Light, Space & Time
But give me a moment to talk about the book itself.Despite the wildlife photographs that illustrate the book, Light, ...The post Light, Space & Time first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
15/09/2024
Show Me Less to Show Me More
As a photographer who learned his craft before autofocus became a truly reliable technology, my earliest challenge was focusing the lens.But focusing the lens was never so hard as learning ...The post Show Me Less to Show Me More first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
08/09/2024
Keep At It. Wonder Awaits.
It was 39 years ago on a summer day much like today when I picked up a 35mm Voigtländer rangefinder camera at a neighbour’s garage sale.That whim would change my life, drain my bank account many times over the decades that followed, and make me a different human being than I might have been if I’d bought the tennis racquet instead.The post Keep At It. Wonder Awaits. first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
25/08/2024
Stronger Photographs With Just One Decision
I think a lot photographers put all their creative eggs in too few baskets.They look to the work they do with the camera as job one, which it is.The post Stronger Photographs With Just One Decision first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
07/08/2024
3 Ways To Give Your Images Their Best Chance
In my last video I resumed a conversation I’ve been dying to come back to.And are we missing important creative opportunities?The post 3 Ways To Give Your Images Their Best Chance first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
04/08/2024
A Better Edit Makes Better Photographs
When I came home from Kenya last year, I had a hard drive filled to busting with 30,000 images.I’d been photographing for 30 days, so that’s a daily average of 1,000 photographs which, it turns out, is really easy ...The post A Better Edit Makes Better Photographs first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
28/07/2024
Grizzlies of the Khutzeymateen
Ten years ago, I got off a de Havilland Beaver, the quintessential bush plane of the Canadian north, and stepped into the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Sanctuary for the first time—and it was love at first sight.The long inlet not far from the border with Alaska is flanked by mountains and cliffs, all covered in evergreens draped with flowing moss, and ...The post Grizzlies of the Khutzeymateen first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
23/06/2024
Artists & Explorers
Put the coffee on, find a place to settle in.And then scroll to the bottom to see some images from my recent wolf expedition A month ago, I found myself in a tuxedo, eating ants and mealworms (but not the scorpions, grubs, or tarantulas also on offer) ...The post Artists & Explorers first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
09/06/2024
The Best Photography Advice I Ever Got
As far as photographic advice goes, this one is a favourite: don’t shoot what it looks like; shoot what it feels like.It’s not my original quote, but it is very poetic.The post The Best Photography Advice I Ever Got first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
22/05/2024
The Problem with Mood
I do a little moonlighting for a small computer and imaging company that rhymes with Snapple.They are under the mistaken impression that my nearly 40 years behind the camera means I know what I’m talking about.The post The Problem with Mood first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
19/05/2024
The Power of Mood
Photography can be many things.The mood of a photograph is its emotional tone—a ...The post The Power of Mood first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
12/05/2024
Three Questions For Choosing Your Gear
In two days, I pack the truck and head north up Vancouver Island to meet my wolf guide, Tom, before spending two weeks camped on a remote island, waiting for coastal wolves to wander in front of my cameras. 🤞 Maybe some otters, bears, or eagles, too.Packing for a trip is always a mix of excitement and indecision.The post Three Questions For Choosing Your Gear first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.
28/04/2024
A Word About Art-Making
One of the happy perils of posting your work online is the very real possibility of criticism.The internet, especially social media, emboldens us. But it’s not only the internet.The post A Word About Art-Making first appeared on David duChemin - Photographer, Author, Creative Instigator.