RESOURCES

Want to chat with other night photographers? Check out the Nocturnes message board.

Night photography workshops and classes are available in California from Tim Baskerville, and in Massachusetts from Lance Keimig.

Night photographers can't live without this: Paul Carlisle's moon phase calendar..

Also useful are FlDC's sunrise/sunset data, and ExpTech's sunrise/sunset data.

Intellicast has a good satellite image to check out the cloud cover for the Bay Area.

 

Night photography in the San Francisco Bay Area can be very unpredictable due to weather.  Before loading up the car and hitting the road, check out the weather on some of my favorite California web cams:

  The Entire Bay Area (point-and-click)

Alameda (almost never works!!!)
NEW Aptos

Benicia, Carquinez Strait (broken)
Berkeley - LHS
Berkeley - Marina (scroll to bottom)
NEW Boulder Creek - Inst HeartMath

Half Moon Bay - Mavericks  (broken)
Half Moon Bay - San Gregorio
Mendocino - Agate Cove
NEW Monterey - Cannery Row
NEW Monterey - McAbee Beach
NEW Monterey - Monterey Bay Aquarium
Napa Valley - St Helena
Newark
Pacifica
Pleasant Hill

San Francisco - Bay Bridge
San Francisco - Fisherman's Wharf

San Francisco - Potrero Hill
San Francisco - Golden Gate & Marin
San Francisco (KRON) 

NEW San Francisco - Ocean Beach
San Francisco - Twin Peaks
San Jose - SJSU
San Jose - Lick Observatory
San Rafael
Santa Cruz - Harbor

NEW Santa Cruz - Steamer Lane
Sausalito
Tahoe - Truckee
Tiburon

Vallejo
 
A good source of reliable webcams is WeatherBug's InstaCam site.

Web cams seem to appear and disappear faster than any other resources on the Internet.  If any of these links go dead, please let me know.

 

If you're photographing near the ocean, another useful resource is tide charts:

     Monterey Bay, CA
     Point Reyes, CA