"Photography has been on my radar since I could remember. My father had an old film camera that I wasn’t allowed to touch when I was a kid but loved looking through all of his photography albums from his trips in Asia as a member of the Air Force. Over time, technology made the barrier of photography more accessible and I bought a camera flip phone. I would take photos of everything from the freshly cut front yard after I mowed it to a local hiking trail in Lagoon Valley. When I moved to Sacramento in 2014 for Sacramento State, I had enough for a Nikon 5100 two-lens kit that was my entry point to detachable lenses and the DSLRs.

"Over time I became obsessed with the technology and the freedom I felt that I was able to drive my car to places that felt impossibly far, like Lake Tahoe, but was only a 2-hour drive on a warm August night.  Long story short, I made it my mission to visit as many places as possible my Toyota Corolla could take me, which brought me to Yosemite National Park, Bodega Bay, Burney Falls, San Francisco, Hope Valley, Donner Summit, just to name a few. I owe it to photography to unlock a sense of adventure I never thought I had, especially wide field Astro Photography. I cannot name how many times have I driven hours at night to capture a time lapse of the milky way, moonrises, moonsets, meteor showers and recently the Aurora Borealis. I hope to share the same passion and sense of incredible inspiration I feel when I take my camera to remote places around California and share them with the Camera Club."

Website: www.marionthesecond.com

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Astro Isolaes Triangle Milky Way Moonset	Creek & Milky Way Moonrise
Emerald Bay	Incline Village
Phantom Falls	Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point Fire