Photography by Steven Christenson

About This Site

If you have come here seeking my photography... congratulations you've found it. I manage several online galleries. My Fine Art quality work is on Flickr. If you would like to purchase my work, here is a price list.

Pedestrian things like photos of people and events can be found on my PicasaWeb site. Photos on that site are also available for purchase.

My latest images are visible in the set of thumbnails below and some of my favorite works are visible in the images above. All images are linked to larger images with more detailed descriptions. In addition, I choose a "Picture of the Month" from my images taken in that month. Several years worth of images are available in the Picture of the Month tab.

In addition, you can see images from my Jordan and Israel trip for people see here and for landscapes and architecture, try here.

Picture of the Month

Picture of the Month Data

Picture of the Month

Buying Images

If you are interesting in buying prints of my work, or in licensing my images for commercial or noncommercial use, please look here for information and pricing. Thank you for your interest.

Tips

I have written a few tips and hints for photographers.

An large selection of tips can be found at BLOG.StarCircleAcdemy.com, here are a few examples.

Photographing Stars and Star Trails - Night photography with stars of the celestial kind as well as many of my award winning star trail photographs.

Star Trail Creation – Step By Step - the ABC's of creating a star trail.

Automated Stacking of Star Trails in PS CS5 - makes creating composited star trails easy.

Power On! Run your camera all night on a portable battery.

Magic and Photography - and they are a lot more alike than you might imagine.

Six Problems Common in Long Exposures and how to overcome them.

How Long is A 30 Second Exposure? - it is not as simple a question as it seems!

How To Get those Elusive Meteors to Smile for the Camera

My Camera Can't Focus at Night and Neither Can I

Essentials Tools for the Star Trailer Shootist

Photographing Sunrise or Sunset

Chasing the Moon - Tips and Tools for Turning the Moon into your own unpaid model.

Photography Groups

Bay Area Night Photography

Click here to check out
The Bay Area Night Photography!

Bay Area Photography and Exploration Society

East Bay On Location Photography

San Francisco Photography Meetup Group

San Jose Photography Meetup Group

Magician

Wondering where the page about Steven The Amusing, Master Magician went to? Well since I'm not currently taking bookings I moved the page over here.

Awards and Publications

January, 2012: Image appears on California Wine Institute Website.
October, 2011: Image to appear in Fairmont Magazine
September, 2011: Images selected by Getty Images
August, 2011: Image short listed by the Royal Observatory for the 2011 Astronomy Photographer of the Year.
May, 2011: Featured on KQED Quest (San Francisco Bay Area Public Television)
February, 2011: (son of) Bristlecone Pine Star Circle featured on the of the Point Reyes National Seashore spring/summer catalog
Feburary, 2011: Granite Park appears in Intellligent Life, a publication of The Economist (also in the Portuguese, Greek and Lithuanian versions)
January, 2011: Half Dome Sunrise is published in the California Wine Institute brochure.
January 16, 2011: Two images (a and b) exhibited in the East Bay Parks Photo Competition.
November, 2010: Featured on ABC 7 news as "Mr. Night Photo Guy". (Rebroadcast on 23-Jan-2011).
September, 2010: Selected as the Astronomy Photographer of the Year, 2010 in the category People and Space
November, 2009: Mission Peak Image selected for and published in the East Bay Parks Regional Calendar, 2010.
October 22, 2009: Image chosen as photo of the day. The same image was also chosen for the short list for the Astronomy Photographer or the Year, 2010 competition.

Workshops And Appearances

Check the Bay Area Night Photography calendar - Steven is often showing up there.
November 4-6, 2011: Alabama Hills Star Circle Workshop (ready for sign ups!)
August 26-29, 2011: Dark of the Night Star Photography Workshop with PRNSA. (completed)
November 2010: Alabama Hills Star Circle Workshop (completed).

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