Moonlight across Cathedral Valley. Starry night sky with moonlight streaking across the Upper Cathedral Valley monoliths in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah. This is a remote area in the northern most region of the park that is only accessible with a four-wheel drive vehicle via primitive dirt roads and river crossings! The monument on the right is about 400 feet (122 m.) high. It is enhanced with light painting from two stationary incandescent lights and one handheld, 2-million candlepower quartz halogen light -- from a distance of 900 feet (274 m.) away.
Starry night sky over Temple of the Moon - a sandstone monolith located in the remote Cathedral Valley of Capital Reef National Park. Temple of the Sun is in the distance, on the left. The Temple of the Moon is about 280 feet (85 m.) high. Photographed in one 15 seconds exposure, 2 hours after sunset. The glow on the horizon is the approaching moonrise.
Starry Night sky over Balance Rock in Arches National Park. As tall as 23 men, or a 13-story building --the total height of Balanced Rock is about 128 feet (39 m), with the balancing rock rising 55 feet (16.75 m) above the base. The big rock on top is the size of three school buses. This sandstone formation has been light painted from a distance of about 450 feet by a moving, diffused, quartz halogen light (from camera left). Camera direction is northeast. Photographed about three hours after sunset.
Moonrise at the Fortress - a Bryce Canyon National Park formation - Note Pleiades and Jupiter
A light-painted 'sand pipe' formation in Kodachrome Basin State Park, under a starry night sky and the northern end of the Milky Way.
Stars and Milky Way behind 'The Mask' - Bryce Canyon National Park. This is the northern end of the Milky Way, with many constellations like the Paleiades, or Seven Sisters (star cluster just above right eyebrow of The Mask).
Balanced Rock - lighted night exposure - Arches National Park
Double Arch - lighted night exposure - Arches National Park
Moonlight across Cathedral Valley. Starry night sky with moonlight streaking across the Upper Cathedral Valley monoliths in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah. This is a remote area in the northern most region of the park that is only accessible with a four-wheel drive vehicle via primitive dirt roads and river crossings! The monument on the right is about 400 feet (122 m.) high. It is enhanced with light painting from two stationary incandescent lights and one handheld, 2-million candlepower quartz halogen light -- from a distance of 900 feet (274 m.) away.
Moonlight across Cathedral Valley. Starry night sky with moonlight streaking across the Upper Cathedral Valley monoliths in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah. This is a remote area in the northern most region of the park that is only accessible with a four-wheel drive vehicle via primitive dirt roads and river crossings! The monument on the right is about 400 feet (122 m.) high. It is enhanced with light painting from two stationary incandescent lights and one handheld, 2-million candlepower quartz halogen light -- from a distance of 900 feet (274 m.) away.
Moonlight across Cathedral Valley. Starry night sky with moonlight streaking across the Upper Cathedral Valley monoliths in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah. This is a remote area in the northern most region of the park that is only accessible with a four-wheel drive vehicle via primitive dirt roads and river crossings! The monument on the right is about 400 feet (122 m.) high. It is enhanced with light painting from two stationary incandescent lights and one handheld, 2-million candlepower quartz halogen light -- from a distance of 900 feet (274 m.) away.
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