Kerry Goodwin Photo Untethered

06/17/2026

06/10/2026

Sugar Hill, NH | June 9, 2026 12:22 PM

Lupines have been on my bucket list for two years now. I have no idea how I missed out on them last year but I was determined I was not going to miss them this year. I did go to Portland a week ago and got some good ones at sunset but I never got around to looking at them.

Monday night we still had potential for aurora and since it was clear and the moon wasn’t coming up until after 1:00am I knew I had a good window for Milky Way. I left home at 6:20 and got to Sugar Hill at 8:30 exactly as the sun was setting. The clouds were perfect for a pink sky over the mountains (hopefully I’ll get to those to share soon). I was amazed by how big the field was and that we were able to just go walk through it.

I stayed there until it was dark and was able to see the Milky Way. Unfortunately there is a house with lights on it that are in the relative direction of the Milky Way so it makes it not ideal to shoot there. I knew there was another field down the road so I went there instead. The mountains aren’t as prominent as this location is lower in elevation than the other but it’s still pretty. I probably spent over an hour trying to find the right patch of flowers to photograph. Also my focus ring was stuck so I couldn’t manually focus where I wanted to without turning on autofocus, letting it spin near where I wanted it to be and quickly switching it back to manual. It just took a long time to set up the shot. (I have since fixed the focus ring…google is good)

While my camera was running I went to get in my car but a man had pulled over to take pictures. I wanted to ask if I would bother him if my car turned its lights on by accident and we ended up talking for 45 minutes.

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06/09/2026

I finally remembered to get in a photo and look what I was treated with! June 9, 2026 1:45AM Crawford Notch New Hampshire. I caught three substantial meteors last night and one smaller one. Just the cherry on top of some great Milky Way chasing.

06/05/2026

Picked up my transient license this morning and immediately set up for a trial run. 😁 other than getting sprayed my middle schoolers with water guns it’s been nice chatting with some people.

06/01/2026

Groton, CT | May 31, 2026 4:54 AM

The full moon totally snuck up on me! The full moon rise on the 30th was cloudy on the horizon near me but I was at Nubble anyway to catch some good sunset color but wasn’t going to see the moon. I got home around 9PM to buckle down and get a baseball league photo day finished. Around midnight I realized I should check the weather for the moon set in the morning. It was going to be clear so then I had to search for a good location. Last month at New London Ledge Light I couldn’t get as far as I needed to align the moon exactly where I wanted it with the lighthouse but looking at it this month, the spot I was in last month was going to be perfect! I got on the road around 1:30 and after a gas/road snack pitstop I made it to Groton at 4:25AM.

Daylight was starting and I got out to the end of the jetty just in time to catch a sequence of the moon going down. I set my interval timer for a shot every 12 seconds. As the moon got closer to the middle of the lighthouse I was really regretting that long of an interval. The moon moves surprisingly quickly when you don’t want it to. I was so relieved when the shutter went off at this exact moment where I’m not sure it could have been more perfectly centered.

Once the moon had set and it was fully light out I saw another photographer across the water from me so I went over and chatted with him for a bit.

After stopping for coffee, air for my tire, a bathroom, and more gas I got home around 8:30AM and didn’t have to stop to sleep! I managed to get the league done today (and a couple of naps) and hope to see some sales roll in.

Fun fact: for some reason I zoomed way in on this picture and found what looked like an eagle on the top left of the lighthouse. I’ve been duped by fake eagles before (as so many are) so I was skeptical. I looked back at my image from last month to see if it was there. It was not! AND I saw on last month’s image a seagull at the very tippy top of the lighthouse.

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05/06/2026

West Newfield, ME | May 4, 2026 11:04 PM

Yesterday morning I did some class preschool photos about 20 minutes away from my house. I had to be back this morning to do the rest of the classes so I asked if I could leave my equipment there including my camera. I really thought about it…basically a full moon so no chance or aurora or milky way, no storms…I definitely didn’t need my camera. I spent the rest of the day at my studio getting some work done then at 3:30 my phone started alerting me of really good aurora numbers and double checking the moon rise, there would be a 2-3 hour window to see some good lights. It was after 4:00 by the time I had done all the research and realized I NEEDED my camera. I frantically called the church that the preschool is in hoping someone answered the phone. It took a while and just as I was giving up hope someone answered! He said, “I was literally walking out the door and almost didn’t come back to answer the phone.” I asked if he could possibly stay for 20 minutes while I drove over and he so very kindly said ok. I was so grateful!

Then I needed to pick a location. I had 2 compositions in mind. My cloud apps sometimes let me down so I asked my trusty weather guy what he thought. He said Maine for sure…the clouds were going to push off. Driving north for 1.5 hours the clouds were still fully visible and didn’t see any clearing at all. Naturally, the clouds decided to stick around so I had to pivot very quickly and find ANY clear north unobstructed view to my west. Time was ticking away and I got super lucky with the location. Aside from it STILL being cloudy I could still see some stars and the aurora did show through though it wasn’t a massive storm.

As I put my camera down on the side of the road to take a test shot, the long exposure revealed an amazing piece of farm equipment silhouetted in the sky. I was so happy! I got my composition how I wanted, set the camera’s timer and let it go for 2 hours.

After the moon came up I grabbed my camera and scrolled through to see what I got. The deer walking around on the ridge was icing on the cake.

Arriving home at 2:30 I crashed hard. 😴

05/05/2026

Groton, CT | May 3, 2026 6:02 AM

I got home from a Derby party Saturday night around 11:30. I had no plans on photographing the full moon setting because I thought it was cloudy. After taking a peek at the radar it looked like if I just got more west I would be clear for the moon to set around 6:00AM. I set my sights on New London Ledge Light in Groton, CT. 2.5 hours later I was at Avery Point scoping out the scene. I had plenty of time before the moon went down and to be honest I couldn’t even see it because it was totally cloudy so I took a nap. My alarm went off at 5:00 and I was so happy to see the moon clearly making its way to the horizon. As it got lighter I could see that there was a bank of clouds at the horizon and I was so annoyed, but it turns out that by the time the moon got to the bank of clouds, It was too light out to really even see it. I wish I could have caught the moon a little lower in the middle of the lighthouse but I was already out as far as I could get without being in a boat.

It took me a while to get home due to a few nap stops.

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05/05/2026

Marblehead, MA | May 1, 2026 8:15 PM

Another shot of the full moon rising over Chandler Hovey Park in Marblehead

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05/02/2026

I need your help!

This is a massive crop of last nights full moon over Chandler Hovey Park in Marblehead. I wonder if we can fine the people in the picture.

Tag people you know from Marblehead and share this on your feed or story. Let’s see how many people we can reach!