Milky Way slowly traversing stars-strewn sky

Death Valley National Park, CA

MILKY WAY OVER GRANDSTAND

With the entire lake all to myself, I literally walked to every corner of this mud crack filled lake floor, as long as the Grandstand was in the frame. While composing a shot of the mound of this monolith with the Milky Way slowly traversing the stars-strewn sky, a vehicle with headlights on zoomed by the lake. Contrary to my initial thought about this unintended light painting work, I decided to stack it with other exposures. And the result was satisfactory.

Death Valley National Park, CA

• Canon EOS 5D Mark III
• Canon EF 16–35mm f/4L IS USM
• 14 mm / 31, 96, 181 and 192 sec stacked at ƒ/2.8 / ISO 3200
• Taken 11/11/2017
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© 2018 H Peter Ji

Milky Way slowly traversing stars-strewn sky

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I am a Los Angeles based landscape and portrait photographer.