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Quick Tip of the Month

We just started a new year. If you haven't done so yet, make sure to change your copyright year, whether you embed that into your camera's IPTC data or perhaps apply it as a watermark in Lightroom, Photoshop or whichever software you are using. I use Lightroom and I have a watermark for each year since I created photos. I already have them ready-made for the coming few years, all I had to do is duplicate the 2025 watermark, upload a new image for 2026 into that and save it as a new watermark. 

Jürgen's Substack Channel

My new Substack channel is growing nicely, I already have some 30 posts published, more than half of which are open to the public. A lot of those are the in-depth tutorials on how to create moon streaks, what night photography is all about, a lens review and many others.

What I like about Substack is that you can post "Notes", which is more of a social media post than article, available to everyone and it nicely fits the platform's concept of being more interactive between creators.

Substack is available through its own mobile app, but it definitely looks better on a web browser on your computer, because I control the color scheme there. :) Check it out and follow for free, or sign up to get everything without limitation.

A note: if you don't want to "subscribe" (= get emails about my activity), you can click "no thanks" and go straight to the site with posts. You can sign up for a Substack account for free without having to subscribe.

Total Lunar Eclipse Coming Up!

It's never too early to plan for an eclipse. This year will see another total lunar eclipse on March 3rd early in the morning. Totality will only be visible for a few minutes, before the moon sets on the horizon along the east coast, but it is fully visible with all stages from the US west coast or in Asia. Not in Europe, though.

I have a 38-page eBook about lunar eclipses, what they are, how they happen, how we can observe and photograph them, what equipment is needed, what settings to use, depending on where you are and much more. All chockfull with images and links for more information. I do also plan to hold another online tutorial as I did last time, you will see a separate announcement about that soon.

Until next time, I wish you a great 2026.

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