Milky Way over 395 House

When Angela and I are alone with the stars, I sometimes wonder how many civilizations are out there, waiting to be discovered. How many are long since abandoned? This abandoned house is just off Highway 395 near Mono Lake. We’ve wanted to photograph this since first driving by several years ago, and we finally made it happen a few weeks ago. I’m always delighted when a series of fortuitous events unfolds, and on this night a pair of photographers showed up with a gel light. We rolled with it and got some fun shots in the process, including this one. While they were adjusting the light before setting it in the house, a stray beam of purple grazed the sagebrush in front of me during this exposure. Back on my computer I realized the intensity, direction, and duration of the light works, and it looks like purple flowers in bloom, so I’ve used this as the master along with a sequential stack for lighting and noise reduction.

 

EXIF

 

Canon 6D 25 sec f/2.8 ISO 6400 .. 5 images stacked

Canon EF 24mm f/2.8 IS USM .. Set to manual

Processed with DPP and PS

 

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6/24/2017 2:24 AM

 

Done