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A night in a remote mountain valley in southwestern United States.

 

The location is Cathedral Valley, Capital Reef National Park, Utah. This remote location requires about 1.5 hour off-road driving and the road can be challenging. This is supposedly one of the least polluted areas in the US. Its clean air, its remoteness, and its relatively high elevation mean the night sky is spectacular. When I saw these imposing sandstone monoliths, I knew I had to make a Milky Way shot with these monoliths as the foreground.

 

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Uploaded on October 4, 2011
Taken on September 22, 2011