The Joshua Twins Star Trails

The Joshua Twins Star Trails (5477)

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This is a star trails photo, showing the movement of the stars as created by the rotation of the earth over 30 minutes. I love how a single image can show movement over such a long time! I set my tripod-mounted camera to a long exposure, keeping the shutter open for a long time, which makes the camera much more sensitive to light than our eyes on this already bright evening. I illuminated the foreground with a hand-held ProtoMachines LED2 flashlight to bring out more depth. While I frequently hike into Joshua Tree NP for as much as a mile or more during the night, some of the most beautiful views are just off the side of the road.

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I took this photo in Joshua Tree National Park, CA, hanging out with Dave Dasinger while doing so. JTNP is my spiritual home for night photography, and it felt utterly fantastic to return here to photograph here at night and hike during the day.

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Nikon D610/14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 30 minutes total (stacked); each individual photo was 3 minutes each at f/8 ISO 800. Begun at 2017-02-13 21:11.

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