With an Eye to the Sky.

LHWH Senior Art Director, Steve Ellwood, has combined incredible patience and creativity to become quite an accomplished photographer. He started out a few years ago with a small telescope and camera to get incredible shots of the moon from his back yard. He eventually moved on to larger telescopes and more advanced cameras and equipment and started shooting long exposure photography. That opened up the entire universe and so many fascinating deep-sky objects that include various nebulae, galaxies and star clusters. Doing all the things it takes to get the right exposure as the Earth is rotating was quite a long and steep learning curve, but the results show he's mastered them. Going from that to his bird photography is what he calls a breath of fresh air -- because it's not nearly as technical as telescope-assisted astrophotography. It's much more about being in the right place at the right time, understanding the behavior of birds, and waiting for just the right shot. In his nylon camouflage outfit, he can wait and crawl undetected in almost any birding locale to capture images of amazing quality and clarity. From Belted Kingfishers and Snowy Egrets to Roseate Spoonbills, his stunning collection now includes hundreds of species in their natural settings. His dream is to compile and publish a beautiful coffee table book sometime in the near future. Check out Steve’s astrophotograhy here or his bird photogrpahy here.