Joshua is a Professional Geologist with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency during the day, but at night turns his attention to the skies as an astrophotographer with a focus on deep-space objects and landscape astrophotos. Joshua uses the camera as a tool to collect photons during long exposures, thereby allowing him to bring to our eyes the objects in our night sky that are...out of sight. Joshua's deep-space and landscape astrophotography has been recognized with first place awards in local visual arts exhibits and has been featured in the magazines "Sky and Telescope" and BBC "Sky at Night."

Operating out of his home and taking advantage of the relatively dark skies of Elkhart, Joshua uses multiple telescopes and specialized cameras and equipment to capture ancient light in his deep-space astrophotographs. During various times of the year, Joshua goes mobile with his equipment, finding inspiration in the beauty of Elkhart and surrounding areas and composing beautiful (and arguably typical) Midwestern scenes beneath the starry sky.

Joshua will be speaking about the processes and techniques used to create deep-space and landscape astrophotographs and will be providing a look at the specialized equipment used, including several different types of telescopes9. Joshua's unique work will be on display for viewing and for sale as he describes and explains the beautiful celestial objects that reside above our heads in the night skies of Elkhart.