Southern Utah Milky Way
Photo Adventure Workshop
WITH ERIK KUNA
Six Nights all-inclusive photography adventure • Launching from Las Vegas • A Turnkey, 10-person small-group experience.
Join Erik Kuna, award-winning landscape photographer, aerospace photojournalist, night-photography expert, and author of The Night Photography Book (Rocky Nook), for an immersive astrophotography adventure across the red-rock country of Southern Utah. Under vast, Bortle 1 and 2 dark skies, we’ll chase the Milky Way through sculpted sandstone, arches, hoodoos, and ancient mesas... foregrounds built by geology to pair perfectly with the galactic core.
Why Southern Utah?
Southern Utah is a night-photography playground. Nowhere else gives you this mix of towering rock cathedrals, balanced boulders, slot-canyon rims, and wide-open desert bowls, each an ideal “anchor” for your Milky Way compositions. These formations aren’t just pretty, they’re purpose-built foregrounds that make your images feel epic and intentional, connecting the extraterrestrial with the terrestrial in a single frame.
And the skies… high-desert air, reliable clarity, and miles from major light domes. When the core rises over those sandstone silhouettes, you’ll understand why I come back here again and again. It’s simply one of the best places in America to create portfolio-grade astro-landscapes.
A Turnkey Experience (Launching from Las Vegas)
We begin and end in Las Vegas for easy flights and travel. From the moment we depart Vegas until we roll back in, all ground transportation is covered—no car rentals, no convoy headaches, no waiting for lost people. We travel together as a group to our private dark-sky retreat, plus the night before the workshop kicks off, we'll stay in Vegas at our pre-workshop hotel, so there's no worries about meeting up the first day. Plus, we'll have a kick-off dinner the pre-workshop night all included. Bottom line: You focus on making images; my team and I handle the logistics.
Expect sensible hiking at a relaxed pace. Think a few football fields on uneven desert terrain (sand, rock, gentle inclines). There will be no technical scrambles. If you can comfortably walk 100–500 yards with camera equipment, you’re set.
Who This Workshop Is For
This is designed for experienced beginners or intermediate night photographers, folks who’ve at least shot the Milky Way before or have attended one of my workshops and want to level up (more refined compositions, cleaner files, smarter blends/stacking, and selective tracking).
Are you new to the Milky Way? You’re welcome to start with my Milky Way Master Class Retreat in the Badlands of South Dakota, which is explicitly built to establish your night-shooting foundation. This Workshop will be more of an adventure, and a very basic knowledge of shooting at night is a plus.
IMAGES FROM PREVIOUS SOUTHERN UTAH AREA WORKSHOPS
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