Marybeth Kiczenski

Marybeth Kiczenski is a Great Lakes-based adventurer and photographer with an obsession for dark skies and northern lights.

Wasn’t always this way, though. She got her feet wet, so to speak, with automotive photography. Always at the racetrack, she loved capturing those nuanced moments of a car under extreme pressure. From the tire wrinkle to the flames forced through the exhaust right before launch.

She is also an automotive product specialist who travels on the show circuit, a job that has taken her to virtually all corners of the United States and sparked her extreme wanderlust. She says this world is full of beauty, waiting to be discovered, and that’s where the shift from automotive photography to landscapes and nightscapes happened. What a difference, too! From high-speed, split-second reactions to minute-long exposures of the night sky. Couldn’t be any further apart, and she enjoys the challenges of both.

Marybeth feels fortunate to find wonderful people in the nightscaper world who inspire and push her beyond her limits. She has been featured on National Geographic Your Shot and Sky & Telescope, and was awarded an APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) in 2021. Her hope is to inspire and help others grow in their own journey.