November 14th, 2025

I haven’t posted in a while, so here’s a small life update.

We welcomed our son, Emrys into the world 5 months ago and we have all just been having such a wonderful time together! He has been such a joy to be around. He discovered his thumb a few weeks ago and has been giggling more and more when we do silly things together. Just last week he turned over to his belly and then again to his back. Pretty soon he’ll be crawling!! The grandparents on both sides of the family have been SO helpful, we so appreciate everything they have done for him and us already. Watching them read to him and play with him has been so special to see. Luna Pupperino has been so great around him too, she was seemingly afraid of him at the beginning but now she is so curious and sweet around him and we can tell they will be best friends.

Snider family adventures up at the aspens right before the leaves dropped.

Tiffany and I have been working a lot and in our free time getting our craft on. We have started new woodworking projects like multi material cutting boards that are great to chop on. Maybe we’ll make some more and sell them. We’ve also picked up a new medium we are still figuring out. More to come on that in a future post probably. It involves LASERS. 😱

The last time I made a cutting board was last fall, and it was nice but it wasn’t the ideal wood grain so now it’s basically a serving tray. These used Purple Heart, Walnut, Cherry, Maple and Rosewood. They are little under 2” tall and as sturdy as a butchers block.

I’d rate these an 9/10. Really happy with how these came out.

I captured some photos of Comet C/2024 A1 (ATLAS) and some others below, including the aurora earlier this week. I have a show at Brandy’s Restaurant off of Cedar Ave in Flagstaff. It’s up for two months and will come down sometime in January. I printed all these canvas (above) with Tom Alexander here in town, and then I wrapped/stretched them myself. Many of the images printed are from the last year or two and most I have never printed before. I’m really proud of it and honestly it looks great in person (below). After the show i’ll probably do another showing somewhere in town. All available for sale, so if you are interested in one, please contact me using the form above. Most of these are 3-5 feet wide/tall. They look AWESOME in person. They will last a lifetime if cared for.

Most of these are really big. They look AWESOME in person.

Comet C/2024 A1 (ATLAS) captured in the Coconino National Forest.

Aurora!!

The G4 geomagnetic storm captured from my backyard on Tuesday night. If it wasn’t for the smoke and clouds most of the night I would’ve got more images, but i’m really happy I captured these pillars around 1045pm!!! I also took a 2000+ image time-lapse to add to my long term project of a time-lapse short film of the cosmos and the southwest. I think right now I have about 15 minutes of footage. Maybe before the end of the decade I’ll release it. The soundtrack has to be perfect. I’ve written some tracks but it needs more time in the kitchen.

Below are a few other images I don’t think I’ve shared of the aurora last year.

This show above the San Francisco Peaks was from the last storm in October of last year when I happened to be on the roof of Lowell Observatory taking some marketing shots of their new ADC building. I got really lucky and just had to turn my camera north to capture this image. If you get a chance, their entire new campus is an incredible experience all around.

Captured May 2024 during another big aurora event.

Next up is our first holiday season with baby Emrys which i’m very much looking forward to!! I hope you have a great holiday season, and I’ll see you after the new year unless there are any more solar storms to chase after!

Cheers,
Abe

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