30th Birthday Astrophotography | Cherry Springs State Park | Potter County, PA

I turned the dirty 30! Woot woot! You've probably already seen and read my Instagram post on why this "big" birthday doesn't scare me at all, so I won't waste your time with all that! But I did want to share my photos from my birthday celebration with my boo thang. Because they're photos I've wanted to check off my bucket list for a looooong time now...

Astrophotography is something I dipped my toes into during college. Yea know... like 9 years or so ago. They were terrible and I hardly knew what I was doing, but the photos that I WAS able to create have never left my head.

It's no big secret I'm obsessed with space. There's a pretty good chance I've shown up to your Fall session with my NASA sweater on (and have been called out for it every day 😂) or showed up to our meeting with my backpack cover in space-related pins, patches and my childhood Alf keychain. I literally listen to JFK's moon speech anytime I'm feeling defeated or just unmotivated in general. You get it...I like space.

So when I heard about Cherry Springs State Park a few years back I knew I needed to get my butt there! Cherry Springs is located in Potter County (a good 3 hours from me) and is one of the darkest night skies on the east coast. AKA it's AMAZING for photographing stars, planets, and the final frontier 😉

This was my first attempt at astrophotography in almost a decade, but I promise my next attempt wont take that long to happen. If any couples or families want to travel to some clears and make some EPIC memories holla at your girl.