Brent Newman Photography

Name: Brent Newman Photography
Address: Bailey, CO, 80421, US
Telephone: +15703372104

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Landscapes, nightscapes, and naturescapes

Prints are available upon request, *not* NFTs

05/27/2026

Thar be dragons, really big ones

04/23/2026

On this , I want to share with you my favorite image from the Artemis II crew during NASA's 10-day lunar flyby mission.

As you enjoy the image, I would be remised if I didn't quote an excerpt from Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

Credit: NASA

04/16/2026

It's International Dark Sky Week!

Did you know nearly 80% of Americans cannot see the Milky Way through the light pollution of the bright city lights? Don't become this statistic and see the Milky Way this week! The Milky Way core is now rising higher in the midnight sky during the moonless nights this week so it's an excellent time to get out and enjoy some spectacular stargazing.

Until then, enjoy some of my night sky favorites to get excited 🌌

03/19/2026

“Here we are in 1944—a year of war, worries, and restrictions. Everything seems different; time is short, nerves are ragged, things we have depended on for happiness and security no longer exist. . . But pause just a moment—the sun continues to shine, clouds move in the sky, objects live around us, forms and textures of natural and man-made things are as actual as they ever were. And there are people, and the things people do. The world is, as it ever was, within looking and walking distance—not thousands of miles away, expensive, or difficult to approach. . .

“To be aware of the external world in all its detail of beauty and meaning assures much happiness and strength of spirit. And with small effort we can raise the conventional blinds that shut out so much of the world and we can look out on endless opportunities of expression and creation. If we can bestir ourselves to explore the commonplace in terms of photography we may gain a new vision and confidence in the world around us. What we do may not be important in terms of world-shaking art, but it may be of supreme importance in terms of ourselves.

“Let us go out together and exchange a few thoughts and make some pictures of some quite ordinary things. . . . “

-- Ansel Adams

Remember not to only feel awe, but to absorb the details of ordinary things and to be present with the ordinary beauty presented before you.

02/20/2026

Happy 124th Birthday Ansel Adams!

“Our lives at times seem a study in contrast… love & hate, birth & death, right & wrong… everything seen in absolutes of black & white. Too often, we are not aware that it is the shades of grey that add depth & meaning to the starkness of those extremes.”

– Ansel Adams

Did you know Ansel Adams often shot in 720nm near infrared to darken the sky and brighten foliage? His 720nm work was a catalyst for my own 850nm near infrared work.

Enlightened Ones, 2023, a 850nm near infrared exposure

01/28/2026

It is not the photographic arts, but music that inspires most of my own photography. Sometimes a song plays on repeat in my head, until I am able to capture the essence of the song through my photographic lens.

Linkin Park's 'Shadow Of The Day' is one such masterpiece that has haunted me for many years until I enjoyed a spectacular sunrise while hiking a 14,000 foot mountain with my partner and my dog immediately after capturing Comet Neowise in 2020. Spectacular as the sunrise was, I failed to make the photograph I wanted. So, after hiking a total of more than 9,000 vertical feet, I returned to the same summit almost exactly to the day three years later to finally finish my own 'Shadow Of The Day' piece.

Here, you can quite literally see a shadow of the day with Earth's shadow looming in the distance, but there's more meaning to this piece than initially meets the eye. Linkin Park's 'Shadow Of The Day' was part of their 'Minutes To Midnight' album in reference to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by physicists such as Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project. "The Doomsday Clock was established to convey man-made threats to human existence and the planet. The Clock is a reminder of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe and a symbol that there is still time left to act."

Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced the time on the Doomsday Clock is 85 seconds to midnight.

Shadow of the Day, July 2023

01/23/2026

Due to personal reasons, I have had to dramatically cut back on sharing my work from the past couple years, effectively ending juried expositions, contest participation, website updates and decreasing my social media presence.

Nevertheless, I'm still roaming the wilderness day and night with a camera whenever I get a chance. And, I will still try to accommodate any print sales, photo outings, and interviews.

Last autumn, I was invited by Voyage Denver Magazine for an interview to discuss my background and motivation for wilderness photography.

I added a link to the interview in the comments. Let me know what you think!

01/21/2026

“In the face of all the present turmoil and unrest and unhappiness…what can a photographer, a writer, a curator do? . . . To make people aware of the eternal things, to show the relationship of man to nature, to make clear the importance of our heritage, is a task that no one should consider insignificant. . . . These are days when eloquent statements are needed.”

— Beaumont Newhall

Lost Creek Wilderness, August 2025

12/15/2025

Do you catch the 2025 Geminids Meteor Shower? I sort of captured the shower, but the mountains had other plans for me.

Commonly known as 'mountain clouds', lenticular clouds form exclusively due to the atmospheric drag, or wind shear of the jet stream over high mountains. The same jet stream that has caused extreme flooding and snowfall in the PNW recently has also been cranking out nearly continuous mountain cloud development downstream of the US Continental Divide for nearly the past week, where I live in the foothills. But, as twilight turned into night, the sky was unusually clear and the wind unusually calm. Perfect, I thought, before setting out on an hour drive into the alpine to shoot the Geminids over Mt Blue Sky. As I neared my location, I began to see vehicles pulled off the side of the road everywhere to watch the show from their pickup beds and windshields. It always gives me the warm and fuzzies to see so many people out in the middle of the night and in the middle of nowhere to observe the night sky.

Upon arrival at my desired location, a car pulled up right in front of me and carried a tripod to the exact vista that I had planned to drop my tripod. Bummer. Because it is bad etiquette to invade someone else's location, I changed course and scaled up to the edge of a rather airy cliff at the moment my headlamp went out. Fortunately, the light pollution from the Denver Metro, some 35 to 40 miles away, illuminated my perch just enough to know where [and where not] to place my feet. As I was setting up, I noticed the meteors were cranking up, but so too were the clouds. I decided to try an hour of shooting and reassess the situation. As you can see, I grabbed one decent Geminid and a whole bunch of clouds. Landscape astrophotography is a difficult pursuit, especially when trying to incorporate a celestial event in winter conditions on a high mountain. But, I sure do love the chase.

If you read this far, I'll also share a timelapse of the Geminids over my house in the comments!

10/31/2025

Bat Country

The Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) are the fastest animal on Earth without the assistance of gravity. They are faster in level flight than any bird as they have been clocked at up to 99mph (160 km/h). Tadarida brasiliensis are voracious predators and I notice a substantial drop in the mosquito activity in the area as they arrive hungry after their long migration to Colorado from the tropics. The world would be a scary place without bats!

Happy 🎃 and of course,
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