Wisdom
“Wisdom”
Patriarch Grove, the northernmost end of the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, is set at 11,000 feet and is home to the highest elevation bristlecone pines in the world. Due to its high elevation, the bristlecones here are much younger than the trees located in other parts of the forest (the bristlecones slowly migrated higher in elevation with the receding of ice coverage following the last ice age). But the windswept environment has sculpted many of these trees into much more fantastic formations than many of the other trees in the forest.
I made this image in June 2018 and was not happy enough with the colors to have shared before now. Perhaps the overwhelming number of star trails images being shared that conform to a certain new style popularized by Aussie photographer Lincoln Harrison might have been the reason. There is nothing wrong with this style but a lot of folks have started to copy it which makes it a bit stale.
180 exposures went into this and there were a lot of airplanes flying through which made post processing painful.
This place is truly one of a kind and takes you back in time with all those trees predating several religions, countries and cultures around you reminding us of our sheer insignificance.
Sony a99v
Sony SAL Fisheye 16mm f/2.8
ISO 2000, 16mm 30s at f/4
Total exposure time: 90 minutes
Wisdom
“Wisdom”
Patriarch Grove, the northernmost end of the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, is set at 11,000 feet and is home to the highest elevation bristlecone pines in the world. Due to its high elevation, the bristlecones here are much younger than the trees located in other parts of the forest (the bristlecones slowly migrated higher in elevation with the receding of ice coverage following the last ice age). But the windswept environment has sculpted many of these trees into much more fantastic formations than many of the other trees in the forest.
I made this image in June 2018 and was not happy enough with the colors to have shared before now. Perhaps the overwhelming number of star trails images being shared that conform to a certain new style popularized by Aussie photographer Lincoln Harrison might have been the reason. There is nothing wrong with this style but a lot of folks have started to copy it which makes it a bit stale.
180 exposures went into this and there were a lot of airplanes flying through which made post processing painful.
This place is truly one of a kind and takes you back in time with all those trees predating several religions, countries and cultures around you reminding us of our sheer insignificance.
Sony a99v
Sony SAL Fisheye 16mm f/2.8
ISO 2000, 16mm 30s at f/4
Total exposure time: 90 minutes