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The Spike

Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is one of the most awe-inspiring places I know. The oldest trees in this area were already standing 3000 BC., when the Egyptians were building the great Pyramids.

 

The most famous tree in the area is highly over-photographed and it can get very crowded there. As my last post flic.kr/p/JtfUjT shows, I could not resist capturing it as well, but while all photographers I met there, headed back to their cars after capturing it, I continued further up the trail to shoot some trees nobody seemes to care about. One of them, a tree I already noticed during my visit in 2016, I think of as “The Spike” ever since.

 

- Canon EOS 6D

- Samyang 24mm f/1.4

- iOptron SkyTracker

- Low Level Lighting

 

Foreground:

3 x 50s @ ISO 1600 untracked

 

Sky:

3 x 50s @ ISO 1600 tracked

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Uploaded on January 18, 2018
Taken on August 25, 2017