Kent Miller Photography

Under the dark skies of Sedona, Arizona, Bell Rock rises in quiet contrast to the vast sweep of the Milky Way overhead. That glowing band of light is our home galaxy—billions of stars packed so densely that, from Earth, they blur into a luminous river across the night. Standing here, the scale is hard to process: ancient red rock below, and above it, a view stretching tens of thousands of light-years into space.

Betsy Scott (Miller) performs as part of The Seabourn Six on board the cruise ship Seabourn Ovation somewhere near The Straights of Gibraltar in The Mediterranean Sea. The singing and dancing performances include songs from a variety of genres including Broadway, Classic Rock, Pop and Motown. The group performs seven different shows and rehearsed for a month in Portugal before embarking on the ship for a six month contract.

A common sight on the tarmac at Chicago O’Hare which is the fourth busiest airport in the world. O’Hare has non-stop flights to 249 different places. It is a hub for both United Airlines and American Airlines. The reason its designation is ORD is because the airport was originally named Orchard Field.

Northern Lights. Bay City, Michigan. May 10, 2024.

Bighorn sheep graze near the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge near Taos, New Mexico. They inhabit alpine meadows, grassy mountain slopes, and foothill country near rugged, rocky cliffs and bluffs.

White Sands National Park in Southern New Mexico displays dazzling and shifting white sand dunes which began 280 million years ago when the Permian Sea covered the area and gypsum settled on the seafloor. A common mineral found all over the world, gypsum is rarely found in sand form, making the 275-square-mile dune field a profoundly unique natural wonder.

Constructed in 1965, one of America’s highest and most famous bridges carries US 64 across the Rio Grande River about 12 miles northwest of Taos, New Mexico. It’s the tenth highest bridge in the US, rising 565ft above the river and measuring 600ft long. There are special call buttons to help those considering su***de. The span averages three su***de jumpers per year.

Frijoles Canyon at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico is made up of a thick layer of volcanic ash that over time compacted into a soft rock known as tuff which Ancestral Pueblo people excavated into living spaces known as cavates dating back 10,000 years.

The partial and total solar eclipse photographed in Bloomington, Indiana on April 8, 2024. The thing that blows my mind the most is the fact that the moon is 400 times smaller than the sun. The moon also happens to be 400 times closer to the earth making both entities about the same size in relation to the earth. It’s kind of rediculous if you think about it.

Baily’s beads are brief bursts of light along the moon’s outline that occur seconds before and after totality and are caused by sunlight sneaking through valleys on the moon’s surface. To the left and right are prominences which are a massive explosions of plasma from the sun’s atmosphere. The April 8 total eclipse was photographed in Bloomington, Indiana.

Today’s total eclipse at my sister’s farm near Bloomington, Indiana. Each of 25 combined images was taken five minutes apart.