Stephen Bay's Photography Blog

Landscape photography often involves significant travel. If you’re like me, you live in the middle of a big city and there are very few opportunities to photograph the natural environment without getting into a car or boarding an airplane. I’m luckier than most – I live in San Diego and have the coast within a 20-30 minute drive of my home. But before I moved here, getting to...

I do a fair amount of printing on metal (Chromaluxe) and I’ve tested out many different printing labs. Along the way, I’ve run into a wide range of problems. It can be extremely frustrating when you have a file that prints perfectly on most media (paper, canvas, etc) but comes out with major problems on metal.

Printing on metal is not like printing on paper. With paper...

Two of the most popular techniques in astrophotography are image stacking and star tracking. Both of these are an attempt to reduce noise and get cleaner, higher quality images. As someone who makes large prints, this is very important to me and I’ve experimented quite a bit with both methods over the years (I started astrophotography in 2017). To give you some additional con...

This is a photo of the White Lady cave in La Jolla. It gets its name because according to legend a young woman on her honeymoon was washed out to sea when caught by the tide here and was never seen again. Later, visitors claimed to see her standing at the entrance in her wedding dress.

The White Lady cave in La Jolla.