Meet the Photographer

Category Winner of Royal Museum Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 and Winner of Flickr's Your Best Shot 2020 with his stunner Luna Dunes: 

J K Lovelace is obsessed with landscape and deep sky photography. In August of 2024, he was invited by Nobel laureate Andrea Ghez to join the advisory board for the UCLA Galactic Center Group, which collaborates on research using the Keck telescope. In his own words:

When people ask, “What do you do?” I answer, “I travel to remote locations where I stand alone in the dark.” Those who pass this test will continue to talk to me. If they back away slowly, or sometimes abruptly, that’s my excuse to slip away. I grab my coat, climb into my four-wheel drive packed with photographic gear, and search out a spot of quiet beauty to do some nighttime photography.

I am obsessed with capturing images of the vast universe as our tiny, beautiful planet swirls along like a bubble in the ocean. By daylight I shoot the most extraordinary landscapes I can find. When the night sky reveals itself, and sane people head back indoors, I remain among the mosquitos and coyotes to aim my cameras and telescopes upward. So, that’s where you’ll find me: tending to my equipment beneath a 180° wide window on galaxies, nebulas, and billions upon billions of distant suns; happily standing alone, yet never alone, in the dark.