Cojack Photography

05/15/2026

I got a sticker from Greene County Parks & Trails on my car during a hike today!
It was a fun one too, I found a googly eye in the parking lot, my goose crazy dog controlled herself with the geese on the river, and I saw a flower I hadn't seen before.

05/15/2026

I'm going to be at the Native Plant Event with Beaver Creek Wetlands Association on June 13th! It's time to make some more coasters.

05/12/2026

Happy Birthday to me! Sometimes my rose bush doesn't bloom in time for my birthday, but this year it's full of blooms already. 🥳🌹🤩

05/01/2026

Happy May Day!
🪻The day we hang flowers on neighbors' front doors, knock, and run away. 🌷

04/30/2026

A thank you to the Fairborn Parks people who are always so nice to let me be in the park at night, a print to hang in their office. 20x30 inches, my biggest Milky Way print yet 🤩

04/22/2026

Time moves fast, time moves slow. I often forget about night photography being "long exposures" when people ask me about it in the real world. I think, no, this only took 2 minutes to take, or this only took 15 seconds for the sky frame, and 30 seconds for the foreground. I forget that regular daytime landscape photos are often handheld photographs taken in less than 1 second.

I never question if I should take my tripod along on a photoshoot, I have to use it every time.

This is part of the reason I do what I do, go out in the dark to photograph Earth under the stars. Because it forces me to SLOW DOWN and really acquaint myself with the world around me. Which allows my brain to find calm and my body to relax.

When I go out to photograph, my usual goal is one final image. I don't hope to showcase the entirety of a place in one photoshoot. The entire night of photography is focused on creating that one goal image. If I am able to get other compositions, those are bonuses. Sometimes I have 1 or 2 stretch goals that "would be nice" but I always try to accomplish my main goal first.

Happy Earth Day! Please take some time to care for and enjoy nature today.

04/21/2026

This is not a drill. The Milky Way core is back people! I mean, it's been back in the night sky for over a month, but I finally had a clear night to photograph it! My plans usually include blue hour foregrounds, but the rainy clouds were not looking promising. However, the clouds cleared and the stars were shining! So this foreground is just lit with light pollution and starlight, and I kind of love it. What do you think? Song performed by Danielle Ate the Sandwich

04/21/2026

Do you remember 1 hour photo shops? I took many rolls of film to be processed there during college. I have to say though, I've never photographed the sky for close to an hour just for one Milky Way image before, but I have now! My 1 hour photo 😆 50 minutes for all the sky frames, and 10 minutes for all the foreground frames.

Milky Way photoshoot number one for the 2026 season was early this morning. There was a freeze warning, but the clouds cleared and the stars were calling. Thankful for permission to be in the park at night 🤩

04/10/2026

It's going to be rainy/cloudy every night for the foreseeable future 😶‍🌫️ which means, no Milky Way photos for me. But- Oh scrap I made a sweater! Pattern by and the yarn came from the I-75 Yarn Crawl in 2017! I've been looking for and trying different sweaters for years to find one for this yarn! 😁

04/09/2026

2 years ago the moon 🌚 blocked the sun 🌞... It was so cool.

04/09/2026

2 years ago the moon covered the sun in my back yard. I made a page about it on my website. 🫥🌞

Total Solar EclipseApril 8, 2024 — My entire experience Remember your experience, and enjoy it through my photography! Scroll through my complete eclipse experience, read the stories behind the final images I created. My cell phone photo of eclipse totality. Eerie to be sure, but laking when compa...