This year’s Gemenid Meteor Shower did not disappoint. Featuring a projected 103 meteors per hour, there were a few really spectacularly long, bright streaks across the Milky Way. Unfortunately, I was not able to capture those because of timing or camera orientation, but here are a few that did come across my lens on a chilly but clear midnight vigil:
Look carefully to find 6 meteors
As Neil deGrasse Tyson used to say on his nightly PBS show, “Keep looking up.”
Photography and Travel, specifically adventure travel and backpacking in remote North America, give me an excuse to stay outside. If kayaks, bikes, backpacks, Jeeps, archeology, geology and wildlife can be included, all the better. Having spent my life working in the fashion and photography industries, I love the unusual, the spectacular, and the beautiful. God has given us a wonderful world in which to live, and I try to open others’ eyes to its wonders. I have shared nearly 50 years of this indescribable wonder with my wife, Jodie, and we go everywhere together. I hope you will share some of our journey with us.
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I knew you were out there. Even though I was in the Hill Country and would have preferred to have been star-gazing, I was forced by circumstances to pass this one by. The first five were easy to spot. I think the sixth is below the brightest one in the upper left quadrant; it’s horizontal and relatively short.
texasflashdude 
I knew you were out there. Even though I was in the Hill Country and would have preferred to have been star-gazing, I was forced by circumstances to pass this one by. The first five were easy to spot. I think the sixth is below the brightest one in the upper left quadrant; it’s horizontal and relatively short.
Exactly right. Hill country is good, too. Loved your Islands in the Stream image.