Scott A. Labay Digital Photography

Scott A. Labay Digital Photography I am a photographer in Greensburg, in the beautiful Laurel Highlands of Southwestern Pennsylvania. And coffee - I love coffee!

I love astrophotography and also do nature/landscapes and product photography.

Charleroi, PA lines the bank of the Monongahela River as the M/V Megan Ames shoves a tow of barges loaded with coal arou...
05/10/2026

Charleroi, PA lines the bank of the Monongahela River as the M/V Megan Ames shoves a tow of barges loaded with coal around the bend at Monessen towards Lock 4.

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My photography style is truly all over the map, so the best place to see everything is to follow my photography page (click" follow" after my name, go to my page and click the follow button again to set me as a favorite so you don't miss anything). I shoot infrared and astrophotography, the tiny macro world, and landscape in the Pennsylvania/West Virginia/Ohio area, so if you only see me on a specialty page or a local community page you are missing a lot of content!

05/10/2026

NGC4565 - The Needle Galaxy. Shot from my back yard in Armbrust, PA under Bortle 5 skies. I'm still trying to add more imaging to this. This image is 2 hours and 15 minutes of data so far.

Just because I haven't posted in two days doesn't mean I haven't been busy taking photos! I've just been as busy as this...
05/09/2026

Just because I haven't posted in two days doesn't mean I haven't been busy taking photos! I've just been as busy as this guy! Sorry I've missed you! Here are a few springtime shots from around the house in Armbrust, PA. Yellow season is transitioning to purple season here as the daffodils are replaced with hesperis (Dame's Rocket) and fleabane. Of course, the dandelions are stil hanging on too.

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Shop for prints of my photos at https://scottalabay.darkroom.com and drop me a DM if you are interested in any specific shots that may not be on my site - I will be sure to make them available for you!

The sun sets over the EQT Shalennial pad in New Freeport, PA. I've got no story behind this shot aside from the fact tha...
05/06/2026

The sun sets over the EQT Shalennial pad in New Freeport, PA. I've got no story behind this shot aside from the fact that I thought it was a nice composition.

My prints are available in my shop at https://scottalabay.darkroom.com and are not available as NFTs.

Looking down the Monongahela River at Charleroi, PA while the train unloads hoppers at Three Rivers Marine across the ri...
05/05/2026

Looking down the Monongahela River at Charleroi, PA while the train unloads hoppers at Three Rivers Marine across the river in Monessen.

Shop for prints of my photos at https://scottalabay.darkroom.com and drop me a DM if you are interested in any specific shots that may not be on my site - I will be sure to make them available for you!

May the Fourth be with You!! Hopefully someday we will be able to jaunt around the stars as casually as we take a road t...
05/04/2026

May the Fourth be with You!! Hopefully someday we will be able to jaunt around the stars as casually as we take a road trip across the country like they do in Star Wars, but until then, here is an HaRGB shot of M51, The Whirlpool Galaxy . Taken from my Bortle 5 backyard in Armbrust, PA

MY GEAR:
SvBony SV705c planetary camera (IMX585)
Celestron C6 SCT Telescope (Ha)
SvBony SV503 70ED refractor with 0.8x flattener/reducer (RGB)
SvBony SV106 50mm Guide Scope/ToupTek GPCMOS01200KPF Astro Camera (RGB)
SvBony SV106 50mm Guide Scope/SV305C Pro Planetary (Guide) Camera (Ha)
Skywatcher Star Adventurer GTi mount (RGB)
iOptron iEQ45 Pro Equatorial Mount (Ha)

Shop for prints of my photos at https://scottalabay.darkroom.com and drop me a DM if you are interested in any specific shots that may not be on my site - I will be sure to make them available for you!

It is a sad day in Latrobe, PA as we lost our sole airline at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport. Say what you will about wh...
05/03/2026

It is a sad day in Latrobe, PA as we lost our sole airline at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport. Say what you will about what their service was like (when I originally posted this image, there was a lot of hate for them in the comments), it filled a need and provided jobs for a lot of local people. It also brought a lot of people to the area who spent money in Latrobe before traveling to their local destinations. Spirit will be missed by a lot of people.

This image is from November of 2023 (before I was even running my photography page). I was at Arnold Palmer International Airport waiting for my wife to return from a trip to Orlando, so I took the opportunity to wait outside and snap a few shots of her plane landing in front of Saint Vincent's.

My photography style is truly all over the map, so the best place to see everything is to follow my photography page (click" follow" after my name, go to my page and click the follow button again to set me as a favorite so you don't miss anything). I shoot infrared and astrophotography, the tiny macro world, and landscape in the Pennsylvania/West Virginia/Ohio area, so if you only see me on a specialty page or a local community page you are missing a lot of content!

Tonight has been a struggle: I got a new telescope mount and 2/3 of the night has been spent troubleshooting, but it see...
05/01/2026

Tonight has been a struggle: I got a new telescope mount and 2/3 of the night has been spent troubleshooting, but it seems like I finally got the kinks worked out and I'm taking some new images of the stars above us. While it does its thing outside, I have been trying to sort my existing data. Some of those early attempts just really didn't turn out well, but astrophotgraphy is a very tough type of photography. There are a lot of struggles and failures, but we learn from each. I decided to go back and revisit some of my earliest attempts and reprocessed Barnard 33 (The Horsehead Nebula) and NGC2024 (The Flame Nebula). Sometimes we need gentle taps to bring out the beauty and details in a subject and my first attempt with this data was just swinging a sledgehammer. This was only 29 minutes of imaging, but even at that I was able to coax out some of the finer details of the nebulosity. I can't wait to spend more time this winter imaging this and the other beautiful objects in our night sky. Shot from my Bortle 5 backyard in Armbrust, PA

My prints are available in my shop at https://scottalabay.darkroom.com and are not available as NFTs.

MY GEAR:
Canon EOS RP (Full spectrum modified)
SvBony SV503 70ED refractor
Skywatcher Star Adventurer GTi mount

It was red and black day in the unloader earlier this week in Monessen as the crew offloads hoppers at Three Rivers Mari...
04/29/2026

It was red and black day in the unloader earlier this week in Monessen as the crew offloads hoppers at Three Rivers Marine in front of the Charleroi hillside. I usually see the blue ex-Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel locomotive sh I had to take the shot of Red when I saw it working. (I've heard they have a third locomotive but I haven't seen it)

Shop for prints of my photos at https://scottalabay.darkroom.com and drop me a DM if you are interested in any specific shots that may not be on my site - I will be sure to make them available for you!

Here are a few more photos from last month when I went to Loyalhanna Dam in Saltsburg, PA. We only saw one eagle while w...
04/27/2026

Here are a few more photos from last month when I went to Loyalhanna Dam in Saltsburg, PA. We only saw one eagle while we were there, so I need to go back to see if I can capture some more and see the dam with the trees all filled in now. I bet they will make some great infrared imagery!

My photography style is truly all over the map, so the best place to see everything is to follow my photography page (click" follow" after my name, go to my page and click the follow button again to set me as a favorite so you don't miss anything). I shoot infrared and astrophotography, the tiny macro world, and landscape in the Pennsylvania/West Virginia/Ohio area, so if you only see me on a specialty page or a local community page you are missing a lot of content!

Every time I drive by, I feel compelled to take yet another shot of Saint Vincent's in Latrobe, PA. It never gets old to...
04/26/2026

Every time I drive by, I feel compelled to take yet another shot of Saint Vincent's in Latrobe, PA. It never gets old to me, it is always such a beautiful place.

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PO Box 212
Armbrust, PA
15616

Website

https://scottalabay.darkroom.com/

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